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17 Cards in this Set
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19. Nature is a key motif in romantic poetry. How does Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” illustrate this fact?
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21. Who were the American transcendentalists? How did they regard the role of nature in human life?
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23. How did American landscapes differ generally from those of European artists?
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25. Is Keats’ view that beauty and truth are one an exclusively romantic point of view? How, for
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27. Compare neoclassicism and romanticism as stylistic and intellectual modes of approaching reality.
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29. Compare Constable’s paintings with the poetry of Wordsworth. In your view, do they show the reflectiveness and spirituality of Wordsworth’s poetry? What of the other landscape painters of the period?
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31. Compare Emerson’s statement (from the essay Nature), “There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity. . . , which nature cannot repair” to other poets of the period. Who is he most reminiscent of?
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33. Describe the Picturesque in Romantic Landscape painting using examples.
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35. What was transcendentalism and how is it represented in Romantic painting?
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20. What does the wind represent in Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”?
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22. What did Thoreau mean by “the indescribable innocence” of nature?
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24. Explain what Wordsworth means when he calls nature “The anchor of my purest thoughts, the
nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul/Of all my moral being |
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26. In what way was Thoreau’s life at Walden Pond an adventure in practical survival? In what ways was it a mystical experience? Are these two kinds of experience compatible?
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28. What do each of the following statements reveal about the nineteenth-century romantic?
a. I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! (Shelley) b. I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. (Emerson) c. I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. (Thoreau) d. Feeling is all. (Goethe) e. I have no love for reasonable painting. (Delacroix) |
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30. Who was the poet who argued in his “Ode on a Grecian Urn” that pleasure is fleeting and that art alone records the pleasure of past experiences?
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32. Describe the Sublime in Romantic Landscape paintings using examples.
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34. How was Romantic pantheism reflected in landscape painting?
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