Romantic and Gothic literary movements, their key authors, works, and defining themes.
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36 basic cards for College Literature. It opens with "What late 18th-century literary movement emphasized emotion, nature, and" and "Approximately what years did the Romantic period span?". Study it alongside the other College sets below.
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- What late 18th-century literary movement emphasized emotion, nature, and imagination over rationality?
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Romanticism- Approximately what years did the Romantic period span?
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1770 to 1850- Which Enlightenment movement did Romanticism emerge in reaction against?
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Rationalism or the Age of Reason- What did William Wordsworth define poetry as in his Romantic theory?
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The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings- What Romantic concept describes poetry's focus on individual emotion and personal experience?
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Subjectivity- Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' a major Romantic poem?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge- What is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's term for the imaginative power that creates poetic truth?
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Imagination- Who wrote 'She Walks in Beauty,' a famous Romantic lyric poem?
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Lord Byron- What Romantic theme dominates John Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'?
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Lost love and romantic obsession- Who wrote 'Ozymandias,' a Romantic sonnet about power's impermanence?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley- What natural setting appears most frequently in Romantic poetry?
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Mountains, wild landscapes, or vast natural scenery- What is the Romantic concept of the sublime?
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A powerful, overwhelming experience of awe in the face of vast natural forces- Who wrote 'Frankenstein,' blending Gothic and Romantic elements?
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Mary Shelley- Which Romantic poet wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale'?
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John Keats- What Romantic literary form features a first-person speaker and intense emotion?
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The lyric poem
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