 Digging further into the English world Book IV unit 5 Henry David Thoreau William Wordsworth John Milton

Book IV unit 5 Cross-cultural Sharing a presentation 1.Henry David Thoreau 2.William Wordsworth 3.John Milton

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 William Wordsworth (1770 –1850) with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRomantic AgeEnglish literature Wordsworth was England‘s Poet Laureate( 桂冠诗人 ) from 1843 until his death in 1850.Poet Laureate

 Major works Major works  "I wandered lonely as a cloud" I wandered lonely as a cloudI wandered lonely as a cloud Book IV unit 5

 I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD Book IV unit 5 I wandered lonely as a cloud: That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company: I gazed - and gazed - but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Book IV unit 5

Legacy and influence  Poetic and dramatic works Poetic and dramatic works  Political, philosophical and religious prose Political, philosophical and religious prose  John Milton

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 Legacy and influence Legacy and influence Legacy and influence attained Europe-wide bad fame for his radical political and religious beliefs.  At his death,1674, blind, poor, and yet changed his political choices, Milton had attained Europe-wide bad fame for his radical political and religious beliefs.   Especially after the Glorious Revolution, Paradise Lost and his political writings would bring him lasting fame as one of the greatest poetsGlorious Revolution Book IV unit 5

Tree of wisdom, Adam and Eve, snake,Eden

 Main article: Paradise LostParadise Lost Paradise Lost Paradise Lost personal despair optimism  Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, 1667, by the blind Milton. It reflects his personal despair at the failure of the Revolution, yet affirms an ultimate optimism in human potential.epic poemParadise Lost Paradise Regained Paradise Regained  Followed up with, Paradise Regained in 1671.Paradise Regained Book IV unit 5

 Milton was often judged equal or superior to all other English poets, including Shakespeare.Shakespeare  His influence on the literature of the Romantic era William Wordsworth began his sonnet "London, 1802" withWilliam Wordsworth  "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour".  John Keats felt that Paradise Lost was a "beautiful and grand curiosity. ” John Keats Book IV unit 5

 influence in other ways  Milton's career influence in other ways. dreary, self-esteem, unaided, impassive, enslaved  He coined many words in Paradise Lost ： dreary, self-esteem, unaided, impassive, enslaved.  The John Milton Society for the Blind  The John Milton Society for the Blind was founded in 1928 by Helen Keller for deaf and blind persons.Helen Keller Book IV unit 5

 Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862; American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher.12 July18176 May1862American naturalisttranscendentalisttax resisterdevelopment critic philosopher  Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Waldensimple living  He anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.ecology environmental historyenvironmentalism Book IV unit 5

In 1845, Thoreau walk into the woods near Walden, with an Ax borrowed from other. On the Independence Day, he move to live in his house, which had been built with his hands.

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 Some lines to appreciate  This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.  Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.  Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Book IV unit 5 hiking  An early advocate of hiking  Hiking along  the Li-river  Also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution. He was not a strict vegetarianDarwin theory of evolutionvegetarian 

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 Influence Thoreau’s writings had far reaching influences on many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and Russian author Leo Tolstoy Ernest Hemingway, E. B. White,Mahatma GandhiJohn F. KennedyMartin Luther King, Jr. RussianLeo TolstoyErnest HemingwayE. B. White Book IV unit 5

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