巨蚺浪漫主义时期的诗歌和散文英国

2021年1月20日发(作者：stephanie)

浪漫主义时期的诗歌和散文
Poetry
and Essays in the Romantic Age
The
literary
movement

called
Romanticism
represented
a renewal of
progressive
thought
and
emotion
(liberal,
free
and
open-handed),
which
had existed before the 1700s and which
had
never
totally
died
out.
While
Romanticism
in
the1800s
signaled
a
new
mood
(a
feeling
or
emotion
held
by
a
large
number
of
people
at
a
time
当时许多人的一种共同的情绪
),
the
world
had
witnessed
earlier
cultural
movements

that
also
merit
the
name
Romanticism
.
Specifically,
the
ancient
Greek epics
（古代希腊史诗）
can be
called
Romantic,
as
can
much
literature of the Medieval Period and of
the
Renaissance,
or
Elizabethan
Age.
All these writings---and the writings of

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the English Romantic Age under study
here---emphasize
human
adventure,
passion,
delight,
love
of
splendor,
of
extravagance,
and
of
the
supernatural.
The
Romantic
tradition
in
all
these
periods
can
be
viewed
in
contrast
to
another
main
literary
tradition---
Classicism
or
neoclassicism
.
The
pendulum
of
literary
taste
seems
to
swing
between
the two traditions.

Now
let
’
s
have
a
look
and
examine
the
following
lists,
which
contrast
elements,
outlooks,
and
concerns
associated with the neoclassicism of the
1700s and the Romanticism of the early
1800s. Keep in mind also that although
earlier
literary
periods
can
indeed
be
seen
as
typically
Romantic,
the
period
discussed
here
(1798-1837)
is
considered
the
Romantic Age.

Neoclassical

Romantic




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Tradition

society
Urban

Artificial

Intellect, reason

Public

Logical, solid
aristocratic


Cultivated



Conformist



constraint


Formal diction




Three
notable
poets
of
the
1700s---Thomas
Gray,
William
Blake,
and
Robert
Burns---were
in
many
respects
as
“
romantic
”

as
any
poets of
the
Romantic
Age,
but
the
work
of
these
three
was
isolated.
Why
did

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experiment

Individual


rural

Nature loving


Imagination,

emotion

Private,

subjective
Mysterious,

supernatural
common

primitive

independent

spontaneity

Natural diction
















English literature change its views and
philosophies,
its
aims
and
subject
matter, so decisively at just the turn of
the century?
Certainly,
the
historical
issues
and
developments
of
the
time
played
a
major
role
in
provoking
and
shaping
the
new
literary
movement
of
Romanticism
（诱发并造就）
: One critic
has
said,
“
The
French
Revolution
and
Napoleon made a clean sweep
（大获全
胜
）
;
after
them
it
was
no
longer
possible to think, act, or write as if the
old
forms
still
had
life.”
Also
,
the
Industrial
Revolution,
its
urbanization
of
English
life,
and
its
abuses
against
the working class called for a change in
literary
concerns
and
style.
The
Romantic
poets
in
England
also
owed
much
to
the
Swiss-born
French

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