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The Romantic Period

The Romantic Period. The Romantic Period. Time 1798 The publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads 1832 Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill. Definition

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The Romantic Period

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  1. The Romantic Period

  2. The Romantic Period Time 1798 The publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads 1832 Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill Definition • A revival of ancient Greek and Roman classical art • Emphasis on the special qualities of each individual • A change from outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit

  3. I. Historical, social and cultural background 1. Historically Influences of French Revolution Rousseau’s new ideas about Nature, Society and Education in Du Contract Social and Emile 2.  Economically Influences of the Industrial Revolution • Agricultural society replaced by a modern industrial one • The capital class came to control • Sharp conflicts between capital and labor

  4. II. Literary history of the period  1.  Literary trends Views of Romantics in their creation of literary works •Negative attitude toward the existing social and political conditions • Individual as the very center of the life and all experience

  5. II. Literary history of the period 2. Artistic features (1) Characteristics in the literary works • Passive or escapist ramanticists who focus their attention on matters such as love, death. e.g. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southy • Active romanticist who try to strengthen man’s will to live and raise him against life around him against any yoke or restraints. e.g. Shelly, Byron • Great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man

  6. II. Literary history of the period (2) Literary forms Poetry An age of poetry; Free from all; Common everyday life as subjects; Bold experiments in poetic language, versification and design; A variety of forms on original principles of organization and style Prose Newspapers, magazines and periodicals started to flourish Novels Novels of middle-upper class’s life; Historical novels; The Gothic novel

  7. 3. Major figures of this period William Blake 1757-1827 Songs of Innocence William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, I wander Lonely as a Cloud S.T. Coleridge1772-1834 Lyrical Ballads, Kubla Khan George Gordon Byron1788-1824 Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelly1792-1822 Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, Ode to the West Wind

  8. III. Representatives of this periodWilliam Wordsworth • 1. Biography • 1770–William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cambarland, in the family of an attorney. He received education at St. John's College, Cambridge. He developed a keen love of nature as a youth. Another important influence on his life was the French Revolution. • 2. Literary works • Lyrical Ballads • The Prelude

  9. William Wordsworth • 3.   Major theme • Common life is Wordsworth's only subject of literary interest. The joys & sorrows of the common people are his themes. • His sympathy always goes to the suffering poor. His short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about human life.

  10. William Wordsworth • 4.   Analysis of his masterpiece • (1) Brief introduction of the poem • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1) • Wordsworth is regarded as a "worshipper of nature." He can penetrate to the heart of things & give the reader the very life of nature. • (2)Theme • The poem consists of four 6-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ababcc in each stanza. • (3)  Artistic features • William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period. His is a voice of searchingly comprehensive humanity & one that inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically & naturally.

  11. III. Representatives of this periodPercy Bysshe Shelley • 1.  Biography • 1792 – He was born into a wealthy family at Sussex. Though gentle by nature, his rebellious qualities were cultivated in his early years. • 1813 – He published his Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem • 2.  Literary works • Lyrics: "To a Skylark" & "Ode to the West Wind" • Poetic drama: Prometheus Unbound (1820)

  12. Percy Bysshe Shelley • 3. Major theme • Shelley grew up with violent revolutionary ideas under the influence of the free thinkers like Hume & Godwin, so he held a life-long aversion to cruelty • He predicted that only trough gradual & suitable reforms of the existing institutions could benevolence be universally established & none of the evils would survive in this "genuine society", where people could live together happily, freely & peacefully.

  13. Percy Bysshe Shelley • 4. Analysis of his masterpiece • (1) Brief introduction of the poem • A Song: Men of England (1)This poem was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre. It is unquestionably one of Shelley's greatest political lyrics. • (2)Theme • The song contains eight quatrains; generally each line contains 4 accented syllables. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is uniformly aabb. • (3) Artistic features • His style abounds in personification & metaphor & other figures of speech which describe vividly what we see & feel, or express what passionately moves us.

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