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For English-speaking readers, the romantic age may be defined as extending from the childhood of ______ __ _______ to the ______ moment.
Blake and Wordsworth, present
Ever since the philosopher, ______, the child has been separate from the adult. The process of the child growing away from the adult began in the ______ century. It was then that the period of ______ came into existence.
Rousseau, eighteenth, adolescence
1830s or 1840s, Romanticism represents a complex interaction of cultural, political, social, philosophical, and aesthetic responses to the unrest set off by the ______ Revolution, the ______ Revolution, the age of ______, and the spirit of ______ that followed in their aftermath.
American, French, Napoleon, nationalism
Economically and socially, it stands at the edge of the ______ Revolution, the breakdown of the ___ ______ ______, and the rise of______.
Industrial, old rural order, urbanism
It also stands at a transition in Western ______ and the formation of ______ ______.
colonialism, worldwide empires
Both Wordsworth and Coleridge, for instance, aspired to a poetic medium that came closer to the ______ rhythms and characteristics of ______.
indigenous, English
In contrast to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron styled himself after the ______ wits, and saw himself as the natural inheritor of ______ ______.
Restoration, Alexander POPE
Shelley tended to draw on______ models for his poetry, while Blake drew on ______ hymnody
classical, Methodist
In medieval literature the term romantic originally pertained to a work in the ______ ______.
vernacular language
Since vernacular poetry was associated with the courtly tradition, the romance pointed either to something _____ and ______, or something involving chivalric ______ or the ______.
sad, sentimental, exploits, fantastic
By the 17th c., French marked the different meanings of romantic with the words romanesque, signifying the ______ or ______, and romantique, signifying the ______ and ______.
bizarre or fantastic, sad and sentimental
The end of the 18th c. generally defined romanticism in opposition to the______.
classical
Northrop Frye respond that Romanticism is not so much a single doctrine as a historic " ______ __ ______."
"an historic center of gravity."
Rene Wellek sees Romanticism as an endeavor to overcome a split between s______ and o______, the s______ and w______, the c_______ and the u_________.
subject and object, self and the world, the conscious and the unconscious
M. H. Abrams argues the Romantics found in the rationalism and self-consciousness of the Enlightenment, a separation between _______ and ______.
man and nature.
Given threats to the self from disorder, romanticism can be seen as a yearning for a past ______ or ______ of self.
order or unity
A cultural strand that contributes to romanticism is the seventeenth and 18th-c. antiquarians interest in earlier ______ cultural artifacts.
indigenous
Various 18th-c. aesthetic categories such as natural g______, s______, the p______, the p______, the s______ also contribute to Romanticism.
genius, sentiment, the pastoral, the picturesque, and the sublime
Romantcism is a shift away from thinking of the universe as a , ______ ______ like a clock, to thinking of it as a ______ ______, like a growing tree.
static mechanism, dynamic organism
Romantic thought rejects absolute ______, formal ______, and exclusive ______; it welcomes ______, ______, and ______.
values, classifications, judgments; novelty, orginality, and variety
When was Alexander Pope born?
Born: May 21, 1688; London, England
When did Alexander Pope die?
Died: May 30, 1744; Twickenham, England
When was Essay on Man written?
1733-34
The central conception of E. on Man rests, however, upon the ideas of p______, g______, and c______.
plenitude, gradation, and continuity
______, for Pope, means the overwhelming fullness of creation, of a universe inhabited by all possible essences created by God.
Plenitude
The abundance and variety of creation are also marked by ______, the notion that there exists a ______ chain or rank among creation, moving from the lowest created thing up to God.
gradation, graduated
In E on Man, ______ is for Pope the principle of social and divine love that ties together all forms of creation in measured rule.
Continuity
In Epistle 1, Pope asserts that man's view of the universe is __________.
limited
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that because man's view is limited, man should not ______ the ways of ______.
ways, God
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that ________ only seem to be ________.
imperfections
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that man's chief error is his _____.
pride
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that man errors when he thinks that he is the ______ ______ of creation.
final cause.
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that all of creation is ordered according to a ______ ______ where man is near the top because he possesses _______.
graduated scale, reason
In Epistle 1, Pope argues that what is ___ ______.
is right
According to the romantics, Poetry is the ______ of ______, or emerges from a process of _______ in which ______ play the crucial part. (Abrams 101)
overflow, feeling, imagination, feelings
According to the romantics, As the vehicle of an______ state of mind, ______ is opposed not to ______, but to unemotional assertions of ______ or ______. (Abrams 101)
emotional, poetry, prose, facts or science
According to the romantics, Poetry originated in _____ utterances of ______ which, through ______ causes, were naturally _______ and ______. (Abrams 101)
primitive, passion, organic, rhythmic, figurative
According to the romantics, Poetry is competent to express ______ chiefly by its resources of ____ __ ____ and ____, by means of which words naturally embody and convey the _____ of the poet. (Abrams 102)
emotions, figures of speech, rhythm, feelings
According to the romantics, it is essential to poetry that its ______ be the _____ and ______, not the ______, expression of the _____ state of the poet. (Abrams 102)
language, spontaneous, genuine, contrived, emotional
According to the romantics, the poet is distinguished from other men particularly by his intense _____ and ______ to passion. (Abrams 102)
sensibility, susceptibility
According to the Romantics, the most important functions of poetry is, by its ______ resources, to _____ and _____ the _____, _____, and _____ of the reader. (Abrams 103)
pleasurable, foster and subtilize, sensibility, emotions, sympathies
When was Coleridge born?
1772
When did Coleridge die?
1834
When was the Rime published?
1798
The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on r___, d____, d____, t____, and ch___, and privileged i_____ and p______.
ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion
The first gothic novel was ____, written by ______ in ______.
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole, 1764
Gothic's philosophical foundations were established by ______ ______'s treatise, ______ , written in ______.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757
The major theme of Rime is w___, p_____, and s____.
wandering, punishment, and salvation.
The body of the Rime has the logic of a ______.
dream
The Rime's beginning and ending is ordered according to ______ but the body is ordered by ______.
reason, imagination
Philosophically speaking, the dream world of the Mariner is described using ______ qualities rather than ______ qualities
secondary, primary
Philosophically, primary qualities of objects are ______, ______, ______.
extension, weight, and texture
Philosophically, secondary qualities of objects are ______, ______, ______.
light, sound, color
In the Rime, the Mariner learns that his ordinary life was really alienated from the deepest ______, and that the _____ order of cause-effect is a humanistic ______.
reality, rational, dream
What are Kant's dates?
1724-1804
When was the Critique of Pure Reason first published?
1781