【5A版】英国文学简史.ppt

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1、EnglishLiteratureChapters7—8KeyPointsinChapter7MovementtowardRomanticismJamesThomsonEdwardYoungGeorgeCrabbeWilliamCowperWilliamBlakeIntroductionWorksRobertBurnsIntroductionWorksMovementtowardRomanticismExtremestendtoprovokeareaction.WithPopeandthenSamuelJohnsonatthehelm,the18thcentur

2、yragedforwardwiththeheroiccoupletandalmostoutlawedotherforms.However,fromtheveryoutset,somedissentingvoicesexistedandtriedtomakethemselvesheard.Therewasalsotheslybutsteadyassertionofemotionintheageofreason.WithRobertBurnsandWilliamBlakecomingfortheventuallyonthescene,thestagewerewell

3、setforanewgenerationofpoets,theRomantics.JamesThomson(1700-1748)HeisrememberednowmostlyforhisTheSeasons.TheCastleofIndolencewithitsmedievalallegoricalkindofstory,isreadoccasionallyaswell.TheSeasonsisalongpoemofover5,500lines,composedinblankverseinsteadofthetyrannicalheroiccouplet.Ed

4、wardYoung(1683-1765)Heisnowknownsolelyforhislongpoemofsometenthousandlines,Complaint,orNightThoughtsonLife,Death,andImmortality,popularlyknownasNightThoughts.TheworkhelpedtomovepoetryforwardtowardtheageofRomanticism:foronething,itwaswritteninblankverse,notinthefashionableheroiccoupl

5、et;thenthepoemisanadequateexpressionofemotions.NightThoughtsisnotedforitspsychologicalprobingsanditsmixingofpersonalsentimentswithreligiousdeliberations.WilliamCowper(1731-1800)Hispersonallifewasturbulentanddepressing.Hewashigh-strungandsuicidal.Hisblankverseprovedtobethebestofhisti

6、me.HismajorworksincludetheOnleyHymnsandTheTask,forwhichheisknownandreadtoday.WilliamBlake(1757-1827)IntroductionBlakewasanimportantlandmarkinbetweentwoliteraryperiods,pointingdirectlytothatofRomanticism.Thereweretwofactorsinhislifethathelpedtoorienthisthematicthrust.Onewashisnatives

7、ensitivitythatenabledhimtoseevisionsanddevelopakindofmysticism.Theotherwashiscontactwithsomeradicalpeople.Thetwomajorthematicstrandsthatmakeupthebasicfabricofhispoetryincludehisconcernwithsocialeventsandhismysticism.BlakewasbasicallyavisionaryWilliamBlake(1757-1827)WorksSongsofInnoc

8、ence“InfantJ