Enlightenment
Reason
What is the primary source of knowledge?
Grotesque proposal to end famine in Ireland.
What is "A Modest Proposal?"
A reaction against the excessive rationalism of the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
Collection of poems, the manifesto of the English Romanticism.
Which is "Lyrical Ballads"?
The typical mental state of narrators in his short stories.
What is insanity?
Newton
Who discovered the law of universal gravity?
Kind of Brobdingnag is most appalled by this.
What is gunpowder?
Reason cannot explain everything.
What is a Romantic basic idea?
A poem about nature and wanderings, memory and spirituality.
What is "I wondered lonely as a cloud"?
On the pallid bust of Pallas.
What is "The Raven"?
This Enlightenment era writer fought for freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
28 years
How long was Crusoe stranded on the island?
Medieval and Renaissance
Which past eras did Romantics admire?
Substance Coleridge was addicted to and which inspired him to write poems of the supernatural.
What is "opium"?
A theory of Poe according to which the reader should be affected by a writing in one sitting.
What is "unity of effect?"
This Enlightenment era philosopher supported separation of powers in government.
Who is Montesquieu?
The father of the English novel.
What is Defoe considered?
The French Revolution - 1789
Which Revolution influenced the Romantic era?
To travel the world incessantly and to teach other people the right ways of the world.
What was the Mariner cursed to do?
My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.
What is "The Black Cat"?
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
What are the basic rights stated in the Declaration of Independence?
An imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
What is Laputa?
King Louis the XVI
Which French king was beheaded to end the monarchy in France?
....poetry is...the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...
What is recollected in tranquility? :))
To symbolize "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance".
Why did he write "the Raven"?