【正文】 ofthe English Romantic Age under study hereemphasize human adventure, passion, delight, love of splendor, of extravagance, and of the Romantic tradition in all these periods can be viewed in contrast to another main literary traditionClassicism or pendulum of literary taste seems to swing between the two let’s have a look and examine the following lists, which contrast elements, outlooks, and concerns associated with the neoclassicism of the 1700s and the Romanticism of the early in mind also that although earlier literary periods can indeed be seen as typically Romantic, the period discussed here(17981837)is considered the Romantic RomanticTradition society Urban ArtificialIntellect, reason Public Logical, solid aristocraticCultivatedConformistconstraintFormal dictionThree notable poets of the 1700sThomas Gray, William Blake, and Robert Burnswere in many respects as “romantic” as any poets of the Romantic Age, but the work of these three was didexperiment Individualrural Nature lovingImagination, emotion Private, subjective Mysterious, supernatural mon primitive independent spontaneity Natural dictionEnglish literature change its views and philosophies, its aims and subject matter, so decisively at just the turn of the century? Certainly, the historical issues and developments of the time played a major role in provoking and shaping the new literary movement of Romanticism（誘發(fā)并造就）: One critic has said, “The French Revolution and Napoleon made a clean sweep（大獲全勝）。after them it was no longer possible to think, act, or write as if the old forms still had life.” Also, the Industrial Revolution, its urbanization of English life, and its abuses against the working class called for a change in literary concerns and Romantic poets in England also owed much to the Swissborn Frenchphilosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau(17121778).In his philosophies Rousseau rebelled against the cold logic of the 1700s and championed freedom and believed that man was most perfect in a state of nature, free from artificial societal romantic Age in English literature begins in 1798 with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth enunciated his aims, among which was his belief that poetry should reflect spontaneity and emotion rather than the more sedate ordered tones of the previous generation（穩(wěn)重嚴肅的，四平八穩(wěn)的）.Wordsworth also stressed a desire to depict monplace situations involving mon people living in natural chose to concentratehis efforts on the both poets intended that their workwhether a treatment of the ordinary or of the mysteriouswould stimulate an awareness of the workings of the human mind and personality（激發(fā)對于人的大腦的工作機制和個性的自覺）.With respect to poetic form, they advocated using natural, ordinary speech over the formal, stylized diction of the we may summarize that it is in their view of nature and natural phenomena and in their treatment of the supernatural and mysterious that the Romantics differed most profoundly from the as a reaction against the urbanizing, dehumanizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the Romanticpoets regarded nature in a fresh light and abandoned the welltended gardens of the 1700s for the Romanticism shared with neoclassicism an interest in the past, Romanticism emphasized Ancient Greece over ancient , the Romantic concern with the past enpassed a renewed interest in the Middle , the Romantics paid greater attention to the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton than had literary critics of the neoclassical essence of the English Romantic Ages contained in the works of five poetsWordsworth and Coleridge constituting the socalled first generation of Romantic poets, and Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron, and John Keats posing the second poets also wroteessays and letters explaining their ideas about addition, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Thomas de Quincey wrote personal and subjective essays on a wide range of subjects.第三篇：英國浪漫主義文學英國浪漫主義文學英國是最早出現(xiàn)浪漫主義文學的國家之一。英國的浪漫主義作家不滿于資本主義城市文明的發(fā)展，具有憤世嫉俗、歸隱自然的傾向。18世紀中后期的詩人羅伯特彭斯（1759年－1796年）和威廉布萊克（1757年－1827年）是浪漫主義文學的先驅(qū)，他們在英語詩歌文體和語言上做出了很多可貴的嘗試。彭斯從蘇格蘭民歌中吸取養(yǎng)料，其《蘇格蘭方言詩集》擅長抒情和諷刺，語言通俗；布萊克的《天真之歌》、《經(jīng)驗之歌》則具有象征意義和神秘色彩，在20世紀大放異彩，影響了整個現(xiàn)代英詩。然而，英國浪漫主義第一批真正的大師則是被稱為「湖畔派」的三位詩人。威廉華茲華斯（1770年－1850年）是湖畔派詩人中成就最高者，他與「湖畔派」另一詩人薩繆爾柯勒律治（1772年－1834年）共同出版《抒情歌謠集》，成為英國浪漫主義文學的奠基之作。詩集中收錄的詩歌大部分為華茲華斯所做，而柯勒律治的名詩《古舟子詠》和《忽必烈汗》亦收入其中，充滿幻覺和奇譎的意象。然而華茲華斯這一時期最重要的作品則是長詩《序曲》。騷塞的