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A boy abandoned on the streets of Liverpool, a willful young woman, a storm
What is Wuthering Heights?
"Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"
Who is Catherine Earnshaw?
"The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
What is from "The Decay of Lying" by Oscar Wilde?
"Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?"
What is from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë?
"In [this author's] nature the extremes of vigour and simplicity seemed to meet. Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero; but [he/she] had no worldly wisdom."
Who is Emily Brontë?
I am the "Titan! to whose immortal eyes / The sufferings of morality / Seen in their sad reality, / Were not as things that gods despise."
Who is Prometheus (from Lord Byron's "Prometheus")?
Icy caverns, an erupting geyser, a damsel with a dulcimer
What is "Kubla Khan"?
"Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud."
What is from "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
This author's rakish public persona inspired countless fictional characters, including John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Who is Lord Byron?
I am "King of Kings; / Looks on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Who is Ozymandias (from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias")?
This concept, attributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, allows for the appreciation of literary art "without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
What is negative capability?
"Though earth and moon were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And Thou wert left alone
Every Existence would exist in thee"
What is from "No Coward Soul is Mine" by Emily Brontë?