Literature Test- The Romantic Period
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William IV
Who took the throne after George IV died?
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Extended the right to vote to the middle class; middle class grew
What accomplishments did William IV make during his reign?
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Population rising, fewer diseases, scientific advancements, agricultural way of life decreases
What was occurring around the country during the romantic period?
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Peterloo Massacre
What was the peaceful protest that started outside a factory but turned violent when the police came?
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600 injured; 11 killed
How many people were injured and killed in the Peterloo Massacre?
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The “Bobby’s”
What is the nickname for the London police force that was created?
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Robert Peel
Who created the London Police force?
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Small Pox vaccine, coal first used as a fuel source, transportation (the railway system)
What were the firsts during the Romantic Period?
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Edward Jenner
Who created the small pox vaccine?
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Men’s magazines: Men became more conscience of their outward apperance, canned food created
What were the advancements in food and fashion during the Romantic Period?
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Music becomes source of entertainment (opera), Royal Arts Academy started in London, first library occurred
What were the advancements in arts and entertainment during the Romantic period?
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Magazines and Newspapers
What were the popular forms of literature to read during the Romantic Period?
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Essays, London politics, culture, philosophy, novels
What were the popular forms of literature to write about during the Romantic Period?
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Romantic: an idealistic type of writing
What type of philosophy was written about during the Romantic Period?
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Frankenstein, Ivanhoe, Emma
What were some famous novels written during the Romantic Period?
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Nature
What did Frankenstein by Mary Shelley emphasize?
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William Blake
Who was known as a visionary by his contemporaries?
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William Blake
Who worked as an engraver?
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William Blake
Who had his friends help him print his first collection of poems: political sketches?
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William Blake
Who produced most of his books of poetry by hand, adding illustrations?
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Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence, and Experience
What did William Blake write?
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Robert Burns
Who was Scottish and worked with a friend to collect, edit, and write lyrics for many Scottish tunes?
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Robert Burns
Who was most famous for songwriting and poetry?
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Robert Burns
Who wrote during a time when British government was trying to suppress Scottish patriotism through restricting freedoms?
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“To a Mouse,” Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
What did Robert Burns write?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Who worked as a schoolteacher and governess?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Who’s most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, was controversial and placed her as the founder of the women’s rights movement in England?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Who was the mother of Mary Shelley?
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William Wordsworth
Who insisted that his poetry should express deep feelings about everyday experiences?
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William Wordsworth
Who believed in the connection both with man and nature?
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William Wordsworth
Who was separated from his siblings after the death of his parents?
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“The World is Too Much with Us,” “My heart Leaps Up,” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
What did William Wordsworth write?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was plagued with rheumatism throughout his life; too opium to ease his pain?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was influenced greatly by William Wordsworth?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was the greatest literary critic of his age?
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“Kubla Khan” and The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
What did Samuel Taylor Coleridge write?
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Mary Shelley
Who wrote her novel Frankenstein at age 18?
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Mary Shelley
Who was married to another writer named Percy Bysshe Shelley?
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George Gordon
Who was an aristocrat, member of Parliament, and freedom fighter
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George Gordon
Who was plagued by personal scandal?
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George Gordon
Who became a national hero in Greece?
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Lord Byron
What name does George Gordon also go by? (his formal title)
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and “She Walks in Beauty”
What did George Gordon write?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who was bullied during their school years and was expelled from college for writing and disturbing a pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who was friends with Lord Byron and married Mary Shelley after his first wife died, but society considered him immoral?
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John Keats
Who studied medicine after being pulled out of school early?
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John Keats
Who began writing poetry at 21?
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John Keats
Who contracted tuberculosis and died at age 26?
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
What did John Keats write?
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Jane Austin
Who wrote Emma?
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Sir Walter Scott
Who wrote Ivanhoe?
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