William Blake
William Blake's occupation (note: it is closely related to his social status)
What is an artisan or professional engraver?
The major world event that influenced Wordsworth (and as a result, his poetry)
What is the French Revolution?
Politically, people generally saw Coleridge as a...
What is a radical?
Percy Shelley was a part of which wave of Romantic poets
What is the second wave (i.e., late romantics)?
At the age of 25, and in the midst of his poetic career, Keats dies of this disease
What is tuberculosis? (note: TB was frequently referred to as consumption during the 19th century)
This person wrote the first published radical response to Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Blake's most famous collection of poems
What are the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?
Wordsworth's best friend who he collaborated with on Lyrical Ballads
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Many of Coleridge's works focus on these themes
What are the sublime and the imagination?
Shelley married this famous woman who wrote Frankenstein
Who is Mary Godwin Shelley? (fun fact: she was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men)
Keats' inspiration for the structure and form of his Great Odes came from experimenting with this poetic form
What is a sonnet?
In his essay "Signs of the Times," Carlyle describes the period in which he was living as...
What is "The Mechanical Age"?
Besides writing poetry, Blake is also known for his popular _______.
What are his prophetic engravings?
The form Wordsworth's poems are written in
What is Blank Verse?
The poem "The Eolian Harp" is written in this style
What is Blank Verse?
The central aim of "The Mask of Anarchy" is to encourage...
What is nonviolent resistance?
This defamatory term was used to describe Keats and the circle of poets he belonged to
What is "The Cockney School"?
This Victorian period was marked by rapid ______.
What is industrialization? (note: this is what Carlyle is responding to in his essay "Signs of the Times")
In "The Chimney Sweeper," the character who's head is shaved is...
Who is Tom Dacre?
In "Tintern Abbey," the thematic focus of the poem is...
What is...
1. The restorative power of nature
2. Memory
3. Returns, change, and the power of the human imagination
After the mariner is forced to wear the albatross around his neck, he _____ to make it fall off of his neck.
What is the mariner blesses the sea snakes?
Percy Shelley wrote "The Masque of Anarchy" in response to this event
What is the Peterloo Massacre?
Keats was inspired to write "To Autumn" after this person died
Who is his brother, Thomas Keats?
Thomas Carlyle expressed his opposition to this political theory in "Signs of the Times"
What is utilitarianism?
The focus of Blake's poetry tends to be on...
What is individual and/or creative self-realization?
Wordsworth was named Poet Laureate in 1843 by Queen Victorian. Upon his death in 1850, _______ succeeded him as Poet Laureate.
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the thematic focus is...
What is...
1. Sin and redemption
2. The supernatural
3. Suffering and transformation (of the individual)
The primary themes of Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" are...
What is...
1. The ravages of time
2. The impermanence of great men and empires
3. The disintegration and decay of legacies
In "To Autumn," the main thematic message is...
What is...
1. Autumn's fruitfulness and excessive productivity
2. The passage of time and decline
3. The coexistence of beauty and death
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A. H. H. belongs to this genre
What is an elegy?