Facts & Figures
This Literary Period took its name from Latin tales and lasted from around 1800-1865?
What is the Romantic Period?
This is a mystical religion that focuses on the human spirit’s relationship to nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
"'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS."
Her mother, whom she was named after, was a famous feminist.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?
The Romantic Period was grounded in this movement which glorified the abilities of man.
What is the Enlightenment?
Author of a Gothic tale full of unnatural events that is regarded as the first science-fiction story.
Who is Mary Shelley?
The greatest of Romantic poets, he declared the soul’s dependence on nature.
Who is William Wordsworth?
"What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?"
What is "The Tyger"? (William Blake)
Author of the lyric poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils").
Who is William Wordsworth?
Following this revolt, there was a general movement away from the formal tradition of the Neoclassical period.
What is the French Revolution?
Morally reckless author of a poem about the beauty of a woman who happened to be his cousin by marriage.
Who is George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron?
The literature of the Romantic period is characterized by individualism, emotionalism, love of nature, nostalgia, and this belief.
What is mysticism?
"....Near them on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"
What is "Ozymandias"? (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Her acclaimed novels, such as Sense and Sensibility, are considered to be some of the greatest in English literature.
Who is Jane Austen?
Known as the National Poet of Scotland, he penned the well-known “A Red, Red Rose” in 1794.
Who is Robert Burns?
Poet stricken with tuberculosis who wrote the sad sonnet "When I Have Fears."
Who is John Keats?
Many Romantic poets believed that this could be reformed by means of the imagination.
What is society?
"... Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."
This author of Ivanhoe is credited as the originator of the modern historical novel.
Who is Sir Walter Scott?
The popularity of the familiar essay led to the founding of many of these publications.
What are magazines and reviews?
Nonconformist author of a poem about a broken statue of an ancient Egyptian ruler in the desert.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
A leader of Romanticism, this poet eventually returned to Christian faith.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
"I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light."
What is “How Do I Love Thee?”? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Considered the prince of English essayists, he wrote in a conversational style.
Who is Charles Lamb?