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一．William Wordsworth威廉华兹华斯: nature and country life, 与Samuel Taylor Coleridge、Robert Southey称The Lake Poets，
作品：Lyrical Ballads,to the Cuckoo, Lucky Poems, The Solitary Reaper, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; September3, 1802; London , The Prelude,
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud:简介：ababcc, iambic tetrameter，cloud is the symbol of human being.daffodil reflects the relationship between human and nature
（一）Theme:
1.Nature embodies human beings in their diverse circumstance. It is nature that give him “stren gth and knowledge fullof peace”
2.It is bliss to recolled the beauty of nature in poet mind while he is in solitude.
3.Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit.
4People sometimes fail to appreciate nature's wonders as they go about their daily routines.
5.Nature thrives unattended. The daffodils proliferate in splendor along the shore of the lake without the need for human attention.
（二）Comment:
The poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights. In the poem on the beauty of nature, the reader is presented a vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils(水仙) and poet’s philosophical ideas and mystical thoughts.
二．Percy Bysshe Shelly 珀西·比希·雪莱：
作品：Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam ,The Masque of Anarchy ,Prometheus Unbound，to A Skylark, The Cloud；Love's Philosophy, One World Is Too Often Profaned，the nescessity of atheism，Ode to The West Wind：
Ode to The West Wind：
(一) 简介desires to be with the west wind,and share the power of the west wind. Also he praises the great freedom of the west wind.
（二）Theme: .The poet desires the irresistible power of the wind to scatter the words he has written about his ideals and causes.The poem obliquely refers to his desire to spread his reformist ideas. Shelley believed that the poetry he wrote had the power bring about political reform，The author express his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. Compare the west wind to destroyer of the old who drives the last signs of life from the trees, and preserver of the new who scatter the seads shich sill come to life in the spring. This is a poem about renewal, about the wind blowing life back into dead things, implying not just an arc of life (which would end at death) but a cycle, which only starts again when something dies.
（三）Comment: written in iambic pentameter. It contains five sonnet length stanzas, each with a closing couplet. The rhyming scheme form is rerza rima三行诗aba bcb cdc ded ee. The tone is poignant. Many will agree that this poem is an invocation for an unseen force to take control and revive life.
三．Jane Austen简?奥斯丁: 齐名walter Scott：标志浪漫主义结束。
代表作：Northanger Abbey、Persuasion、Sense and Sensibility、Pride and Prejudice、Emma、Mansfield Park。
（一）人物：Mr. Bennet and Mrs Bennet ; Jane---Bingley ; Lizzy ; Mary ; Elizebeth---Darcy ; Lydia---Wickham ; Caroline ; Charlotte Lucas ;Catherine
（二）地点：Netherfield Park 尼日斐花园Meryton 默尔顿Hertfordshire 哈特菲尔德郡London Kent 肯德郡Brighton 布里敦Derbyshire 德伯县Pemberly 庞伯利
四．Charles Dickens查尔斯?狄更斯:
代表作：The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist雾都孤儿, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities,Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend
五．William Makepeace Thackeray威廉?麦克匹斯?萨克雷:The Book Of Snobs,Vanity Fair\a Novel without a Hero名利场an excerpt from
六．Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂?勃朗特：
代表作：Jane Eyre，Shirley，Professor，Villette
（一）人物：Edward Fairfax Rochester
（二）地点：Gateshead Hall盖茨盖德,Lowood School洛伍德孤儿院,Thornfield索尔菲尔德庄园七．Emily Bronte：Wuthring Heights
地点: Thrushcross Grange格兰奇庄园
人物：Heathcliff/Catherine/Hindley/Mr Earnshaw/Alen Dean/Edgar Linton
八．George Eliot：The Mill on the Floss，Adam Bede，Sila Marner，Middlemarch
九. Alfred Tennyson阿尔弗莱德?丁尼生（维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人）
Poet Laureate（桂冠诗人）作品：In Memoriam，To memorialize his friend，Break, Break, Break>，Idylls of the King，The Lady of Shalott，The Lotus-Eaters，The Palace of Art，The Miller’s Daughter，The May Queen，Morte d’Arthur，Locksley Hall，The Princess，A Medley，The Memoriam，The Revenge，The Charge of the Light Brigade，Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington，the Idylls of the King，Queen Mary ，Harold ，Becket ，Demeter ，The Death of Enone，Merlin and the Gleam，Crossing the Bar
碎了碎了：The second stanza is full of joy ,laughter ,sond ,very happy ,while the first stanza is very sad,so it is a shape contrast to express the speaker’s sad ,sorrow mood.
十．Robert Browning罗伯特?白朗宁：Home Thoughts From Abroad，Pauline，Paracelsus，Sordello，Pippa Passes，In a Balcony，Colombe’s Birthday，A Blot in the Scutcheon，The Return of the Druses，Dramatic Lyrics，Dramatic Romances，Men and Women，Casa Guidi Windows，The Ring and the Book，Wanting is---What? Never the Time and Place，Summum Bonum.
My Last Dutchess：In the poem, a duke speaks about his dead wife. The poem is about murder, mystery and intrigue, but all in indirect allusions (暗示). Readers may sense that the duke kills his wife or causes her death, but no evidence is shown.
Language style :formal, informal ,colloquial, slang
Character of the speaker: proud ,cold , indifferent , jealons ,possessive ,controlling.Theme: arrogance , women as mere object
十一．Thomas Hardy 托马斯?哈代：
作品：Under the Greenwood Tree ，Far from the Madding Crowd ，The return of the native ，The mayor of caster bridge，，Jude the Obscure，A Pair of Blue Eyes ，The hand of Etbellberta，Tess of the D’Urbervilles德伯家的苔丝，part of Wessex novels; novels of character and environment
十二．James Joyce詹姆斯?乔伊斯（意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
作品：Ulysses，A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man，Finnegans Wake，Dubliners From the story, he is eager to experience new places, to experience the romantic love, and eager to enter the adult world. (The character of the boy)Through the conversation of the young men, he realizes the world of adult is different from what the imagined. It’s not romantic, it’s vigor.
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