英美文学名著选读课件13.pptVIP

Part Five Romanticism in England Important Points 1.The literary terms: Romanticism Lake Poets 2. The literary figures of the Romantic Age 3.The features of Romantic writings English Romantic Literature Background The English Romantic trends and the representatives The features of the Romantic writings 1) The general feature is a dissatisfaction with the bourgeois society. 2) Their writings are filled with strong-willed heroes or even titanic images, formidable events and tragic situations, powerful conflicting passions and exotic pictures. The features of the Romantic writings 3) The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. Assignments 1. Explain: 1) Romanticism 2) Lake Poets 2. What are the features of Romantic writings? * * * * * * * * 1.The Time (turn of 18th and 19th) beginning ending 1798 1832 Lyrical Ballads Walter Scott’s death the Reform Bill （英国历史上1832年 议会选举法修正法案） after the Industrial social contradictions proletariat Liberty, equality and fraternity Jacobinism雅各宾主义: radicalism 激进主义 Holy Alliance 神圣同盟 Peterloo Massacre Edmund Burke埃德蒙·伯克 Reflections on the Revolution in France 《对法国革命的感想》 Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩 The Right of Man 《人权》 William Cobbett威廉·科白特 Political Register《政治宣传册》 Two Schools of Romantic Poets the elder generation: escapist romanticists younger generation active romanticists Wordsworth Coleridge Southey Byron Shelley Keats Lake Poets poetry prose novels periodicals 期刊杂志 Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hunt Walter Scott, historical novelist 1)The Edinburgh Review 2)Quarterly Review 3)Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 4)The Examiner *