BRITISH LITERATURE IV

Romanticism

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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 (1772-1834)

- 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

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Female authors

JANE AUSTEN (1775 – 1818)

widely read from romanticism to realism

‘Pride and Prejudice’ ‘Sense and Sensibility’

filmed

Jane Austen

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Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová