Romanticism Word Scramble

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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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