英国文学北科大内部教学课件(2016考研必备)- Burns

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Early Romanticism

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Romanticism MovementIt is a movement of the 18th and 19th c which marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion and politics from the new-classicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period. It arose so gradually and exhibited so many phases that a definition is almost impossible.

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But the aspect most stressed in France is “liberalism in literature,” meaning especially the freeing of the artist and writer from the restraints and rules of the classicist and suggesting the phase of inpidualism marked by the encouragement of revolutionary political ideas.

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Romanticism emphasized inpidual values and aspirations above those of society. As a reaction to the industrial revolution, it looked to the Middle Ages and to direct contact with nature for inspiration.

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Romanticism spread doubts about the rational and empirical approaches to truth and justice. It rejected a mechanistic view of the universe.

It shifted the emphasis from the universal to the inpidual, from the social to the personal, from the conformists to the creative and the adventurous in all spheres of human endeavors.

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In their search for new intellectual drive, Romanists turned to the subjective, the spontaneous and even the supernatural.

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The great poets: Burns, Blake,Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats.

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Blake, 1757-1827 Burns, 1759-1796 Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Coleridge, 1772-1834 Byron, 1788-1824 Shelley, 1792-1822 Keats, 1795-1821

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Born in a clay cottage in Scotland. His father was a poor, honest Scottish peasant, who toiled from dawn till dark to wrest a living for his family from the stubborn Highland soil. At 13, Robert, the eldest, was doing a peasant s full day labor; at 16, he was chief laborer in his family.

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Burns received little formal schooling. He had an intimate knowledge of Scottish folk songs and the works of Scottish poets. He read a little every day at his meals and wrote a little on Sunday. In this way, he wrote his poems, which were circulated in manuscripts among the peasants.

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At 27, he resolved to go abroad in search of a living.

In July of that year, his Pomes Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was printed.

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on the night before the ship sailed he wrote his “Farewell to Scotland”: Farewell, my friends! Farewell, my foes! My peace with these(foes), my love with those (friends) : The bursting tears my heart declare --Farewell the bonnie (lovely) banks of Ayr!

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Burns s collection of poems was a great success. In fact, it took all Scotland by storm.

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At 29, he married his sweetheart Jean Armour, about whom he wrote: I see her in dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair; I hear her in the tuneful birds, There’s not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, wood, or green; There’s not a bonnie bird that sings But reminds me o’ my Jean.

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Burns has become something of national symbol for Scotsmen all over the world, who celebrate

“Burns night” in January and can usually quote a great deal of his poetry.