Romantic Age

for Job Seekers

Cadres’ Preliminary Guideline.
11 October 2022
 About the Instructor

Mahir Dyan Amin

B.A (Hons.), M.A, English, DU
Recommended for Administration Cadre, 40 th BCS
Former Assistant Director, Prime Minister’s Office
How About a Test?
 01
‘Geoffrey Chaucer breathed his last in

A) 25 October 1400

B) 16 October 1399

C) 13 August 1398

D) 30 November 1403
 02
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is a/an:

A) Essay on History

B) Tragedy

C) Epic

D) A Mock Epic
 03
The poem ‘Morte D’ Arthur’ was written by:

A) Sir Thomas Malory

B) Caedmon

C) Lord Alfred Tennyson

D) William Langland
 04
Old English Period ended in

A) 1340 AD

B) 1066 AD

C) 1558 AD

D) 1215 AD
 04
Identify the Jacobean Poet:

A) Robert Herrick

B) William Langland

C) John Webster

D) Christopher Marlowe
 05
Shakespeare died during the reign of …

A) Charles I

B) James I

C) Henry VIII

D) Elizabeth I
 06
“To Celia’ is a poem written by…

A) Ben Johnson

B) William Shakespeare

C) John Donne

D) Philip Sidney
 07
Which one is not written by Francis Bacon?

A) Novum Organum

B) The Advancement of Learning

C) On Liberty

D) Of Plantation
 08
The Poem written by John Donne is:

A) The Sun Also Rises

B) The Canonization

C) Go, Catch a Shining Star

D) Amoretti
 09
The Renaissance ends in

A) 1649

B) 1660

C) 1558

D) 1603
 10
The Jew of Malta is written by:

A) Ben Johnson

B) John Webster

C) John Donne

D) Philip Sidney
Contents

01 Previous Years’ Questions

How many, How frequent,
What Type of Questions
02 Romantic Age
Characteristics,
Why Important

03 Romantic Poets
Poets, Novelists etc.
Literary Works, Quotes
04 Miscellaneous
Practice, Suggestions
and Interactions
 01
Previous Years’ Questions
BCS & Others
Questions
William Wordsworth
Shelley
14 Questions
Coleridge
35th BCS to 44th BCS Preliminary
Keats
Byron
Lines from Poem (8)
Book Names (3)
About Poets, Identify Poets (3)
Questions
❑ সহকারী ও উপ-সহকারী পররচালক, দুদক রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ ব্যরিগত কর্মকতমা, পররাষ্ট্র র্ন্ত্রণাল রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ বব্সরকারর রব্র্াি চলাচল কততমপক্ষ আয় ারিত রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ বব্পিা সহকারী ব্যব্স্থাপক রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ র্াধ্যরর্ক রব্দযাল সহকারী রিক্ষক রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ থািা রিক্ষা অরিসার রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
❑ প্রিাসরিক কর্মকতমা, প্রধ্াির্ন্ত্রীর কার্মাল ও র্ন্ত্রী পররষদ কার্মাল রিয় াগ।
❑ সহকারী পররচালক, সঞ্চ অরধ্দপ্তর।
❑ সহকারী পররচালক, পাসয়পার্ম ও ইরর্য়েিি অরধ্দপ্তর।
❑ সাব্-বররিস্ট্রার, আইি র্ন্ত্রণাল রিয় াগ পরীক্ষা।
Romantic Age
(1798-1832)
Romantic Age
(1798-1832)

Two Major Political Events Social Unrest

Independence of America & Rising Wealth
The French Revolution (1789) Rising Inequality

The Second Creative The Shortest Lived The Golden Age

Period of English Period of English of Lyrical
Literature Literature Poetry
 Characteristics

Emotion and
Love for Nature Love for Beauty
Wordsworth : John
Radicalism
Poet of Nature Keats Shelley, Byron

High Science & Subjectivity, Individulism,

Supernatural Sadness,
Imagination
Common Language
 William Blake
(1757 – 1827)
❖ The Precursor of Romanticism

❖ The Harbinger of Romanticism

❖ Poet, Painter, Engraver

Question:
✓ Who is the Father of Romanticism?

✓ Who is the Founding Father of

Romantic Poetry?
 Major Books of William Blake William Blake (1757 – 1827)
➢ Songs of Innocence

➢ Songs of Experience Major Poems of William Blake

➢ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ➢ The Tyger

➢ The Lamb
➢ Milton and Jerusalem
➢ The Sick Rose
➢ The Human Abstract
➢ The Chimney Sweeper
➢ London
 Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
.................................
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Pity would be no more,

If we did not make somebody Poor:
And Mercy no more could be,
If all were as happy as we;

And mutual fear brings peace;

 William Wordsworth
(1770 – 1850)
❖ The Poet of Nature
❖ High Priest of Nature Question:
Who is the Poet of
❖ Poet of Childhood
Human Nature?
❖ Lake Poet

❖ Poet Laureate
❖ First Generation Romantic
 Lyrical Ballads (1798)
✓ Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

✓ Collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge

✓ The beginning of the English Romantic movement

✓ Total Poems: 24 (Wordsworth 19 + Coleridge 5)

✓ Preface written by Wordsworth

✓ Use of Vernacular, Nature, Folklore, Supernatural.

