三大诗人拜伦雪莱济慈
在他的诗歌里塑造了一批“拜伦式英 雄”。他们孤傲、狂热、浪漫,却充 满了反抗精神。
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● Byronic hero 拜伦式英雄拜伦式英雄拜伦式 英雄拜伦式英雄 The Byronic hero is an idealized but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semiautobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818).
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First Travels to the East
● After the success,Byron spent the next two years in Europe(1809-1811) 21-23. ● The experience in Europe provided him with poetical material and his creative work soon reached a new stage
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Rich in myth, symbols and classical allusions, short poems on nature and love. Strong dramatic power as shown in the rapidity of his lines; Style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech.
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Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimag 《恰尔德﹒ 哈罗德游记》
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《赞大海》 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 有一种快乐在无路的树林, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 有一个孤独的岸,几多惊喜 There is society where none intrudes, 社会里有没有被占用 By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, 到了深海,其轰鸣声和音乐: 我爱你不是人少,但自然更多, 从这些我 们的采访,在此我偷 从所有我可能会,或已经过, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.为了与宇宙打成一片,觉得 我可以从不曾表达, 但不能全部掩盖。
1. On the whole, Byron’s poetry is one of experience. 2. His literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive movements of his age. 3. His chief contribution is the creation of the “Byronic hero”--- a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. 4. Important works: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage《恰尔德﹒哈罗德游 记》(1812,1816-1818) Don Juan 《唐﹒璜》(1819-1824)
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传奇的唐璜是一个见到女人便要把她引诱上床的男 人;传说他每天晚上跟一个不同的女人发生性关 系。 现代唐璜的定义是一个好色徒,他要占有最 大多数的女人的肉体来满足他的男性虚荣感。所 以,唐璜式的性是完全没有爱的性。 唐璜所追求 的只是女人的肉体;他跟女人发生性关系向来不 把感情放进去;他也从来不用金钱去买性;他要 本着他的男性魅力来引诱女人跟他上床。当他得 到了一个女人的肉体,他便立刻转移目标,寻找 新的征服对象;因为他要不断地征服女人,他的 男性虚荣感才能保持它的充满状态。
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Byron Died On April 19,1823 36-year-old
Byron shouting in delirium:“Forward! forward! follow me!”
Literary career
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Welcom to my class! ---邱宁宁
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Percy Bysshe
Shelly(雪莱)
Lord Byron (拜伦)
John keats(济慈)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (英国浪漫主义 文学的杰出代表 )
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patents
● his father was a captain nicknamed "Mad Jack", who had squandered away the money of the poet's mother and then deserted her, finally died deep in debt when he was a child.
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西风颂的Setting and Background Information autumn of 1819. The place is .The time is
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western Italy, from the Mediterranean coast inland to Florence. Shelley makes a specific reference in the poem to the city of Baiae called Aqua Cumana by ancient Romans. Its favorable climate attracted vacationing Roman dignitaries to the city, including Julius Caesar and Nero, who constructed villas there. Volcanic eruptions plunged part of the ancient site into the sea, as alluded to in the poem in lines 32 and 33. Shelley wrote the poem inland, in a forest on the Arno River near Florence. His notes on the poem explain that he received the insp
Characteristics
● high level of intelligence and perception • cunning and able to adapt • sophisticated and educated • self-critical and introspective • mysterious, magnetic and charismatic • struggling with integrity • power of seduction and sexual attraction
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Early life
George Gordon Byron, also known as the Lord Byron, was born in a noble family in London on 22 January 1788, one year before the French Revolution.
● his mother was a Scottish noblewoman, Catherine Gordon, a descendant of Byron’s mother the King of Scotland.
Education
Harrow and Cambrige 1798-1809
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● In his second year at Cambridge, as a published author, he was accepted into a group of older, influential scholars, many of whom remained his closest friends for life. At Cambridge,also, he had become entranced by the beautiful face and angelic singing voice. ● while a student, Byron published his first collection of poem , Hours of Idleness《悠闲的时光》(1807-19),which were cruelly attacked. English Two years later(1809-21),in the form of a satire , Bards and Scotch Reviewers《英国诗人和苏格兰评论家》 published and caused great shock in the upper classes.