The British Romantic Period

Which is NOT characteristic of the Romantic period?

• a. a return to nature
• b. appreciation of the individual
• c. love of philosophy
• d. turning against industrialization

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a . . .

• a. lyrical ballad
• b. a sonnet
• c. a long poem about the desert
• d. a treatise

How is the Romantic period a lot like the time period we are living in?

• a. We are supporting a French Revolution.
• b. We celebrate the voices of individuals.
• c. They had electricity.
• d. Gothic literature is new.

Which of the following writers are second-generation Romantic poets?

• a. John Milton, John Donne, and Thomas Gray

• b. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Alexander Pope

• c. John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon, Lord Byron

• d. William Blake, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Edmund Spenser

Who are the two poets who collaborated on "The Lyrical Ballads"?

• a. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
• b. Shakespeare and Samuel Coleridge
• c. Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
• d. The Lake Poets

Who made up the Byronic Hero?

• a. John Keats
• b. Lord Byron
• c. Joanna Baillie
• d. Yosa Buson

Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.

• a. sentiment and idealistic passion
• b. epics
• c. Geoffrey Chaucer
• d. tales of chivalry

William Blake wrote about these opposing concepts a lot.

• a. love and hate
• b. war and peace
• c. science and religion
• d. innocence and experience

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write that supported educational rights for women?

• a. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
• b. On Making an Agreeable Marriage
• c. Woo'd and Married and A'
• d. Frankenstein

Which of the following statements does not describe the Romantic period in England?

• a. It was partly inspired by the French revolution of 1789 and the works of french and german writers.

• b. It is generally associated with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1797.

• c. The parliamentary reforms of 1832 mark the end of this period.

• d. During this time England was a placid, agrarian nation.