On English Literature of Romantic Period 英语(毕业论文).docVIP

安徽工业大学英语专业 学 年 论 文 On English Literature of Romantic Period 专 业 姓 名 成 绩 指 导 教 师 2012年 12月 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT i Contents Abstract…………………………………………………….………………………..i 摘 要………………………………...……………………...……………………...i 1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………..….1 2 The Definition and Background of Romanticism…………………1 21. The definition………………………………………………………………….1 2.2 The social and historical background……………………………………...2 2.3 The cultural and literal background……………………………………….…….2 3 The Main Writers and Works of English Romanticism…………………….…2 3.1 William Blake….2 3.3 Robert Burns3 3.3 William Wordsworth3 3.4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge4 3.5 Jane Austen4 3.6 George Gordon Byron5 3.7 Percy Bysshe Shelley5 3.8 John Keats5 4 The Feature of English Romanticism5 4.1. A rebellion against neo-classicism5 4.2 Express on imagination5 4.3 Supremacy of freedom5 4.4 Worship of nature5 4.5 Priorities been given to passion, emotion and feeling5 5 The influence of English Romanticism7 6 Conclusion…7 Bibliography………………………………………………………………….…….8 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT ii On English Literature of Romantic Period Abstract: William Blake(1757一1827) is regarded as the pioneer of English Romanticism. But it is generally said that Romanticism really began in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s The Lyrical Ballads, and ended in 1832 with Walter Scott’s death. It is regarded as one of the most important thoughts in western modern literature. There were a lot of excellent writers and poets. They have made a great difference on the English literature. On the one hand, romantic literature is the development and the inheritance of the concept of Renaissance Humanism. On the other hand, romantic literature and the following Realism together constitute the two systems of modern wes