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Test to Romantic Age Fill in the blanks. (30’) The Romantic Age began in 1798 when __________________ and ___________________ published _______________________ and ended in 1832 when _________________ died. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English ____________________ against the neoclassical ___________________, which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson. In the preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of ___________________, Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition. __________________, __________________, and ____________________ are referred as the “Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England. The plot of Shelley’s lyrical drama _____________________ is borrowed from _________________________, a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially to his ______________________. _________________________ was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” after his death. Byron employed ________________________ from Italian mock-heroic poetry. His first experiment was made in________________. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage is a long poem created by _____________________. It contains four cantos in the ____________________ stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcc, in which the first eight lines are in iambic pentameter while the ninth in iambic hexameter. Shelley mourned for __________________’s premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, writing “He is made one with Nature”. In “To Autumn”, Keats writes, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun,/ Conspiring with him how to load and bless/ With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;/…” The figure of speech used in the lines is ________________________. ______________________ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works. _______________________ is considered “the father of the historical