History of
This movement came before Romanticism and valued reason, balance, and logic.
What is the Enlightenment?
In Romanticism, nature was more than scenery; it could shape feeling, memory, and thought. True of false?
What is true?
This feeling often goes along with the sublime when a person sees a giant mountain, storm, or waterfall.
What is awe?
Romantic music became more emotional and dramatic than music from this earlier era.
What is the Classical Era?
This poem about a ruined statue in the desert shows that power and pride do not last forever.
What is Ozymandias?
This major historical change brought factories, machines, smoke, and crowded cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This term describes a feeling of awe mixed with wonder and sometimes fear.
What is the Sublime?
This 1st-century writer was one of the earliest people to write about the sublime.
Who is Longinus?
This composer is often called the bridge between the Classical and Romantic periods.
Who is Beethoven?
A short story should have a beginning, middle, and end; together, these form this.
What is the story arc?
Romanticism grew partly because many artists felt modern life was becoming too mechanical and too far from this.
What is nature?
A tiny person standing before a huge storm, tall cliff, or giant glacier is a common image used to show this idea.
What is human smallness compared to nature?
This 1700s thinker connected the sublime to terror, fear, and overwhelming power.
Who is Edmund Burke?
Instrumental music that suggests a story, place, or outside idea is called this.
What is program music?
This Victorian art group rejected Victorian ideologies and tried to bring back Romantic idea into art.
What is the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Romantics pushed back against a world that valued facts and rules over these two things.
What are emotion and imagination?
This American group of painters created large landscapes that made rivers, forests, and mountains feel grand and meaningful.
What is the Hudson River School?
According to Burke, this strongest feeling is closely connected to the sublime.
What is terror?
This composer helped popularize the symphonic poem, a Romantic musical form tied to stories and ideas.
Who is Franz Liszt?
This author was married to Percy Shelley and wrote Frankstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Many scholars point to this as an important starting point for British Romanticism.
What are Lyrical Ballads?
This artist painted the painting now seen as the emblem of Romanticism.
Who is Caspar David Friedrich?
Burke argued that this quality — when something feels huge, endless, or beyond normal size — helps create the sublime.
What is vastness?
This Romantic composer wrote In Nature’s Realm and is known for connecting music to landscape, national feeling, and the natural world.
Who is Antonin Dvořák?
When a writer uses storms, ruins, loneliness, mystery, and awe in one story, they are building the story out of these repeated Romantic ideas.
What are themes and motifs?