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On Major Poets and Masterpieces of English Romantic
Period
ChapterI:the background of the rise of English Romantic Period
The French Revolution of 1789 (French Revolution) brought hope to the future of
human,and it impacted on British Society ,too. The British Industrial Revolution not
only created wealth, but also intensifyied the contradiction between labor and capital.
The transformation of the social structure and changes in the relationship between
people and the traditions, man and nature promoted intellectual differentiation. Then,
a group of better educated people felt confused about the society and they were at a
loss what to do .In this context, the British Romantic literature originated in the
end of the eighteenth century and became prosperous in the first half of the nineteenth
century.
ChapterII:the classification of poet in English romantic period
2.1 the pioneer of English romantic literature
The pioneer of romantic literature is poet Robert Burns who lived in late eighteenth
century and William Blake. Burns draw nourishment from the folk songs in Scotland,
(specializing in Lyric and
satire Blake's
ideal society order,are creative and fresh,full of originality.
2.2 the two schools of British Romantic literature
Two opposing schools were formed in the formation of the are
active romanticism and passive romanticism. Active romanticism is a positive trend of
romantic poets dare to face up to reality, criticize the social darkness
and lead people to look e romanticism is a reactionary countercurrent
negative trend, it takes a negative attitude to escape, against the status quo, cling to
the past and leads people to look back.
2.2.1 the representatives of Active Romanticism
The emerged poets put forward the British Romantic literature to a
representative poets are Byron, Shelley and Keats,they are active
the lake poets, they put more fighting consciousness and politic trends in his works.
Shelley (1792 - 1822) is the most concentrated romantic poet and a British
his poem
private ownership of condemnation and change of social desire. The long poem
revolt of Islam
people and praiseds the struggle anti feudal made by revolutionary. He also wrote
large number of poems and dramas, as well as the famous paper
Drama
ancient Greek Rome myth which is about the inevitable fate of the oppressed people
and the suffering of the tyrant and predicted that the revolution will surely come. In
his poems Shelley expressed opposition to authoritarian tyranny, sang the praises of
struggle and prospected ideal social political environment which is filling up with
freedom and happiness. Byron (1788-1824) is a famous romantic poet during the first
half of nineteenth century. He traveled from place to place so his poems are full of
exotic. His representative works
leading people to think. Keats (1795 - 1821) was a talented poet, once under the
impact of Wordsworth and others. He wrote the famous poem
and
1: Posey Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Posey Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is a poet and politician who is as famous as
Byron in the British Romantic Literature. Engels called him
called him
Shelley wrote
other two political the books aroused big waves in the British at that time.
The representative work of Shelley is his drama
made new fiction of the Greek mythology added some symbolic image and
changed the end that Prometheus and Zeus compromised to another one that Heracles
freed Prometheus and overthrew Zeus’s tyranny. Prometheus is portrayed as a
champion of the refuse to be cowed or submit images. Works with mythical form
describes the inevitable end the suffering of the people and the tyrant's oppression,
predicted that the revolution will come and the final victory; and also a detailed
description of the beautiful scene after the victory of the revolution. The whole drama
is full of great momentum and quite infectious.
Shelley's poems with rich political color are the
Islam
church's sin, denied the oppression and exploitation of all forms of propaganda,
ideaed of freedom and equality, called on the people to struggle. These poems artly
reflects the passion, great momentum and the texture of the metal through the force.
Shelley is also known to the world because of the lyric poems. His lyric masterpiece
are
traditions that Wordsworth created about describing the nature, often reflects the
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