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Contents
Romanticism
Wordsworth
“Ancient Mariner”
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Development of the English Literature
More;
Marlowe
Shakespeare
Chaucer
early
medieval transition Renaissance Revolution,
Restoration
450-1050 1100-1400 1400-1500 1500-1600 1600-1700
Beowulf
English
Bible
4 Johns
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An Overview of the 18th Literature
the Development of Poetry
pre-romanticists
Pope, Blake, Burns
Blake, Burns
the Prosperity of Prose
Steele, Addison, Swift
classicism: classicists
Pope, Steele, Addison
The Enlightenment
the Rising of Novels
Defoe, Fielding, Smollett
realism: realists
the Decline of Drama
sentimentalism:
sentimentalists
Goldsmith, Sheridan
Gray, Sheridan
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Important Points
1.The literary terms:
–
Romanticism
–
Lake Poets
2. The literary trends and the leading figures
3.The general features
The Romantic Period
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English Romantic Literature
1.The Time (turn of 18th
and 19th)
beginning
1798
Lyrical Ballads
by Wordsworth
ending
1832
Walter Scott’s death
the Reform Bill
（英国历史上1832年
议会选举法修正法案）
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Chapter 1 Romantic Period
Group Work
1. What is Romanticism?
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What is Romanticism?
It
can
be
seen
as
a
reaction
against
the
Romanticism
was
a
phenomenon
which
The Definition of Romanticism:
emphasized
the individual
and
the subjective
prescriptivism（旧习）
of
the
prevailing（流行的）
Romanticism is applied to a European
experience,
the
irrational
andfound
imaginative,
This
change
of
attitude
is
to
be
in
a
wide
Classical
and
Neo-classical
status
quo（现状）
and
movement
for
a
change
of
attitude
or
intellectual
spontaneity（自发的行为,
natural）
and
emotion,
spectrum（领域）
of
the
arts,
including
painting,
against
the rationalism（理性主义）
and
physical
orientation（方向）
in theand
latethe
18th
to mid-19th
the
visionary（梦幻的）,
transcendental
music,
architecture
and
literature.
materialism
主 义 ）
of are
the
（
超 自 然（的自）然. 唯
The物 representatives
century.
Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, etc.
Enlightenment.
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Chapter 1 Romantic Period
Group Work
2. What is “Lake Poets”?
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What is “Lake Poets”?
Lake Poets refer to those English romantic
poets at the beginning of the 19th century, William
Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart
of the Lake District in the north-western part of
England and enjoyed the experience of living close
to nature, and these poets were the older
generation of Romantic poets who had been
deeply influenced by the French Revolution of
1789 and its effects. In their writings they
described the beautiful scenes and the country
people of that area.
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Group Work
3. What are literary trends and
who are the representatives?
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Romantic trends & the representatives
poetry
Two Schools
prose
Lamb, Hazlitt,
De Quincey and Hunt
novels
Walter Scott, historical novelist
1)The Edinburgh Review
2)Quarterly Review
periodicals
3)Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
期刊杂志
4)The Examiner
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The Features of the Romantic Writings
p.212
1) The general feature is a dissatisfaction with the
bourgeois society.
2) Their writings are filled with strong-willed
heroes or even titanic images, formidable events
and tragic situations, powerful conflicting
passions and exotic/striking pictures.
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The Features of the Romantic Writings
3) The difference between the two generations
of the poets: with symbolic pictures,
(1) Escapist poets: taking on a mystic color
(2) Active poets: representing a vague idea of
some future society
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The Features of the Romantic Writings
4) The romanticists paid great attention to the
spiritual and emotional life of man.
5) Personified nature plays an important role in the
pages of their works.
6) The sentiments are expressed by poetry.
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Summary
1. The literary terms:
Romanticism; Lake Poets
2. The literary trends:
Poetry, prose, novel, periodical
3. The leading figures:
Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley;
Lamb; Scott
4. The general features: dissatisfaction, imagination,
emotions; rhetorical devices
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Two Schools of Romantic Poets
the elder generation:
escapist romanticists
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Southey
younger generation
active romanticists
Byron
Shelley
Keats
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Chapter 2 Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
华兹华斯
(1770—1850)
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Chapter Two
Learning Focuses
1. Lyrical Ballads
2. An Analysis of 2 Poems
3. Comments both the man and
the works
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Chapter Two Wordsworth
Discussion
Comments on
Lyrical Ballads
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Romanticism
EnglandMariner”
“The
of the in
Ancient
(“古舟子咏”; “老水手之行”)
Wordsworth & Coleridge
a joint work
majority
of poems
beginning of
the Romantic Revival
Lyrical Ballads
《抒情歌谣集》
1798
many subjects: romantic,
charm of novelty (新颖)
to things of everyday
Manifesto of
the Movement
deep love for nature
sympathy for the poor
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Chapter Two Wordsworth
Discussion
An Analysis of
“She Dwelt Among
the Untrodden Ways ”
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Examples
“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”,
from Lucy Poems 《露西组诗》
(p.216)
Theme: harmony between humanity and
nature
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
她住在人迹罕至的地方，
—她美丽的像一棵孤星
就在多佛小溪旁，
独自个儿在夜空中闪现。
无人曾将这少女称赞，
她活着，无人知晓，
也没几人把她放在心上。
她死了，没几人知道；
青苔石旁紫罗兰，
但她现在孤坟之中，
怀抱苔石半遮面！
对我，就不同了。
（李正栓 译）
Listen
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The rhyme scheme is ________________.
abab, cdcd, efef
• There are 2 images in the poem. One is the
____________________,
half-hidden violet the other
____________________________.
one star shining in the sky
• Lucy’s beauty is ___________
unknown to the world.
