The Romantic Movement

Question 1

Who were the big 6?

Answer 1

• Wordsworth
• Coleridge
• Lord Byron
• Percy Shelly
• Keats
• Blake

Question 2

Who were the female poets?

Answer 2

• Anna Barbauld
• Charlotte Smith
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Dorothy Wordsworth
• Felicia Hemans

Question 3

What are the four doctrines of belief held by the Romantic poets?

Answer 3

1. Love of nature
2. Being sentimental
3. Belief in the supernatural
4. Examining the world and man as something that cannot be fully explained

Question 4

When did wordsworth live

Answer 4

1770-1850

Question 5

What are Wordsworth’s most famous works?

Answer 5

• Lines above Tintern Abbey
• The world is too much with us- 1802
• London,1802 - 1802
• The Prelude
• The Preface
• Composed upon a Westminster bridge - 1802

Question 6

When did Keats live?

Answer 6

1795-1821

Question 7

Keats was said to be

Answer 7

The most concrete and sensuous of all the poets

Question 8

When was lyrical ballads published?

Answer 8

1798

Question 9

When was the preface mostly published?

Answer 9

1798, 1800, 1802

Question 10

The preface Is considered to be _____ and has a_____

Answer 10

• a turning point in literary history

* Reputation as a revolutionary critical manifesto

Question 11

Poetry is____ and ____.

Answer 11

• The real language of man

* Man speaking to men

Question 12

What are the 5 purposes for writing the lyrical ballads?

Answer 12

1. To choose incidents from common life
2. To deceive these for the common man
3. To use imagination to deceive these things
4. To present ordinary things in an interesting way
5. To make them interesting by tracing in them the laws of nature

Question 13

When did Coleridge live?

Answer 13

1772-1834

Question 14

What are coleridge’s most famous works

Answer 14

• Christabel
• Rime of the ancient mariner
• Kubla khan

Question 15

What are Keats’ most significant works?

Answer 15

• The Eve of st. Agnes
• Ode to a Grecian urn
• Lamia
• The fall of Hyperion
• When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
• Upon Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

Question 16

What are some significant characteristics of Keats’ verse?

Answer 16

The reconciliation of opposites

Negative capability

Question 17

Keats wrote what are to be considered as

Answer 17

The finest odes

Question 18

When was Wordsworth’s Lines composed above Tintern Abbey Composed?

Answer 18

1798

Question 19

When was Wordsworth’s Prelude composed?

Answer 19

1798-1839

Question 20

According to “The Preface”, what is a poet?

Answer 20

• A man speaking to men
• Affected by things present and absent
• Has a greater power to explain thoughts and feelings
• Wants to accurately portray feelings
• Applies principle of language
• Writes to provide immediate pleasure to reader
• No barrier between writer, and creating images
• Examines both pain and pleasure
• Considers man and objects around them
• Considers human nature in ordinary life
• Finds objects that delight

Question 21

When was Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” written?

Answer 21

1797

Question 22

When was Coleridge’s “Christabel” written?

Answer 22

1797(pt.1) - 1798(pt.2)

Question 23

When was the Romantic Period?

Answer 23

1785-1830

Question 24

When was Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” written?

Answer 24

Oct. 1816

Question 25

When was Keats’ “Eve of St. Agnes” written?

Answer 25

1819

Question 26

When was Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written?

Answer 26

1819

Question 27

When was Keats’ “When I Have Fear” written?

Answer 27

1818