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Brit Lit test 3
Wordsworth to Brownings
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
04/04/2017

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Romantic age: philosophies
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Transcendentalism
Primitivism
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beliefs of transcendentalism
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truth only found in nature
each part of nature equally important
man's natural goodness
individual > society
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beliefs of primitivism
Definition
preference to uncivilized life
"noble savage": man naturally good in nature
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Romantic age: Characteristics
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rejected rationalism & literary rules
emphasized imagination, feelings
love of nature; pantheism
common man; his language
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Wordsworth
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greatest Eng. poet since Milton
Supreme Poet of Nature
poet laureate: 1843
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Wordsworth's philosophy of poetry
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"spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
"emotion recollected in tranquility"
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Wordsworth's goal for poetry
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make the ordinary unique
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Coleridge's philosophy of poetry
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"willing suspension of disbelief"
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Coleridge's goal for poetry
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make the supernatural real
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"Expostulation & Reply"; "Tables Turned"
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learn passively more from nature than in books
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nature according to "Lines...above Tintern Abbey"
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restores, chastens
gives wisdom, guides
nurse, guardian
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setting of "Lines...above Tintern Abbey"
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River Wye
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setting of "Michael"
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Green-head Ghyll
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significance of "Michael"
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uses humble, rustic life to teach about human nature ("laws of nature")
based on true story situation from common life
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themes of "Ancient Mariner"
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Nature (how to treat & view it)
crime & punishment
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Sir W. Scott
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created the historical novel
1st Romantic poet to achieve widespread popularity
ended Romantic Age with his death
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setting of Ivanhoe
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12th century England (medieval times)
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Ivanhoe (character)
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Saxon noble loyal to Norman king Richard I
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J. Austen
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writer who was more Neoclassic than Romantic
realistically depicted middle class & gentry (lower aristocracy)
no interest in nature, passionate feelings, heroic action
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