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1 Romanticism P210 At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries romanticism appeared in England as a new trend in literature It rose and grew under the impetus of the Industrial Revolution and French revolution Romanticism emphasized individual values and aspirations and pay attention ti the spiritual and emotional life of man Romantic prose of the time was represented by Lamb Hazlitt De Quincey and Hunt Lake Poets they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England The three traversed the same path in politics and in poetry beginning as radicals and closing as conservatives 注 Wordsworth Coleridge Southey 是逃避现实的浪漫主义诗人 Byron Shelley Keats 是激进的浪漫主义诗人 Lamb Hazlitt Leigh Hunt De Quincey 是写散文的 Scott 是写小说的 Wordsworth P212 Lyrical Ballads most Lines Written in Early Spring To the Cuckoo I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud My Heart Leaps Up Intimations of Immortality Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Coleridge P217 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1798 Kubla Khan 1797 Christabel 1797 1800 Southey P221 Joan of Arc 1793 Wat Tyler 1794 The Fall of Robespierre 1794 with Coleridge The Inchcape Rock The Battle of Blenheim My Days among the Dead Are Passed The life of Nelson 1813 Thalaba the Destroyer 1801 Madoc 1805 The Curse of Kehama 1810 Roderick the Last of the Goths 1814 Byron P222 Song for the Luddites 1816 Childe Harold s Pilgrimage 1809 Giaour 1813 The Bride of Abydos 1813 The Corsair 1814 Lara 1813 Parisina 1816 The Siege of Corinth 1816 Don Juan 1818 1823 Shelley P232 Queen Mab 1813 The Revolt of Islam 1818 Prometheus Unbound 1820 Ode to the West Wind Best love lyric Love s Philosophy One Word Is Too Often Profaned With a Guitar to Jane and The Indian Serenade A Defence of Poetry Keats P244 Endymion Isabella The Eve of St Agnes Lamia Hyperion Lamb P253 Old Familiar Faces On an Infant Dying as soon as Born Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare 1808 Tales from Shakespeare The Essays of Elia Hazlitt P258 The Characters of Shakespeare s Plays 1817 Lectures on the English Poets 1818 Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Queen Elizabeth 1820 Lectures on the English Comic Writers 1819 The Spirit of the Age 1825 Table Talk The Plain Speaker Sketches and Essays Winterslow My First Acquaintance with poets Ongoing a Journey The Feeling of Immortality in Youth On Reading Old Books On Reading New Books Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen On Taste On Familiar Style The Sick Chamber The Fight Leigh Hunt P262 The Examiner The Story of Rimini 1816 About Ben Adhem Jenny Kissed Me The Liberal Imagination and Fancy 1844 Wit and Humour 1846 A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla 1848 The Old Court Suburb 1855 De Quincey P263 The Confession of an English Opium Eater Autobiographical Sketches Literary Reminiscence Suspiria de Profundis The English Mail Coach On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth Scott P265 features of Scott s historical Novels P269 The Lay of the Last Minstrel The Lady of the Lake 1810 Marmion 1808 Rob Roy 1817 Waverley 1814 Guy Mannering 1815 Old Morality 1816 The Heart of Midlothian 1818 Ivanhoe 1820 Kenilworth 1821 2 English Critical Realism P276 English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens The English critical realists of the 19th century not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes but also showed profound sympathy for the common people Dickens P280 The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Martin chuzzlewit The Chimes Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Thackeray P305 Vanity Fair Jane Austen P309 Northanger Abbey Sence and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion The Bronte Sisters Charlotte Emily Anne P310 Jane Eyre Charlotte Wuthering Heights Emily Mrs Gaskell P314 Mary Barton Tale of Manchester North and South Cranford Ruth Household All the Year Round George Eliot P316 Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner 3 Victorian Age P321 the reign of Queen Victoria covered the period 1837 1901 Thomas Carlyle P323 Sartor Resartus The French Revolution Heroes and Hero Worship Past and Present Ruskin P327 Art Criticism Modern Painters The Seven Lamps of Architecture 1849 The Stones of Venice Social Criticism Unto This Last Munera Pulveris Sesame and Lilies Arnold P331 Essays in Criticism Essays in Criticism Second Series Culture and Anarchy Literature and dogma Macaulay P334 Essay on Milton The History of England Tennyson P336 In Memoriam The Idylls of the King Browning P341 Pippa Passes The pied Piper of Hamelin Elizabeth Barrett Mrs BrowningP342 The battle of Marathon The Cry of the Children D G Rossetti P348 The Blessed Damozel Christina Georgina Rossetti P351 The Germ Goblin Market and Other Poems Fitzgerald s Rubaiyat P353 Rubaiyat Algernon Charles Swinburne P355 Queen Mother Rosamond Two Plays 1861 William Morris P356 A Dream of John Ball News from Nowhere 4 Naturalism P364 Naturalism is a literary trend prevailing in Europe especially in France and Germany in the second half of the 19th century Literature must be true to life and exactly reproduce real life including all its details without any selection George Gissing is one of the the English novelists who wrote under the influence of naturalism George Gissing P364 New Grub Street 5 Neo Romanticism Another literary trend prevailing at the end of the 19th century was neo romanticism laid emphasis upon the invention of exciting adventures and fascinating stories to entertain the reading public Robert Louis Stevenson P366 Treasure Island Kidnapped The Black Arrow The Master of Ballantrae Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 6 Aestheticism P367 Aestheticism began to prevail in Europe at the middle of the 19th century The theory of art for art s sake was first put forward by the French poet Theophile Gautier 1811 1872 The two most important representatives of aestheticists in English literature are Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde P368 The Happy Prince and Other Tales A House of Pomegranates Lord Arthur Savile s Crime and Other Stories The Picture of Dorian gray Lady Windermere s Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Soul of Man under Socialism 7 Imagism Imagism was an Anglo American poetic movement flourishing in the 1910s To use the language of common speech To create new rhythms To present an image To produce poetry that is hard and clear The two most important English poets of the first half of 20th century are W B Yeats and T S Eliot W B Yeats P397 The Wind Among the Reeds The Countess Cathleen T S Eliot P399 The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock The West Land Burnt Norton East Coker The Dry Salvages Little Gidding 8 Modernism P402 Modernism in English literature prevailed during the 20s and 30s if the 20th century Modernist fiction put emphasis on the description of the characters psycholog