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Introduction to Literature
?What is Literature
To answer this question, you should first know the meaning of literature? There are a
lot of definitions of literature. Some short explanation on it would be useful for you. Very often
it simply means anything that is written: timetables, dialogues, textbooks, travel brochures and
so on In English we use the word in at least two different ways: Informative literature and
imaginative literature. Informative literature tells us about facts, explanations ؟history,
purpose is to offer
knowledge.
Hence, there is also imaginative literature that aims to arouse thoughts and feelings. Its
author expresses his ideas, his feelings, his attitude, he may talks of things; people, etc. He
wants to communicate feelings, not facts; emotion, not information only Imaginative
?What is Literature
* It is sometimes defined as ‘anything.
written’
* However we can surely distinguish between literature in the sense of
any writing and literature in the sense of verbal works of art. * Robert Frost said,” Literature is a performance in words”.
* Another view holds that literature has in it, a sense of entertaining
display and provides pleasure in addition. to the element of ‘truth’ involved
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1785–1832
Romanticism is arguably the largest literary and artistic movement of the 1700's, according to many scholars.The Romantic Period of poetry occurred when England was transforming its economy from agriculture to trade, manufacturing, and commerce. This drastic change sparked romanticism to evolve as well as enable poets the tools to help them better their means of sharing their work. The most notable feature of this era of poetry was the new role of individual thought and personal feeling
The romantic period had its origins in spontaneity and quick wit. It was an age that lay stress on nature and deemed nature not as the background but the backbone of poetry. The romantic period had experimentation and invention running through the veins of poetry. Poets like Keats, Shelley, Burns, William Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth made a significant and radical impact on the face of poetry. It was an era where universe and nature were considered in the forefront of all the human nitty-gritty as the background of poetry
What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement
. Love and worship of Nature and dislike for the urban life.
Love for the Medieval Age.
. Love for the supernatural and the mystical.
. Poetry came to be regarded as the spontaneous expression of the poet's own subjective feelings and did not conform to the poetic conventions of classical
doctrines.
. Completely abandoned the 'Heroic Couplet' and substituted it with simpler verse forms like the ballads which belonged to the English rural Folk. In fact the 'Ballad Revival' is said to have sparked off the English Romantic Movement.
. The 'poetic diction' of the Neo-Classical Age was completely done away with and the language of the ordinary people became the language of Romantic poetry.
Romantic Movement Poets
Lord Byron
(1757 – 1827)
Lord Byron was one of the leading poets during the Romantic Period.Lord Byron was active in many different fields of life including politics, he took his hereditary seat in the House of Lords in 1812. However Lord Byron is best remembered for his poetry which includes the classic poetry collections Child’s Harold’s Pilgrimage
and Don Juan
William Wordsworth
1770-1850
British Romantic poet from Grasmere, Lake District. Wordsworth encapsulated man’s mystic relationship with nature, enthralling the minds of the reader's who explored his work.
William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
:A rainbow in the sk
;So was it when my life began
;So is it now I am a man
,So be it when I shall grow old
!Or let me die
;The Child is father of the Man
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
John Keats
(1795 – 1821)
His first work some sonnets appeared in Hunt’s ‘Examiner’, and his first book, ‘Poems’, came out in 1817. In 1820 he published ‘Lamia and Other Poems’, containing ‘Hyperion’ and the odes to the Nightingale which had been produced within a period of about 18 months
William Blake
(1782 – 1824)
William Blake was a poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver. His early poems Blake wrote at the age of 12. However, being early apprenticed to a manual occupation, journalistic-social career was not open to him. His most famous poem is
The Tyger
The Smile
There is a Smile of Love
And there is a Smile of Deceit
And there is a Smile of Smiles
In which these two Smiles meet
And there is a Frown of Hate
And there is a Frown of disdain
And there is a Frown of Frowns
Which you strive to forget in vain
For it sticks in the Hearts deep Core
And it sticks in the deep Back bone
And no Smile that ever was smild
But only one Smile alone
That betwixt the Cradle & Grave
It only once Smild can be
But when it once is Smild
Theres an end to all Misery
William Blake
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