The British Romantic Period



The British Romantic Period1798-1832The Romantic Period begins with the French Revolution and the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 and ends with the death of Sir Walter Scott and the Reform Bill of 1832. The English people were facing many changes. The French and American Revolutions were inspiring and frightening much of the world, King George III was going mad, and the Industrial Revolution left many without land while giving rise to laissez-faire economics. The Romantic literary movement stresses youth, innocence, and growing up to trust emotions. It does not reflect mainstream thinking, but it is a movement of reform, protest, and personal freedom.Essential QuestionsI. Romantic Ideals A. The philosophy behind the movement comes from the French moralist ___________ _____________ __________________. -Evil is not inherent in human nature or the natural world (nature and people are essentially ___________.)-Evil is the result of _____________ corruption B. Romantic help up nature, youth, ordinary men, the individual, simplicity, and emotions.-These ideas brought renewed interest in ___________ ballads and the _________________ works of Shakespeare, Spencer, and Milton, as they were _____________________ based works. -_____________ came to literature's attention for the first time, as they were uncorrupted by society.-Unruly forces of ___________ like storms, seas, and mountains were also praised, as they were incapable of being dominated by society.-Closely related to the American _____________________ movement.Summary of Romantic IdealsEssential QuestionsII. Romantic Literature A. Poetry1. Romantic Literature is best known for its ________ as Romantic ideals are best shown by the poets of this time period; William ______________, Samuel Coleridge, William ____________, Robert Burns, Percy Busshe Shelley, Lord ________, and John Keats. 2. Popular themes included the glorification of the _____________, importance of ________________ and freedom, a love of ___________, importance of the __________________ and an interest in the imaginative and __________________. 3. While both _______________ and _______________ forms of poetry were popular, all poetry veered away from the strict formats of the ______________ writers with their heroic couplets and inflexible formats. B. The Novel-________ _________ and Sir Walter Scott were important in advancing the English novel and increased the novel-reading public.-Austen's use of ______________ and small middle-class societies advanced the novel in terms of ______________ and concentrated storylines.-Scott's softening of the __________ and medieval romance themes were highly popular for their beautiful and wild settings and their enthusiasm for the Romantic themes and ideals. C. The Essay- Tried to interpret literature from a humane, _________________, sensitive, understanding, and ___________ point of view.-NOT the dogmatic, __________, or narrow-minded style of the neoclassicalSummary of Romantic LiteratureEssential QuestionsIII. Language Development A. Emphasis on the common man introduced __________, dialects, and colloquialisms into proper literature, and gave it a more natural sound. B. Noah ____________ gave America its own language by publishing his American Spelling Book and American _________________ of the English Language.-He purposefully changed standard British spellings of "___" to "er" like in centre, and dropped the "___" in words like colour, and the "__" in at the end of words like traffick to further America's independence.Summary of Language Development Answers:I.A. Jean Jaques Rousseau, good, society’sB. medieval, Elizabethan, emotionally, Children, nature, TranscendentalistII.A. poetry, Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, individual, spontaneity, nature, commonplace, supernatural, narrative, lyrical, neoclassicalB. Jane Austen, dialogue, realism, gothicC. appreciative, positive, cynicalIII.A. slangB. Webster, Dictionary, re, u, k ................
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