2. The divine arts of imagination:
imagination, the real and eternal world
of which this vegetable universe is but
a faint shadow.
3.
The beginning of the Romantic Age in English
literature is usually set in 1798, the year in
which William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge published a book of their poems
called Lyrical Ballads.
The Romantic Age traditionally ends in 1832,
with the death of Sir Walter Scott and the
passage of the First Reform Bill in Parliament.
4.
Two major revolutions disrupted the
English sense of security and well-being
The revolt of the English colonies in
America (which had occurred in 1776,
before the Romantic Period began)
The French Revolution
6.
The ruling classes feared the effects of the
French Revolution .
English liberals and radicals viewed the early
stages of the French Revolution as a triumph
of popular democracy.
The English government and ruling classes
punished anyone who sympathized with
democratic ideals or reform.
7. 1. In response to the political climate, British
politicians
a. became less conservative than before
b. introduced repressive measures
c. increased the political rights of agitators
d. expanded collective bargaining practices
8. The Industrial Revolution
Production
shifted from hand labor to factories, where
machines worked many times faster than human hands.
Since
factories were in cities, there was a major population
shift to urban areas.
After
farm workers left
the country for jobs in
factories, private owners
took over farmland.
9.
People who remained in the country were left
landless and unemployed.
The cities were overcrowded and dirty.
Working and living conditions were horrible.
Men, women and children labored for long hours
under intolerable conditions for wages that were
barely enough to keep them alive.
Workers had no vote.
Prevented by law from forming labor unions.
10.
11. 2. During the Industrial Revolution
a. more goods were made by hand
b. populations in cities decreased
c. private owners took over communal farming
areas
d. factory owners provided adequate housing for
their workers
12. 3. Which of the following events did not take
place during the Romantic period?
a. Napoleon Bonaparte became emperor of
France.
b. England began a war against Napoleon.
c. England lost its American colonies.
d. Population in urban areas increased.
13. Guided by a policy of noninterference
known as laissez faire
“let (people) do (as they please)”
According to this belief, economic forces
should be allowed to operate freely without
government interference.
The result of this policy was that the rich grew
richer and the poor suffered even more.
14. 4. Under the policy of laissez faire
a. there is no government interference in
economic policy
b. the rich give a percentage of their profits to
charitable organizations
c. the exploitation of children’s labor is prohibited
d. plentiful jobs increase the population’s
standard of living
15. No serious political action until 1832, when
Parliament passed the First Reform Bill
Extended the vote to more (but by no means to all)
citizens, curtailed the political privileges of the
aristocracy, and redistributed parliamentary
representation.
This also marked the end of the Romantic Age.
16.
A time of vast and largely unguided
political and economic change.
Most of the writers of this period were
deeply affected by the French and
Industrial Revolutions.
Many of the main literary concerns of
the Romantic writers reflect these
historical issues.
17.
A rejection of the eighteenth century emphasis
on reason – instead the romantics embraced
imagination and naturalness.
Expressing emotions instead of satire, wit, and
reason.
Turning to an innocent and magical world in
response to the ugly industrial world of the
time.
A belief in individual liberties and sympathy
with those who rebel against tyranny.
18. The term “romantic” was NOT connected to the overly
sentimental love stories that most people associate with
romantic literature today.
19. 5. Which of the following statements does not
apply to the term romantic?
a. It suggests a fascination with youthful
innocence.
b. It refers to the sentimental love stories
popularized by the Romantic poets.
c. It refers to a period of idealism in which people
questioned authority.
d. It implies an awareness of social change.
23. 6. Which of the following statements does not
describe the Romantic period in Britain?
a. It includes the period of the French Revolution
in 1789.
b. It includes the publication of Lyrical Ballads in
1798.
c. The Parliamentary reforms of 1832 mark the
end of this period.
d. During this time, Great Britain was a placid,
agrarian nation.
24. 7. Which of the following writers are “second
generation” Romantic poets?
a. George Herbert, John Milton, and John Donne
b. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, and Alexander Pope
c. John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord
Byron
d. William Blake, Sir Walter Raleigh, and
Edmund Spenser
25.
the natural or commonplace, and the
supernatural or romantic
concern with the poet’s own life, emotions, and
subjective experience
Wordsworth: “All good poetry is the spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings.”
intense love of nature
Wordsworth is considered to be the greatest of all the
Romantic “nature poets”
26. 8. Through their lyric poetry, Romantic poets
a. related traditional stories
b. found an outlet for anger and frustration
c. revealed passionate and heartfelt beliefs
d. created best-selling romances
27. The Romantics prized experiences of the beauty and majesty of
nature. They did not think of nature as hostile, but they had a strong
sense of its mysterious forces, and they were intrigued by the ways
that nature and the human mind act upon each other.
28.
In the preface to Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other
Poems, William Wordsworth tried to explain
what it is that makes a poet.
He stated that a poet is a “man speaking to
men” – this reflected the romantic poets’
democratic view of their audience.
29. 9. For Romantic poets, nature is
a. hostile
b. charming and picturesque
c. a force that acts on the human mind
d. uninspiring
30. 10. The phrase that does not fit the Romantics’
definition of a poet is
a. “a man speaking to men”
b. one who “reasons in verse”
c. “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”
d. “physician” to all humanity
