featured by rich imagination,sincere emotion , free expression
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Schools of Romantic Poets
1. Pre-Romantic Poets
•Robert Burns（1759～1796）:
1786
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (苏格兰方言集)
1807
Hours of Idleness 闲散的时刻
1812
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
恰尔德·哈罗尔德游记
1813
The Giaour 异教徒
The Bride of Abydos 阿比多斯的新娘
1816
The Siege of Corinth 柯林斯之围
1817
Manfred 曼弗雷德
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The success of revolution encouraged and inspired the progressive intellectuals of Britain. They thought the ideal world was coming, and expressed their hope and aspiration and the visional world in their compositions.
Industrial Revolution made England the "factory of the world"
The bourgeoisie was pushed to the dominant position; Proletariat came into existence.
Workers were became the slaves of machinery and of creating urban environm ents；
“Ode to the West Wind” 西风颂
1821
A Defence of poetry 诗辩
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•John Keats（1795-1821）
1820
Isabell 伊莎贝拉
The Eve of Saint Agnes 圣阿格尼斯之夜
1819
“Ode to the Nightingale ” 夜莺颂
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inner mlution (1789–1799) Doctrine: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Feudalism collapsed, and Liberty,equality and fraternity were enjoyed by people for a time.
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English Romantic Literature
1.The Time
beginning
1798 William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
ending 1832
Walter Scott’s death
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Historical Backgrounds
4. Attache great importance to the folk literature, especially the
folk literature of middle ages.
The medieval folk literature is free from the classical discipline, and
2. Describ natural scenery, sing praises to the nature.
The beauty of nature and the ugly version of city life Regarde the nature as a kind of mysterious force or a symbol of the spiritual level
1783
Poetical Sketches 诗的素描
1789
Songs of Innocence 天真之歌
The Book of Thel 塞尔书
1790
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
天堂与地狱的结合
1793
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” 希腊古瓮颂
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The Romantic Period
（1798-1832）
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Romanticism
Romanticism is a kind of way of creation in art and literature, it shapes the character image and reflect the real life by using rich imagination and exaggeration.
阿尔比昂女儿们的幻想
1794
Songs of Experience 经验之歌
1795
The Song of Los 罗斯之歌
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2. Lake Poets
•William Wordsworth（1770－1850)
“Poet Laureate”桂冠诗人
1798
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
No callings of proletariat for liberty and equality allowed by the bourgeoisie.
literators were disappointed of the new world and
the bourgeoisie， and turned to nature and their
D2o02n1/J2/u2an 唐璜
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•Percy Bysshe Shelley（1792 – 1822）
1813
Queen Mab 麦布女王
1817
The Revolt of Lslam伊斯兰的反叛
1819
Prometheus Unbound 解放了的普罗米修斯
England in 1819 1819年的英国
1788
Auld Lang Syne（友谊地久天长）
1794 A Red, Red Rose（一朵红红的玫瑰）
1796
John Anderson, My Jo（约翰 安德森，我的爱人)
My Heart's in the Highlands（我的心在高原）
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•William Blake（1757~1827）:
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Characters
1. Focus on subjective ideals, express strong personal feelings
Against the classical disciplines Emphasizes the absolutely free creation ways . A large of discription of people's dreams .Pay special attention to the love theme
3. Have a passion for describing the middle ages and the history of the past.
Their description is not to reflects the historical truth, but the imagination of themselves
丁登寺杂咏
Lyrical Ballads 抒情诗集
1805
The Solitary Reaper 孤独的收割女
1807
Ode: Intimations of Immortality 不朽颂
The Prelude 序曲
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•Samuel Taylor Coleridge（1772－1834)
Types of romanticism: • Negative romanticism gloss over the reality or regret the past • Positive romanticism can break through the current situation, predicte the develop direction of things
1798
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 古舟子咏
1816
Christabel 克里斯塔贝尔
Kubla Khan忽必烈汗
1817
Biographia Literaria 文学传记
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3. Active Romantic school
•George Gordon Byron（1788-1824）