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World Powers
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1. Greek
2. Romans 3. Catholic Church 4. Spain 5. England 6. United States |
next would of been China (communist)
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1500-1600
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Renaissance (art/literature)
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1558-1603
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Elizabethan Age
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Elizabethan Age facts:
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Daughter of Henry 8th
Order of England Prodestant Church Under tongue of Shakespeare |
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1660-1700
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Restoration
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In 1660 - 1700, the Restoration did what?
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brought back the monarchy
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1660-1798
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Neoclassical
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Facts about neoclassical
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The new old
classic traditions class begins |
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1700
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Enlightenment
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Enlightenment
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Age of reason
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1800s
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Romantic Age
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Most literary scholars view ___ the beginning of the Romantic Age
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1798
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1832-1870
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Early Victorian
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1870-1901
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late victorian
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1900s
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modern
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1900s
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modern
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Define Enlightenment
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philosophic movement of 1700s mainly in France but America and Europe affected
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Difficult to define
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What did the Enlightenment celebrate (3)
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1. Reason
2. Scientific method 3. Individuals ability to perfect themselves and their society |
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Enlightenment Opposed to what 4 things?
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1. Intolerance
2. Restraint 3. Spiritual Authority (1 on 1 relationship with God) 4. Revealed Religion |
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Diests
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believed in God but not necessarily divinity of Jesus. Belief in natural religion which was based on reason and study of nature as opposed to revealed religion not all believed in God.
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English Deists
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Swifts, Pope
wrote Gulovers travelers |
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American Deists
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Franklin (Constitution) Paine (common sense) and Jefferson
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_______ revolution came out of the enlightenment period and later ________ revolution.
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French, American
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In the Enlightenment period, ______ was viewed as main force that had enslaved men's minds.
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the church (especially Roman Catholic)
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Proponents of enlightenments often called _______. Why?
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Philosophies because they were journalists, propagandists, and philosophers.
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voltaire
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most influential of French writers Rousseaus works more original
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Age usually viewed as ending the French Revolution
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Enlightenment
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Romantic age: Great ____ of ______
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Great Chain of being
Power and Control Widespread in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy based on hierarchy |
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Romantic age: Divine ....
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right of kings
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romanticism: 4 points
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1.determine for oneself answer to social political and religious questions
2. Individuals rights important 3. Strive for self fulfillment 4. rebellion often central attitude |
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romanticism: major poetic form
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lyric poetry
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Years proceeding romantic period
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1. chaos of political and religious warfare led to puritan revolution, execution of Charles 1 rule of Cromwell restoration Charles 2 on throne
- plain ole man became dictator, not king then restored monarchy back in place |
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Restoration during the romantic era was seen to establish...(4)
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1. life
2. manners 3. morals 4. art- on a new and firmer foundation |
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Romantic era: Science..
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more and more important with emphasis on concrete, actual observable age of reason(common sense)
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Romantics scorned the world as it was and filled world full of ______ and ________.
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untruth and evil
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Romantics were often in a _______________ against the way things were but felt they could be better.
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state of rebellion
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During this time England changed from an....
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agrarian state to a modern industrialized nation
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At first romantics supported....
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French and american revolutions
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During romantic era England enforced measures..
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against public meetings ( fear of revolution )
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Romantic Era was a time of .... (6)
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unfettered free enterprise
individual expansion radical individualism emphasis on imagination supernatural -nature extremely important |
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In the Romantic Era _____ helped to shape the time
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women writers
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______ essays, reviews, political pamphlets flourished
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nonfiction
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______ often viewed as escapist literature
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novels (Gothic novels)
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literature audience growing caused publishing to become...
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cheaper, books cheaper
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Known for all his work on method of ingraving
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William Blake
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William Blake's life and death
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1757-1827
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Blake was a _____ poet
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romantic
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There's little known about Blake's life but we know he was born in...
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London
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Attended a _____ school; ________ to an _______ for a number of years.
