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. Superficial idealism-distance of time and place
2. Primitive-”plow-boy” poet
3. Followed the literary tradition of Scotland
4. Subjects were animals, children, and those of simple lives
5. Idealism of simplicity
6. Wrote “Holy Willie’s Prayer” and “Tam O’Shanter” |
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1. Wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience
2. Believed human nature was essentially good
3. Enlightenment/Romantic idea that human life is improvable |
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| Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) |
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1. Wrote the “Vindication of the Rights of Women”
2. Was not the first to suggest that equal opportunity will bring equal achievement
3. Romantic idea that human life is improvable |
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1. Wrote the Lyrical Ballads (anonymous 1st ed.)
2. Was influenced by humanitarianism
3. The Recluse-hoped to be his “magnum opus” but was left unfinished
4. Defined poetry as the “spontaneous overflow of emotions as a result of reflection in tranquility”
5. Gives nature high moral standing
6. Wrote The Prelude (to The Recluse) 3 conclusions-misled destiny, the truly creative life is retired not active, and a perception to understand the human heart. |
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1. Wrote personal prose-essays
2. Expressive of himself, but carefully calculated, not spontaneous
3. Physical fictional persona--Elia--tells Lamb’s story
4. Concrete particularity of description
5. Caricaturist portraits of people/characters |
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1. Had the ability to convey the particular qualities of things
2. Narrative structure as opposed to logic structure
3. Plays on his own firsthand experience
4. Focuses on human emotion
5. Wrote “On Gusto” |
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1. Was addicted to Opium (laudanum)
2. Had a mind capable of analyzing the significance of things
3. Had a pen capable of articulating it in writing
4. In “Alexander Pope” he explains that literature is something that mediates between reality and the audience and thus, should be self- expressive
5. Believed there were two kinds of literature: Literature of knowledge and Literature of Power |
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1. Was addicted to Opium
2. Wrote “The Ancient Mariner”, Kubla Khan and Christabel
3. Was a theologian and a philosopher, literary theorist and critic
4. Criteria for poetry-durability, un-translatability, individualism and precise description
5. Said that the strange and impossible needs to be simulated in a way that stimulates human interest to the end of a voluntary suspension of disbelief
6. Saw Exoticism as Romantic |
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1. Had a durable way of distinguishing poetry from prose
2. Used sensory effects
3. Simple words in great combinations-said more with less
4. Was a non-conformist
5. Wrote Childe Harold, The Vision of Judgment, and Don Juan
6. Didn’t have as many romantic characteristics as other authors |
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1. Moral idealism, belief in progress through social activism
2. Wrote Julian and Maddalo a self portrait, Prometheus--Unbound, Adonais and The Defense of Poetry
3. Was a non-conformist
4. Had romantic views of nature
5. Understood poetry as a feeling, rational reflection |
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. Unparalleled quality and variety for one so young
2. His greatest work was Endymion
3. Also wrote: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Lamia, and several letters
4. Believed intensity was the essence of art
5. Had skewed ideas of truth and beauty which left out goodness |
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