1. What make the curtain of Romanticism roll up? What are the
characteristics of it? The Romanticism movement can be divided
into two
generations; can you point out the similarities and
differences between
them?
2. What are the contributions of Pre-Romantic poets to the British
literature? How these influence on Wordsworth’ publication of
Lyrical
Ballads which marked the break with neo-Classicism that
enveloped the
English literature over a century, and opened a
new era—the Romantic era?
3. The second generation of Romantic poets brought a fresh air into
English
Romanticism and led it to another top. Can you
illustrate this statement
with some specific instances?
4. Both of Scott and Austen lived at the Era of Romanticism,
however, they
responded to the age differently. Can you
illustrate their differences?
5. In what ways the familiar essay was a new type of essays? How do
these reflect in Lamb and
Hazlitt’s works?

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