英国文学史08课件.ppt

ROMANTICISM;Sentimentalism; ; ; ; ;;; ;;;;;;;;;;; ;Pre-Romanticism;William Blake (1757-1827);Blake’s Time Line;Blake’s Works; ; ;Auguries of Innocence; The Lamb;; ;;Blake’s position in English literature;Romanticism;The so-called Romantic Period extends from the late 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century; the publication of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 to the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832. Some social and intellectual events or figures gave rise to the Romantic Period: ;;;;2. General features of Romanticism;;;Robert Burns (1759-1796);;;; William Wordsworth; ; ; ; ;She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways ;;;The Solitary Reaper ;No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands; A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. ;Will no one tell me what she sings? --- Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?;Whate’er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o’er the sickle bending; --- I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.;George G. Byron (1788-1824);; The Isles of Greece …The Mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream’d that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians’ grave, I could not deem myself a slave… (iambic tetrameter) ---Byron; ; ; ; ;Childe Harold (1812); ;Don Juan (1818-1823); ; ; ;Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; ;; ;; “Queen Mab” 1813 ;“ The Revolt of Islam” 1818 ; “Prometheus Unbound” 1820 ; ; ;