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Overview of English Romanticism and Its Writers

Romanticism emphasized the importance of the individual, imagination, and intuition, and shifted from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination.
Romantic writers were interested in nature and the rural, and often drew inspiration from old legends, folk ballads, and antiquities.
Gothic literature, a popular style at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th, dealt with horror, despair, and the grotesque.
Robert Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote in both Standard English and Scots dialect.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley followed Gothic tradition in her famous work, Frankenstein.
William Blake was a poet and artist who devoted his life to freedom and universal love, and was interested in children and animals.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a long narrative poem about sinning and redemption.
William Wordsworth, together with Coleridge, wrote Lyrical Ballads, which signaled the beginning of English Romanticism and found beauty in nature.
Jane Austen wrote realistic novels about English middle-class people, including Pride and Prejudice.
George Gordon Byron was an outspoken critic of the evils of his time and is remembered for poems like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Percy Bysshe Shelley established romantic verse as a poetic tradition and wrote meditative works like Prometheus Unbound and exquisitely crafted pieces like Ode to the West Wind.
John Keats believed true happiness was found in art and natural beauty, and wrote Ode to a Nightingale about the moment of artistic inspiration.

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Take this quiz to test your knowledge of English Romanticism and its writers! Learn about the key themes, styles, and literary works that defined this important movement in English literature. From the Gothic horror of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to the beautiful nature poetry of William Wordsworth, this quiz covers the writers and ideas that shaped Romanticism. Impress your friends with your literary knowledge and discover new insights into this fascinating period of English literature!