Part VII The Romantic Period (1798-1832) Romanticism in England
I. background
1. The French Revolution(1789-1799)
2. The Industrial Revolution
II romanticism
1. definition and characteristics (理解)
2. The period: 1798-1832
Beginning with the publication of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798), ending with Walter Scott’s death(1832)
3. The representative poets
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 威廉·华兹华斯
S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834) S.T.柯勒律治
Robert Southey (1774-1843) 罗伯特·骚塞
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 乔治·戈登·拜伦
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) 珀西·比希·雪莱
John Keats(1795-1821) 约翰·济慈
4. The prose writers
Walter Scott (1771-1832): historical novelist 沃尔特·司各特
steeleJames Austen (1775-1817) : novelist 简·奥斯丁
Charles Lamb (1775-1834): essayist 查尔斯·兰姆
5. Literary forms
The age of Wordsworth – like the age of Shakespeare - was decidedly an age of poetry. There was also a noteworthy development of the novel which was already beginning to establish itself as the favorite literary form of nineteenth century.
The drama was the only literary form that was not adequately represented.
(一) William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
I status
①the leading figure of the English romantic poetry
②He has started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self.
③using the ordinary speech and advocating a return to nature.
II works
1. Subjects:
①Poems about nature
②Poems about human life
2. Works
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798) 《廷腾寺》
The Prelude (1805-1806) 《序曲》
The Excursion (1814) 《远足》
Sonnets
3. selected reading
Tintern Abbey
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 她住在人迹罕见的路边
I Traveled Among Unknown Men 我曾在异乡漫游
I wandered Lonely as a Cloud 我像一朵孤独的浮云
The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女
(二) George Gordon, Lord Byron(1788-1824)
I. Literary Works
① Hours of Idleness 《闲暇时刻》《消闲时光》
② The English Bards and Scott Reviewers
《英国诗人和苏格兰评论家》
③ Child Harold’s Pilgrimage 《恰尔德·哈罗德游记》
Canto I,II(1812)
Canto III (1816)
Canto Iv (1818)
④ Oriental Tales
⑤ Manfred 《曼弗雷德》
a poetical drama(诗剧)
⑥Cain 《该隐》
a poetical drama
⑦ Don Juan 《唐璜》
II Selected Reading
1. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 恰尔德·哈罗德游记
2. Don Juan 唐璜
(The Isles of Greece 哀希腊)
3. When We Two Parted 当我俩分别的时候
4. She Walks in Beauty 她早在美的光影里
5. Sonnet on Chillon 夏兰(瑞士一古堡)的囚徒
III Byronic Hero (理解)
(三) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The works
Two narratives
① Queen Mab 麦布女王 1813
② The Revolt of Islam伊斯兰的反叛 1818
Lyrics
③ Ode to the West Wind 西风颂1819
④ To a Skylark 云雀颂 1820
⑤ The Cloud 云 1820
⑥ Adonais 阿多尼 an elegy for John Keats
Poetic drama
⑦ Prometheus Unbound 解放的普罗米修斯1819
⑧The Cenci 钦契一家
The major prose essay ⑨ A Defence of Poetry诗辩 1822
(四)John Keats (1795-1821)
I works
① a sonnet
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 1817
初读查浦曼译之荷马
② a long narrative poem
Endymion 1818 恩底弥翁
③ a volume of verse
Lamia , Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems 1820
拉米亚、伊莎贝拉、圣安格尼斯节前夜和其它的诗
( four great odes – On Melancholy忧郁颂, On a Grecian Urn希腊古瓮颂, To Psyche精神颂, To a Nightingale夜莺颂, and Hyperion许珀里翁 )
II ode(理解)
(五)Walter Scott (1771-1832)
I. status
Historical novelist and poet popular throughout much of the world during his time
II Scott’s Works
1. Poems
① Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 《苏格兰边区歌谣集》1802 (he had collected among the Scottish people for many years.)
②The Lay of the Last Minstrel《最末一个行吟诗人》
③ Marmion《玛密恩》1808
④ The Lady of the Lake《湖上夫人》1810
2. Historical Novels
subjects:
from the Middle Ages to the 18th century
history of Scotland
English history
history of European countries
Of the Scottish history
①Waverley 《威弗利》1814
②Guy Mannering 《盖伊·曼纳令》1815
③The Antiquary《古董家》1816
④ The Black Dwarf 《黑侏儒》1816
⑤ Old Morality 《修墓老人》1816
⑥ Rob Roy《罗布·罗伊》1817 the best of the group
⑦ The Heart of Midlothian 《密得洛西恩监狱》/《爱丁堡监狱》1818
⑧ The Bride of Lammermoor 《沼地新娘》1819
⑨ A legend of Montrose 《蒙特罗斯传奇》1819
⑩ Red Gauntlet 《雷德冈脱利特》 1824
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