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AP English Romantic Literature Test

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which poet was the leader of the British Romantic Movement?
October 21, 1772 in Devonshire, England
When and where was Coleridge born?
Vicar of a parish and master at a grammar school
What was Coleridge's father's profession?
Fourteen
Coleridge was the youngest of ______ children
1781
What year did Coleridge's father die?
Christ's Hospital School, where he met Charles Lamb
Where did Coleridge go to school?
Mary Evans
Who does Coleridge fall in love with?
1791, Jesus College at University of Cambridge
Where and when did he go to university?
William Frend (Unitarian)
Who did Coleridge meet and support while at college?
Accumulated a large debt
What was Coleridge's biggest issue?
Robert Southey
Who did Coleridge create the Pantisocracy? (Influenced by Plato's Republic)
Susquehanna River, PA
Where did he and ten other families set up a commune?
In what year did Coleridge marry Sarah Fricker?
1795
The Fall of Robespierre
What play did Southey and Coleridge write?
Poems on Various Subjects
What was Coleridge's first work as a poet?
The Watchman
What was Coleridge's liberal political issue called?
Somersetshire near William Wordsworth
Where did Coleridge live from 1797-1798?
Lyrical Ballads
What was the joint project that Coleridge and Wordsworth created called?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
What is Coleridge's most famous work?
Immanuel Kant, Jakob Boehme, and G.E. Lessing
While in Germany, which philosophers did Coleridge study?
Opium
What drug did Coleridge become addicted to?
Biographic Literaria
In 1817 Coleridge published ________ __________
London, July 25, 1834
When and where did Coleridge die?
April 7, 1770 Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
When and where was William Wordsworth born?
8
How old was Wordsworth when his mother died?
4
How many siblings did Wordsworth have?
St. John's College
Where did Wordsworth go to school?
A walking tour of Europe
Before Wordsworth graduated, what did he do that ultimately influenced much of his poetry?
The French Revolution
What did Wordsworth encounter during his tour of Europe?
An Evening Walk and Deceptive Sketches (1793)
What was Wordsworth's first published work?
Mary Hutchinson
Who did Wordsworth marry?
Caroline
What was the name of the child that Wordsworth had out of wedlock?
The Prelude
What was Wordsworth's most famous work?
He was devastated by the death of his daughter Dora (1847)
Why did Wordsworth stop writing poetry?
April 23, 1850 at Rydel Mount
When and where did Wordsworth die?
January 22, 1788 in Aberdeen, Scotland
When and where was George Gordon Byron born?
Ten
At what age did Byron inherit the title of Baron Byron of Rochdale?
He found that he was attracted to both men and women
Why was Byron so secretive as a teenager?
Foot
What part of Byron's body was deformed?
Trinity College
Where did Byron go to school?
Fugitive Pieces (published anonymously)
What was Byron's first work published? (1806)
It included names of teachers, as well as erotic verses
Why was Byron's first published work not liked?
Hours of Idleness
What was the name of Byron's second work?
John Edelston
What was the name of the boy that Byron had grown to love?
The reviews on his second work were bad, resulting in his debt
At age twenty what was Byron's biggest issue?
Set out on a tour of the Mediterranean
What did Byron do after he was so humiliated by the criticism of his second work?
Childe Herold's Pilgrimmage
What was published in March of 1812 (first two Cantos only)
1818
When were the final cantos of Childe Herold's Pilgrimage published?
He spoke for worker's rights and social reform
What did Byron use his fame for?
She accused him of incest and sodomy
What did Byron's wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke, have to say about him?
Claire Clairmont
Who did Byron have a love affair with?
Don Juan
What did Byron start to write in Italy before his death?
April 19, 1824
When and where did Byron die?
August 4, 1792 at Field Place near Sussex, England
When and where was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
Eton College and Oxford University
Where did Shelley go to school?
Zastrozzi
What was Shelley's first novel called?
He circulated a piece called "The Necessity of Atheism"
Why was Shelley expelled from Oxford?
Harriet
What was the name of Shelley's first wife?
Queen Mab: a Philosophical Poem
What was the name of Shelley's first serious work?
Mary Godwin
What was the name of his second wife, who was also the daughter of Shelley's friend
Alastor, and the Spirit of Solitude
What did Shelley publish in 1816?
The Revolt of Islam
What did Shelley publish in 1818 that was originally pulled out of publishing?
Prometheus Unbound
Shelley published his greatest work in 1820, which was _____ _______
July 8, 1822, drowned on his boat off of the coast of Italy
When and how did Shelley die?
October 31, 1795 in London
When and where was John Keats born?
His mom died of tuberculosis when he was fourteen and his dad died when he was eight
When and how did Keats parents die?
Apothecary Surgeon
What did Keats have a degree in even though he never practiced this profession?
Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell
Who gained custody over Keats when his parents died?
Poems by John Keats
What was Keats first published work called?
It was too erotic
What were the reviews of Endymion?
Taking care of his brother Tom, who had tuberculosis
Keats spent 1818 doing what?
The Fall of Hyperion
What did Keats write that wasn't published until 1856?
Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems
What was the name of Keats best work?
He died in Rome on February 23, 1821 from Tuberculosis
When, where, and how did Keats die?
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