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19th Century England Romantic Poetry in early 19th Century Lake Poets Wordsworth华兹华斯 Coleridge 柯尔律治 Southey 骚塞 beginning as radicals and closing as conservatives Early Romanticists I Wandered Lonely as a cloud Also commonly known as Daffodils or The Daffodils My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold My heart leaps up* when I behold *心跳加快 A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety*. 自然的虔诚  Characteristics of Wordsworth Poems His Achievements William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period. He inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically naturally. The most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language by advocating a return to nature. Late Romanticists---Revolutionary Poets John Keats (1795-1821) George Byron (1788-1824) Percy Shelly (1792-1822) Percy Bysshe Shelley  (1792-1822) Life may change, but it may fly not;Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed,but it returneth. 1. Life and Career Born into a wealthy family at Sussex Educated first at Eton, then at Oxford Being expelled from Oxford and disinherited by his father because of his writing and circulating a pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism (1811) Eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook in 1811 In 1814 Shelley left England for France with Mary Godwin. After Harriet Shelleys suicide in 1816, Shelley and Mary officially got married. The following year Shelley and Mary left England and settled in Italy. On July 8, 1822, Shelley was drowned while sailing in the Bay of Spezia. Ode to the West Wind Summar