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1、Literature ReviewRomantic literature in the 18th century, in the first half of the 19th century to achieve the boom, modern Western literature is one of the most important thoughts. In the longitudinal direction, Romantic literature is the concept of Renaissance humanism inherit and carry forward, b
2、ut also the rigid French neoclassical strong backwash; in the transverse direction, and the subsequent emergence of the Romantic literary realism together constitute the modern Western two systems literature, creating a tremendously popular 19th-century Western literature prosperity of the later mod
3、ernist and post-modernist literature had a profound impact. Britain is one of the earliest Romantic Literature. British Romantic writers dissatisfied with the development of capitalist urban civilization, with cynical, Hermitage natural tendencies. In the late 18th century poet Robert Burns (1759-17
4、96) and William Blake (1757-1827) is a pioneer in Romanticism, they made the style and language of English poetry a lot of valuable attempt. Burns draw nourishment from the Scottish folk songs, the Scottish dialect poems good lyricism and irony, language popular; Blakes Songs of Innocence, Songs of
5、Experience is a symbolic meaning and mystery, in the 20th century shine affecting the whole of modern English poetry.However, the first true English Romantic master is called Lake Poets, the three poets. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was the highest achievements Lake Poets, he and the Lake Poets An
6、other poet Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) jointly published Lyrical Songbook as the Foundation of the British Romantic literature. Most of the poetry anthology included as Wordsworth did, and Coleridges famous poem Ode to the Ancient Mariner and Kublai Han also income which is full of illusion and Fan
7、tastic imagery. George Byron (1788-1824) and Shelley (1792-1822) two poets British Romantic literature to new heights. Differences between them and the Lake Poets in that it works more awareness and political tendencies fighting. Shelleys masterpiece Prometheus Unbound by myth describing the inevita
8、ble fate of oppressed people suffering and tyrants, predicted the revolution will come. His short poem Ode to the West, Skylark and Deafening, more If winter comes, can spring be far behind? And other famous masterpieces. Byron is half of the 19th centurys most famous romantic poet, his life traveli
9、ng the world, his poems full of exotic. Masterpiece Don Juan is the capitalist system a thorough review of bone marrow, thought-provoking. In Europe, Byron became a cultural phenomenon. People put lonely, tragic, individualistic style revolt romantic image called Byronic hero. American Romanticism i
10、nfluenced by Western European Romanticism. Half of the 19th century, the rapid development of American capitalism, national consciousness and patriotic enthusiasm, to get rid of the shackles of British literature, attention to the human spirit to create and Transcendentalism pursuit of freedom splen
11、did sight, bringing American Romanticism began to flourish. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and Thoreau (1817-1862) was a transcendent theorists, first proposed the idea of romanticism. They emphasized the role of the human spirit and intuitive sense that nature is full of spirituality, people shoul
12、d return to nature. Thoreaus Walden is the Foundation of the American Romantic Literature. US pre-Romantic writers of representatives including Washington Irving (1783-1859), James Cooper (1789-1851) and Edgar Allan Poe. Owen is known as the father of American literature, in his novel, American Lite
13、rature concept first surfaced, no longer bound by the English literature. Cooper was one of the founders of the United States national literature, he created a Leather stocking Tales as the representative of the frontier legendary novel, and the most important one is the last of the Mohicans. Poe ad
14、vocate art to make the reader get stimulated to reach the soul of sublimation, most of his novels to death, murder, revenge as a theme, revealing the illusion of status and abnormal psychology of people, and he and the French poet Baudelaire collectively revered as a symbol of literary pioneer. US l
15、ate Romanticism to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), the Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Herman Melville (1819 -1891) for on behalf of. Hawthorne in the works on the hidden evil excavation, The Scarlet Letter reflects the darkness of colonial rule and the Puritan church hypocrisy and injustice, skillful
16、 use of symbolism. Whitmans experience of a lifetime consumption of codification, the expansion of poems Leaves of Grass, sing the national consciousness of the United States, becoming the originator of modern American literature. Melville is the highest achievements of American romantic novelist who is good at describing seafaring adventure and exotic, representative of Moby Dick is one of the most distinguished American literary history no
