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(1785-1832)?

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Romantic Era

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King of England from 1760 to 1820?

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George III

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George III's antagonistic policies toward the American colonies were directly responsible for this?

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American Revolution

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Began in 1789 with an attack on the Bastille prison by citizen revolutionaries?

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French Revolution

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Leader of French army who was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo in 1815?

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Took the throne and held it until his death in 1830?

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George IV

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Brother of George IV, ruled from 1830 to 1837?

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William IV

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Poetry which showed tendencies toward Romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their perceptions of nature as wild and untamed. However, they followed the Neoclassical model of imitating traditional literary forms?

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Pre-Romantic poetry

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A lifelong scholar, was not a prolific poet, but the few poems that he wrote reflect a combination of Neoclassical and Romantic ideals?

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Thomas Gray

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Won acclaim as the national poet of Scotland?

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Robert Burns

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Was a poet, painter, mystic, and visionary?

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William Blake

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The true beginning of the Romantic Era came with this publication in 1798?

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"Lyrical Ballads"

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"Lyrical Ballads" is a collection of poems written by?

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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French philosopher who showed the idea of the nobility of ordinary people?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Celebrated the noble savage?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Poem that is written in a style emulating the classical Greek elegy, but it is thoroughly Romantic in its praise of common people?

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"Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard"

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Governments derive power only from the consent of the governed?

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social contract

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Followed in the footsteps of Wordsworth and Coleridge?

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"second generation" of Romantic Era poets

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Two forms of prose?

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Essay and novel

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Three major types of Romantic Era novels?

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Gothic novel, the novel of manners, and the historical romance

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Long stories containing elements of suspense, mystery, magic, and the macabre, with exotic settings such as haunted castles and untamed wildernesses?

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Gothic novels

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The first Gothic novel?

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"The Castle of Otranto"

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Published in 1794 by Anne Radcliffe?

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"The Mysteries of Udolpho"

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Published in 1818 by Mary Shelley?

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"Frankenstein"

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Presented a satirical look at society in book-length prose reminiscent of earlier works by Swift and others?

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novel of manners

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Published "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice"?

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Jane Austen

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Set in a period before the life of the author, usually depict historical events and contain both fictional and nonfictional characters?

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historical romance novels

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Published "Waverly" and "Ivanhoe"?

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Sir Walter Scott

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A long, formal poem about death or loss?

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elegy

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The most well-known and beloved tribute to common people in English poetry?

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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

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Perhaps the best known of all Scottish songs?

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"Auld Lang Syne"

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Burns celebrates lifelong friendship, honoring a couple who have shared the joys and hard work of youth and now share their later years?

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"John Anderson, My Jo"

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Blake presents a vision of the "fallen world"- the world after the expulsion of man from the Garden of Eden- through the naive eyes of innocence?

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Songs of Innocence

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Blake presents this same world in all the truth of its ugliness and fearsomeness?

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Songs of Experience

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Champions the idea that poetry should be written in the voice of the ordinary person?

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"Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

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A sonnet reminiscent of Blake's poem "London," bemoans humanity's separation from nature?

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"The World Is Too Much with Us"

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Poem inspired by a four-or five-day walk that Wordsworth took from Tintern to Bristol with his sister?

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"Tintern Abbey"

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A classic rendering of an instance of poetic reverie and inspiration?

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"Kubla Khan"

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Deals with an ancient king of Egypt and is a classic statement of the fleeting nature of worldly pomp and glory?

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"Ozymandias"

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Was written in a single sitting near Florence, Italy on a mild, windy day in early fall-October 25, 1819. In keeping with Romantic ideals, the poem calls upon a force of nature to inspire the poet's creative endeavors?

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"Ode to the West Wind"

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Talks about the author seeing Lady Wilmot Horton, his cousin by marriage, at an evening party where she was wearing a black mourning gown with glittering spangles?

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"She Walks in Beauty"

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A moving meditation on death written by a young poet who knew that his own life would be cut short?

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"When I Have Fears"

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An exploration of the value and purpose of art?

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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Author argues that such inequities reduced women to the dependent state of children; robbed them of self-sufficiency; made them weak, docile, and overly emotional; and kept them from becoming fully human?

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"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

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Was written for the third edition of Frankenstein, fifteen years after the book was first published?

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"Introduction to Frankenstein"