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