Concetti Chiave
- Agustan poetry focuses on impersonal themes, noble eloquence, and intellectual reasoning.
- Early Romantic poetry emphasizes subjectivity, emotional depth, and a revaluation of rural origins.
- Pastoral poetry highlights simplicity, domesticity, and the beauty of nature, with William Cowper as a notable figure.
- Natural poetry explores wild, dynamic scenes and primitive life, exemplified by James Thomson's work.
- Graveyard poetry uses melancholy tones, tombs, and stormy landscapes to symbolize death and immortality, with prominent poets like Thomas Gray and Edward Young.
Agustan poetry
Agustan poetry: impersonal material, land noble eloquence and intellectual novel or reason.
Early Romantic poetry: subjective material and lyrical experience of life and emotional poetry, poetry essentially reflective, revaluation of rural origins and sense of melancholy and sadness.
Pastoral poetry
Pastoral poetry: landscape detailed, simplicity and domesticity (country life) and nature sees as beatiful entity; the best applicant was William Cowper with The Task.
Natural poetry: physical and in motion, wild scenes and primitive man; the best applicant was James Thomson.
Ossianic or pre-romanticism
Ossianic or pre-romanticism: interest in the past, church yard as setting, legendary irish hero Ossian, wild gloomy landscapes and meloncholy as feelings; James Macpherson wrote "Fragments of Ancient poetry".
Graveyard poetry: tomb as a symbol of death and immortality, tone of melancholy, landscapes, stormy ruins and cemeteries as setting; the applicants were Thomas Gray, who wrote "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard", and Edward Young, who wrote "Night Thoughts".
Scots dialect poetry
Scots diaclect poetry: the best applicant was Robert Burns who was Scottish and the language he used was the folk.
Accedi a tutti gli appunti
Tutor AI: studia meglio e in meno tempo
