chapter 7-9--The Romantic Period课件.pptVIP

The Romantic Period(1798-1832);Romanticism;Romantic Art;Romantic music;The Nature of Romantic Movement;The Romantic Movement in literature 1798, Lyrical Ballads The representatives The first generation of Romantics W. Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, R. Southey. “Lake Poets” The second generation of Romantics G. G. Byron, P. B. Shelley, J. Keats.;Lake Poets;The Qualities of Romanticism;1. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings 2. the creation of a world of imagination 3. return to nature for material: “nature poetry” 4. sympathy with the humble and glorification of the commonplace 5. emphasis upon the expression of individual genius 6. a sense of melancholy and loneliness 7. the rebellious spirit;The Influence of the Romanticism Movement on English Literature;(1) English literature comes to its peak in this period. (2) The Romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake , Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley , Keats. (3) The Romantic period is a great age of prose. Coleridge , Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey (4) This period is also a great age of novels. Jane Austen , Walter Scott ;The Features of Romantic Poetry;Romantics poetry is free from all rules. Romantics poets are always seeking for the absolute, the ideal through the transcendence of the actual. Romantic poetry is the flow of imagination, spontaneity and powerful feelings.;William Blake  (1757-1827);Blake’s works;The two books show “the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”. Characteristics: Diction—naive but strong Content—mysterious Attitude Sympathy with the French Revolution, Hatred for 18th century conformity and social institution and of revolt against authority;The Difference of the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience ; ;Other famous poetry:;;The Lamb;The Lamb;;1. What kind of picture does the poet describe? 2. What does the lamb symbolize? 3. What rhetoric devices are used by the poet? 4. What characteristics does Blake’s poetry present?;1. What