Chapter-9英国文学.ppt

Chapter 9 The Romantic Period Wordsworth. Coleridge. Scott. Austen (1)The social and historical background The Romantic Period? (1798-1832) The foreign influences: ? 1, the two revolutions? before the advent of the Romantic Period: A, the American Independence War: ? (1775-1783) B, the French Revolution ? (1789-1794) 2, the influential ideas advocated by the FR? liberty, equality, and fraternity The internal factors?: 1,The government ? became more and more conservative and repressive 2, People ? were becoming poorer and a large urban proletariat was struggling for survival in incredible misery. 3, The emphasis on the individual became a dominant feature of the new, or Romantic era. 4, The 18th century was centripetal, however, the Romantic period was centrifugal. The Romantic writers 1,The two schools of the Romantic poetry:? The Lake Poets /escapist romanticists? William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey The Satanic School/Active romanticists? (rebellious and aggressive) George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats 3, The Romantic prose writers? Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas De Quincey 4, The Romantic novelists? Walter Scott, Jane Austen The romantic poems In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists, the R. paid attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Nature, often personified, also plays an important role in their works. The elder generation of R Lake poets/escapist romanticists: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, who reflected the thinking of classes ruined by the bourgeoisie, turned to feudal past (the “merry old England”) as their ideal, and turned to nature for protection. They were called LP because they had lived in the Lake District in the NW of England and shared a community of literary and social outlook in their work, beginning as radicals and closing as conservatives. The younger generation of R Active romantici