Civil war (1642-1648) and the English Bourgeois Revolution

5. Romanticism, its peculiarities. The poetry of G.G.Byron, P.B.Shelly, J.Keats
George Gordon Byron, Percy Byshe Shelley , John Keats were the representatives of the highest level of the Age of Romanticism and all the three were greatly influenced by the Lakists. They were young revolutionary rebels, talented and fascinating.
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was born in London. When Byron was ten, his great uncle died, and the boy inherited the title of Lord Byron and the family castle of Newstead Abbey. Was educated at Cambridge - became a member of the House of Lords. Literature: a fighter for people’s rights ; love for freedom, hatred of oppression, admiration of nature, in lyricism personages):
1. The London period “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (parts 1, 2 ) (1812); "The Corsair" (1814) ; “Lara” (1814); “The Giaour”; “Oriental Poems”2. The Swiss; "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (part 3) "Manfred" (a philosophic drama); “The Prisoner of Chillon”3. The Italian “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (part 4); "Don Juan" (1818-1823); "Cain" (1821); “The Vision of Judgment" (1821);4. The Greek Several lyrical poems.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792, into a wealthy Sussex family. Entered Eton. In 1816, traveled to Switzerland to meet Lord Byron and became close friends. Shelley wrote most of his finest lyric poetry, including the immortal "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark." --in 1822, Shelley drowned while sailing in a storm off the Italian coast. He was not yet thirty years old. Literature: poetry - beauty, the passions, nature, political liberty, creativity, and the sanctity of the imagination: essay “A Defense of Poetry”( the center of his aesthetic philosophy)- drama “The Cenci”1819, lyrical drama “Prometheus Unbound” 1819
John Keats (1795-1821)Born to a lower-middle-class family in London -when he was still young, he lost both his parents. His mother succumbed to tuberculosis, the disease that eventually killed Keats himself- he went to medical school. By 20 he abandoned his medical training to devote himself wholly to poetry. Died in Italy.
Literature: the ideas and themes evident in Keats's great odes are the beauty of nature, the relation between imagination and creativity, the response of the passions to beauty and suffering, and the transience of human life in time) - sonnets “Sonnet to Chatterton”1815, “Sonnet written in the cottage where burns was Born”1818, “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”1816, “Sonnet to the Nile”1818, odes “Ode to a Nightingale”1819, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”1820 - poems “Modern Love”1818, “To Autumn”1820, “Endymion”1817, “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil”1818