Thomas de Quincey
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 480.
William Hazlitt
Charles Lamb
- lived in London
- the friend of W. Wordsworth, classmate of Coleridge
- he didn't like the 2nd generation poetry
- a stormy life- sister Mary emotionally unstable
- he never had a family
- good sense of humour- enthusiastic about romantic literature
- interested in Shakespeare- he read his works in a number of ways; he is not interested in his plays themselves but more concerned on acting, staging, etc
- Shakespeare- a very good story-teller; not naturally talented
- he wrote a book (with his sister) “Tales from Shakespeare”
- mythologyà different episodes from e.g. “Odysey”
- he rediscovered other playwrights, e.g. Ch. Marlowe
- 1st critic professionally dealing with drama
- a column ‘the essays of Elia' (looks at the world and discuss different aspects, stupid but profound questions); personal, non-academic essays; published every month, very popular
- critic, writer at the age of nearly 40
- not restricted to literature; painting
- he read Shakespeare taking care of the characters; he treated him as a great psychologist
- he didn't like reading
- he wrote about giving bibliography but giving quotations without references- sth now unacceptable
- he didn't care about details, he had some visions to present
- Genius, talented child (Greek, Latin, philosophy)
- he studied Hebrew, literature
- married a farmer girl, had a family, not an aristocrat
- wrote essays
- the most prolific + because of his talent, education, economy, shoes- he could write
about practically everything
- he wrote for money
- essays on Shakespeare
- he took 1st scene and shoved how it was important for the whole drama (its interpretation, construction & meaning), ‘a mature psychologist'
- analyses his personality or personality of characters, dramas
- subconscious
- drug addict
- one of his works was concentrated on that “The confessions of an English Opium- Eater” (it becomes very popular, published in a book form)
1part- autobiographical part about his childhood
2p. - about opium (as a initially painkiller), pleasures of opium, changes in mind
3p.- pains of opium
“Sunday journalism” to educate literary public, to reflect upon reading, popularizing literature; nowadays criticism is formal, serious.
WYKŁAD 6
ROMANTIC FICTION/NOVEL
* rather practiced by women
* new conventions appear at that time
~ epistolary novel (18th century)
19th century:
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