Lake poets's three poets, with memories of medieval patriarchal rural life, are the representatives of tenderness and beauty in romantic literature. These poets held an ambivalent attitude towards the French Revolution, expressed disgust at capitalist industrial civilization and urban civilization, tried their best to eulogize rural life and nature under the patriarchal clan system, and liked to describe mysterious and bizarre scenes and exotic scenery.
Wordsworth is the most accomplished poet among the lake poets. He and Coleridge, another poet of "lake poets", published A Collection of Lyric Songs, which became the cornerstone of English romantic literature. Most of the poems in Selected Works were written by Wordsworth, and Coleridge's famous poems Ode to the Ancient Ship and Kublai Khan were also included, which were full of fantasy and absurd images.
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/kloc-From the end of 0/8 to the 1930s, there were frequent revolutionary wars and constant turmoil in Europe. Political darkness and social inequality make people feel that the capitalist system established after the French Revolution is far from as beautiful as described by the enlightenment thinkers.
All walks of life, especially intellectuals, are deeply disappointed with the "rational kingdom" envisioned by the enlightenment thinkers and strive to find new spiritual sustenance. This social emotion is reflected in the field of literary creation, resulting in romantic literature.
The romantic movement in Britain and even the world was closely related to the revolutionary movement in the world at that time, especially the French Revolution, which directly contributed to the romantic movement first occurring in Europe and had a great influence on the vigorous development of the British romantic movement. Tracing back to the source, romantic writers were deeply influenced by German classical idealism philosophy.
We began to pay attention to people's freedom, freedom and self-behavior, and began to re-recognize and examine the "self", so as to further pursue the realization of the "self" value. It is out of the expression and pursuit of the inner feelings of "self" that British romantic writers, together with the pioneers of European countries, began to use their works as a way of venting.
Pursuing the natural expression of strong emotions and publicizing the liberation of personality have washed away the literary levee rationally controlled by 100 years.
Baidu Encyclopedia-British Romantic Literature