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World Powers
1. Greek
2. Romans
3. Catholic Church
4. Spain
5. England
6. United States
next would of been China (communist)
1500-1600
Renaissance (art/literature)
1558-1603
Elizabethan Age
Elizabethan Age facts:
Daughter of Henry 8th
Order of England Prodestant Church
Under tongue of Shakespeare
1660-1700
Restoration
In 1660 - 1700, the Restoration did what?
brought back the monarchy
1660-1798
Neoclassical
Facts about neoclassical
The new old
classic traditions
class begins
1700
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Age of reason
1800s
Romantic Age
Most literary scholars view ___ the beginning of the Romantic Age
1798
1832-1870
Early Victorian
1870-1901
late victorian
1900s
modern
1900s
modern
Define Enlightenment
philosophic movement of 1700s mainly in France but America and Europe affected
Difficult to define
What did the Enlightenment celebrate (3)
1. Reason
2. Scientific method
3. Individuals ability to perfect themselves and their society
Enlightenment Opposed to what 4 things?
1. Intolerance
2. Restraint
3. Spiritual Authority (1 on 1 relationship with God)
4. Revealed Religion
Diests
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.
English Deists
Swifts, Pope
wrote Gulovers travelers
American Deists
Franklin (Constitution) Paine (common sense) and Jefferson
_______ revolution came out of the enlightenment period and later ________ revolution.
French, American
In the Enlightenment period, ______ was viewed as main force that had enslaved men's minds.
the church (especially Roman Catholic)
Proponents of enlightenments often called _______. Why?
Philosophies because they were journalists, propagandists, and philosophers.
voltaire
most influential of French writers Rousseaus works more original
Age usually viewed as ending the French Revolution
Enlightenment
Romantic age: Great ____ of ______
Great Chain of being
Power and Control
Widespread in 17th and 18th Century
Philosophy based on hierarchy
Romantic age: Divine ....
right of kings
romanticism: 4 points
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
romanticism: major poetic form
lyric poetry
Years proceeding romantic period
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
Restoration during the romantic era was seen to establish...(4)
1. life
2. manners
3. morals
4. art- on a new and firmer foundation
Romantic era: Science..
more and more important with emphasis on concrete, actual observable age of reason(common sense)
Romantics scorned the world as it was and filled world full of ______ and ________.
untruth and evil
Romantics were often in a _______________ against the way things were but felt they could be better.
state of rebellion
During this time England changed from an....
agrarian state to a modern industrialized nation
At first romantics supported....
French and american revolutions
During romantic era England enforced measures..
against public meetings ( fear of revolution )
Romantic Era was a time of .... (6)
unfettered free enterprise
individual expansion
radical individualism
emphasis on imagination
supernatural
-nature extremely important
In the Romantic Era _____ helped to shape the time
women writers
______ essays, reviews, political pamphlets flourished
nonfiction
______ often viewed as escapist literature
novels (Gothic novels)
literature audience growing caused publishing to become...
cheaper, books cheaper
Known for all his work on method of ingraving
William Blake
William Blake's life and death
1757-1827
Blake was a _____ poet
romantic
There's little known about Blake's life but we know he was born in...
London
Attended a _____ school; ________ to an _______ for a number of years.
drawing, engraver
William Blake had ___ of ____.
visons of angels
William Blake had a life of..
hard work, disappointments, poverty, courage, and cheerfulness
William Blake attended
Royal Academy of Art
Blake, Wed a woman of his ____ and taught her____. They had ___ children.
class, taught her to read, no
Blake's wife was named
Catherine Brocher
Blake admired ____ such as ____. He defended _______.
Evangelicals, Wesley, Methodism (French Revolution)
Blake , 1809
showing of his artistic works that failed now seen as masterpieces
In the 60s
he gave up poetry and fell into poverty
Blake's two great collections are _____ and _____.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Blake's death request
be buried in a Church of England cemetary and have Church of England service
Wordsworth was born in
Cockermouth in West Cumberland
Wordsworth mother died when he was ____,
8 hawksnead sparsely population
_____ and _____ transform _______ region into one of the poetic centers of England
Wordsworth and Coleridge, hawksnead
Wordsworth 3 brothers and ___ did a lot together
Ann Tyson
Wordsworth known for
the prelude
____ encouraged wordsworth
William Taylor(headmaster)
1787 William Wordsworth
St. Johns College
Cambridge University(4 year degree)
The Prelude, ___ books long in ___ edition
13, 1808
lyrical ballards
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
wordsworth- 1st principle of poetry should be ____.
pleasure
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 " _____"
pleasure
Rhythmic, beautiful
sympathy
The naked and native dignity of man
recovering "the naked and native dignity of man" was
Wordsworth's poetic project
2 plain spoken easy to understand Wordsworth masterpieces
"intimations of immortality" "tintern Abbey"
Many of Worthsworths poems deal with
childhood and its memory. Childhoods lost connection with nature. Only preserved with memory.
cottages, hedge rows, orchards and other places where humanity intersects gently and easily with nature
Rustic childhood
Wordsworth initiated romantic era by
emphasizing feeling instinct and pleasure above formality and mannerism(more than any poet before him)
Expression to inchoate human emotion
lyric "strange fits of passion have I known" describes
inexplicable fantasy he once had that his lover was dead couldn't of been written by prenous poet
"London, 1802" speaker exhorts
the spirit of the centuries dead poet John Milton to teach the modern world better way to live
Wordsworth "the world is too much with us"
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.
____ something living dead thing that is addressed as if it could respond (lamb and tiger)
apostrophe
lamb and tiger
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.
Burns, birth and death
1759-1796
Burns born in ______.
self____.
large religious revival huge change in politics in _______.
Scotland
self
scotland
Huge influences on Burns life: (5)
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
Burns
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