Romanticism Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Romanticism Dates

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1798-1832

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Motto for French Revolution and lifestyle

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“Liberty, Equality, & Brotherhood”
Very Strict
1789-1799

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reigned from restoration to romanticism; Lost 13 colonies from America; people did not like him because of strict rules; First in his bloodline to not have a prime-minister

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George III

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4
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Year George III was declared insane

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1811

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year George III died

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1820

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Thousand of French aristocrats and middle class citizens killed; England feared it would happen to them; Poor class tired of problems and blamed upper class

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Reign of Terror

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Dates for reign of terror

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1793-1794

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Tory prime Minister; hoped to ease situation between France and Britain with War; Persuaded parliament to pass ACT OF UNION

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William Pitt

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Act of Union states

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Ireland would be represented in the British Parliament and all the British Isles would be joined as Great Britain

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Took over French government, established control over continental Europe, lost in the Battle Trafalgar; Invaded Russia

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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2 major things Napoleon did

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Got rid of democracy and Established autocracy

Named himself emperor

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How did Napoleon lose to Russia?

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To Cold in 1812

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13
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Location Napoleon was exiled to

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Island of Elba

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14
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Determined Europe’s fate after defeating Napoleon and the French Military

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Congress of Vienna

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15
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Battle in which Napoleon experience final defeat in 1815

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Battle of Waterloo

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Policy that the economy operates best with zero government interference; Literally means in French “allow to do” Gives people options

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Laissez Faire

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unemployed factory workers that went around to various countries smashing factory equipment

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Luddite Riots

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Parliament’s reaction to Luddite riots

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outlawed destroying equipment

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Reason for the Luddite Riots

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machinery taking jobs

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Early romantic writers

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Willim Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Scottish writers

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Robert Burns and Walter Scott

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Lake Poets

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William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth

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Romantic Essayists

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Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey

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How was Jane Austen different

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Stuck neoclassical style of restoration, and wrote novels of manners

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New Generation romantics
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats
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Was in the dragoon, considered one of the best poets, studied at cambridge, collaborated with wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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constantly Bullied, Studied at Oxford, mary shelley was wife
Percy Shelley
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Poem about a corrupted ego ruler who was arrogant. Said he was going to be the greatest king ever
Ozymandias
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Metaphorical poem asking a bird to teach the speaker how to sing and be beautiful
Ode to a Skylark
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Poem that describers the beauty of autumn. Asks to lift up his spirit
Ode to a West Wind
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poem that makes fun of George the 3rd, hopefully he will be dead soon, ruining everything
Sonnet England in 1819
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Read the Bible often, was catholic, parents put him through Drawing school, was engraver and artist
William Blake
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Poem comparing Jesus Christ as the lamb; question and answer type
The Lamb
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Had many girlfriends and worked on a farm, most successful Scottish poet
Robert Burns
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Bug crawling on a wealthy woman ; don't look outward not inward
to a louse
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Athletic, had limp, fell in love with cousin, died of tuberculosis
Lord Byron
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Reflection on all missed opportunity
On this day of my 36th year
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he and his mother died from tuberculosis, apprenticed a surgeon, abandoned medicine for poetic dreams, died at 25, apothecary
John Keats
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jealous of a flower that is free, happy, and has a long life,speaker blacks out in the woods from smoking weed
Ode to a nightingale