Romantics and Victorians Brit Lit

Romantic Period

~1789

Victorian Period

1837

William Blake

1757-1827

William Wordsworth

1770-1850

Walter Scott

1771-1832

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834

Robert Southey

1774-1843 - Poet Laureate

Leigh Hunt

1784-1859

George Gordon Byron

1788-1824

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822

John Keats

1795-1821

Victoria’s reign

63 years

Elizabeth II’s reign

70 years

Romantic Writing Qualities

Lyric poetry, expressing personal emotions.

Victorian Writing Qualities

Impersonal, observant

French Revolution

1700

John Wilson Croker

Notorious literary critic.

Concrete Poetry

“picture poem”

“The Cataract of Lodore”

1809 Robert Southey

“A Vision of Judgement”

Robert Southey’s tribute to King George III

Who did Southey beef with?

Lord Byron

Wordsworth

Lived in the countryside and wrote poems about it. Friends with Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tried to start a utopia.

Mary Fricker

Robert Lovell’s happy wife

Edith Fricker

Southey’s wife

Sarah Fricker

Coleridge’s reluctant wife (for the utopia)

Jane Austen

1776-1917 Sense and Sensibility

William Cowper

1731-1800 John Newton’s friend and pastor who wrote hymns

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822 - Died at sea, poet, first wife committed suicide, married Mary Godwin

John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Godwin

Wrote spooky stories about a skull-headed tortured lady, a vampire, nightmares remembered, and a pale student of unhallowed arts

John Keats

1795-1821 Poet known for little lifetime success, no name on tombstone

Leigh Hunt

1784-1859 Poet abandoned in Italy by Byron, wrote expose

Lord Byron

1788-1824 Inherited the title of Lord at 15, promiscuous, very famous, invented the byronic hero

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

first instance of a byronic hero

Anne Bronte

Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Acton Bell

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights, Ellis Bell

Charlotte Bronte,

The Professor, Jane Eyre, Currer Bell

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1809-1892, best poet, pause after he dies on poet laureate, mourned his friend Arthur Halam for 17 years, engaged for 17 years

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred Lord Tenyson poem, recorded on Phonograph

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

Likes painting, poetry, literary critiques, alcohol, drugs, mistresses, and exotic animals he kept in his london house

Christina Rosetti

Painter, poet, model, wrote childrens poetry

William Mcgonagel

Wrote TERRIBLE poetry

Edward FitzGerald

Friend of Tennyson, Thackery, and Carlyle. Translated poetry.

Robert Browning

Great poet. Wrote impossible to stage plays. Very confusing poetry that meant Browning Societies formed to discover it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wonderful poet, incredibly talented, chronic illness, married Robert.

Edward FitzGerald said this about Elizabeth Barret Browning

He was glad she had died

Thomas Hardy

Wrote novels then poetry. Wrote a lot about the English countryside.

He wrote “so Willy, let you and me be wipers of scores out with all men, especially pipers”

Robert Browning

She wrote about Angria

Charlotte Bronte

Edward Bullward Lyton’s novel that begins with “it was a dark and stormy night”

Paul Clifford

Names of the Bronte siblings

Mariah, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick(Branwell), Emily, Anne

The person most to blame if anyone caused Robert Browning to die sooner

Edward FitzGerald

Lord Byron + 3 in scary story challenge

Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, and Dr. John Polidori

Robert Southey blamed him for spoiling his first poem as poet laureate

John Wilson Croker

First work of literature with a byronic hero

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

John Keats friends blamed this man for Keat’s death and added the blame to the tombstone

John Wilson Croker

Leigh Hunt wrote Jenny Kissed Me about the wife of this historian

Thomas Carlyle

The character who is most to blame for Jane Eyre’s childhood suffering

Mrs. Reed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s novel, written as a poem

Aurora Leigh

She wrote “No Thank You, John”

Christina Rosetti

The first name of the man who, along with Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, married into the same family

Robert Lovell

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s pen name

The Portuguese

The author’s identification on the first edition of Sens and Sensibility

By a lady

He said “so much the better, you can kill him when you need him”

Man in an alehouse who sells bodies to doctors

He wrote and published the first prose version of the traditional story of the three bears

Robert Southey

Charlotte Bronte’s last novel to be published

The Professor

She lived at Thorpe Green

Mrs. Lydia Robinson

The character who says “as a man of business, I am not justified in saying anything about this matter”

Jarvis Lorry

She wrote Agnes Grey and the Tenet of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte

William Wordsworth wrote a poem in part about this person’s loved books

Robert Southey

The first title of Sense and Sensibility

Eleanor and Marianne

The pen name of the first novel published by Emily Bronte

Ellis Bell

In A Song About Myself, John Keats wrote to his younger sister about his trip to this country

Scotland

William Makepiece Thackery’s most famous novel today

Vanity Fair

He wrote Timbucktoo and The Lotus Eaters

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The person Leigh Hunt blamed for stranding him in Italy

Lord Byron

He was poet laureate immediately after Robert Southey

William Wordsworth

He fell in love with and married one of his many models, Elizabeth Sybille

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

The character who says “Engaged 4 years, heaven knows ho much longer we may have to wait”

Lucy Steele

The person to blame for Marianne Dashwood’s broken heart

John Willouby

He wrote a dirge and the waning moon

Percy Shelley

Charlotte Bronte’s favorite novelist

William Makepiece Thackery

Emily Bronte’s only published novel

Wuthering Heights

The name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog

Flush

The first poet laureate not succeeded within a year of his death

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Her sister burned the manuscript of what would have been her second novel

Charlotte Bronte

Wrote a fan letter and concluded it “I love you too”

Robert Browning

The decade in which William Wordsworth died

1850

Byronic hero

endless wanderer, gloomy egoist, man of intense feeling, secretly grieving for a lost love, harms those who care about him, enjoys vice + dislikes virtue, shameless, ungodly, enjoys illicit relationships with women, enjoys drinking companions from all levels of society, little in common with other men, free thinker, proud, self-sufficient/doesn’t need mankind

William Blake Works

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

Wordsworth Works

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Lyrical Ballads

Walter Scott Works

Ivanhoe

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Works

Lyrical Ballads, Khubla Kahn

Robert Southey Works

The Cataract of Lodore, The Doctor (the three bears)

Leigh Hunt Works

Jenny Kissed Me

Lord Byron Works

Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, The Vision of Judgement

Percy Shelley Works

Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound, To a Skylark

John Keats Works

Lamia, Endymion

Thomas Hardy Works

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure,