英美文学选读William WordsworthPPT课件

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Wordsworth’s writing style
William Wordsworth’s poems were fresh in imagination, simple, plain and vivid in language.
He was especially good at writing about nature and common people.
individuality in style.
Major writers
older group younger group
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Older group: (Negative Romanticism)
The so-called Lake School of English poets (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey.) expressed new theories as to the subject-matter and language of poetry. These three poets were often called as the older poets. They made an impressive contribution to poetry.
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Wordsworth’s principle of poetry
William Wordsworth has his own principle of poetry: He declared that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”(“诗歌是强烈感情的自然流露”) He appealed directly to individual sensations as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry. (个人感觉是诗歌创作和鉴赏 的源泉) He held the view that poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”.(“诗歌是平静中回忆起来的情感”) As to language used in poetry, he advocated using the language of the common people. Imagination was very important in poetic creation.
Rebellious and aggressive So these three poets were called “the Satanic School” by Robert Southey.
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• Verse 是指韵文,也就是带有押韵 、 句子分行的文体 。 verse强调的是外在的形式,符合上面2条的文体基本都可以 叫做verse,比如 打油诗、歌词、口号、名言、民谣等等。 • Poem强调内在,是真正意义上的诗歌,它发掘深刻的思 想、彰显高尚的情操,语言优美,感情深挚。至于是否押韵 等外在形式并不过分要求。
The Romantic Period
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Romantic Movement
By the beginning of the 19th century a movement had taken
place in intellectual life. It manifested itself not only in England
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William Wordsworth
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• William Wordsworth (17701850) was one of the greatest poets of England. As the leading figure of the English Romantic Movement, he has made great contribution in poetic theory. • “Poet Laureate” 桂冠诗人
Hence he was called the poet of nature.
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Wordsworth’s Major Works
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Lyrical Ballads
• William Wordsworth, with his friend Coleridge, collaborated and published the Lyrical Ballads which marks the break with classicism and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.
Conservative
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Younger group: (Positive Romanticism)
The later romanticists (George Gordon Bryon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats) were poets of revolt who, unlike the Lake School, never recanted their revolutionary principle. These three poets were often called as the younger poets. They did a wonderful work in shaping verse.
but also in Germany and France. It displayed the spirit of
idealism as opposed to realism.
During the Romantic period, English letters were
characterized by an emotional and imaginative quality and by
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