英国浪漫主义时期介绍课件.ppt

The Romantic Period浪漫主义时期 1. 时间界定 Began: in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads Ended: in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament.. 2. Historical Cultural background Two important revolutions: The French Revolution --- Jean Jacques Rousseau The English Industrial Revolution The differences between neoclassicism and Romanticism Where their predecessors saw man as a social animal, the Romantics saw him essentially as an individual in the solitary state. Where the Augustans emphasized those features that men have in common the Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual’s mind. The literary views Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit. It tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience. It also places the individual at the center of art. Literary Forms (文学形式) Poetry The Romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major Romantic poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution. Characteristics a. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life. He defines the poet as a “man speaking to men,” and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. b. Imagination, defined by Coleridge, is the vial faculty that creates new wholes out of disparate elements. The Romantics not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration, regarding them as something crucial for true poetry. c. The natural world comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter. d. To escape from an excessively ration