外教社2024新世纪新编英国文学史教程 PPT课件Unit 9.pptx

Unit9TheRomanticpoetry

OverviewAwaveofradicalartisticmovementthatswayedthefieldofEnglishpoetryfromthelate18thcenturytothemid19thcentury.Features:newvoices,newformsandnewsubjectmattersMajorsources:HumanismReflectionsonthecrisisfollowingtheIndustrialRevolutionSentimentalism

KeywordsNature1.Areturntonaturetendedtoawakenone’ssensibilitiesandcompassionsthatwerealmostlostintheprocessofindustrialization.2.Naturealsocarriestheprojectionofthepoet’sownselfthatissusceptibletocorruptionandalienation.Impact:Awakenone’sselfhoodReestablishmanasadivinebeingEvokethefeelingofthesublime

KeywordsEmotionThelegacyofsentimentalism:a)afeelingfornatureb)agriefforthepoorTheexpressionofemotionsleadstotheinventionofnewpoeticstylesandformsthatcharacterizetheRomanticpoetry.

KeywordsNewVoiceTheFrenchRevolutioncultivatedsoilfornewvoicesThenewvoices:Anappealforliberty,equalityandfraternityBurns:VoicesofScottishruralfolksWordsworth:VoicesofthosemarginalizedColeridge:Voicesfromtheindividual’sfantasyKeats:VoicesofnatureShelley:Voicesoftherevolutionaries

QuestionsforCriticalThinking

1.?Why?is?the?theme?of?nature?so?important?to?Romantic?literature?2.?In?what?way?does?Romanticism?subvert?the?tradition?3.HowdoestheprocessoftheFrenchRevolutioninfluencetheevolutuionofRomanticism?

ImportantFeaturesoftheRomanticPoetryADefianceofNeoclassicismTheprinciplesofneoclassicism:rational,clarity,restraint,orderanddecorumThecrisis:thedevelopmentofhumanityisincompleteonlybyreasonThesolution:Romanticismasacounterforcetriedtodefendfreeexpressionandjustifyemotion

ImportantFeaturesoftheRomanticPoetryPositiveRomanticismandPassiveRomanticismPassiveRomanticism:a