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I. INTRODUCTION TO ROMATICISM

II. TWO GENERATIONS OF ROMANTICS

III. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

IV. GEORGE GORDON

19th Century English Romanticism

I. INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTICISM

1. What's Romanticism?

2. Essential features of Romanticism

19th Century English Romanticism

1. What's Romanticism?1.1 As an ‘ism’ in literature

- Romanticism:• The embodiment of disillusionment in the consequences

of the French revolution.• In the great theories of the Enlighteners.• The embodiment of the negative attitude towards the life

of the post-industrial revolution bourgeoisie.

19th Century English Romanticism

1. What's Romanticism?The romantics contrasted:- The romantic ideal to reality.- The lofty flight of spirit to the earthy prosaic life of the

bourgeoisie.- Their petty calculation and boredom.- Their limited outlook and utter practicality.=> Contradictions between reality and dreams

19th Century English Romanticism

1. What's Romanticism?

1.2 In terms of literature

Romanticism was the embodiment of the revolt against classicism.

19th Century English Romanticism

2. Essential features of Romanticism

There are 4 essential features of this historical romanticism:

• A deep interest in nature and in obscure, humble or underprivileged people.

• An enthusiasm in fighting against tyrannical authority and glorifying liberty.

• A sense of disappointment mixed with a melancholy mood.

• A revolution in literary language-use.

2. Two generations of the romantics

Moderate trend: The Lake school

Radical trend: The Cockney school

The Lake school

Why was the Lake?

Name of beautiful lake district where Wordsworth and other poets lived.

Industry had not invaded the district.

Lake poets:

- Introduced into poetry short forceful words and constructions of every day.

- Brought sound and color into verse.

- Appreciated folk and national art.

All of them were humanists

Great poets:- William Wordswoth (1772 – 1850)

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

- Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)

Having the similar tastes in art and politics, they found a literary circle.

Quotes about Poetry

Poems:

William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, Daffodils…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan..

Cockney school

Including all romantics of the young generation

Expressing the ideas and interests disappointed to see the results of industrial revolution society.

Trying to look ahead and see the future.

Embodied the dream of social justice

Great poets of Cockney school

George Gordon Percy Bysshe Shelley

Works:

• Percy Bysshe Shelly : Bridal Song, a dialog, alament..

• Lord George Gordon Byron: Don Juan, She walks in Beauty,....

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770 – 1850)

A major English Romatic poet

Life

Works

1. LIFE

• W. Wordsworth was born in Lake District, Northwestern, England on April 7, 1770

• 1778: attended Hawkshead Grammar School

W. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850

• 1787: studied at St. John’s College in Cambridge

2. WORKS2.1. Major Themes

• Two themes: Nature and Man

“Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher”

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2.2. Works• W. Wordsworth’s best poetry was written between 1796 and 1808

• Some most famous poets:

- Lyrical Ballads (1798) - The Prelude (1850)

Lucy Gray (1799)“Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild,I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child.

No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor, --The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door!

You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen

"To-night will be a stormy nightYou to the town must go; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow."

"That, Father! will I gladly do: 'Tis scarcely afternoon--The minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the moon!”

At this the Father raised his hook, And snapped a faggot-band; He plied his work;--and Lucy took The lantern in her hand...” (continued)

The Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowA host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance...(continued)

George Gordon, Lord Bryan

• 1. Life • born in London on January 22th, 1788

• Singularly unfortunate in both parents:

father was born in a aristocratic family and he thought everything belongs to him that he lived a wild and reckless life. his mother was a woman of

passionate extreme whom his father married because of money

Life

• At 13 he went to school at Harrow, at 17, he went to Cambridge and in 1809 he got a MA degree

• He got married in January 2, 1815 but his married life was unhappy.

• April 21, 1816, in a legal deed of separation, he left England and never returned

• In 1823, when Greece was fighting for independence, he threw all his energies into the cause

• He now was a practical politician and the unrestrained libertines changed to study military disciplinarian

• He contracted a fever in 1824 and died in battlefield

2. Works His literary career can be divided in to 5 periods:

• The experimental period (1807-1811)

• The London period (1812-1816)

• The Swiss period (1816- 1817)

• The Italian period (1817- 1823)

• The Greece period (1824)

Freedom

• Freedom in language

• Feedom in symbols

• Freedom in topic

Famous works

• Hours of Idleness (1806)

• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)

• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812 – 1818)

• The Giaour (1813)

• The Bride of Abydos (1813)

• The Corsair (1814)

• Lara (1814)

• Hebrew Melodies (1815)

• The Siege of Corinth (poem) (1816)

• Parisina (1816)

• The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816)

• The Dream (1816)

• Prometheus (1816)

• Darkness (1816)

• Manfred (1817