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GRE Literature: Romantic Poets And Poetry
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1. 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
Mount Blanc
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Isabella - or The Pot of Sweet Basil
2. The upheaval in Keats' life lead him to a poetic place - and that journey is mapped within the careful story of young Madeline and her husband to be - Porphyro. The joining of the brave poetic spirit - Porphyro - with the innocent receptacle of the p
Keats - Eve of St. Agnes
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Childe Harold'S Pilgrimage (1812-18)
3. Adapted from Boccaccio'S Decameron - it is written in ottava rima (the stanza form that Byron brought back from Italy).
Isabella - or The Pot of Sweet Basil
Childe Harold'S Pilgrimage (1812-18)
Adonais
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
4. 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.
Byronic Hero
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3)
Ode to a Nightingale
'Ozymandias' (1818)
5. Shelley - Identify Shelley by his interest in how Natural things are just manifestations of a deeper and intrinsically poetic divinity
6. 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
Ode to the West Wind
'To a Skylark' (1820)
Adonais
Byronic Hero
7. Unfinished poem by S. T. Coleridge - Look for: Abyssinian maid - Xanadu - Mount Abora - other fanciful names. Iambic tetrameter and pentameter with interlocking end rhymes
Kubla Khan
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ode to a Nightingale
Keats - Eve of St. Agnes
8. English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the brief poems 'She Walks in Beauty' - 'When We Two Parted' - and 'So - we'll go no more a roving' - in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold'S Pilgri
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ode to a Grecian Urn
William Wordsworth
'Ozymandias' (1818)
9. 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
William Blake (1757-1827)
Byronic Hero
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798)
10. Keats - - Keats' first poem. Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet (octet and sestet). The octave presents a situation - attitude - or problem that the sestet comments upon or resolves - as in John Keats'S 'On First Looking into Chapman'S Homer.
11. William Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads. Part of the series of 'Lucy' poems - about the unremarked life and death of a remarkable young rural girl. Cf. Gray'S 'Country Church Yard' on the theme of mortality - memorialization - etc.
12. Unfinished closet drama by Shelley celebrating Prometheus as a rebel against the gods--part of his larger anti-authoritarian project
Hyperion
Childe Harold'S Pilgrimage (1812-18)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
13. One of Byron'S most popular works in his lifetime - was loosely modeled on Goethe'S anti-hero - Faust. Byron'S influence was manifested by many authors and artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century and beyond. An example of such a her
Manfred
Childe Harold'S Pilgrimage (1812-18)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Ode to a Nightingale
14. Shelley - Tells of Shelley'S decision to devote his life to the pursuit of ideals. 'Intellectual' refers to the ideal Platonic spirit apprehended by the mind - over the faint and fleeting information of the senses.
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to a Nightingale
Kubla Khan
15. 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
Manfred
'Ozymandias' (1818)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Hyperion
16. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798)
Ode to a Grecian Urn
Manfred
17. Blake - A series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake'S own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books - it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose - poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Hyperion
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3)
18. Shelley - Actually in terza rima (interlocking rhyme). Wind as the bringer of life.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Kubla Khan
William Wordsworth
Ode to the West Wind
19. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
'She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways' (1800)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
20. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind
'She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways' (1800)
Christabel
21. Lyrical Ballads (pub. with Coleridge) - his appreciation of rustic life and diction as a poetic subject - lucy poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
John Keats (1795-1821)
William Wordsworth
22. Wordsworth
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ode to the West Wind
'Ozymandias' (1818)
The World is Too Much With Us
23. Shelley - (An Elegy on the Death of John Keats) - Written in Spenserian stanzas like Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes.' It is a pastoral elegy - which is a call to mourning - invocation of the muse and the sympathy of nature with death - procession of the mo
Adonais
'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798)
The World is Too Much With Us
John Keats (1795-1821)
24. English poet - b. London. His first volume of poems appeared in 1817. It included ' I stood tip-toe upon a little hill -' 'Sleep and Poetry -' and the famous sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman'S Homer.' He died of tuberculosis in Rome. One of the
William Wordsworth
'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Byronic Hero
25. 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
A heart whose love is innocent!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Christabel
26. Coleridge - Note the unusual and recognizable metre. Coleridge divides the poem into seven parts. Most of the stanzas in the poem have four lines; several have five or six lines. In the four-line stanzas - the second and fourth lines usually rhyme. I
27. 'A THING of beauty is a joy for ever' - Keats; Told in 4000 lines of the love of the moon goddess Cynthia for the young shepherd Endymion. Written in heroic couplets (rhymed lines of iambic pentameter).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3)
Byronic Hero
Endymion
28. Keats - inspired by a Wedgwood copy of a Roman copy of a Greek vase. It also contains the most discussed two lines in all of Keats'S poetry - ''Beauty is truth - truth beauty -' - that is all/Ye know on earth - and all ye need to know.' The exact me
Byronic Hero
Ode to a Grecian Urn
Ode to the West Wind
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
29. 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.
Ode to the West Wind
Ode to a Nightingale
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Don Juan (1819-24)
30. Shelley - An Italian sonnet on the transitory nature of things (all except poetry!)
31. Long narrative poem by Lord Byron - describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who - disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry - looks for distraction in foreign lands.
32. Lord Byron - 'She Walks in Beauty...' (1814).
'Ozymandias' (1818)
A heart whose love is innocent!
Isabella - or The Pot of Sweet Basil
'She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways' (1800)