英美文学复习

Romantic period

Came from two great shapers of thought

1.rousseau’s du contrat social and emile

2.thomas paine’s declaration of right of man

Time: from1798 the publication of wordsworth and coleridge’s lyrical ballads to 1832 scott’s death and the passage of first reform bill in the parliament

The romantic focus on following things:

Stong imagnationg

Individual feelings

Return to nature

Being nationalistic

文学思想：

1.constitudes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit.社会文明的外部世界与人类精神的内部世界的转变

2.litery and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.文学和哲学理论倾向于把个人思想作为所有生活和经历的中心。

3.poetry writing, the writers employed new theories and innovated new techniques.preface acts as a manifesto for the new school.强调新理论和创作新手法，序言作为新学派的里程碑。

4.not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.不仅要称颂想象的作用，也要重视自发和联想的概念。

5.regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.自然是诗歌想象的主要资源也是永恒的主题

6.romantics also tend to the nationalistic.大多具有民族主义

Poems

Balke,wordsworth,coleridge,byron,shelley and keats are the major romatic poets.

Essay

William hazlitt ia a great critic on shakespeare and english drama and poetry romanticism.

Jane austen and walter scott are major novelist of romanticism.

1.william blake

First inportant romantic poet

Poetical sketches is a collection of youthful verse, joy,laughter,love and harmony are the prevailing notes.

Childhood is the central concern in the songs of innocence and songs of experience.

The tone of songs of innocence is happy.

A lovely volume of poems,presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.

The tone of songs of experience is doleful.

Paints a different world, a world of misery,poverty,disease,war and repression with a melancholy tone.

The marriage of heaven and posed during the climax of the french revolution and plays the double role both as a stire and revolutionary prophecy. 写作特色

Blake writes a plain and dircet language;

Blake’s poes often have the lyric beauty and immense compression of meaning.

Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of blake’s poetry.

2.william wordsworth

With cloeridge collaborated on a book of poem entitled lyricak ballads,in 1798.

Lake poets are robert southery, coleridge and wordsworth. Autobiographical narrative-resolution and independence.

Short poems classified two groups: poems about nature and poems about human life.