Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Romanticism Questions- Due March 11th

1. When did the Romantic Era begin and end? Overall, how does the book describe the movement? How does it contrast to the Enlightenment/Age of Reason?

2. What were the major political developments/changes that occured during the Romantic Era?

3. The introduction describe three pre-Romantic poets; how did these poets bridge the gap between Neoclassicism and Romanticism? What were the name of the three pre-Romantics discussed in the book?

4. What publication really began the Romantic Era? Why was the publication pivotal in the Romantic movement? What statements were the two authors trying to make with it? Who were considered the second generation of Romantics? What did they celebrate through their literature?

5. What is a Gothic novel? What are some examples of it?

6. What type of novel did Jane Austen right?

5 comments:

Drew said...

1. From 1785 to 1832. Writers rebelled and it was very dramatic. Emotion over reason, nature over human artifice, ordinary people over aristocrats, and spontaneity and wildness over decorum and control.

2. King George III was king of England from 1760-1820. The French Revolution began. France declared war on England in 1793.

3. They showed Romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their perceptions of nature as wild and untamed, and they also followed the Neoclassical model of imitating traditional literary forms. Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, and William Blake.

4. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads. Because he explained the revolutionary theory of poetry within the book. They stated that poetry should be about common people and events. Following them were George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. They celebrated emotion over reason and nature over science.

5. They are long stories containing elements of suspense, mystery, magic, and the macabre.

6. Jane Austen wrote novel of manners which was a satirical look at society in book length prose.

B.J. Barelmann said...

1785-1832
It describes it as emotional and dramatic.
It was Emotion instead of reason

King George III was the King of England, the French Revolution began and France declared war on england.

Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, and William Blake showed nature is wild and untamed, and showed the emotional explorations of Romanticism.

The publication of Ballads in the lyric form began in the Romantic Era. Because they found the poetry within the book. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats thought that poetry should be about common people and events.

an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudomedieval setting. It includes mystery and suspense.

She wrote satirical novels such as Pride and Prejudice

brock reynoldson said...

1. From 1785 to 1832. writers were very risky with their works and very rebelling, it was nature over human artifice.

2. King George III was king of England from 1760-1820. the industrial revolution and the French revolution, and France declared war on England in 1793.

3. They showed romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their thoughts on nature. Robert Burns, and william Blake, and Thomas Gray.

4. Lyrical Ballads, it showed the freeness of poetry and how it should be the language of the common man, they celebrated emotion above reason and nature over facts and science.

McKenna Moyes said...

1- it began around 1785 to 1832. This was an era where writers rebelled and it was a very emotional time.

2- King George III was king. The French declared war on the English. The Industrial Revolution was happening.

3- These writers showed romanticism in their writing. They did free flowing writing just letting their emotions out.

4- Lyrical Ballads because he explains the revolutionary theory of poetry in the book. it said poetry should be about everyday things and people. Some of them included George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.

5- Long stories with suspense, magic, mysteries, and the macabre.

6- She wrote a novel of manners.

Joshua said...

1. The Romantic Era began in 1785 and ended in 1832. During this movement, artists, philosophers, and writers rebelled against the

2. King George III was King of England from 1760 to 1820. The American Revolution began in 1776 and the French Revolution began in 1789.

3. The poets of this period showed tendencies toward Romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their perceptions of nature as wild and untamed. Also, they followed the Neoclassical model of imitating traditional literary forms. The three pre-Romantics were Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, and William Blake.

4. The publication of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in 1798. This publication was pivotal because it many people eventually followed the footsteps of Wordsworth and Coleridge. They stated that poetry should be about common people and events and it should be written in the language of ordinary men and women. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats are considered the "second generation" of Romantics. They celebrated emotion over reason and nature over science.

5. A Gothic novel is a long story containing elements of suspense, mystery, magic, and the macabre, with exotic settings such as haunted castles and untamed wildernesses.

6. Jane Austen wrote novel of manners, which presented a satirical look at society in book-length prose reminiscent of earlier works by Johnathan Swift and others.