英国文学第七讲.pptVIP

Sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts of pity, tenderness, and benevolence over social duties. Sentimentalism embraces a pessimistic outlook and blames reason and the Industrial Revolution for the miseries and injustices in the aristocratic-bourgeois society and?indulges in sentiment. Sentimentalism was a reaction to Classicism and made preparations for the birth of Romanticism. Graveyard School (墓园派) refers to a school of poets of the 18th century whose poe