English Literature in the Beginning of the 19th Century

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English Literature in the Beginning of the 19th Century

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2. The period of Romanticism covers approximately 30 years, beginning from the last decade of the 18th
3. The reactionary ruling class of England was against any progressive thought influenced by the French Revolution.
5. The Industrial Revolution in England, as well as the French Bourgeois Revolution, had a great influence
7. George Gordon Byron
8. Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. Others, though they had welcomed the French Revolution and the slogan of liberty, fraternity and equality,
10. William Wordsworth
11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. Robert Southey
13. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
14. William Wordsworth was the greatest representative of the Lake School Poets. He was born in a
15. the Lake District
16. William Wordsworth`s mother
17. Hawkshead Grammar School
18. Lake Windermere
19. His father died leaving him an orphan at the age of thirteen. His two uncles sent
20. In about 1795 William Wordsworth met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who became one of his
22. William Wordsworth wrote sonnets and ballads. The most characteristic themes of Wordsworth's poetry were the defense
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The period of Romanticism covers approximately 30 years, beginning from the

last decade of the 18th century and continuing up to the 1830s. Romanticism as a literary current can be regarded as a result of two 'great historical events: 1) the Industrial Revolution in England and 2) the French Bourgeois Revolution of 1789. The Industrial Revolution began with the invention of a weavring-machine which could do the work of 17 people. The weavers that were left without work thought that the machines were to blame for their misery. They began to destroy these machines, or frames as they were called. The frame-breaking movement was called the Luddite movement, because the name of the first man to break a frame was Ned Ludd.

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The reactionary ruling class of England was against any progressive thought

influenced by the French Revolution. The last decade of the 18th century became known as the "white terror". Progressive-minded people were persecuted and forced into exile.

the French Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution in England, as well as the French Bourgeois

Revolution, had a great influence on the cultural life of the country. Romanticists were dissatisfied with the present state of things in their country. Some of the writers were revolutionary: they denied the existing order, called upon the people to struggle ,for a better future, shared the people's desire for liberty and objected to colonial oppression. They supported the national liberation wars on the continent against feudal reaction. Such writers were George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley

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George Gordon Byron

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Others, though they had welcomed the French Revolution and the slogan

of liberty, fraternity and equality, later abandoned revolutionary ideas. They turned their attention to nature and to the simple problems of life. They turned to the ideas of the feudal past by way of protest of capitalist reality. Among these writers were the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, who formed the "Lake School", called so because they all lived for a time in the beautiful Lake District in the north-west of England. They dedicated much what they wrote to Nature. Legends, tales, songs and ballads became part of the creative method of the romanticists. The romanticists were talented poets and their contribution to English literature was very important.

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William Wordsworth

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Robert Southey

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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William Wordsworth was the greatest representative of the Lake School Poets.

He was born in a lawyer's family and grew up in the Lake District, a place of mountains and lakes. Soon after mother's death in 1788 he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School, situated in a lovely village near Lake Windermere . The boy was allowed plenty of leisure: to go boating and fishing on the lake and studying wild life in the woods. There William came to know and love the world of nature.

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the Lake District

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William Wordsworth`s mother

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Hawkshead Grammar School

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Lake Windermere

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His father died leaving him an orphan at the age of

thirteen. His two uncles sent him to Cambridge University. During his college days William took a walking tour in France, Switzerland and Italy. After graduating he toured Wales and France and became deeply involved in the cause of the French Revolution in which he saw a great movement for human freedom. Later he was greatly disappointed at the outcome of the Revolution. He thought that it had brought only cruelty and bloodshed. William withdrew into the quiet of the country.

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In about 1795 William Wordsworth met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

who became one of his closest friends. In 1797 the two poets published their best work Lyrical Ballads .

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William Wordsworth wrote sonnets and ballads. The most characteristic themes of

Wordsworth's poetry were the defense of the common country people, their feelings and beliefs, the beauty of nature. Every object in nature was in his eyes a source of poetry. His fame grew worldwide. When he died he was buried in the little church at Grasmere in the Lake District.

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