专八人文常识辅导材料(英国文学)
British Literature: A Concise History
I. Review (P.162) 补充09
1. Ode to the West Wind was written by _____. (2009)
A. William Blake.
B. William Wordsworth.
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
2. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by __. (2009)
A. Thomas Hardy.
B. John Galsworthy.
C. D.H. Lawrence.
D. James Joyce.
3. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2008)
A. William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Alfred Tennyson
4. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______. (2008)
A. George Eliot
B. Iris Jean Murdoch
C. Dons Lessing
D. Muriel Spark
5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007)
A. Oliver Twist
B. Middlemarch
C. Jane Eyre
D. Wuthering Heights
6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ____ poet and
playwright. (2007)
A. American
B. Canadian
C. Irish
D. Australian
7. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? (2006)
A. T.S. Eliot
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. James Joyce
8. _____is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines. (2006)
A. Free verse
B. Sonnet
C. Ode
D. Epigram
9. The novel Emma is written by____. (2005)
A. Mary Shelly
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Elizabeth Gaskell
D. Jane Austen
10. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet? (2005)
A. William Wordsworth
B. George Eliot
C. George Byron
D. Percy Shelly
II. Historical Periods (P. 10)
1. Old and Medieval Times: 5th-15th
2. The Period of Renaissance: late 15th-early 17th
3. The Period of Revolution and Restoration: 17th
4. The Neo-classical Period: 18th (Enlightenment)
5. The Romantic Period: at the turn of the 18th and 19th
6. The Victorian Period: 19th
7. The Modern Period: 20th
III. Key Figures
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe
3. John Milton, John Dryden
4. Richard Sheridan, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe
5. William Wordsworth, George Byron, P.B Shelly, John Keats, Jane Austen
6. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde
7. G.B. Shaw, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, William Yeats, T.S. Eliot
IV. Sample
1. It is________alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Charles Dickens
2. _______ is called “the poets’ poet” whose masterpiece is _________.
A. Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queene
B.William Wordsworth, The Prelude
C. George Byron, Don Juan
D.John Milton, Paradise Lost
3. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of.
A. elegy
B. ode
C. epic
D. sonnet
4. ________ embodies both Puritanism and Humanism in mid-17th century England.
A. John Bunyan
B. John Dryden
C. John Milton
D. John Donne
5. Who is NOT the major figure of modernist movement?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. James Joyce
C. William Yeats
D. George Eliot
6. Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Richard Sheridan
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. George Bernard Shaw
7. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Southy
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Yeats
8. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in.
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. the country of Houyhnhnms
D. Laputa
9. Which of the following works is NOT written by G.
B. Shaw?
A. Pygmalion
B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C. Heartbreak House
D. The Old Curiosity Shop
10. “The Vanity Fair” is a well-known part in______.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D. The Holy War
11. Which of the following writing is NOT a work by
Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Hard Times
C. Oliver Twist
D. Sons and Lovers
12. Who is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”?
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Jane Austen
13. Which of the following plays is NOT written by
William Shakespeare?
A. Henry VIII
B. Edward II
C. Richard III
D. King Lear
14. Which of the following writers was NOT from
Ireland?
A. W.
B.Yeats B. Robert Burns
C. James Joyce
D. Jonathan Swift
15. ______is the father of materialism in philosophy
and science in England.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Thomas Huxley
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Karl Marx
16. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the
writers of________ .
A. aestheticism
B. critical realism
C. pre-romanticism
D. sentimentalism
17. ______was a critical realist, whose novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society .
A. George Eliot
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. W.M. Thackeray
D. Charles Dickens
18. In_____ , the chaos of the contemporary world and
the despair of westerners after the first world war are expressed.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. The Waste Land
C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
D. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
19. _____wrote under the influence of Scottish folk
tradition and old Scottish poetry.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Robert Burns
C. William Blake
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
20. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ,
who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.
A. Emily Bronte
B. Charles Dickens
C. W.M. Thackeray
D. Charlotte Bronte
21. The principal elements of novel are mystery,
horror and suspense.
A. Gothic
B. Romantic
C. Sentimental
D. Realistic
22. Friday is a character in the novel .
A. Tom Jones, a Foundling
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Rob Roy
23. ____by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.
A. Essay on Criticism
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Dunciad
D. An Essay on Man
24. Christopher Marlowe first made the
principal instrument of English drama.
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. monologue
Old and Medieval Times
Poetry: The national epic: Beowulf (alliteration)
The most outstanding single romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
William Langland: Piers the Plowman(vision & allegory) (7 Deadly Sins)
Robin Hood Ballads (simplicity & dramatic intensity)
Geoffrey Chaucer—the Father of English Poetry
The Canterbury Tales (humor & satire)
1) He introduced the heroic couplet.
2) He is the first great poet who wrote in Middle English.
3) Chaucer did much in making the dialect of London the standard for modern English language.
