William Blake
"Little Lab God bless thee"
This is a phrase from The Lamb
What is Lord Byron's real name?
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
"The world is too much with us; late and seen"
What is The world is too much with us?
"Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night"
What is Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art ?
Where did Shelley go to school?
Eton and Oxford
Where was Samuel Coleridge born?
Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire
What is Songs of Innocence based on?
The fears and hopes of children
What did he emphasize on?
Freedom of the individuals
Expression of emotion
St. John's College Cambridge University
Where did he get his degree from?
"One morn before me were three figures seen"
What is Ode on Indolence?
"The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen amongst us,--visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing"
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
In 1795, Coleridge met Wordsworth and judged him to be what?
"The best poet of the age"
What were his believes on God and religion?
Spiritual but not religious
Respected the idea of God
Used the Bible for inspiration
Why did he organize an expedition?
To assist in the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire
"Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters!"
What is Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey?
"She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips"
What is Ode on Melancholy?
Shelley's closest friend
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
It is an ancient mariner
And he stoppeth one of three
"By the long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
What does Songs of Innocence vs Experience touch on?
Childhood vs adulthood
What is Manfred?
A dramatic poem
characterized by supernatural elements
Did he support the French Revolution?
yes
He abandoned ______ for poetry.
medicine
"The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark--now glittering-- now reflecting gloom..."
Mont Blanc
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
Came out--and hark, again! Loud as before
Frost at Midnight
ability to see beyond reality, capture true essence of things. (Only given to God, poets, and children)
What is the theme of darkness?
The growing inequality
The prediction to what may happen if the human race doesn't change
How many children did he have?
6
Who was his last letter to?
Charles Brown
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone..."
Ozymandias
Coleridge's schoolmate and lifelong friend
Charles Lamb