Revision Restoration & Romantic Age

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Revision: Restoration & Romantic Age

What was restored in the period between 1660 - 1798? (2 options)

What is empiricism? Why is this term so fitting with regards to the Restoration era?

What was the purpose of Swift’s A Modest Proposal?

Which satirical devices are used in the text?

Which satirical device is used in this extract? Explain your answer.

What is the sublime?

What are the characteristics of a Romantic poem?

Read this Romantic poem

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Identify one Romantic element in the poem and explain its function.

What to study?

• Historical background of the Restoration period (presentation)
• A Modest proposal (content & satirical devices)
• Characteristics of Romantic poetry (& be able to analyse these in a poem)
• The Sublime experience