Romantic Period

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raised in an outdated faith or belief system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