Simon Lee the Old Huntsman is a poem which occurs in Lyrical Ballads and was written in 1798‚ belonging‚ thus‚ temporally to the Romantic period (1780-1830). Romantic writing is commonly identified with some key elements‚ which concern imagination‚ nature‚ symbolism and myth (although there have been writers of this period who were not as ‘mainstream’). William Wordsworth has been characterised as a canonical author of Romantic Poetry in that his work is highly attached to the notion of Nature and
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Language Studies 15.4 (1985): 225-231. JSTOR. Web. 4 Oct. 2012. Wordsworth‚ William. “Lines Written in Early Spring.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Julia Reidhead. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 280. Print. ---. “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads‚ with Pastoral and other Poems (1802)”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Julia Reidhead. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 293-304. Print. ---. “The World is Too Much with Us”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
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College‚ Cambridge 1790 — visited revolutionary France and supported 1793 —published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches 1795 — met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. 1797 — moved to Somerset with his sister Dorothy 1798 — produced Lyrical Ballads together with Coleridge 1799 —moved to Grasmere in the Lake District‚ with fellow poet Robert Southey（1774-1843 nearby. Wordsworth‚ Southey‚ and Coleridge came to be known as “Lake Poets” （“湖畔派”诗人）. 1804 — decay of Both Coleridge’s health
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem written the great representative poet of the early romanticism in England‚ William Wordsworth. "Poetry"‚ as the author defines in his "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads‚ is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." This definition of poetry can be illustrated from the poem. It contains four six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter‚ with a rhyme scheme of ababcc in each stanza. The rhyme and balance
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the language of men in a state of vivid sensation. iv. The language of poetry is not essentially different from that of prose. It should be noted that by “language”‚ Wordsworth probably means vocabulary‚ not syntax and grammar. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads tells us that the poems were in the nature of an experiment. He had brought
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Different Approaches to Romantic Poetry Practical Analysis 1- Introduction For passion or profession‚ for hobby or obligation‚ for delight or duty‚ for this reason or another‚ one takes his pen and devotes few minutes he steals from time to trace expressive words on paper. I am among many‚ in ruptures about literature and this study day comes as a golden opportunity to show how much my fancy is caught and how far my love is increased when the heart excitingly beats and the feeling increasingly
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shapers of thought‚ French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Originally it was thought that a romantic writer is someone who reinforces his or her own uniqueness through their work. In a preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800)‚ by English poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge it has been quoted that romantic poems were a language of men in a state of vivid sensation‚ that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted
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IMAGINATION IN ROMANTIC POETRY A large part of those extracts on Romantic imagination - which are contained in the fascicule on pages D64 and D65 – are strictly related to an ancient theory about Art and Reality’s imitation‚ the Theory of Forms concieved by a Classical Greek philosopher‚ mathematician Plato - in Greek: Πλάτων‚ Plátōn‚ "broad"; from 424/423 BC to 348/347 BC. The Theory of Forms - in Greek: ἰδέαι - typically refers to the belief expressed by Socrates in some of Plato’s dialogues
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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SYLLABUS Title of the Course: IED 373 British Poetry and Prose II Instructor: Associate Prof Dr. Huriye Reis Year and Term: 2011-2012 Autumn Class Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:45 (ZNG); huriye@hacettepe.edu.tr I.Aim and Contents: This course aims to present the Renaissance and the seventeenth -century English literature‚ the major conventions‚ themes and writers of these periods through a study of selected poems and
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