Thomas HARDY

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 474.

Elizabeth BARRETT

MEREDITH

- intellectual poet

- technically very skillful & good poet

- author of sonnets about love

- the wife of Robert Browning, a successful poet, recognized

- representative of younger generation

- poetry also about relation between man & woman but it doesn't contribute anything new to Victorian poetry

- good minor poetry

- unsuccessful novelist (as he believed); now considered a good novelist

- poetry which made career in 20^th century- regional poetry

- lived in Wessex, most of his works are set there

- tries to imitate the language, dialect, natural form

- use of archaism, some technical words

- was an architect, renovated churches (used e.g. names of tools used in his work)

- his poems are not idyllic (although he writes about countryside, village); he's very pessimistic

- his contribution is quite local but is good

WYKŁAD 11

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD

/Bractwo Prerafalitów/1848-1853

à Dante Gabriel Rossetti

à William Morris

à Christina Rossetti

* started as a group of rebellious students

* D. G. Rossetti

Holman Hunt

John E. Millais

Ford Maddox Brown

* “The Germ”- newspaper they published for a short time, combining literature with art

* their paintings were against conventions, weren't accepted, bad reviews, were attacked

* name: started as an insult, they adopted it