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