Romantic Period - Short Questions

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Short Questions (from Romantic Period)
On the death of Robert Southey in 1843 William Wordsworth became Poet Laureate.
Daily Journals and Literary Magazines:

The Morning Chronicle (1769) was started by William Woodfall
The Morning Post (1772) by syndicate of London tradesmen
The Times (1785), under the name of The Daily Universal Register, by John Walter.
Political Register (1802) of Cobbett and The Examiner (1808) of Leigh Hunt.
Powerful literary magazines: The Edinburgh Review (1802), The Quarterly Review
(1809), Blackwood's Magazine (1817), The London Magazine (1820), and The
Westminster Review (1824).
Who said this? :

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! - William
Wordsworth
"I never thought as a child, never had the language of a child." – S T Coleridge
“it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters
supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human
interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination
that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. Mr
Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the
charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the
supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention to the lethargy of custom, and directing
it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us.” – ST Coleridge in
Biographia Literaria
Who wrote this? :
The Thorn, The Idiot Boy, Simon Lee, Expostulation and Reply,Tintern Abbey – William
Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Michael,The old Cumberland Beggar, She dwelt among the untrodden ways. Strange
first of passion have I - William Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1800)
The Prelude, which was completed in 1805 but not published until 1850, after
Wordsworth's death is the record of his development as a poet.
The Solitary Reaper, The Green Linnet, I wandered lonely as a cloud, Ode on the
Intimations of Immortality, Resolution and Independence, Ode to Duty; and the Sonnets
dedicated to National Independence and Liberty - William Wordsworth
Remorse, play, 1813 – S T Coleridge

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Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves - Prose - S T Coleridge

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Beppo (1818), The Vision of Judgment (1822),
Don Juan (1819-1824) – Satire – George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) – Byron
Manfred (1817), Marino Fatiero (1821), The Two Foscari and Cain (1821), and The
Deformed Transformed (1824) – Blank verse tragedies – Byron
Queen Mab (1813), Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816), The Revolt of Islam (1818),
The Witch of Atlas (1820, published 1824) and Epipsychidion (1821) – Poetry – P B
Shelley
Adonais (1821) is a lament for the death of Keats modelled on the classical elegy by
Shelley
The Cenci – Drama – P B Shelley
The Defence of Poetry (1821, published 1840) – P B Shelley
John Keats’ second volume of verse, published in 1818, was brutally assailed by The
Quarterly Review and by Blackwood's Magazine
Endymion (1818), Hyperion (begun 1818, abandoned 1819) Keats took up the epic
theme of the primeval struggle between the older race of gods, such as Saturn and
Hyperion, and the younger divinities, such as Apollo. Both in style and structure the
poem is modelled on Paradise Lost
The Eve of St Agnes (1819), To a Nightingale, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, On

Melancholy, To Autumn-- were nearly all written in 1819
La Belle Dame sans Merci, a kind of lyrical ballad
The Examiner - Radical journal – Leigh Hunt
The Homes of England, The Graves of a Household, and

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England - Felicia Hemans
John Clare (1793-1864) - peasant poet
Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering (1815), The Antiquary (1816), The

Black Dwarf (l8\6),old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1818), The Heart of Midlothian
(1818), The Bride, of Lammermoor (1819), A Legend of Montrose (1819), Kenilworth
(1821), The Pirate (1822), The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the Time of Shakespeare (l808),
Essays of Elia (1823) – Charles Lamb
Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey
Characters of Shakespeare' s Plays (1817), The English Poets (1818), The English
Comic Writers (1819), and The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1820). His
best essays were collected in The Round Table (1817), Table Talk; or, Original Essays
on Men and Manners (1821-22), and The Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits –
William Hazlitt
Literary Criticism:
Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and lectures on Shakespeare and the other poets;
Shelley's The Defence of Poetry, in reply to the provocative The Four Ages of Poetry of
Peacock;
Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the Time
of Shakespeare.
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Short Questions (from Romantic Period)

Daily Journals and Literary Magazines:

Who said this? :

Who wrote this? :

Remorse, play, 1813 – S T Coleridge

Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves - Prose - S T Coleridge

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) – Byron

The Cenci – Drama – P B Shelley

The Defence of Poetry (1821, published 1840) – P B Shelley

The Eve of St Agnes (1819), To a Nightingale, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, On

La Belle Dame sans Merci, a kind of lyrical ballad

The Examiner - Radical journal – Leigh Hunt

The Homes of England, The Graves of a Household, and

John Clare (1793-1864) - peasant poet

Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering (1815), The Antiquary (1816), The

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