János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900

Pope’s Contemporaries: Thomson and Young

If we want to trace the origin of these changes, we have to go back to Pope’s contemporaries. The seeds of the new approach to nature, for example, appear as early as in James Thomson’s (1700-1748) poetry. Thomson was the son of a Scottish clergyman and was brought up in rural Scotland, in close proximity to nature. He did not even see London until he was twenty-five. In 1725 he went to the English capital in hope of a poetic career. There was a long descriptive poem, entitled Winter in his pocket, which he published in the next year and which lay the foundations of his future career in London literary life. The poem was a lively description of nature with some moralizing, didactic elements, and was written in Miltonic blank verse. It was an immediate success upon its publication and Thomson followed it up with similar poems addressed to the other seasons, publishing the whole series in 1730 under the title The Seasons. Throughout his life he continued to add to the text, which thus grew to vast proportions and acquired an epic size.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

Irodalom PPKE BTK jegyzetek

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

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