【2017年整理】文学课presentation.ppt

William Wordsworth Wordsworths masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi autobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge. Important works Lyrical Ballads in 1798 with Samuel Tayloy Coleridge “Ode:intimations of immortality”written in1804 ThePrelude-Long autobiographical poem written between 1789-1805 Wrote 523 sonnets Robert Southey .Moreover, Southey was a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. The last has rarely been out of print since its publication in 1813 and was adapted for the screen in the 1926 British film, Nelson. Samuel Taylor Coleridge a tragic genious who fuifilled only a fraction of his enomormous potential.he was handicapped by his impulsive and impractical nature ,which caused him to leave many projects uncompleted He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated by some that he suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition not identified during his lifetime.Coleridge suffered from poor health that may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these concerns with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction. Satanic school Satanic School, name applied by Robert Southey in the preface to his A Vision of Judgement (1821) to a class of writers headed by Byron and Shelley, and Keats. Because, ac