Lecture the theme: the romantic age in english literature (1780-1830). Representatives of romanticism

LECTURE 8.

THE THEME: THE ROMANTIC AGE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (1780-1830). REPRESENTATIVES OF ROMANTICISM.

PLAN:

1. Pre-Romantic literature.

2. Robert Burn’s poetry.
3.”The sick Rose” by William Blake.
4. Romanticism in England.
5. Other representatives of the Romantic age.


KEY – WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS :

1. 
   inevitability of progress
   
2. 
   perfectibility
   
3. 
   efficacy
   
4. 
   beneficence
   
5. 
   plentitude
   
6. 
   perfection
   
7. 
   Age of Classicism
   
8. 
   Age of Elegance
   
9. 
   Augustan Age
   
10. 
    Age of Reason
    
11. 
    sentimentalism.
    

Асосий адабиётлар

1. John Peck, Martin Coyle. A brief history of English literature. Palgrave, 2002.

2. Thornley G.C. An outline of English literature. Longman, 2003.
3. Бақоева М, Муратова Э, Очилова М., English literature. Т. : 2006


Қўшимча адабиётлар

1. Liliana Sikorska. An outline history of English literature. 2003, 529p

2. Oxford companion to English literature. Margaret Drabble. Oxford University press. 2000.
3. Г.В.Аникин, Н.П. Михальская История Английской литературы М.1985 й.
4. Ф. Бойназаров Жаҳон адабиёти Т. 2006 й.
5. Ш. Норматова. Жаҳон адабиёти Т. 2008 й.


Pre-Romantic Literature
Johnson and his circle were the last great literary figures of the 1700s to follow the classical rules of writing. English writers of the late 1700s and early 1800s substituted passion for Augustan harmony and moderation. They preferred mysteriousness, believed in the creative power of the imagination and adopted a personal view of the world. These writers are called romantics.
Besides, in the age of Romanticism in English literature there was a group of poets who represented a bridge between classicism and romanticism. They are called pre-romantics. The leading pre-romantic poet is William Blake. The poetry of Robert Burns, Thomas Gray and William Cowper also bear the features of pre-romanticism. In many of their works the pre-romanticists showed their awareness of social problems and the love of nature that became typical of English romanticism.
For example, Thomas Gray described the unfulfilled lives of common people in his famous “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751). It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom must return an echo. William Cowper wrote of the beauties of nature and his dislike of cities in “The Task” (1785) where he moved freely amid rural scenes and described them in a manner not very heavy and pretentious. But the most outstanding pre-romanticists in English literature were Robert Burns and William Blake.