century?
3. What did Henry Fielding expose in his plays?
4. What put an end to his work as a playwright?
5. What qualities did Fielding possess?
6. What is depicted in Fielding’s “The History' of Tom Jones, a
Foundling”?
7. Speak on the characteristic features o f Sen timentalism.
8. Who were the representatives ofthe sentimental school in
English literature?
9. What did the sentimentalists show in their novels and why?
10. Why did sentimentalists think that civilization was harmful
to humanity?
11. Why is the second half o f the eighteenth century often
called the Age o f Johnson?
12. What genre was Sheridan’s last work “Pizarro” written
in?
UNIT 6
THE ROMANTIC AGE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
(1780-1830)
Pre-Romantic Literature
Johnson and his circle were the last great literary figures of
the 1700s to follow the classical rules o f writing. English writers
o f the late 1700s and early 1800s substituted passion for Augustan
harmony and moderation. They preferred mysteriousness, believed
in the creative power of the imagination and adopted a personal
view o f the world. These writers are called romanticists.
Besides, in the age o f Romanticism in English 'iterature there
was a group of poets who represented a bridge between с lassicism
and romanticism. They are called pre-romantics. The leading
pre-romantic poet is William Blake. The poetry of Robert Burns,
Thomas Gray and William Cowper also bear the features o f pre-
romanticism. In many of their works the pre-romanticisi:s showed
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