第六讲 wordsworth and Coleridge.ppt

Passive Romantic Poets William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth(1770-1850) Life of Wordsworth Birth place: born and grew up in a lawyer’s family at Cockermouth in the English Lake District Family: His mother died when he was only eight. His father followed her six years later. He was then taken by his uncles. Education: 1787-1791, St. John’s College of Cambridge with his uncle’s financial aids and received B.A.degree. Experiences: 1790-1792, he twice visited France and was fired by a passionate belief of French Revolution and the republican ideal . And It was there that he had a love affair with Annette Vallon who bore him a daughter shortly before his return to England. Lake poets: Disappointed with the French Revolution, Wordsworth chose to live in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy. In 1797, he made friends with Coleridge and they became very good friends. They collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Wordsworth , Coleridge and another poet Robert Southey who also lived in the Lake District, the three men became known as the Lake Poets. Honors: poet laureate in 1843 Death: Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard. Main works 1. Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》，1798. a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England. 2. Poems on Nature and Country Life “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud “独自漫游似浮云” “The Daffodils” “The Solitary Reaper” “孤独的收割者” III. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1. His Biographical Information A lonely, sad and mentally precocious boy Enlisted in the 15th Dragoon Life-long friendship with William Wordsworth An Opium Addict A. Lonely, sad and mentally precocious boy Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the son of a clergyman. At the age of nine, his father died. One year later he was sent away to school