Romantic Period in English Literature （1798-1832）
English Romanticism
☐ Introduction
☐ Romantic poetry
⏹ William Wordsworth
⏹ G.G. Byron
⏹ P.B. Shelley
⏹ John Keats
⏹ S.T. Coleridge
老奶奶⏹ Jane Austen
⏹ Charles Lamb
English Romanticism begins in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s The Lyrical Ballads and ends in 1832 with Walter Scott’s death
It is a revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason. The romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty. The romanticists express a negative attitude towards the existing social or political conditions. They place the individual at the center of art. The English Romanticism is an age of poetry. Major romantic poets include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
The characteristics of Romantic literature:
☐ Major Romantic Points: (1) a rebellion against neo-classicism
☐ (2) express on imagination
☐ (3) priorities been given to passion, emotion and feeling
☐ (4) being clo to nature for its purity while the society is corrupting ;nature is the source or imagination
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☐ (5) tremendous interest in something remote in term of space and time
☐ (6) favor of modernism
☐ (7) supremacy of freedom
Reprentative Writers
孙武☐ William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gorge Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Walter Scott.
William Wordsworth（1779-1850）The spokesman of English Romanticism)
☐ William Wordsworth 1770–1850,
☐ One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England.
1. William Wordsworth's literary theory of poetry: Emphasis on the Good poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. (Preface to the Lyrical Ballads).
2. The theme is to be situations & incidents chon from common life
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3. He is regarded as the “worshipper of nature” It is nature that gives him “strength and knowledge full of grace”.
☐ . Major works: 1. Lyrical Ballads ( 《抒情歌谣集》，1798): “We Are Seven” “Tintern Abbey”
☐ 2.Lucy Poems (《露茜》，1799): “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”
☐ 3.Sonnet (1802): “Westminster Bridge”
☐ 4 Poems in Two Volume (1807): “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “The Solitary Reaper”
☐ 5 The Prelude (《序曲》，1805
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
☐ P.17,Vol.II
☐ It is one of his famous Lucy poems, in which the lover tells that she (his lover) lived unknown and died unknown.
☐ Theme?
I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud 山杜鹃我独自漫步如浮云
☐ P.19 the theme of this poem?
☐ What’s the figure of speech ud in the 6th line of the 1st stanza?
☐ What’s the meaning of “that inward eye” in the last stanza?
Theme: The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is in solitude. It is nature that gives him strength and knowledge full of peace. Nature has the healing power.
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The Solitary Reaper,p.22
☐ Questions: 营销案例分析
☐ (1). The tone?
☐ (2). The theme?
☐ The girl’s singing deeply moved the traveler and kept lingering in his heart.
Comments:Many of Wordsworth ‘s poems in the Lyrical Ballads were devoted to the position of landless and homeless peasants.Sincerely sympathizing with the poor, he at the same time verely criticized capitalism.
☐ In his poems Wordsworth aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry. The poet was a passionate lover of nature and his description of lakes and river, of a meadows and woods, of skies and clouds are exquisite.
Contribution：Wordsworth started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner lf.
Wordsworth changed the cour of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.
Lake Poets: It is the a term referring to William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey骚塞, who are the first generation of the English Romantic poets, and who lived in the “Lake District” at the turn of the nineteenth century.
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) Life story: p.24
☐ He was born lame.
☐ Father died when he was 3 years old.
☐ On the death of his granduncle in 1798, he inherited the title of Baron and a large estate.
☐ He received his education at Harrow , then Cambridge.
☐ 1811 23y, he took his at in the Hou of Lords. He tried to show his sympathy for working class
