History
Name Two Reasons For Social Change in England
Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, Overcrowded Cities, War
Name Two Writers of the Romantic Era
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Jane Austen
This Writer was the author of "To a Mouse"
Robert Burns
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
is from what poem?
The Tyger
Robert Burns quickly became a famous poet because he....
Wrote in the Scottish dialect of the common man
Name two characteristics of Romantic Literature and Art
Emotion, Reason, Imagination, Passion
What Role Did Nature Play For The Writers of the Romantic Era?
Served as inspiration for their works - an escape from reality, realization that nature is greater than mankind
This writer was the author of "The Lamb"
William Blake
Still you are blessed, compared with me!
The present only touches you
is from what poem?
The Mouse
Where does the speaker want the louse to go and why?
To a beggars head where a comb will never disturb it's large population
Name one British Historical Event that took place in the Romantic Era
Modern Atomic Theory, Steam Engine, English defeat Napolean, Act of Union creates United Kingdom, first electric motor...
What did the Romantic Writer believe about civilization and industrialization?
That it was going against the natural order of things - destroying nature
This writer was the author of "The World Is Too Much with Us"
William Wordsworth
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem - Apparelled in celestial light,
Is from what poem?
The Ode (“Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”)
William Blake was told by his dead brother in a vision how to create this....
Illuminated Painting
Name one World event that took place during the Romantic Era
U.S. Congress approves the Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, Napoleon conquers Europe,
What method did Romantic writers use to give more meaning to their work?
Allusion
This Author wrote "Sense and Sensibility"
Jane Austen
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
Is from what poem?
“The World is Too Much with Us”
The Tyger represents this and the Lamb represents this....
Satan, Christ
Define and explain the term "laissez-fair"
letting things take their own course, without interfering
What was the most important source for insight that the authors of the Romantic Era used?
Imagination
This Author wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Sun came up on the left, Out of the Sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right, Went down into the sea.
Is from what poem?
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
How can we use imagination to discover truth?
Our imagination takes us outside of the boundaries set by limited ideas from those in authority