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romantic tradition in the poetry of the xix th century english literature c o n t e n t s introduction…………………………………………………................. chapter i. main characteristics of romantic period in english literature …................................................................................................. 1.1. brief outline of english literature in the xixth century ………........................................................................................................ 1.2. establishing and developing of romantic movement in different countries ………..………….……………………………………………. chapter ii. romantic poetry and it’s outstanding representatives …...... 2.1. lord george noel gordon byron – the most famous poet of the romantic period…………………………………………………………. 2.2. percy bysshee shelley – a rebel against cruelty and oppression................................................................................................... conclusion ……………………………………………………………… literature…………………………………………………….................. introduction. britain became a large trading empire. the cities grew fast. london remained the largest one. in the 19th century britain was at its height and self-confidence. it was called the "workshop" of the world. the rich feared the poor both in the countryside and in the fast-growing towns. nevertheless the great emphasis was made on the individual …

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ed from 7 mln to 14 mln people. much money was invested in road- and canal-building. the first railway line which was launched in 1830 from liverpool to manchester allowed many people inspired by poets of romanticism to discover the beauty of their own country. romanticism was the greatest literary movement in the period between 1770-1840. it meant the shift of sensibility in art and literature and was based on interdependence of man and nature. it was a style in european art, literature and music that emphasized the importance of feeling, emotion and imagination rather than reason or thought. romanticism in literature was the reaction of the society not only to the french revolution of 1789 but also to the enlightenment connected with it. the common people didn't get what they had expected: neither freedom nor equality. the bourgeoisie was disappointed as well, because the capitalist way of development hadn't …

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in literature being a sort of mission to be carried out in order to reach the wisdom of the universe. the industrial revolution in england had a great influence on the cultural life of the country. the writers tried to solve the problems, but we can't treat all the romantics of england as belonging to the same literary school. william blake (1757-1827) was bitterly disappointed by the downfall of the french revolution. his young contemporaries, samuel coleridge (1772— 1834) and william wordsworth (1770-1850), both were warm admirers of the french revolution, both escaped from the evils of big cities and settled in the quietness of country life, in the purity of nature, among unsophisticated country-folk. living in the lake country of northern england, they were known as the lakists. the late romantics, george byron (1788-1824), percy shelley (1792-1822), and john keats (1795-1821), were young rebels and reflected the interests of …

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slaving on the fields of their mastersorto migrating in seach of the means to support themselves by working 12-14 hours a day for wages notoriously below subsistence levelthe labouring poor, in town and country alike, suffered the utmost misery from underpayment and work and from crowding in hugely overpopulated industrial areas. misery resulted in blind outbreaks against machinery, which, the workers believed, did their work leaving themselves to unemployment and their families to slow starvation. meanwhile “th righits of labour were not yet recognized, there were no trade unions … the majority of country-people could not reat or write; the good old discipline of father stick and his children cat-o’-nine-tails, rope’s end, strap, birch, ferule, and cane was wholesomely maintained; landlords, manufacturers and employers of all kinds did what they pleased with their own … elections were carried by open bribery … the church was intolerant, the universities narrow and …

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ir lot. they invariably voted for a conservative government at home and supported all its blundering attemps to suppress revolt: “the leaders of reaction reigned supreme … filled with dread of the revolution they seemed to think that the only function of government was the maintance of order and the suppression of rebellion.” this, briefly, was the background of the english romantic movement. its principal stimuli were on the one hand profound dissatisfaction with the atmodphere of reaction that seemed to have set in for good after the hope and fervour of the french revolution was quenched in the blood of wars and numerous uprisings. the state of things in europe seemed to mock the theories of the great men of the sense themce the romantic distrust of reason, rationalism, emphasis of emotion, intuition, the instinctive wisdom of the heart, on nature as opposed to civilization. on the other hand, …

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romantic tradition in the poetry of the xix th century english literature c o n t e n t s introduction…………………………………………………................. chapter i. main characteristics of romantic period in english literature …................................................................................................. 1.1. brief outline of english literature in the xixth century ………........................................................................................................ 1.2. establishing and developing of romantic movement in different countries ………..………….……………………………………………. chapter ii. romantic poetry and it’s outstanding representatives …...... 2.1. lord george noel gordon byron – the most famous poet of the romantic period…………………………………………………………. 2.2. percy bysshee shelley – a rebel...

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