Romantic Era British Literature
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9th Grade - Professional Development
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Joseph Anderson
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The Romantic Period
“poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination; the truest experience was to be found in nature.”
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William Blake is one of the first generation of Romantic poets who devoted his life to freedom and universal love. He is most well-known for his poem collections of "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of_____."
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
What is the first thing you notice upon reading these lines of Wordsworth's poem? "lots of ______"
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Multiple Choice
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- used common, everyday language to express profound images and ideas
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“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Romantic Period
“poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination; the truest experience was to be found in nature.”
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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