文導 week 4

Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period)： an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

John Keats：an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.

 Ode on a Grecian Urn  BY JOHN KEATS 

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

                Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Ode to a Nightingale  BY JOHN KEATS 

   

             ------ Tender is the night

Thomas Hardy：an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.

Jude the Obscure：the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.

To Kill a Mockingbird:  a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature.The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality.

Harper Lee: an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.

Shakespeare: an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.


The River Avon or Avon：a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England. Also known as the Warwickshire Avon or Shakespeare's Avon, it has been divided since 1719 into the Lower Avon, below Evesham, and the Upper Avon, from Evesham to above Stratford-upon-Avon


"What's in a name? that which we call a rose

    By any other name would smell as sweet"

                                                          Romeo and Juliet  by William Shakespeare

scene  act
ex：A Midsummer Night's Dream V. 1


A Midsummer Night's Dream：a comedy believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta.


THESEUS：

More strange than true. I never may believe
These antique fables nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold—
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven.
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Measure for Measure(一報還一報): a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. The play's main themes include justice, "mortality and mercy in Vienna," and the dichotomy between corruption and purity: "some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." Mercy and virtue predominate, since the play does not end tragically.



Danny boy

Didacticism: a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.

obscurity： The quality or condition of being unknown

imagine VS. symbol
imagine：To form a mental picture or image
 symbol：Something that represents something invisible

Do you want to make a scene：to be loud and rude with other people or in public