Romantic Period

International artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.

Novels that typically feature picturesque yet haunted medieval castles and ruins, supernatural elements,death, madness, and terror.

The belief that the physical world of nature is a revelation of a spiritual or transcendental presence in the universe.

The emotional enthusiasm that was a reaction, often an exaggerated reaction, to the reason and logic prized in neoclassicism.

Interest in the person who does not have the artificial manners of high society, the cultivated façade of the aristocracy.

A collection of poems written and jointly published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798

An introductory explanation.

A brief poem, expressing emotion, imagination, and meditative thought, usually stanzaic in form.

A lyric poem longer than usual lyrics, often on a more serious topic, usually meditative and philosophic in tone and subject.

A narrative poem or song, usually simple & regular in rhythm & rhyme. The typical ballad stanza is 4 lines rhyming abab.

areas densely covered with shrubs and small trees

bodily

associated with the forest or woodlands

creative

reedy plants

tendon or ligament

soak; saturate

tarnished or selfish gift

someone who is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim

raised in an outdated faith or belief system

meadow

sea gods of Greek mythology

extreme or violent anger

clever strategies designed to manipulate or persuade someone to do what one wants

passionate

face; expression

fearless

extremely distressing

in a way impossible to change

navigator of a ship

steady persistence

showing charity

to express sympathy

something that eases sorrow or disappointment

to detect; to perceive

evil spirit; devil

extremely ugly

a sign of future good or evil