"theocritus" - 1 õppematerjal

Romantic poetry and prose

6. Characteristics of romantic nature poetry and main representatives Characteristics of romantic nature poetry: · Genuine pleasure found in the natural world · Inspiration · Morality · Health (opposed to smoky industrial urban scenes) · Natural and pure: children and animals Some authors: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats, Burns, Southey, Cowper, and Thomson. Predecessors: Theocritus ­ Greek pastoral poet, whose Idylls are set in Arcadia, Virgil, Horace, Spenser, Milton's ­ The Garden of Eden from the Paradise Lost. Influences: 7. G.G. Byron ­ major works: 1806 Hours of Idleness 1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 1813-1818 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ­ a partly autobiographical narrative poem that describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in