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GRE Literature: Romantic Poets And Poetry
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1. English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Considered with his friend Lord Byron a pariah for his life style. He drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics - and his work reflected the radical

2. Byron; the dramatic poem contains supernatural elements - in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Romantic closet drama.

3. Shelley - Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni - The highest peak in Europe - was the pinnacle of reaching the sublime. Inspired to look inward by the sight of the river valley - Shelley has a sudden and clear understanding of the workings of his mi

4. An idealised but flawed character whose attributes include: being a rebel - having a distaste for social institutions - being an exile - expressing a lack of respect for rank and privilege - having great talent - hiding an unsavoury past - being hig

5. Shelley - Actually in terza rima (interlocking rhyme). Wind as the bringer of life.

6. Keats - Written after Keats heard a nightingale outside his window and started musing about death. Horatian Ode with iambic pentameter lines and one with iambic trimeter.

7. English poet - painter - and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime - Is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Major works: Songs of Innocence and Experience - The Marriag

8. Coleridge - This poem - the first part of which was written in 1797 - is also a fragment. Coleridge had wanted to include it in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads - but it was not yet finished; it was still incomplete when he finally published it in 1816. As i

9. Unfinished poem by S. T. Coleridge - Look for: Abyssinian maid - Xanadu - Mount Abora - other fanciful names. Iambic tetrameter and pentameter with interlocking end rhymes

10. Unfinished closet drama by Shelley celebrating Prometheus as a rebel against the gods--part of his larger anti-authoritarian project

11. Keats - planned as an epic poem - to tell of the dethronement of Saturn and the earlier gods by Jupiter and the other divinities of Olympus - and especially of the overthrow of Hyperion - the sun-god - by Apollo. Keats has to some extent imitated Mil

12. Wordsworth

13. Lyrical Ballads (pub. with Coleridge) - his appreciation of rustic life and diction as a poetic subject - lucy poems

14. Keats - - Ballad-like. The poet meets a knight by a woodland lake in late autumn. The man has been there for a long time - and is evidently dying. The knight says he met a beautiful - wild-looking woman in a meadow. He visited with her - and decked h

15. English poet - Romantic - literary critic and philosopher who - with his friend William Wordsworth - was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets (as well as coauthor of the Lyrical Ballads!). He is probably best k

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