"britishness" - 1 õppematerjal

EXAM - English literature 2

Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets – milestone of literary history, poets placed into political and social context of their age, attempting to relate their private lives to work. Had begun as antiquarian quest into early literature, had major implications to contemporary writing, in effect loosening and finally demolishing the Augustan canon. 29. The English landscape garden and the Augustan reappraisal of Nature Leitmotif of Britishness – landscape; link between national identity and British landscape garden brought about in 18thC, in literature move away from looking towards classical antiquity, turning instead towards an appreciation of native beauties. First landscape gardens had turned nature into series of pictures, now it presupposed Nature as a painter, if gardens were to be pictures. People look increasingly at the untouched countryside in pictorial terms, examples of Nature’s pencil