Prose: Alfred the Great: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d’ Arthur (the swan-song of the feudal knighthood)
Drama: miracle plays, morality plays & interlude
The Period of Renaissance
3 stages:
1) late 15th-the first half of the 16th
2) “Elizabethan Age”: 1558-1603
3) “Dark Age”: Jacobean period (James I’s reign 1603-1625)
2 trends:
court literature; bourgeois literature
The Period of Renaissance
The first stage:
Poetry: Wyatt, Howard
Prose: Thomas More
The second stage:
Poetry: Sydney, Spencer, Shakespeare
Prose Fiction: John Lily, Lodge, Nashe
Drama: Marlowe, Shakespeare’s comedies & early tragedies
The third stage:
Poetry: Ben Jonson, John Donne
Drama: Shakespeare’s tragedies & tragi-comedies; Ben Jonson’s comedies of humors; Beaumont & Fletcher’s tragi-comedies
Prose: Francis Bacon; the King James Bible of 1611 The Period of Renaissance
1) Sir Thomas Wyatt: introducing the sonnet form from the Italian
Henry Howard: introducing the English form of sonnet and the blank verse
Thomas More: Utopia: written in Latin
2) Sir Philip Sidney
Arcadia: pastoral romance; Astrophel and Stella(108 sonnets) (the first to write a sonnet sequence in England)
Edmund Spenser—“the poets’ poet”
The Shepherds Calendar: his first important poem marking the budding of English poetry in Renaissance Amoretti (88 sonnets) Epithalamion: a wedding song The Faerie Queene: his masterpiece; Spenserian Stanza (a 9-line stanzaic form with the rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc and with the first 8 lines in iambic
pentameter, and the last in Alexandrine)
The Period of Renaissance
Shakespeare’s poems: 2 narrative poems & 154 sonnet sequence
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” from the 18th sonnet
“University Wits”: John Lily: euphuistic style; the influence of Lodge & Greene’s romances on Shakespeare’s plays; Thomas Nashe’s picaresque story, The Unfortunate Traveller
The Period of Renaissance
The first regular English comedy: Ralph Roister Doister ……tragedy: Gorboduc
Christopher Marlowe: greatest playwright before Shakespeare and most gifted of the “University Wits”(John Lily, Peele, Lodge, Nashe, Greene, Kyd & Marlowe). (Peele: The Old Wives’Tale, Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy)
Major works: Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Edward II
(one man tragedy; Marlowe’s mighty line: forceful and beautiful blank verse)
The Period of Renaissance
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Early period: 9 history plays (Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, etc. ); 3 early tragedies (Titus Andronicus, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar); comedies (The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night)
Mature period: tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens), tragi-comedies (Measure for Measure, All’s Well that Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida)
Last period: Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Pericles, ★Henry VIII
The Period of Renaissance
Ben Jonson: comedy of humors: Volpone, or the Fox; the first poet laureate (The Epigrams, The Forest, The Underwood), but first of all, dramatist
John Donne: leader of the metaphysical school
He employed intricate reasoning through the use of “conceits” or far-fetched comparisons. The Flea Beaumont & Fletcher: The Maid’s Tragedy
Francis Bacon: the progenitor of English materialism Instauratio Magna; The Advancement of Learning; The Essays, or Counsels, Civil & Moral; The New Atlantis
The Period of Revolution and Restoration
John Milton: the greatest poet and pamphleteer during the bourgeois revolution in mid-17th century England Poems:Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; sonnets
“Miltonic” lines in blank verse
Prose, or rather pamphlets:★Areopagitica: his defence of the freedom of the press; Of Education; Of the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (his first important pamphlet); The Defence of the English People
The two most essential things to be remembered about him: his Puritanism and his republicanism
The Period of Revolution and Restoration
John Dryden: the most prominent Restoration playwright; the earliest literary critic of real importance He introduced the “heroic play”.
All for Love (The World Well Lost)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy: his best known piece of criticism
John Bunyan: His works are of a religious character. The Pilgrim’s Progress (allegory and dream)
The Neo-classical Period
Neo-classicism: Alexander Pope, Addison and Steele, Samuel Johnson
Literature of Satire: Jonathan Swift
English Novels of Realistic Tradition: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding
Writers of Sentimentalism: Samuel Richardson, Oliver Goldsmith
English Drama of the 18th century: Richard Sheridan The Neo-classical Period
Alexander Pope
three groups of poems: An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of Lock; Translation of two epics
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
In their hands, the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre.
The Tatler & The Spectator
Samuel Johnson: lexicographer
The Neo-classical Period
Jonathan Swift: born in Ireland; Gulliver’s Travels
Part I. Satire—the Whig and the Tories, Anglican Church and Catholic Church.
Part II. Satire—the legal system; condemnation of war. Part III. Satire—ridiculous scientific experiment.
Part IV. Satire—mankind
Daniel Defoe: the first great realistic novelist in English literature, Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding: ★The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling & The History of Amelia
The Neo-classical Period
Samuel Richardson: Pamela, the first English psycho-analytical novel
Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
Drama
Richard Sheridan: Rivals, The School for Scandals
The two works are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy. Morality is the constant theme in his plays.
