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Romantic Poets
study guide of all descriptors of the poets in the romantic period
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11th Grade
02/28/2011
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mood of his poems were melancholy
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Thomas Grey
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graveyard poet
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Thomas Grey
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13 poems only
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Thomas Grey
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influenced by death of best friend
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Thomas Grey
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influenced by death of best friend
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Thomas Grey
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
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Thomas Grey
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odes
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Thomas Grey
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close to his mother/buried next to her
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Thomas Grey
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parents of dissenters (left church of england)
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William Blake
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"to generalize is to be an idiot, to particularize is a true distinction of merit"
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William Blake
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"songs of innocence/experience"
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William Blake
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3 stages of life: 1. innocence 2. experience 3. organized experience
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William Blake
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"Ozymandias"
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Percy B. Shelly
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died by drowning at 24
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Percy B. Shelly
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influenced C.S. Lewis
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Percy B. Shelly
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Influenced by Byron
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Percy B. Shelly
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Kicked out of Oxford for being an Atheist
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Percy B. Shelly
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Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft(feminist) and William Godwin
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Mary Shelly
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bold and imperious
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Mary Shelly
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelly
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medical student
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John Keats
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"Ode to a Nightingale"
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John Keats
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"Ode upon a Grecian Urn"
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John Keats
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"Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty"
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John Keats
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died a failure
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John Keats
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physically unable to marry
had TB
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John Keats
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"To Autumn"
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John Keats
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born with physical handicap
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Lord Byron
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"Hours of Idleness"
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Lord Byron
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"Hebrew Melodies"
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Lord Byron
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involved in Greek politics
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Lord Byron
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invented Byronic hero
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Lord Byron
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"She walks in Beauty"
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Lord Byron
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Scottish national poet
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Robert Burns
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Influenced by Whittier
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Robert Burns
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wanted to move to Jamaica
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Robert Burns
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"To a mouse..."
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Robert Burns
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made scottish dialect acceptable
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Robert Burns
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"Best made plans go a Rye"
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Robert Burns
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political radical
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Samuel Coleridge
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worked with W.W. to write "Lyrical Ballads"
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Samuel Coleridge
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addicted to opium
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Samuel Coleridge
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poet of imagination
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Samuel Coleridge
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"Kubla Khan"
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Samuel Coleridge
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"In Memoriam"
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Tennyson
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"Lady of Shallot"
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Tennyson
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4th of 12 children
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Tennyson
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"Chiefly Lyrical"
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Tennyson
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"Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Tennyson
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biggest fear-mental illness
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Tennyson
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victorian
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Tennyson
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co-founder of Romantics period
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William Wordsworth
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"Lyrical Ballads"
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William Wordsworth
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"I wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
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William Wordsworth
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Dorothy-sister
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William Wordsworth
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parents died when he was young
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William Wordsworth
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sent off to Cambridge
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William Wordsworth
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angered him that people walked by nature without noticing it
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William Wordsworth
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