Engels Literature Klas 5 The Romantic Period

Question 1

The romantic period

Answer 1

1798-1830

• The industrial revolution: long working hours, miserable working conditions and poverty
• Prosperity of a small group- poverty of many
• The ideals of freedom and equality came up, also for poets

Question 2

French revolution

Answer 2

1789

Inspiration to the people who felt that the whole structure of society should be changed

Question 3

The lyrical ballads

Answer 3

• William wordsworth and Samual Taylor Coleridge
• 1798
• a volume of poetry
• the preface was a manifesto of the ideals of the romantics
• a poetry of simplicity, both in form and in contents, guided no longer by reason, but by the imagination

Question 4

Poetry

Answer 4

The most suitable form to express feelings and emotions

Question 5

Romantic themes

Answer 5

• nature
• feelings and emotions
• simple life (country life/folk/children) -> poetic forms often simple too
• the supernatural
• exotic countries and cultures
• the past -> medieval stories became popular

Question 6

Escapism

Answer 6

The romantics/poets escaped dull, everyday life. They often did this by going on a grand tour

Question 7

Early romantics

Answer 7

• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 8

William blake

Answer 8

Songs of innocence and experience

Question 9

William wordsworth

Answer 9

• The lucy poems, I wandered lonely as a cloud, the solitary reaper, it is a beautous evening calm and free, lyrical ballads
• in the lyrical ballads he forced people to look at common events and people in a fresh way
• Pantheist: a person who identifies the natural universe with god
• the poet of natural descriptions, stressing the beautiful simplicity of country life and folk

Question 10

Samuel taylor coleridge

Answer 10

• The rime of the ancient mariner: a poem about contect between man and nature, showing the reader to love all creatures god has created.
• lyrical ballads: persons and characters supernatural, appealing to the readers imagination to accept them as real
• interested in the supernatural and the past
• drug addict: world of his own, visions and imaginary beings
• often used the form of medieval ballad (simplicity)

Question 11

Late romantics

Answer 11

1810-1830

• lord Byron
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats

Question 12

Lord Byron

Answer 12

• Don juan
• the byronic hero: a lonely, proud and passionate man who is disappointed in life and lives outside society. Often under the influence of drugs and alcohol

Question 13

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 13

• Ode to the west wind, ozymandias
• pure idealist: better world will come
• interested in politics and rebelled against all laws and regulations
• expelled from oxford
• his poems were weapons in his struggle for social reform and a free society.

Question 14

John keats

Answer 14

• Endymion, la belle dame sans merci
• Mainly interested in the beauty of art itself
• died young

Question 15

Grand tour

Answer 15

Mostly a round trip on which they visited france, italy and greece

Question 16

Ekphrasis

Answer 16

An artist who is inspired by a poem -> paintings of la belle dame sans merci.
Or a poet/writer who is inspired by a work of art.

Question 17

Prose in the romantic period

Answer 17

• mainly interested in poetry because it was the best way to express feelings and emotions
• the rise of the novel went on: the romantics were verh noticable
• interest in mysterie and imagination, horror and ghosts; gothic novel
• dr. Frankenstein by mary shelley
• the mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• interest in the heroic past
• Ivanhoe by sir Walter Scott

Question 18

Jane Austen

Answer 18

• family in Landed gentry: not middle class, but way bellw aristocracy. She writes in detail about this class, sometimes humorously.
• women shouldnt be too intelligent bc they wouldnt get a good man
• children were sent away to learn to speak etc.
• wouldnt place her in Romantic but rather Neoclassical. She did write Romantic, but she was a realist and the first one to display an extremely good insight in her novels.
• jane had the advantage that she had books at home and her brother was willing to publish her books.
• characters clash with commonly accepted ideas
• central theme: tension between the demands of society and the wishes of the individual.
• emma, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.

Question 19

Art in the romantic period

Answer 19

• art had to reflect the personal beliefs of the artists
• individualists: didnt want to adjust to rules of society
• drugs, alcohol and poverty; bohemians
• lyrical instead of didactic

Question 20

Science

Answer 20

Focused on folks, literature and language

Question 21

Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 21

• Annabel Lee
• short stories and poems
• unusual amd eccentric: subconcious world of fantasy and dreams(nightmares)
• dark side of the human mind
• heavy drinker: his death
• new genre: detective novel: auguste dupin

Question 22

The gothic novel

Answer 22

• mystery, doom, decay, ghosts, madness, curses and isolation
• frankenstein and edgar allan poe
• mysteries of Udolpho