英国文学史及选读第一册lecture6-18th-Literature-part3-English-Poetry-and-Movement-toward-Romanticism.pptVIP

18th Century English Poetry and Movement toward Romanticism I Literary Trend and Movement in the 18th Century English Poetry: i Sentimentalism: As a result of a bitter discontent among the enlightened people with social reality ; continued to struggle against feudalism, but dissatisfied with reason ; turned to the countryside for its material a sincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken peasants marks the midway in the transition from Neo-classicism to its opposite, Romanticism, in English poetry. Thomas Gray(1716-1771) p249 Representative of this period Life In his youth, he is weakling. His unhappy childhood, the tyranny of his father, and the separation from his loved mother, gave to his whole life the stamp of melancholy Learned at Eton School and then Cambridge During the latter years, he was the professor of Modern History and Languages at Cambridge ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 《乡村墓地挽歌》（《墓畔哀歌》）--p249 a poem of 128 lines in 32 iambic pentametric quatrains The general mode is melancholy and meditative，as is shown in the first stanza: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 晚钟响起来一阵阵给白昼报丧，The lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea, 牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落， The plowman homeward plods his weary way, 耕地人累了，回家走，脚步踉跄，And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。 卞之琳译 shows a keen interest in the English countryside and a sincere feeling for the life of common people ii Pre-Romanticism: 前浪漫主义 a new literary movement arose in Europe, called the Romantic Revival; marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism ; In England, this movement showed itself in the trend of Pre-Romanticism in poetry ; represented by William Blake and Robert Burns William Blake (1757-1827) --p282 a British poet, painter, visionary mystic视觉神秘主义者, and engraver 雕刻大师 proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th century An illustration engraved by William Blake 铜板雕刻 Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experie