Neoclassicism and Romanticism – Quiz

  1. Identify the major characteristics of Neoclassicism.
  2. Identify three major British Neoclassical authors.
  3. Identify the major characteristics of Romanticism.
  4. Identify at least three Romantic poets/playwrights.
  5. Identify at least three Romantic novelists.

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  1. Balance, symmetry, influence of Enlightenment and the classics
  2. Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Jane Austen)
  3. Subjectivity, emotion, pro-religion, nostalgia for the past, love of nature, tampering with established artistic forms
  4. Johan Wolfgang von Göthe, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats
  5. Johan Wolfgang von Göthe, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving