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13 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism : dates and principles
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1798-1837
Opposed the power of imagination to power of reason concerned by social justice assert themselves and the values of individual experience Aim was intensity 2 generations of poets sense of liberty : women writers |
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Romantic poets, 1st generation
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William Blake
William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Romanticism, 2nd generation
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Life in exile, early death
Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats |
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Often called a pre-romantic
poet and engraver invented his own cosmogony rejected philosophical, political and religious rules |
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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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Importance of nature
Lake poets => Lake district Went to France during the revolution but was disappointed by the Terror Autobiography in verse called The Prelude |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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Wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
friend with Wordsworth addicted to opium he was also one of the Lake poets |
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Lord George Byron (1788 - 1824
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bisexual
goes into exile Wrote Don Juan, She walks in beauty Child Harold's Pilgrimage semi-autobiographical, contains byronic hero Irony, satire Fought for the independence of Greece |
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Byronic hero
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intelligent, cunning, mysterious, arrogant, exile, self destructive behavior
(in other works : Rochester in Jane Eyre, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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Revolutionary and atheist
Married Mary Godwin in second marriage (=Mary Shelley, Frankenstein) Went to Oxford, left b/c he wrote a text in favour of atheism Went to one lecture per week but read 16h a day Wrote Prometheus Unbound (1820) |
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John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Sensitive, emotional
sensible to critics Fond of Greek mythology, like Shelley "Ode to a Grecian Urn" Quest of beauty "Beauty is Truth, truth beauty" |
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Romanticism and the novel : who?
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Jane Austen
Walter Scott |
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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Describes the everyday life of women her own class
Irony Parody of gothic novel Northanger Abbey |
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Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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Scottish
Wrote Waverley, Ivanhoe Interested in following characters on several generations |
