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Romanticism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Late 18th century movement in German literature that focused on passions and emotions | Sturm und Drang |
| German author whose novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, told of a young man's tragic love affair and suicide | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| German dramatist and poet whose works reflected his idealism and belief in the cause of human freedom in works such as The Robbers, William Tell, and Wallenstein | Friedrich von Schiller |
| Collected traditional folk stories | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm |
| Poet who focused on nature in his poems such as "Tintern Abbey" and "Daffodils;" was inspired by the French Revolution, but later turned conservative | William Wordsworth |
| Poet who explored the mystical and exotic in his contributions, along with Wordsworth, to "Lyrical Ballads;" also wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan" | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Popular romantic poet who wrote "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan." He died in Greece where he'd gone to fight for independence | Lord Byron |
| Poet who died young and wrote beautiful romantic poetry such as "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | John Keats |
| Painter, engraver, and poet. Wrote "The Lamb" and "The Tiger" | William Blake |
| Romantic novelist who was inspired by the Middle Ages and wrote more than 30 historical novels including "Ivanhoe" | Si Walter Scott |
| Most prominent Russian writer; wrote a novel in verse, "Eugene Onegin" and romantic Russian poetry | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| French painter who depicted Turkish violence during the Greek war for independence and a romantic celebration of the French revolution of 1830 - "Liberty Leading the People" | Eugene Delacroix |
| English landscape painter of "The Hay Wain" | John Constable |
| English romantic painter of "Rain, Steam, and Speed" and "The Slave Ship" | J. M. W. Turner |
| Spanish painter who portrayed brutal French repression of the Spanish rebels against Napoleion in 1808 | Francisco Goya |
| Major German composer in the transition from classicism to romanticism in his Eroica Symphony | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| France's major romantic composer, wrote the emotions Symphonie Fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| Regarded as Europe's greatest concert pianist, was inspired by the folk music of his native Hungary | Franz Liszt |
| Polish composer who wrote for the piano | Frederic Chopin |
| German philosopher who began the revolt against extreme rationalism in philosophy | Immanuel Kant |
| German historian and philosopher who maintained that change in history occurred as the result of a dialectical process | G.W.F. Hegel |
| Religious movement that reaffirmed the importance of faith and stressed religion as an emotional experience | Pietism |
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