Aesthetics
(_) is the poetic experience of witnessing something so vast, grandiose, and overpowering that its beauty inspires one with horror.
What is the "sublime"?
This female character is central to the tragic story outlined in William Blake’s 1793 poem “Visions of the Daughters of Albion.”
According to William Wordsworth’s [Year] Preface to Lyrical Ballads, poetry is…
What is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
(_) is the only successful slave revolution in history.
What is the "Haitian Revolution"?
William Blake used this printing technique to create his illuminated manuscripts, such as “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”
What is “relief-etching”?
This poem is the forgotten counterpart to Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey.”
What is "The Brothers"?
This literary device concerns a writer’s description of a work of art, and is central to John Keats’ 1819 poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
What is ekphrasis?
The IDIOT Edmund Burke condemns (_) change for France, while supporting government changes in a far more unrealistic manner.
What is "radical change"?
This represents the psycho-sexual topography of Romanticism in Coleridge’s poem, “Kubla-Khan.”
What is "romantic chasm"?
Blake refers to this in his poem, “London”, in reference to how power structures constrain us internally.
What is "mind-forged manacles"?
This function is the role of a poet.
What is “to surrender one’s identity”?
In Raymond Kent’s “Experience”, he describes (_) as the culmination of experience, values, and habits, diversified by material conditions.
What is "culture"?