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Romantic Poetry （1） (1798-1832) [The Lyrical Ballads collaborated by Wordsworth and Coleridge Historical Background Politically French Revolution (1789) Ideologically the principle of Ration was giving way to an individualized, free, liberal, imaginative attitude towards life Economically the great Industrial Revolution: growing disparity between the rich and the poor; II. Literature Prose familiar essays of journals and newspapers(Charles Lamb) literary criticism/reviews as authority (Charles Lamb, Lee Hunt, de Quincey) novelists: Jane Austen, the realist Walter Scott, the 1st historical novelist/romantic poet Poetry the Age of (Romantic) Poetry; the voice of the age developed from sentimental and gothic literature differences between 18th-century and 19th-century; Neoclassicism vs Romanticism: reason vs passion, imagination commercial vs natural industrial vs pastoral present vs past society vs individual order and stability vs freedom decorative expression vs simple and spontaneous expression New Poetic Features language: simple, everyday life speech, common vocabulary and accent, (Wordsworth, Blake); form: Lyrics---sonnet, ode Narrative---ballad(instead of mock epics, romance) subject: Nature the rural/pastoral the past/historical the alien/exotic, oriental the supernatural/ mysterious (dreams or dream-like) the personal the common/low class the revolutionary/justice the patriotic purpose: lyrical (emotional) confessional visionary/prophetic principles/ideas: imagination “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility” Preface by Wordsworth Schools of Romantic Poets: Pre-romantic poets Robert Burns: Scottish dialect, ballads William Blake: mysterious, philosophical, visionary Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience B. Lakers/Lake Poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey) William Wordsworth: N