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Influence that led to the reform of government and society in Britain during the Romantic Period
Love
British reform culminated in 1832 with what Bill?
Reform bill
The years 1789-1832 encompassed the great literary revolution known as what
Great Reform
Two major parts called the octave and the sestet
Sonnet
The era from which romantic drew great inspiration for their work
Romantic Period
Much of the work produced by romantics made use of what
Love
Term describes an approach to writing that is simple , natural, and straightforward
Familiar style
Another term for the familiar essay
Prose lyric
Extensive use of what set the romantics apart from the neoclassicists
Middle Ages
Three critical decisions everyone must take
Accepting Jesus as a personal Saviour
Finding God’s choice of a marriage partner
Find God’s choice of career
William Blake
Wrote Tiger
Lord Bryon
“She walks in beauty, like the night…”
Used heroism
Destruction
S.T. Coleridge
“Water, Water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink..”
William Hazlitt
Coined the term “familiar style”
John Keats
Chapman’s Homer”
“A beauty is a joy forever”
Charles Lamb
Thomas de Quincy and William Hazlitt
Thomas Moore
Authored a poem as a leading theme in his writings
Sir Walter Scott
Used heroism as a leading theme his writings
historical novel
writer of Ballard and novels
Percy Shelley
“Ozymandias”
“Bird thou never wert, that from Heaven, or near it..”
William Wordsworth
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
Poet laureate of England
Allusion
Making a casual or indirect reference to something
Archaic
Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period
Connotation
Something suggested or applied by word or thing
Demesene
Possession of land as one’s own
