Nga nheo - The Romantic Period

The Romantic Period

1. Group 3: edited by Nguyen Thi Nga

2. 19 th Century English Romanticism INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTICISM What's Romanticism? Essential features of Romanticism

3. 19 th Century English Romanticism What's Romanticism? 1.1 As an ‘ism’ in literature Romanticism: The embodiment of disillusionment in the consequences of the French revolution. In the great theories of the Enlighteners . The embodiment of the negative attitude towards the life of the post-industrial revolution bourgeoisie.

4. 19 th Century English Romanticism What's Romanticism? The romantics contrasted: The romantic ideal to reality. The lofty flight of spirit to the earthy prosaic life of the bourgeoisie. T heir petty calculation and boredom. T heir limited outlook and utter practicality . => Contradictions between reality and dreams

5. 19 th Century English Romanticism What's Romanticism? 1.2 In terms of literature Romanticism was the embodiment of the revolt against classicism .

6. 19 th Century English Romanticism 2. Essential features of Romanticism There are 4 essential features of this historical romanticism: A deep interest in nature and in obscure, humble or underprivileged people. An enthusiasm in fighting against tyrannical authority and glorifying liberty. A sense of disappointment mixed with a melancholy mood. A revolution in literary language-use.

7. 2. Two generations of the romantics Moderate trend: T he Lake school Radical trend: The C ockney school

8. T he Lake school Why was the Lake? Name of beautiful lake district where W ordsworth and other poets lived. Industry had not invaded the district.

9. Lake poets: Introduced into poetry short forceful words and constructions of every day. Brought sound and color into verse. Appreciated folk and national art. All of them were humanists

10. Great poets: William W ordswoth (1772 – 1850) Samuel T aylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)  Having the similar tastes in art and politics, they found a literary circle.

11. Quotes about Poetry

12. Poems: William Wordsworth : Lyrical Ballads, Daffodils… Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan..

13. Cockney school Including all romantics of the young generation Expressing the ideas and interests  disappointed to see the results of industrial revolution society. Trying to look ahead and see the future. Embodied the dream of social justice

14. Great poets of Cockney school George Gordon Percy Bysshe Shelley

15. Works: Percy Bysshe Shelly : Bridal Song, a dialog, alament.. Lord George Gordon Byron: Don Juan, She walks in Beauty,....

16. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 – 1850) A major English Romatic poet Life Works

17. 1 . LIFE W. Wordsworth was born in Lake District, Northwestern, England on April 7, 1770

18. 1778: attended Hawkshead Grammar School W. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850 1787: studied at St. John’s College in Cambridge

19. 2. WORKS 2.1. Major Themes Two themes: Nature and Man “Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher ” ( Hãy bước ra phía trước đến với ánh sáng của muôn vật, hãy để thiên nhiên làm thầy của bạn . )

20. 2.2. Works W. Wordsworth’s best poetry was written between 1796 and 1808 Some most famous poets: Lyrical Ballads (1798) - The Prelude (1850)

21. Lucy Gray (1799) “Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:    And, when I crossed the wild,  I chanced to see at break of day    The solitary child.    No mate, no comrade Lucy knew;    She dwelt on a wide moor,    --The sweetest thing that ever grew    Beside a human door!    You yet may spy the fawn at play,    The hare upon the green;    But the sweet face of Lucy Gray    Will never more be seen    "To-night will be a stormy night  You to the town must go;    And take a lantern, Child, to light    Your mother through the snow."    "That, Father! will I gladly do:    'Tis scarcely afternoon--    The minster-clock has just struck two,    And yonder is the moon!”    At this the Father raised his hook,    And snapped a faggot-band;    He plied his work;--and Lucy took    The lantern in her hand ...” ( continued )  

22. The   Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud  That floats on high o'er vales and hills,  When all at once I saw a crow  A host, of golden daffodils;  Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  Continuous as the stars that shine  And twinkle on the milky way,  They stretched in never-ending line  Along the margin of a bay:                                    Ten thousand saw I at a glance,  Tossing their heads in sprightly dance...( continued )

23. George Gordon, Lord Bryan

24. 1. Life born in London on January 22th, 1788 Singularly unfortunate in both parents: father was born in a aristocratic family and he thought everything belongs to him that he lived a wild and reckless life. his mother was a woman of passionate extreme whom his father married because of money

25. Life At 13 he went to school at Harrow, at 17, he went to Cambridge and in 1809 he got a MA degree He got married in January 2, 1815 but his married life was unhappy. April 21, 1816, in a legal deed of separation, he left England and never returned In 1823, when Greece was fighting for independence, he threw all his energies into the cause He now was a practical politician and the unrestrained libertines changed to study military disciplinarian He contracted a fever in 1824 and died in battlefield

26. 2. Works His literary career can be divided in to 5 periods: The experimental period (1807-1811) The London period (1812-1816) The Swiss period (1816- 1817) The Italian period (1817- 1823) The Greece period (1824)

27. Freedom Freedom in language Feedom in symbols Freedom in topic

28. Famous works Hours of Idleness (1806) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812 – 1818) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara (1814) Hebrew Melodies (1815) The Siege of Corinth (poem) (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) Darkness (1816) Manfred (1817