• Lucy’s personality is cherished by _______.
• A. many B. few
few, none, untrodden , unknown
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Chapter Two Wordsworth
Homework
An Analysis of “I
Wandered Lonely as
a Cloud ”
(《实践》pp.100-2)
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Chapter Two Wordsworth
Discussion
Comments on
Wordsworth and
His Poetry
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Lake
Poets
Wordsworth华兹华斯
Coleridge 柯尔律治
Southey
骚塞
beginning as radicals and
closing as conservatives
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
1.Descriptions of mountains… and peasants,
and reminiscences (回忆)of his own childhood …
Lines Written in Early Spring “早春诗行”
To the Cuckoo “致布谷鸟”
The Daffodils “水仙花”
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud “我独自漫游像一朵浮云”
My Heart Leaps Up “我的心激烈地跳动”
Intimations of Immortality “不朽颂”
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
“丁登寺杂咏”
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
Besides a deep love for nature,
2. a masterhand in searching and revealing
the feelings of the common people
Many themes:
Characters:
from rural life
lower classes in the countryside
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
pathetic(忧郁、感情上的) pictures
of the working people
“The Solitary Reaper”
“孤独的收割者”
sympathy to the
sufferings of the
naivety天真 of simple
poor, humble peasants
peasant children
“The Ruined Cottage”
“We Are Seven”
“Simon Lee”
“我们是七个”
“The Old Cumberland Beggar”
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
3. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by
purity and ___________
simplicity of his language
__________
which was spoken by the ___________
peasants who
simple
convey their feelings and emotions in ______
and _________________________
unelaborated（坦率的） expressions.
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
Wordsworth’s The Prelude 《序曲》or
Growth of a Poet’s Mind, an autobiographical
poem, is the spiritual record of his mind,
showing his development of his own thought
and sentiment.
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More about The Prelude 《序曲》p. 217
1) It is a long and autobiographical poem
considered his masterpiece.
2) It has 14 books, analyzing the growth of
his poetic genius during his childhood
and youth, and recalls the lessons he
owes to nature.
3) The description of the book has been
called a long journey home.
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Comments on Wordsworth & His Poetry
4. Wordsworth’s good poetry were written
during the _________decade
between ________
1798
first
and__________.
1807
• When he lived in seclusion, his poems became
declined and more and more conservative in
thought.
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Wordsworth’s Writing Principles
1.All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings.
2. The true function of poetry lies in its power to
give an unexpected splendor to familiar and
commonplace things.
3. As to language, he tried to bring his language
near to the real language of man.
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Chapter 3 Coleridge and Southey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
柯尔律治
(1772—1834)
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masterpiece
Lyrical Ballads
1) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“古舟子咏”; “老水手之行”
2) Kubla Khan 《忽必烈汗》
3) Christabel 《克里斯特贝尔》
4) Biographia Literaria 《文学传记》
Poet,
critic
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Lyrical Ballads
lyrical poet
excellent style
and techniques
Biographia Literaria
critic
key text
of the period
conservative
in thinking
in his later years
His imaginative power is intense
and his language melodious.
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Chapter 3
Discussion
The Main Idea
of “The Rime of
the Ancient
Mariner”
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Literary works
Lyrical Ballads:
• “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• “古舟子咏”; “老水手之行”.
• The poem is considered his masterpiece.
• It is also considered one of the
masterpieces of the romantic poetry.
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
•
p. 219-20
• It tells a strange story in the form of ballad.
• Three guests are on their way to a wedding
party, but one of them is detained (delayed
耽搁) by an ancient mariner. The mariner
tells him of his adventures on the sea.
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• When his ship sails towards the South Sea, an
albatross（信天翁）comes through the snowfog and alights（飞落在） on the rigging（帆索；
支撑桅船和船帆的索具）.
• The mariner is thoughtless enough to shoot it.
Then misfortunes fall on the ship.
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• The whole crew, with the exception of the
mariner, die of thirst as a punishment for the
act of inhospitality shown to the bird by the old
mariner.
• The spell（诅咒）breaks only when the
mariner repents (regrets) his cruelty.
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Assignments
1. Memory：Two literary terms and
representative works and the writing
features.
2. Reading：1) 《实践》pp.43-4, 104-106
2） pp.222-244: Chapter 4-5,
Byron and Shelley.
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Goodbye.