Studied by 1 person
Vocabulary from Modules 13-15.
Romanticism
International artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
Gothic novels
Novels that typically feature picturesque yet haunted medieval castles and ruins, supernatural elements,death, madness, and terror.
mysticism
The belief that the physical world of nature is a revelation of a spiritual or transcendental presence in the universe.
sensibility
The emotional enthusiasm that was a reaction, often an exaggerated reaction, to the reason and logic prized in neoclassicism.
primitivism & individualism
Interest in the person who does not have the artificial manners of high society, the cultivated façade of the aristocracy.
Lyrical Ballads
A collection of poems written and jointly published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798
Preface
An introductory explanation.
lyric
A brief poem, expressing emotion, imagination, and meditative thought, usually stanzaic in form.
ode
A lyric poem longer than usual lyrics, often on a more serious topic, usually meditative and philosophic in tone and subject.
ballad
A narrative poem or song, usually simple & regular in rhythm & rhyme. The typical ballad stanza is 4 lines rhyming abab.
copses
areas densely covered with shrubs and small trees
corporeal
bodily
sylvan
associated with the forest or woodlands
genial
creative
sedge
reedy plants
sinews
tendon or ligament
steep
soak; saturate
sordid boon
tarnished or selfish gift
Pagan
someone who is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim
suckled in a creed outworn
raised in an outdated faith or belief system
lea
meadow
Proteus…Triton
sea gods of Greek mythology
wrath
extreme or violent anger
Soft deceitful wiles
clever strategies designed to manipulate or persuade someone to do what one wants
ardent
passionate
countenance
face; expression
dauntless
fearless
harrowing
extremely distressing
irrevocably
in a way impossible to change
mariner
navigator of a ship
perseverance
steady persistence
benevolent
showing charity
commiserate
to express sympathy
consolation
something that eases sorrow or disappointment
discern
to detect; to perceive
fiend
evil spirit; devil
hideous
extremely ugly
omen
a sign of future good or evil
Note 
Flashcard (37)