Important years
Important authors
Quotes
Romantic Symbolism
American Romanticism
100
The year that the Romantic period is commonly said to begin in the UK.
What is 1798?
100
Author of "Song of Myself"
Who is Walt Whitman?
100
Country folk used this language
What is "the language of commen men"
100
High Romantic artists interpreted things through this:
What is their own emotions?
100
The Romantic Period in the US
What is 1830-1860?
200
This is the expanded chronological spectrum of the Romantic Period in the UK
What is 1770-1870?
200
The authors who published Lyrical Ballads in 1798
Who are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
200
Wordsworth's definition of all good poetry
What is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
200
This was the reason why symbols were so highly valued
What is "they could suggest many things"
200
The most Romantic of all the American authors, because he obsessively depicts sensitive, isolated individuals seeking the Beautiful or Ideal
Who is Edgar A. Poe
300
The year that the romantic period is commonly said to end in the UK
What is 1832?
300
This author makes a practice of representing commonplace items in nature as containing divine elements
Who is Whitman?
300
According to the text, Wordsworth said the following regarding our being in the world.
What is: "We not only perceive the world around us, but also in part create it."
300
This commonly used symbol was often seen as being itself a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination in emblematic language
What is nature?
300
The primary feature of American Romanticism
What is the obsession with and celebration of individualism
400
The year of the French Revolution
What is 1789?
400
This author wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Who is Victor Hugo
400
The author who said: "Nothing succeeds like excess."
Who is Oscar Wilde
400
Emphasis on the activity of the imagination was accompanied by this
What is greater emphasis on the importance of intuition, instincts, and feelings.
400
Especially these two authors were receptive to non-heterosexual relations
Who were Melville and Whitman
500
The period called "The Age of Reason"
What is 1700-1770?
500
The author of "Sorrows of Young Werther"
Who is Goethe?
500
Coleridge used these two words to describe the unity of reason and feeling.
What is: "Intellectual intuition."
500
In romantic theory, art was valuable for this primary reason
What is "a source of illumination of the world within."
500
American Romantics can celebrate both of these
What is the "common man" and their own, more spiritually/psychologically elite selves.
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