P通考art Six
约法三章的故事THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
(1798—1832)
Teaching Aims: make the students understand the following aspects:
1. The meaning of Romanticism
2. Characteristic of Romanticism
3. The first and cond generation of Romantic poets
4. Novels in Romantic Age
Important Points: 1.Meaning and Characteristics of Romanticism
2. Romantic poets
3. Jane Austen and her novels
Difficult Points: 1.校园文化内容 Meaning and Characteristics of Romanticism
2. Jane Austen and her novels
Chapter I. Romanticism in England
As a historical period in English literature, the age of Romanticism extends from 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their Lyrical Ballads, to the 1832, when all the major Romantic writers were either dead or no longer productive. Romanticism, the predominant literary mode of the first third of the 19th century, was expresd almost entirely in poetry.
I . The Impetus of the Romantic Movement (Political and Social Background)
I. The French Revolution
Its ideals liberty, equality, and fraternity — had a very strong influence upon the writers during the period.
2. The Industrial Revolution
II. The Meaning of Romanticism
The Romantic Movement, which Victor Hugo calls “liberalism in literature”, is simply the expression of life as en by the imagination rather than by prosaic “common n”, which was the central doctrine of English philosophy in the 18th century.
As a way of thinking and as an approach to literature , Romanticism is associated with vitality, powerful emotion, limitless and dreamlike ideas; Classicism; by contrast, is associated with order, common n, and controlled reason.
Ill. The Special Qualities of Romanticism
Romanticism favored innovation over traditionalism in the materials, forms, and style of literature. It has the following prominent characteristics which distinguish it from the neoclassical literature introduced in the previous ction.
1. The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings
2. The Creation of a world of Imagination
3. The Return to Nature for Material
4. Sympathy with the Rumble and Glorification of the Commonplace
5. Emphasis Upon the Expression of Individual Genius理解的反义词
6. The Return to Milton and the Elizabethans for Literary Models
7. The Interest in Old Stories and Medieval Romances
8. A Sen of Melancholy and Loneliness
薰衣草精油的功效和作用9. The Rebellious Spirit
Chapter II
Romantic Poets of the First Generation
The Romantic poets of this group are William Wordsworth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. They are also called Lakers, or Lake Poets in English literature becau they lived for
Section 1
William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
1. Life
2. Lyrical Ballads
The
The best-known poems contributed by Wordsworth to this collection are: “The Last of the Flock”, “Alice Fell”, or “Poverty”, “Lines Compod a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, and “Lines Written in Early Spring”.
3. Poems on Nature and Country Life
Wordsworth was at his best in descriptions of mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, children and peasants~ and reminiscences of his own childhood and youth. As a great poet of nature, he was the first to find words for the most elementary nsations of man face to face with natural phenomena. The nsations, once expresd in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. The most famous poems in this group are “To the Cuckoo”, “Lucy Poems”, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, and “The Solitary Reaper”.
4. His Sonnets
5. His Longer Poems
6. Comments on Wordsworth诺基亚1010
Section 2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
1. Introduction
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
英语名句3. Kubla Khan
4. Ghristabel
5. Comments on Coleridge
Coleridge is a great poet. He wrote with excellent style techniques. He is a medievalist, fond of the unusual and supernatural things. His imaginative power is inten and his language melodious. His early poetry shows the influence of Gray and Blake, especially of the latter. In his later poems his imagination is bridled by thought and study.
Coleridge was also a literary critic, good at giving lectures. He was the first critic of the romantic school. Between 1808 and 1815 he delivered a ries of lectures on Shakespeare, which were later collected in his 好看的桌面Notes and Lectures, or Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinion, which afforded the new romantic poetry a new a principle of criticism, who task was not to judge but to appreciate interpret. According to Coleridge,
the poet was a creator and critic was an assistant in the work of creation. The poet, as a man endowed with imaginative genius and fine perception, must be lowed to prent the truth in his own without regard to rules or models. And the critic must enter into the poet’s purpo and art, a interpret ideas and beauty for the benefit of the reader. Just hi Wordsworth he became conrvative in thinking in his later years.
