文档介绍：Literary Terms (7)
setting: the time and place in which the action of a story, poem, or play occurs.
suspense: the psychological tension or anxiety resulting from the reader's or audience's uncertainty of just how a situation or conflict is likely to end.
symbol: literally, something that stands for something else. in literature, any word, objection, action, or character that embodies and evokes a range of additional meaning and significance.
English Romanticism(1798-1830s)
introduction of Romanticism
Poets of the Age of Romanticism
Novelists of the Age
key facts of English Romanticism
the beginning:
1798, the publication of The Lyrical Ballads,
written by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Essence of The Preface of The Lyrical Ballads: all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feeling.
the end:
1832, 4 most important poets were dead.
the meaning: English Romanticism is a revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason. The romanticists express a negative attitude towards the existing social or political conditions. They place the individual at the center of art.
The key words: nature and imagination.
Characteristics of romantic writers and their works:
Imagination
Worship of nature
Symbolism and myth
Simplicity and humanity
Spontaneity
Characteristics of romantic poets and their works:
An increasing interest in nature and scenery.
More attention to the spiritual and emotional life to man
Loose poetic form
Informal, free language of mon people
Poets of the Age of Romanticism
Pre-Romanticism:Robert Burns, William Blake
The First generation of Romantics (The Lakes): Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
The younger generation of Romantics: Byron, Shelley, Keats
Novelists of the Age
Walter Scott
his chief contribution to literature is the historical novels, which are based on English history cover different historical periods, from the medieval days of feudalism, through the years of Tudor rule, to the Bourgeois Revolution and t