The Romantic Period
Romantic poets
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats Romantic prose writers
Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey
Romantic novelist: Walter Scott, Jane Austen Romantic dramatist: Shelly
The Romantic Period
William Blake: The Song of Innocence, The Songs of Experience, Marriage of Heaven and Hell advantage: the strong visual mind
“Lake Poets”: Wordsworth, Coleridge & Southey William Wordsworth: poems about nature and about
human life
Wordsworth & Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads marking the beginning of Romantic Age
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s masterpiece
Samuel Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
The Romantic Period
George Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan, his masterpiece
P. B. Shelly: Prometheus Unbound (his masterpiece, a lyrical drama),A Defence of Poetry (an essay), To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind (lyrics)
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Isabella
The Romantic Period
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion She has brought the English novel to its maturity. Walter Scott’s historical novels combine a romantic atmosphere with a realistic depiction of historical background and common people’s life. Scott marked the transition from romanticism to the period realism. Ivanhoe
The Victorian Period
Major Writers of Critical Realism
Novelists: Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot
Poets:
Alfred Tennyson: The Memoriam, Idylls of the King (his most ambitious work)
Robert Browning: “dramatic monologue”reaches its maturity and perfection.
Dramatic lyrics, Dramatic Personae, The Ring and the Book, Men and Women
Dramatist: Oscar Wilde
The Victorian Period
Charles Dickens
Period of youthful optimist: Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Pickwick Club
Period of excitement and irritation: A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Dombey & Son
Period of intensifying pessimism: Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations Penetrating satire
The Victorian Period
William Thackeray: Vanity Fair
The Bronte Sisters
Charlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall George Eliot: Middlemarch(masterpiece), The Mill on
the Floss, Adam Bede
The Victorian Period
Oscar Wilde
The school of aestheticism
He first advocated the theory of “art for art’s sake”
The only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray Comedies:Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest
One tragedy: Salome
The Modern Period
Thomas Hardy: Determinism + critical realism Fiction: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd
Poetry:
a.Wessex Poems and Other Verses
b.Poems of the Past and the Present
c.Time’s Laughing Stocks
d.Moments of Vision
https://www.360docs.net/doc/4317610573.html,te Lyrics and Earlier
f.The famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwell
g.Winter Words
The Modern Period
William Butler Yeats: the greatest modern poet in British literature, symbolism
his poetry
a.The Responsibilities
b.The Wild Swans at Coole
c.The Tower
d.The Winding Stair
(2)his dramas
a.The Hour Glass
b.The Land of Heart’s Desire
c.On Baile’s Strand
The Modern Period
T.S. Eliot 唯一一个在英美文学中都提到的诗人poems
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land (epic)
Hollow Man
Ash Wednesday
Four Quarters
Plays
Murder in the Cathedral
Sweeney Agonistes
The Cocktail Party
The Confidential Clerk
The Modern Period
John Galsworthy: Forsyte Saga
James Joyce: Stream of Consciousness came to the highest point as a genre of modern literature
major works
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Dubliners; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando, Modern Fiction(Stream of Consciousness also applied)
David Herbert Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Modern Period
George Bernard Shaw: the greatest English dramatist after Shakespeare
Shaw was very much impressed by the Norwegian dramatist Ibsen.
Critical realism
Major works
Widower’s Houses
Man and Superman
Major Barbara
Pygmalion
Heartbreak House
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
The Apple Cart
Saint Joan
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea. 英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。 the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters. 迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。 "the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain. 1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。 gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands. 盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。 the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.
英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
Old English Literature 古英语文学 （450-1066年） Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic 中世纪英语文学（1066-1500） Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture―英国文学之父‖William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》. 文艺复兴（16-17世纪） William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 Shakespeare‘s greatest works: greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night‘s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》 John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》. 18世纪文学和新古典主义 Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》 Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class people Henry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones. Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver‘s Travels《格列佛游记》. Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners. Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）. Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》) Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a
专业八级英国美国文学知识考点
英国文学 一、古英语时期的英国文学（499-1066） 1、贝奥武夫 2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父 二、中古英语时期的英国文学 1、allegory体非常盛行 2、Romance开始上升到一定的高度 3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士 4、Willian Langlaud 《农夫皮尔斯的幻象》 5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集（英雄双韵体） 6、托马斯.马洛礼《亚瑟王之死》 三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪） 1、托马斯.莫尔《乌托邦》 2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet 3、Philips Sidney 《The defense of Poesie》
《阿卡迪亚》描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱 4、斯宾塞《仙后》诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节； 5、莎士比亚： 长篇叙事诗：《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》、《露克丝受辱记》 四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白 7、本.琼森风俗喜剧（comedy of manners）《人性互异》 8、约翰.多恩“玄学派”诗歌创始人 9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣 10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一《Essays》英国发展史上的里程碑 《学术的推进》和《新工具》 四、启蒙时期（18世纪） 1、约翰、弥尔顿：《失乐园》、《为英国人民争辩》 2、约翰、班扬：《天路历程》religious allegory 3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的杰出代表、桂冠诗人；
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