British Poetry Unit Crossword
Across
- 6. a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings
- 7. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign
- 11. Innocence as ignorance about the world and the way it works
- 15. a poem with a musical quality. It is sometimes set to music. Mostly written in ABAB rhyme scheme
- 16. He died of tuberculosis at 25
- 17. used to tell a story. The poet combines elements of storytelling—like plot, setting, and characters—with elements of poetry
- 19. a literary/artistic movement that was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience or perspective (that could be guided by irrational/emotional impulses), an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy
- 20. the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization
Down
- 1. the concept of women being perfect innocent beings to be adored, mourned, and respected—but never touched or relied upon
- 2. He Died in a shipwreck with his wife Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)
- 3. Experience viewed as how harsh the world can be through worldly knowledge
- 4. knowledge is gained through intuition (guesswork or impulse) rather than deduction (breaking it down and investigating)
- 5. imagination as a critical authority
- 8. She wrote poetry in the following genres Romantic, Lyric, and Victorian
- 9. He helped launch the Romantic Age with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 10. the awe of nature in art and language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature
- 12. He was Known as the premier English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian
- 13. Romantics often elevated the achievements of the misunderstood,heroic individual outcast
- 14. His famous works were the Songs of Innocence and Experience
- 18. favored narrative and length over the short, lyric poems of the Romantic era. They emphasized imagery less, and instead they focused on meter and rhythm
- 21. a type of lyric poetry. Elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally