Romantics Test: A Study Guide

The sublime in Nature - a Romantic obsession

• Romantic Era - Historical Context

• Romantic Obsessions and Characteristics

• First Generation Romantic poets and their poems
• William Blake
• "Chimney Sweeper" poems
• "The Tyger"
• "The Lamb"
• "A Poison Tree" 

• William Wordsworth 
• "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"   
• "The World Is Too Much with Us" 

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 

• Second Generation Romantic poets and their poems
• Lord Byron
• "The Destruction of Sennacherib" 
• "She Walks in Beauty" 
• "Darkness"  
• "Prometheus" 

•  Percy Shelley
• A Song: "Men of England"  
• Ozymandias 

• John Keats
• When I have fears that I may cease to be
•  Ode on Melancholy 
• Ode on a Grecian Urn 

• Types of Imagery
• visual - sight
• aural - sound
• tactile - touch
• olfactory - smell
• gustatory - taste
• kinesthetic - movement