The Romantic Period

How is the Romantic period a lot like the time period we are living in?

• a. We are supporting a French Revolution.

• b. We celebrate the voices of individuals.

• c. They had electricity.

• d. Gothic literature is new.

Who are the two poets who collaborated on "The Lyrical Ballads"?

• a. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge

• b. Shakespeare and Samuel Coleridge

• c. Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley

• d. The Lake Poets

William Blake wrote about these opposing concepts a lot.

• a. love and hate

• b. war and peace

• c. science and religion

• d. innocence and experience

Which time period did we study just before the Romantic period?

• The English Renaissance

• The Neoclassical period

• Old English and Medieval Periods

• The Victorian period

The Lamb and The Tyger are William Blake's poems that explore:

• good and evil

• innocence and experience

• love and marriage

• happy and sad

When was the Romantic Period?

• After the Victorian Age?

• After the Industrial Revolution?

• 1798-1837

• 1837-1914

Who was part of the first generation of Romantic poets?

• John Keats

• William Wordsworth

• Lord Byron

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What are the characterisitcs of the Romantic Period:

• Focus on the power and grandeur of nature

• Great interest in mediaeval history

• Superiority of emotion over intellectual thought.

• anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment

Of which socio-economic setting was the Romantic Period the product:

• the prominent primary forms of literature; prose and drama.

• The inspiration of the French revolution and the shout for freedom and rejection of authority.

• The invention of the steam engine in the eighteenth century led to two industrial revolutions. Agricultural-industrial, rural culture to an urban one.

• The start with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798.

Of what did John Keats' (1795-1821) first collection, Poems in 1817 consisted of?

• influences of Edmund Spenser

• sonnets and heroic couplets

• influences of Greek mythology

• describing the beauty of nature with youthful enthusiasm