英语文学（广东外语外贸大学）Week 11.pptxVIP

I Wandered Lonely as a CloudWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth1770-1850British Lake poetEnglish Romantic movement (Lyrical Ballads 1798)Poet LaureatePoetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”William Wordsworth and Lake PoetsThe?Lake Poets?were a group of English?poets?who all lived in the?Lake District?of?England, United Kingdom, at the turn of the 19th century. As a group, they followed no single school of thought or literary practice then known. They are considered part of the Romantic?Movement.( Dove Cottage- home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 1799-1808) William Wordsworth and Lake PoetsRydal Mount - home to Wordsworth 1813-1850The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey. William Wordsworth and RomanticismRomanticism?started in late 18th century Western Europe, but existed largely within the nineteenth. Wordsworths and Coleridges 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads is considered by some as the first important publication in the movement. William Wordsworth and RomanticismRomanticism stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom within or even from classical notions of form in art, and the rejection of established social conventions. It stressed the importance of nature in language and celebrated the achievements of those perceived as heroic individuals and artists. William Wordsworth and RomanticismRomantic poets include?William Blake(布莱克),? William Wordsworth,?Samuel Taylor Coleridge,?Lord Byron(拜伦),?Percy Bysshe Shelley(雪莱), and?John Keats(济慈)?(those previous six sometimes referred to as the Big Six, or the Big Five without Blake); other Romantic poets include?James Macpherson,?Robert Southey, and?Emily Bront?.I Wandered Lonely as a CloudListening