《英国文学》课程PPT教学课件（English Literature）Part VI 7 William Blake

Pre-romanticism 。前浪漫主义 Time:1744-1798 Also named: post-Augustan,后奥古斯都时代 6 Age of Sensibility,理性时代

Pre-romanticism ❖ 前浪漫主义 ❖ Time: 1744-1798 ❖ Also named: post-Augustan, 后奥古斯都时代 Age of Sensibility, 理性时代

Before Wordsworth and Coleridge set the world on fire with the publication of Lyrical Ballads,poets such as Gray,Burns,and Blake were paving the way for Romanticism with their hybrid neo-classical styles, too emotional and personal for the Enlightenment but not quite enough for Romanticism

❖ Before Wordsworth and Coleridge set the world on fire with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, poets such as Gray, Burns, and Blake were paving the way for Romanticism with their hybrid neo-classical styles, too emotional and personal for the Enlightenment but not quite enough for Romanticism

definition a general term applied to a number of developments in late 18th-century culture that are thought to have prepared the ground for Romanticism in its full sense

definition ❖ a general term applied to a number of developments in late 18th-century culture that are thought to have prepared the ground for Romanticism in its full sense

In various ways,these are all departures from the orderly framework of neoclassicism and its authorized genres

❖ In various ways, these are all departures from the orderly framework of neoclassicism and its authorized genres

It was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism by a renewed interest in medieval literature The representative poets:William Blake and Robert Burns ROBERT BURNS 25OTH ANNIVERSAR AMan's aMan》 for a' that

❖ It was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism by a renewed interest in medieval literature ❖ The representative poets: William Blake and Robert Burns

4.the taste for the sublime and the picturesque in landscape 5.the sensationalism of the early Gothic novels 6.the melancholy of English graveyard poetry 7.the revival of interest in old ballads and romances

❖ 4. the taste for the sublime and the picturesque in landscape ❖ 5. the sensationalism of the early Gothic novels ❖ 6. the melancholy of English graveyard poetry ❖ 7. the revival of interest in old ballads and romances

These developments seem to have helped to give a new importance to subjective spontaneous individual feeling

❖ These developments seem to have helped to give a new importance to subjective spontaneous individual feeling

Poetry from Pope's death in 1744 to the early publications of the first generation of Romantic poets in the 1790s has occasionally been defined as "post-Augustan",according to its immediate past more often“pre-Romantic”,according to the future

❖ Poetry from Pope’s death in 1744 to the early publications of the first generation of Romantic poets in the 1790s has occasionally been defined as  “post-Augustan”, according to its immediate past more often “pre-Romantic”, according to the future

Northrop Frye suggested in 1956 that this period be called an "Age of Sensibility rather than define it transitionally "as a period of <reaction against Pope anticipation of Wordsworth

❖ Northrop Frye suggested in 1956 that this period be called an “Age of Sensibility” rather than define it transitionally “as a period of reaction against Pope anticipation of Wordsworth

Thomas Percy The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 6《英语古诗辑录》，1765 sa collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. ~initiated a general interest in earlier literary forms <exercised a great influence on the romantic poets in Germany as well as England

❖ The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 《英语古诗辑录》, 1765 a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. initiated a general interest in earlier literary forms exercised a great influence on the romantic poets in Germany as well as England Thomas Percy