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Preromanticism and English Romanticism Overview
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1
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What term describes the broad set of late 18th-century developments that prepared Romanticism by departing from Neoclassicism?
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Preromanticism
2
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Name one constituent of Preromanticism related to German literary currents.
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Sturm und Drang
3
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Which philosopher’s primitivist ideas influenced preromantic thought, especially regarding natural goodness?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4
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What collection by Rousseau is cited as contributing to preromantic primitivism?
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Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
5
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What is Ossianism in the context of preromanticism?
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Cult of Celtic folklore and myth
6
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Which forged epics influenced European Romantic imagination but were later exposed as forgeries?
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Ossian epics (Fingal and Temora) translated by James Macpherson
7
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What is the key concept defined as a quality of awesome grandeur in art or nature that differs from mere beauty?
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The Sublime
8
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Which Enlightenment-era critic popularized the sublime as an aesthetic category in the 18th century?
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Edmund Burke
9
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What movement in Britain helped spread German idealist influence to English Romanticism?
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Coleridge's reception of Kant and Fichte; Coleridge
10
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Who edited or contributed to Lyrical Ballads and is associated with the Lakes School?
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Wordsworth and Coleridge
11
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What publication is considered the real starting point of English Romantic poetry?
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Lyrical Ballads (1798)
12
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What was Wordsworth’s stance on poetic diction in Lyrical Ballads?
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Advocated ordinary language over ornate diction
13
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In Wordsworth's theory, poetry originates from emotion recollected in what state?
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Tranquillity
14
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Which group of poets is described as the 'Lakes School'?
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The Lake Poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey)
15
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What is a defining feature of Coleridge’s poetic approach compared to Wordsworth’s?
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Interest in the magical and mysterious; suspension of disbelief
16
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Which poem is Coleridge’s famous tale of misfortune and the supernatural involving a mariner?
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
17
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What term did Coleridge introduce in 1817 to describe believable fantastical writing?
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Suspension of disbelief
18
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Which Romantic poet wrote Don Juan, an unfinished epic satire?
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Lord Byron
19
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Which early Romantic poet is noted for the concept of 'negative capability'?
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John Keats
20
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Which poet is associated with pantheism, identifying God with nature?
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William Wordsworth
21
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What best describes the Romantic hero in Byron’s work?
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Titans who oppose conventions and society
22
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Which Romantic figure wrote Prometheus Unbound, advocating revolutionary change and humanist ideals?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
23
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What term describes the Romantic shift toward valuing ordinary people and emotions over classical restraint?
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Emotional intensity and individual spontaneity
24
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What genre transformation did the Romantic movement catalyze in English literature?
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End of strict genre boundaries; revival of lyric poetry; rise of narrative verse
25
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Which 18th-century development contributed to the Romantic movement’s sense of nature as something to be valued and potentially lost?
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Industrial Revolution and changing human-nature relationship
26
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Which 18th-century English poet is associated with the poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?
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William Wordsworth
27
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What is the central theme of Wordsworth’s Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood?
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Memory of childhood and the lost vitality of youth
28
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What is the Romantic view of nature compared to earlier poets like Shakespeare?
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Nature is consoling, moral, and emotionally colored; endowed with personality
29
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Which Romantic poet’s work includes the poem 'The Lake Poets' trio and helped initiate the Romantic Revival in England?
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William Wordsworth
30
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What was a notable characteristic of the Romantic portrayal of architecture and ruins during Preromantic influence?
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Gothic revival; fascination with medievalism and faux antiquities