1. Exercises for Romantic Literature
British Literature
Exercises for Romantic Literature

2. Exercises in Romantic Period
I. Fill the blanks.
1. The Romantic Age began in _____ when
Wordsworth and ______ published their
joint work “The Lyrical Ballads” and
came to an end in 1832 when the last
Romantic writer _______ died.
2. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the
poetry of_____.

3. 3. ______is the leading figure of the
English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic
voice of the period. His short poems,
according to the subjects, can be classified
into two groups: poems about ____ and
poems about _____.
4. The English Romantic Age produced two
major novelists. They are ____.

4. 5. The prose writing of the Romantic Period
was represented by _______.
6. Who are called Lake Poets?
7. The famous poems with the theme on
nature and country life written by
Wordsworth are _______.
8. The first poem in "The Lyrical Ballads"
is Coleridge's masterpiece "______".

5. 9. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long
autobiographical poem entitled "______"
which contains together 14 books.
10. Name Byron's two famous long poems.
11. The following statements are about
"Childe Harold"s Pilgrimage" . Which
are true?

6. a. Byron used his own experiences as the
material of the long poem.
b. The first canto deals with the hero's journey
in Portugal and Spain.
c. The second canto describes Albania and
Greece.
d. In the third canto appeared his description
of Waterloo.
e. The fourth canto describes Italy.
f. It is written in Spenserian stanza.

7. 12. Name the poetic dramas written by
Byron.
13. _______is a poem based on a traditional
Spanish legend of a great lover and
seducer of women. The poem was written
in Italy and contains 16 cantos. This is a
great______of the early 19th century. The
unifying principle in the poem is the basic
ironic theme of _______ and _______.

8. 14. Byron's first volume of poems is
"__________"
15. "Byronic Hero" appears in Byron's
poem "______". As a leading
Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution
is his creation of the "Byronic Hero", a
proud, mysterious _____figure of ____
origin.

9. 16. Name Shelley's masterpiece, four-act
poetic (lyrical) drama. The story was
taken from Greek mythology.
17. "______" is Shelley's first long poem of
importance. It was written in the form of
a fairy tale dream.
18. Which are Shelley's lyrics on nature?

10. 19. Shelley wrote an elegy ______
lamenting the early death of his fellow-
poet ____.
20. Which were Shelley's political lyrics?
21. Shelley‘s work of literary criticism is
______.
22. Name Walter Scott's masterpiece.
23. Four immortal odes written by Keats
are _______.

11. 24.______expresses the contrast between
the happy world of natural loveliness and
human world of agony. While "Ode on a
Grecian Urn" shows the contrast between
the ________of art and the _____of
human nature.
25. Name two of Austen's masterpieces?

12. 26. In style, Jane Austen is a ____advocator,
upholding those traditional ideas of
order, reason, proportion and
gracefulness in novel writing. Her main
literary concern is about human beings
in their _____relationships.
27. ______marked the transition from
romanticism to the period of realism
which followed it.

13. 28. The principal elements of ____ novel
are violence, horror, and the
supernatural, which strongly appeal to
the reader's emotion. This form of novel
has exerted a great influence over the
writers of the Romantic period.

14. II. Answer the following questions.(Choose two of them)
1. Tell the story of Pride and Prejudice.
2. What are Austen's writing features?
3. What is Austen's chief interest?
4.What are the themes of Pride and Prejudice?
5. Make your comment on irony in Pride and Prejudice.

15. III. Write following writers’ representative works.
William Wordsworth
G.B. Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen
Walter Scott