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1、TheRomanticPeriodBackgroundIndustrialRevolutionandFrenchRevolutionhadastronginfluenceinBritainliterature.Fightingfor“Liberty,EqualityandFraternity”alsobecomesBritishnationalspirit.AgeofWordsworthMarkRomanticismprevailedduringtheperiodof1798-1832,beginningwiththepublicationofWordsworth’
2、sLyricalBallads,endingwithWalterScott’sdeath.SpiritThegreatliteraryimpulseoftheageistheimpulseofIndividualisminawonderfulvariedofforms.WhyItsgreatmenofgeniusweremostlyeminentinthepoeticalfield,distinctionwasmoreeasilyachievedinpoetrythaninprose,andthegeneraltastewasdecidedlysetinthepoe
3、ticdirection.PhenomenonForpoetryisthehighestformofliteraryexpression,andpoetryseemstohavebeenmostinharmonywiththenoblestpowersoftheEnglishgenius.Theyoungenthusiaststurnedasnaturallytopoetryasahappymantosinging.LiteraturePoetryScott,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelly,Keats,Moore,andSouth
4、eyThegloryoftheageisinthepoetryProseScottattainedaverywidereadingNovelJaneAustenslowlywonfortheirauthorsasecureplaceinthehistoryofEnglishliteratureEssayCharlesLambDramaTheonlygreatliteraryformthatwasnotadequatelyrepresentedDuringthenineteenthcentury,thedramaseemstohavebeenpracticallysu
5、persededbythenovelasamediumfortheportrayalofitscomplexformsoflifeandcharacter.LakePoets:Wordsworth,ColeridgeandSouthey.WilliamWordsworthStructureThemajorityofpoemsinthecollectionLyricalBalladswerewrittenbyWordsworth.Coleridge’schiefcontributionwashismasterpieceTheRimeoftheAncientMarine
6、r.ThemeManyofWordsworth‘spoemsintheLyricalBalladsweredevotedtothepositionoflandlessandhomelesspeasantsSincerelysympathizingwiththepoor,heatthesametimeseverelycriticizedcapitalism.LanguageInhispoemsWordsworthaimedatsimplicityandpurityofthelanguage,fightingagainsttheconventionalformsofth
7、e18소centurypoetry.Thepoetwasapassionateloverofnatureandhisdescriptionoflakesandriver,ofameadowsandwoods,ofskiesandcloudsareexquisite.GreatpoemsLinesComposedaFewMilesAboveTinternAbbey,ThePrelude,TheExcursionWilliamWordsworth(1770-1850)FriendshipwithColeridgevThoughdifferent,theypublis
