Romanticism

In the Romantic Age Britain was under:

• the House of Stuart.

• the House of Tudor.

• the House of Hanover.

The Treaty of Paris in 1783 marked:

• the end of the French Revolution.

• the end of the American War of Independence.

• the end of the Napoleonic wars.

Romantic writers:

• stressed man’s rational side.

• emphasised imagination and emotion.

• took their primary inspiration from classical Greek and Roman authors.

The first generation of English Romantic poets included:

• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• William Wordsworth and John Keats.

• William Wordsworth and George Gordon Byron.

Late Romantic lyric poetry was especially inspired by:

• the pastoral ideal of nature.

• nature in its wilder form.

• towns and cities

Write the name of the author and one of their works or collection of works :

Her novels are centred on the genteel middle class.

Answer explanation

It is rumoured that the character of Mr Darcy was based on Austen’s love interest, Thomas Lefroy, an Irish lawyer who she had a brief friendship with over the winter of 1795/1796.

Write the name of the author and one of their works or collection of works :

He stated that his principal object in his poems was to ‘choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men’.

Answer explanation

Born at Wordsworth House, Wordsworth lived in France and Germany for a time during the French Revolution, eventually finding himself homesick for the glorious rugged countryside of the Lake District. Returning home in December 1799, Wordsworth and his sister moved into the quintessential Dove Cottage where they lived until 1808, over 40 years before his death.

Write the name of the author and one of their works or collection of works :

He left behind him an enduring image of a hero who refuses to accept social codes and conventions.

Answer explanation

‘So We’ll Go No More a Roving’ (1830) was included in a letter Byron wrote on February 28^th 1817 to his friend Thomas Moore. It was later published as part of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). At this time Byron was living in Venice in Italy, a Catholic country. The city of Venice has a long tradition of publicly celebrated carnivals dating back to the eleventh century.

Write the name of the author and one of their works or collection of works :

His famous ode celebrates natural change and human growth.

Answer explanation

Shelley was the heir to rich estates acquired by his grandfather, Bysshe (pronounced “Bish”) Shelley. Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father, was a weak, conventional man who was caught between an overbearing father and a rebellious son.

Write the name of the author and one of their works or collection of works :

His famous poem suggests the dual nature of love.

Answer explanation

Neither the Clod nor the Pebble, offers a favourable view of love. One is too submissive and the other too selfish. The clod is lacking in any individuality or personality: it is merely part of the wider earth from which it sprang. By contrast, the pebble is a standalone piece of stone, and too hard to accept any outside influences: the waters of the brook merely pass over it. It is too individual to love.