Proskurina Elena ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19 CENTURY. ROMANTICISM
ROMANTICISM
The period of romanticism comes approximately 30 years.
Romanticism is a literature current that can be regarded as a result of two historical events: The industrial revolution The French Revolution of 1789
Romanticists were dissatisfied with the present state of things.
Romanticists supposed the national liberation wars on the continent against feudal reaction
SUCH WRITERS WERE George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelly 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822
Others welcomed the French Revolution and the slogan of liberty: Fraternity and equality
They turned their attention to nature and to simple problems of life.
They turned the ideas of the traditional parts by the wave of protest against capitalist reality.
AMONG THIS WRITERS WERE William Wordsworth 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850
Samuel Tailor Coleridge 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834
Robert Southey 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843
Who formed the Lake School, call so, because they all lived in the beautiful lake district in the North of England
They wrote about Nature, legends, tales, songs and ballads
The ruling class of England was against any thought influenced by the French revolution
The last decade of the 18 century became known as the White Terror
1770 -1850 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland
After the death of his mother, in 1778, Wordsworth's father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire
The boy was allowed plenty of leisure: To go boating Fishing Studying wild life in the woods
His father died leaving him orphan at the age of 13
During his collage days William walking tour in France, Switzerland Italy
William Wordsworth wrote sonnets and ballads. The most characteristic themes of his poetry were the defense of a coming country people, they are feeling and believes the beauty of nature.
When he was died he was buried in the little church at Grasmere in the lake district
His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death
MAJOR WORKS Lyrical Ballads "Simon Lee" "We are Seven" "Lines Written in Early Spring" "Expostulation and Reply" "The Tables Turned" "The Thorn"
Lyrical Ballads Preface to the Lyrical Ballads "Strange fits of passion have I known" "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" "Three years she grew" "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
Poems "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Also known as "Daffodils" "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Ode to Duty" "The Solitary Reaper" "Elegiac Stanzas" "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" "London, 1802" "The World Is Too Much with Us"
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