1. To learn the historical background of the
emerging of the
Romantic age: Industrial
Revolution, the French Revolution.
2. The characteristics of Romanticism.
3. The Pre-Romanticism: Burns, Blake and their writing
characteristics, the
influence on the coming Romantic age.
4. The first generation: the definition; Wordsworth, the Lyrical
Ballads and his
theories on poetry; Coleridge, his The Rime of
Ancient Marine, and
his criticism.
5. The second generation: the definition; Byron, his lyrics and the
long poem Don Juan; Shelley, his
lyrics and criticism: A Defense
of Poetry; Keats, his odes
and five long poems.
6. The novel of this period: Scott and his historical novels;
Austen and her Pride and
Prejudice.
7. The prose of this period: the familiar essays; the
representatives Lamb and Hazlitt.

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