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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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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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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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| 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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| 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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created the historical novel
1st Romantic poet to achieve widespread popularity
ended Romantic Age with his death |
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| 12th century England (medieval times) |
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| Saxon noble loyal to Norman king Richard I |
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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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