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drawing, engraver
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William Blake had ___ of ____.
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visons of angels
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William Blake had a life of..
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hard work, disappointments, poverty, courage, and cheerfulness
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William Blake attended
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Royal Academy of Art
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Blake, Wed a woman of his ____ and taught her____. They had ___ children.
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class, taught her to read, no
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Blake's wife was named
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Catherine Brocher
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Blake admired ____ such as ____. He defended _______.
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Evangelicals, Wesley, Methodism (French Revolution)
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Blake , 1809
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showing of his artistic works that failed now seen as masterpieces
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In the 60s
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he gave up poetry and fell into poverty
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Blake's two great collections are _____ and _____.
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
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Blake's death request
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be buried in a Church of England cemetary and have Church of England service
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Wordsworth was born in
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Cockermouth in West Cumberland
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Wordsworth mother died when he was ____,
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8 hawksnead sparsely population
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_____ and _____ transform _______ region into one of the poetic centers of England
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Wordsworth and Coleridge, hawksnead
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Wordsworth 3 brothers and ___ did a lot together
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Ann Tyson
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Wordsworth known for
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the prelude
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____ encouraged wordsworth
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William Taylor(headmaster)
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1787 William Wordsworth
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St. Johns College
Cambridge University(4 year degree) |
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The Prelude, ___ books long in ___ edition
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13, 1808
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lyrical ballards
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argues poetry should be written in natural language of common speech rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions that were considered "poetic" (Wordsworth)
Should offer access to the emotions contained in memory |
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wordsworth- 1st principle of poetry should be ____.
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pleasure
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The chief duty of poetry is to provide ____ through ____ and ___ expression of feeling for all human _______. He claims is based on a subtle pleasure principle that is " _____"
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pleasure
Rhythmic, beautiful sympathy The naked and native dignity of man |
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recovering "the naked and native dignity of man" was
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Wordsworth's poetic project
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2 plain spoken easy to understand Wordsworth masterpieces
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"intimations of immortality" "tintern Abbey"
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Many of Worthsworths poems deal with
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childhood and its memory. Childhoods lost connection with nature. Only preserved with memory.
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cottages, hedge rows, orchards and other places where humanity intersects gently and easily with nature
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Rustic childhood
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Wordsworth initiated romantic era by
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emphasizing feeling instinct and pleasure above formality and mannerism(more than any poet before him)
Expression to inchoate human emotion |
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lyric "strange fits of passion have I known" describes
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inexplicable fantasy he once had that his lover was dead couldn't of been written by prenous poet
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"London, 1802" speaker exhorts
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the spirit of the centuries dead poet John Milton to teach the modern world better way to live
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Wordsworth "the world is too much with us"
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14 line sonnet
accuses modern age lost connection to nature and to everything meaningful wishes we were pagan raised according to a different vision of the world he might see images of ancient gods rising from the waves a sight that would cheer him greatly. He images Proteus rising from the sea and triton blowing his wreathed horn. |
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____ something living dead thing that is addressed as if it could respond (lamb and tiger)
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apostrophe
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lamb and tiger
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lamb- child
tiger- adult Why would God create a precious lamb and a furocious tiger? word "what" 14 times never comes back with answer adults have unanswered questions children accept and understand. Ask if the tiger is made by God or the devil. |
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Burns, birth and death
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1759-1796
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Burns born in ______.
self____. large religious revival huge change in politics in _______. |
Scotland
self scotland |
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Huge influences on Burns life: (5)
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1. father and his homelife(rebellious)
2. church of Scotland (presperterian) strict straight line hard to fit in. 3. Education ( self taught) 4. intellectual time period and literacy (right place right time) 5. nationalism in Scotland revival |
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Burns
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drank a lot
fathered legitament 3 children great capacity for joy conflict with church of Scotland began writing at 15 also wrote songs 1786 first book " chiefly in the Scottish" wrote in dialect and bawdy |
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