英国文学史及作品选读课件Chapter 8The Age of Romanticism教学讲义.ppt

Chapter Ⅷ The Age of Romanticism;By the close of the eighteenth century, the world had witnessed several major political 1. the American and French revolutions, 2.exceptional social upheavals, 3. prominent changes in philosophical thought.;A Review of British Literature; It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way …;? ;2.2 Rene Wellek: “The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History” (1963):;2. 3 Common characteristics of the second generation of British Romantics— Byron, Shelley, and Keats : They wrote swiftly, traveled widely, and died prematurely. They had a new intuition for the power of the wild landscape, and the spiritual correspondence between Man and Nature, ;3. William Wordsworth ;3.2 William Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1807);4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834):;5. George Gordon Byron: Don Juan (“The Isles of Greece”);6. P. B. Shelley: (1792—1822);7. John Keats (1795-1821):