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1、.GiveabriefaccountofBritishliteratureintheromanticperiod,theVictorianageandthetwentiethcentury.(30)TheromanticperiodBritainisoneoftheearliestcountriesthatemergesromanticliterature.TheBritishromanticliteraturerepresentsthehighestachievementoftheEuroperomanticliteratureintheearly19th.Th

2、einternalthoughtoftheBritishromanticliteratureiscomplicated.ThereweresupernaturalismofColeridge,legitimismofWordsworth,SpiritualismofShelley,andliberalismofByronandsoon.TheFrenchRevolutionbroughthumanhopeandalsobroughtashocktoBritainsociety.Inthisbackground,theBritishromanticliteratur

3、erose.Itproducedinthelate18thandbecameprosperousinthe19th.ThepioneersoftheromanticliteraturewereRobertBurnsandWilliamBlake.TherepresentativeworksofthemwerePoems,chieflyinScottishdialectandSongsofInnocence.Thereweretwoopposingschoolsintheformationoftheromanticismthoughts----activeroman

4、ticismandpassiveromanticism.Activeromanticismistheprogressivetrend.Itdarestofacethereality,criticizethesocialdarknessanditleadspeopletolookahead.Passiveromanticismisthereactionarytrend.Itrisesagainstthestatusquo;yearnforthepasandleadspeoplelookback.WilliamWordsworth,SamuelTaylorColeri

5、dgeandRobertSoutheyarecalled“theLakePoet”.Theyaretherepresentativepersonageofthepassiveromanticism.TheyholdthecontradictoryattitudetowardstheFrenchRevolutionanddetestindustrialcivilizationandurbancivilizationofcapitalism.Theysingthepraisesoftherurallifeandnatureofpatriarchalclansystem

6、.TheirrepresentativeworksareTinternAbbey,KublaKhanandsoon.Byron,ShelleyandKeatsaretherepresentativepersonageofactiveromanticism.ThedifferencefromtheLakePoetisitsworkshavecombatconsciousnessandpoliticalbias.TheirrepresentativeworksareSheWalksinBeauty,OdetotheWestWind,OdetoaNightingalea

7、ndandsoon.Thenoveloftheromanticperiodmainlyhastwotypes:gothicnovelandhistoricalnovel.WolfScottistherepresentativepersonageofthegothicnovel.Hedevotestogatheringandsortingouthistoricallegendsandfolksongsandwrotemanyhistoricalnovels.HisrepresentativeworkisIvanhoe.JaneAustinisanotherexcel

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