John keats (1795— 182 1) is an English romantic poet. Born in humble background, orphaned as a teenager, lived in poverty and worked as a doctor's assistant. Love literature since childhood. 18 16 published her first novel, Oh, Loneliness. 18 17 published the first book of poetry, among which the famous piece Guo Guo and Qu Qiu appeared. In his short life, he left many famous poems, such as Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to an Ancient Greek Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Melancholy, A Day Passed, and so on. His poems are rich in imagination, colorful, with pictures in them, strong sense of color and three-dimensional sense, and have an eternal beauty, just like the gentle and beautiful dreamy moonlight, full of the free spirit and lofty ideal of human progress. He advocates that poets should use "beautiful dreams" and "free imagination" to express "eternal beautiful world". His poems have a great influence on British Victorian poets, later aesthetes and imagist poets in the 20th century. The poet died at the age of 25 when he was first exhibited. The epitaph he left was: "Here lies a man who wrote his name on the water."
Shelley (percy bysshe shelley, 1792 ~ 1822) is a famous British democratic poet. Born in a rural landlord family, he entered Oxford University at the age of 20 and was expelled from the school for writing anti-religious philosophical papers. After joining the club, he was forced to move to Italy in 18 18 because he wrote poems to encourage the British people's revolution and support the Irish national democratic movement. In Italy, he still actively supported the Italian people's struggle for national liberation. 1822, he was caught in a storm and his ship drowned.
Shelley is a famous European romantic poet who is as famous as Byron. His works are full of passion and philosophy, and his poetic style is free and unrestrained, constantly changing in heaven and earth, time and space, ghosts and gods, and he is also used to fantasy symbolism and ancient myth themes. His best works include the long poem "The Fairy Maid" (18 13), the fantasy lyric story poem "Islamic Rebellion" (18 18), and the political poem "The Rank of Tyranny" (/kloc-0) The political poem Ode to Freedom (1820) supporting the Italian national liberation struggle, ode to the west wind (18 19) expressing revolutionary enthusiasm and victory belief, and Prometheus Liberated (18655), a representative poetic drama adapted from ancient Greek mythology, show the people.
The ultimate goal of Shelley's romantic ideal is to create a new world where everyone enjoys freedom and happiness. He imagined himself as an angel flying day and night, a cloud floating in the blue sky, a lark soaring in space, and even a westerly wind in late autumn. He is the disseminator, eulogist and summoner of the new world ideal. He painted a beautiful picture for this new world with beautiful language and rich imagination, and boldly predicted: "Winter has come, can spring be far behind?" Therefore, Engels praised learning as a "genius prophet".
Byron, a great English romantic poet in the first half of the19th century, strongly supported the democratic national revolutionary movement that swept across Europe after the French Revolution with his outstanding poetry creation, and criticized the various drawbacks of capitalist society to a certain extent, which is a glorious banner in the European literary world. Engels appreciated his bitter satire on the real society.
Byron was born in1788 65438+1October 22nd, and was born in a ruined aristocratic family in England. As an adult, it coincides with the rise of democratic national revolution in European countries. He opposed autocratic oppression and supported the democratic thought of the people's revolution. At the age of 20, he traveled abroad and visited many countries. 18 1 1 year. This trip opened his eyes, and he saw the heroic scene of the Spanish people fighting against Napoleon's invading army and the painful life of the Greek people under the slavery of Turkey. Harold's Travels, a long poem written on the journey, shocked the European poetry circle.