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WorksheetsPersistence of Romanticism (Article by Eldrige)
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
Commentators of Romanticism usually emphasize one of the three elements at the expense of the other two; nature-place, prophetic ordinary language and (a)
Fundamentally, Romanticism aims to provide one with the
Authority to direct one's life
The opportunity to recover from social or political dispair
The chance to develop concrete meaning of the world
Specific and verifiable answers
In Romanticism, the process of imagining has been criticised of being too objective.
True
False
Romanticism has NOT criticised for being_____
Too subjective
An opportunity for self-indulgence
Able to engage with the real world in a new and refreshing way
The chance for evasion
Levinson argues that the imagination's encounter with nature suppresses the (a) making it a weapon in the class struggle.
Romanticism is criticised to only be relevant to a time and when social change occurs, the works it produces die.
True
False
Hartman suggests that Romanticism, in the case of Wordsworth, expresses a desire for immunity from pain and loss.
True
False
The Romantic is always strongly aware that the "realm of the ideal" may (a)
Eldridge presents a conflict resident for all Romantics, between ....
present knowledge and past experiences
Class structures
the irrepudiable and the unrecognizable
Religious and the scientific
According to Eldridge, both Romantics and modern writers live out a standing fear of (a) .
Romanticism is seen as attempting to capture freedom but never truly securing it.
True
False
One of these do not mark Romanticism literature:
Failure to arrive
Moment of gratitude
Fragments and less closed forms
Confident assertions
