VY32INOVACE14 16 BRITISH LITERATURE IV Romanticism Romantic period
VY_32_INOVACE_14 -16 BRITISH LITERATURE IV Romanticism
Romantic period 1760 - 1837 § interest of Eng. and Scott. ballads § against the new bourgeoisie order of society § exaggerating, return to nature, idealistic philosophy, supernaturalism, glorification of heroes, emotions, dreams, fantasy
Gothic novels § exaggerating tales of horror, hero, middle-age setting – castles, mysteries § MARY GODWIN SHELLEY ‘Frankenstein’ - technical advances vs. human being, no castle, modern work
Historical novels § Sir WALTER SCOTT (1771 -1832) § a founder of historical novels ‘ Ivanhoe’ ‘ Rob Roy’ ‘ Waverly’
Poetry § ROBERT BURNS (1759 -96) ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – in music /Scottish/ § WILLIAM BLAKE (1757 -1827) ‘Songs of Innocence’
Poets` groups • Lake Poets lived in Lake District • William Wordworth (1770 -1850) ‘Lyrical Ballads’ excell. sonet writer • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) - contributed to Lyrical Ballads by: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ Shelley Group • • • poets of Napoleonic Wars fought for freedom, modern Europe politically and religiously active • rebels against convention • George Gordon Byron (1788 -1824) ‘Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage’ • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822) ‘Prométheus Unbound’ • John Keats
P. B. Shelley Autor: Amelia Curran, Název: Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819. jpg Zdroj: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Portrait_of_Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Curran, _1819. jpg
Female authors § JANE AUSTEN (1775 – 1818) widely read from romanticism to realism ‘Pride and Prejudice’ ‘Sense and Sensibility’ q filmed
Jane Austen Autor: Based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra, Název: Jane Austen. jpg Zdroj: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Jane_Austen. jpg
Thank you for your attention. Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová
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