Romanticism.ppt

Introduction Romanticism is a revolt反抗 of the imagination against the neoclassical新古典主义的 reason. The French revolution of 1789-1794 and the English industrial revolution exert施以影响 great influence on the romanticism. The romanticists express a negative attitude towards the existing social and political condition. They place the individual at the center of the art. The key words of the revolution are nature and imagination. Romanticism in England William Blake （1757-1827） George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Samuel Taylor Coleridge（1772-1834） William Wordsworth (1770-1850) William Blake威廉·布雷克 He was often misunderstood by other people， who would regard him as gifted but mad. He was recognized only posthumously [p?stjum?sli] . 他经常遭到旁人误解，认为他是个天才，又是个疯子，他去世后才被人发掘出来并一举成名。 William Blake’s Representative Works Songs of Innocence (1809) is lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.Songs of Experience (1794) paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy [‘mel?nk?l?]忧郁的 tone.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity. It plays the double role both as a satire[’s?ta?? ]讽刺 and a revolutionary prophecy[‘pr?f?s?] 预言. Byron’s Representative Works Hebrew Melodies (lyrical poem collection) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (long poem) Don Juan (unfinished long poem) (masterpiece)《唐璜》 Comments on Byron拜伦 Byron is one of the most excellent representatives of English Romanticism and one of the most influential poets of the time. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯尔律治 Poet Critic Main Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 《古航海家之歌》 Kubla Khan 《忽必烈汗》 Christabel 《克里斯特贝尔》 This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 《菩提树荫，我的牢笼》 Frost at Midnight 《子夜寒霜》 The Nightingale 《夜莺》 William Wordsworth 威廉.华兹华斯 The Solitary Reaper《孤独的收割者》 To a Highland Girl 《致高地姑娘》 The Old Cumberland Beggar 《老坎伯兰的乞丐》 The Ruined Cottage《被摧毁的茅屋》