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Chapter 4

The Romantic period

Historical Background

1. French Revolution (1789)

American Revolution (1775-1783)

national liberation movements and democratic

民主

movements

2.

“

the full swing of English Industrial Revolution

”

英国工业革命 开展

brought great

wealth to the rich and worsened working and living conditions of the poor

Romanticism

“

It is a broad artistic and literary movement that affected the whole of Europe and

America.

”

Romanticism stresses strong emotions, imagination, nature, freedom from

classical art form, self and the value of individual

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Chief Literary Achievements

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Poetry

Romanticists

华兹华斯

, Coleridge

柯尔律治

, Byron

拜伦

, Shelly, Keats

?

2) Prose

Essayists

随笔作家

Charles Lamb

兰姆

(Essays of Elia

伊利亚随笔

)

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3) Novel

Two novelists

Gothic novel

哥特式小说

4) Poetic drama

诗剧

1

、

Pre-romantic poets

Robert Burns

罗伯特

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彭斯

, William Blake

威 廉

.

布莱克

2

、

passive

消极

poets

“

Lake Poets

”

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

3

、

active poets

George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley,(John Keats)

一

、

William Wordsworth

Poet

Lyrical Ballads

“

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

”抒情歌谣

“

Humble and rustic

低卑乡村生活

life was generally chosen,

in that

condition, the essential passions

本质的

of the heart find a better soil in which

they can attain their maturity

成熟

,less under restraint

限制

, and speak a plainer

and more emphatic language;

”

William Wordsworth

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poetic ideas

1

、

Poetry is Spontaneous.

自发

2

、

Nature inspires Poetry.

3

、

Common subjects can be poetic.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (background)

127

页

also commonly known as

“

Daffodils

”

1

、

Rhyme scheme of each stanza?

ababcc

2

、

Theme?

Harmony sings harmony between things in nature and the poet himself.

Comments on Wordsworth

Page 127

Leading figure

of the English romantic poetry,the

main poetic voice

.His verse

celebrate

moral influence

exerted by nature on human thought and feeling.