Literatura Inglesa II - Tema 5

A label used to refer collectively to three poets who wrote, among other poems, Ode to the West Wind, Ode on a Grecian Um and Don Juan.

the personality cult of the most popular of the english romantics, who enjoyed not only commercial success, but also celebrity and notoriety that were unprecedented and spread all over Europe.

A poem by a Romantic poet belonging to the second generation; it tells the story of a hero born in Seville, whose father was a true Hidalgo and whose mother was a learned lady.

The term used to refer to a group of poets attacked by Byron in the ‘Preface’ to Canto I of his Don Juan.

A romantic author whose work includes an orientalist tale, a poetic drama and an unfisnished narrative poem with a striking satirical component.

A character type associated with the most charismatic Romantic poet; isolated, courageous, independent, tormented. Harold in Childe Charold’s Pilgrimage is the perfect example.

the name of a poetic work written by Lord Byron in the Spenserian stanza which tells the story of a man who goes off to travel far and wide because he is disgusted with life’s foolish pleasures. The different places that he visits give the poet an opportunity to describe what once happened in them.

A work by Lord Byron that he started publishing in 1812; following its great success, he declared: ‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous’.

A group of English poets considered part of the Romantic Movement, who lived in the Lake Distric of Northern England in the early years of the nineteenth-century.

The label used by the poet Robert Southey to refer to two poets of the younger generation (Byron and Shelley), because he considered their political views progressive/radical.

A label used to designate the following poets: P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats.

the name of a poet who was drowned a month before his thirtieth birthday in a boating accident in the Bay of Lerici off the coast of Italy.

The title os an essay by Shelley and a fellow student; its publication caused them to be expelled from their Oxford college.

An elegiac poem written by P.B. Shelley and dedicated to john Keats, who dies prematurely in 1821.

The title of the part of the literary work where the phrase ‘recollection in tranquility’ appears.

The full name of the person addressed in these lines from a key Romantic poem: May I behold in thee what I was once/My dear, dear Sister!.

In William Wordsworth’s poem ‘I wondered Lonely as a Cloud’, the poet’s source of inspiration; they are seen ‘fluttering and dancing in the breeze’ in big numbers, and they are compared to the starts.

According to William Wordsworth, ‘ a man speaking to men {…} endued with a more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul’ than the average.

According to William Wordsworht, the ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings [which] takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranqulity’.

An eighteenth-century theory which stressed notions such as variety, irregularity, ruggedness, singularity and chiaroscuro in the appreciation of landscape.

The utopian project - devised by the Romantic poets Coleridge and Southey - to set up an egalitarian community in America.

A Romantic poet and man of letters; a liberal thinker, editor of the journal The Examiner and mentor of john Keats.

The title of a collection of essays by William Hazlitt, as well as a phrase used to refer to the transformations introduced by the Romantic era.

The major dramatic form for Romantic writers; drama to be read rather than performed. Examples are Byron’s Manfred (1817) or the Two Foscari (1821).

The title of the work written in 1821 which recounts, in sensational detail, the events of the author’s life and his entanglement with a particular kind of drug.

A label applied by conservative literary critics to certain Romantic poets of humble background or progressive political ideas (mainly to Leigh Hunt and Keats.

Excluded from the canon of ‘high’ Romanticism, poets who were identified as ‘paesants’, often unschooled, they wrote mainly about rural life.

The recurrence of recognizable elements of Asian or African origin in the writings of the British Romantics: place names, historical and legendary people, religions, philosophies, art, etc.

The European fascination with an East that was magical, paradisial, sensual, but also cruel and despotic; the influence of this movement can be observed, among other Romantic works, in Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’.

The name of the ideal democratic community in America planned by Coleridge and Southey.

An utopian project promoted by the Romantic poets S. T. Coleridge and Robert Southey; the objective was to set a democratic community in America.

Poetry that translates spiritual landscapes that we discover through an inner journey undertaken by intuition or meditation. Blake and Coleridge wrote this kind of poetry.

the powerful depiction of subjects that are vast, obscure, and powerful; of greatness that is incomparable or unmeasurable. The term is related, for instance, to the Romantic portrayal of nature.

An expression used to described the bold innovation, intense individualism and questioning of neoclassicism that characterised Romantic poetry. William Hazlitt chose this phrase as the title of a collection of essays.

The idea that people, like plants and animals, are subject to the procesess of natural selection.

The view that God is immanent in nature and not transcendent.

a term which refers to, among other things, the general environment that surrounds a scene, the space and time in which plot events unfold or the social context in which characters live and act.