英国文学William Wordsworth1.ppt

Early experience: Attended Hawkshead Grammar School in 1778 Attended Cambridge from 1787-1791 but failed to graduate Visited France in 1790 and influenced by the turmoil of the French Revolution Left college in 1791 in order to return to France and support the Revolution Residence in the Lake District Dove Cottage in Grasmere: Lyrical Ballads and the “Lake Poets” Rydal Mount: spent his later years; turned to be conservative; Major Works Lyrical Ballads in 1798 with Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Prelude - Long autobiographical poem written between 1798-1805 523 sonnets Poems on nature “To a Butterfly” “To a Skylark” “To the Cuckoo” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Tintern Abbey” Poems on simple rustic life in the countryside Lucy poems “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” Other poems about common people and their humble life “Michael” “The Solitary Reaper” The autobiographical long poem: The Prelude Book 1-8: the poet’s early life Book 9-14: the poet’s growing maturity Wordsworth’s theory of poetry Incidents and situations chosen from common life (generally “low and rustic life”) A selection of language really used by man (i.e. against the use of “poetic diction”) Ordinary things to be presented in an unusual way (“to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination”) Attempts to trace in the chose incidents and situations the primary laws of human nature Significance:? With Samuel Taylor Coleridge ushered in the English Romantic movement Many consider him the most important English Romantic poet succeeded Southey as Poet Laureate * * William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 主讲: 周红 长沙医学院 Outline: 1. life 2. works 3. poetic principles 4. significance life: Family:? Mother died when he was eight and Father died when he was 13 Separated from his sister, Dorothy, in 1778 and did not see her again until 1787 Greatly affected by his brothers death in 1805 work : nature poems: To the Cuckoo I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud My Heart leaps up poems about comm