文档介绍：English LiteratureLecture 7: Romanticism in England (1)The Historical Background?The Industrial Revolution in England?The French Revolution?The Revolution of Independence in North AmericaRomanticism in England?Romanticism is a literary trend prevailing in England during the period from 1798 to 1832. Coming along with the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, the English Romanticism, compared with the neoclassicism which emphasized what men have mon, focuses mainly on the special qualities of individual’s mind. So its features run in contrary with the neoclassicism:? Firstly, the Romanticists tended to probe into the inner world of the human spirit rather than narrate daily happenings of the human world;?Secondly, the Romanticists liked to employ rural scenery, legendary and mythological resources and stories of ancient times to create their artistic reality, and favored figures from the country and Orientals which they took to be part of the innocent and pure Nature they seeked for;? Thirdly, the Romantic Age was one of poetry, producing a number of great poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and Keats. Thus, imagination was emphasized as the greatest resource of literary creation, and freedom from all rules became the rule of poetical writing.?Finally, the focus of the everyday life of human beings in the Age brought about the flourishing of familiar essays, . those written by Charles Lamb, and the fiction about family life such as in the novels written by Jane Austen; and its romantic longings led to the popularity of Gothic fiction with violence, horror and the supernatural, and the historical novels of Sir Walter Wordsworth (1775-1850)华兹华斯?William Wordsworth is an celebrated Romantic poet in England and the best-known of the ‘Lake Poets’. He was made poet laureate in 1843.?Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集?Lucy Poems 露西组诗?Ode on Intimations of Immortality不朽颂?Ode on Duty 道义颂?The Prelude 序曲?William Wordsworth’s theory, as st