Romantic Period Test

cause of movement

french revolution, industrialization, urbanization, poets lost faith in reasoning and using mind

what did movement emphasize

nature, common man, emotion, imagination, growth through experience

Forerunners of Romanticism

William Blake and Robert Burns

Blake

created complex mythology and imaginatively confronted problems

Burns

wrote in Scottish dialect, folk songs, ballads - preserve the literature of the common people

1st generation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

worked with wordsworth, suffered from chronic headaches - prescribed opium and became addicted

William Wordsworth

took long walks and composed poetry in his head - wrote lyrical ballads with Coleridge

2nd generation

Goerge Gordan/Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats

George Gordan/Lord Byron

had many affairs - exiled from England, had pet bear at oxford, built extravagant tomb for his dog

Percy Shelley

Married Harriet Westbrook but ran away with Mary Wollstonecraft, vegetarian, only drank boiled water, wrote political poetry and drowns at sea

John Keats

tuberculosis, leaves love of his life, Fanny Braune, to go to Rome to recover - dies