The Romantic Period: Authors and Poets

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1. Though an icon of the Romantic period, his works are in some ways the least romantic of the group. He favored traditional forms over new innovations; he preferred satire to introspection; and in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” he ridiculed his fellow Romantics as being inferior to the neoclassical poets. William Wordsworth John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron

2. Though she wrote during the Romantic period, she is usually classified as a “Regency” writer. Her works do not generally exhibit the viewpoint of the Romantics; indeed, she has even been called anti-romantic, because she seemed to value sense more than sensibility. Mary Lamb Mary Shelley Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte

3. This author perfected the historical novel, but s/he always wanted to be known as a poet. Charles Lamb Jane Austen Mary Shelley Sir Walter Scott

4. This forerunner of the Romantics regard himself as something of a prophet; he created his own mythology, which is expressed in such works as “Jerusalem” and “The Four Zoas.” Dante Rossetti Robert Burns William Blake John Milton

5. This early or pre-Romantic writer is best known for his Scottish songs. Robert Burns Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott William Blake

6. We know him best as a writer of supernatural poetry; but in his own day, he was better known for his religious prose. William Wordsworth John Keats Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7. Robert Browning criticized this Romantic for abandoning his ideals and becoming conservative, all so that he might, in Browning’s opinion, receive “a riband to stick in his coat.” Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott

8. This romantic writer used “Elia” for a pseudonym. He was unusual among the Romantics in his preference for the city over the country. Charles Lamb William Wordsworth William Blake Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not before leaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn” and “Ode on Melancholy.” Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Lord Byron

10. She was a proponent of a woman’s right to be educated. Her daughter must have received a suitable education, because she wrote “Frankenstein.” Mary Shelley Mary Byron Mary Lamb Mary Wollstonecraft

11. This author of “To a Skylark” died by drowning. John Keats Mary Lamb Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley

12. Technically, he wrote during the Victorian period, but his work is considered to be a product of “American Romanticism.” He himself was once an idealist who spent time in a Utopian commune. He lost hope in the power of social reformation, however, and his “Blithedale Romance” depicts a character so intent on reforming humanity, that he does not seem to care for individual men and women. Edgar Allen Poe Washington Irving Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne

13. This American Romantic once said, “I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head!” Herman Melville Edgar Allen Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving

14. Byron wrote: “And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, / Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!” In what poem did these lines appear? On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem By Titus Song of Saul Before His Last Battle Herod’s Lament for Mariamne The Destruction of Sennacherib

15. This foundational work of the Romantic Period was published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Heart of Midlothian English Bards and Scotch Reviewers The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Lyrical Ballads