❖ The Rime of Ancient Mariner. (Coleridge)

❖ The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem (Coleridge)
❖ The Foster-Mother’s Tale (Coleridge)

❖ Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening

❖ Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth)
Wordsworth (Cont.)

Major Books of Wordsworth

➢ The Prelude (autobiographical, Magnum Opus)

➢ The Recluse (Unfinished, Philosophical)

➢ The Excursion

➢ To the Cuckoo

Characters in Poem:
Michael and Lucy
Major Poems by Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, Which
➢ I Wander Lonely As a Cloud / When all at once I saw a crowd, Poetic
Daffodils A host of golden daffodils; Device?

➢ The Solitary Reaper Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
➢ Michael
➢ Lucy ………………….
They stretched in never-ending line
➢ My Heart Leaps Up along the margin of a bay: Which
➢ Ode: Intimations of Immortality Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Poetic
tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Device?
➢ Ode to Duty
➢ London (sonnet) …………………………..
➢ Elegiac Stanzas And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
 Quotes by Wordsworth

● “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

● “The Child is the Father of the Man.” Which Poetic Device?

● “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

● “The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more.”

● “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.”

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 – 1834)

❖ The Poet of Supernatural

❖ Opium Eater

❖ One of the Founders of Romantic Poetry

❖ Lake Poet

❖ First Generation Romantic

❖ Collaboration with Wordsworth


✓ The Rime of Ancient Mariner
✓ Dejection: An Ode
✓ Christabel
✓ Kubla Khan
✓ Frost in Midnight
Works by Coleridge
Critical Autobiography
Biographia Literaria (1817)
Play
Remorse

✓ Fears in Solitude
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge.”

“Imagination is the soul of poetic genius.”

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Quotes

Alone on a wide wide sea! by
And never a saint took pity Coleridge
on My soul in agony.’

“Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.”

“He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small”
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792 – 1822)

❖ The Finest Lyrical Poet

❖ Revolutionary Poet

❖ Poet of Hope and Regeneration

❖ Poet of the West Wind

❖ Poet of Optimism and Pessimism

❖ Poet of Skylark and West Wind

 Shelley: His Life
• Expelled from Oxford University for writing The Necessity of Atheism
• He drowned to death in the Adriatic Sea in 1822.

• Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein, the first Science Fiction)

❖ His first long narrative poem: Queen Mab

Literary ❖ Lyrical play: Prometheus Unbound

Works ❖ Criticism: A Defense of Poetry

❖ Poetical Ballad: The Mask of Anarchy

❖ Tragedy: The Cenci

 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Major Poems of Shelley

➢ Ode to the West Wind (Destroyer and Preserver)

➢ Adonis (at the death of Keats, an elegy)
➢ The Revolt of Islam (revolt against Ottoman Rule)
➢ Ozymandias (everything will eventually perish)
➢ To a Skylark
➢ The Cloud
➢ Alastor (or the Spirit of Solitude)
 Quotation
• Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought

• We look before and after and pine for what is not.

• “If winter comes can spring be far behind.”

• “Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

• “Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!”
 John Keats
(1795 – 1821)
❖ Hellenistic Poet
❖ Poet of Beauty

❖ Poet of Sensuousness

❖ Second Generation Romantic

❖ Men of Medicine

❖ Beloved: Fanny Brawne

❖ Death by Tuberculosis
 Keats’ Works
Odes (1819), Six Odes Plays
➢ Ode to a Nightingale ❖ Endymion (play)
➢ Ode to a Grecian Urn ❖ The Eve of t. Agnes
➢ Ode to Melancholy ❖ Lamia
➢ Ode to Psyche

➢ To Autumn Other Major Poems

➢ Ode to Indolence ❖ Fancy
❖ Hyperion
❖ Chapman’s Homer
 Quotation
• Truth is Beauty, Beauty truth. (Grecian Urn)

• Our sweetest heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are
sweeter. (Nightingale)

• A thing of Beauty is a joy forever. (Endymion)

• My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains (Nighingale)

 Jane Austen
(1775 – 1817)
❖ Novelist, Pen Name: ‘A Lady’

❖ The Anti-Romantic and Realist of Romantic Age

❖ Famous for Domestic Realism, Irony.
❖ Common themes: Marriage and Women, Social
Status, Economic Insecurity.
Famous Novels:
❖ Sense and Sensibility (first),
❖ Pride and Prejudice (1813),
❖ Mansfield Park
❖ Emma ❖ Persuasion
❖ Northanger Abbey
❖ Lady Susan (epistolary)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife."
 Other Romantics

• Don Juan (epic satirical poem)

• Child Harold’s Pilgrim
Lord Byron

❑ Charles Lamb
❑ Robert Southey
❑ William Hazlitt
❑ Dequincy
❑ Sir Walter Scott