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英国文学史上个大名家
英国文学史上个大名家

1 William Shakespeare威廉?莎士比亚1564~1616

①Historical plays: Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry V ;Richard II;Henry

VIII

②Four Comedies:皆大欢喜; 第十二夜;

Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦; 威尼

斯商人

③Four Tragedies:哈姆莱特; 奥赛罗; 李尔王;

麦克白

④Shakespeare Sonnet :154

Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg

A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic

pentameter restricted to a definition rhyme scheme.

2. John Milton约翰?弥尔顿1608~1674

(诗人、政论家;失明后写《失乐园》、《复乐园》、《力士参孙》。)

①Epics: 失乐园

复乐园

②Dramatic poem: < Samson Agonistes>力士参孙

论出版自由

为英国人民声辩

我的失明

This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba cde cde, typical of

Italian sonnet.

Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve him best sho can

endure the suffering best.

3. John Bunyan约翰?班扬1628~1688

(代表作《天路历程》,宗教寓言,被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”,是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。)

Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)

①Religionary Allegory:天路历程

4. John Donne

the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).

Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗):(用语)the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.(主题:love, religious, thought)

Artistic features:

1.conceits or imagery奇思妙喻

2.syllogism三段论

①Meditations 沉思录

The Flea 虱子

②Songs And Sonnets

Holy Sonnets

③Valediction:

5 Jonathan Swift乔纳森?斯威夫特1667~1745

(十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。)

格列佛游记(fictional work)

Four parts:

Lilliput 小人国Brobdingnag 大人国

Flying Island 飞岛Houyhnhnm 马岛

一个小小的建议

书战

木桶的故事

一个麻布商的书信

6 Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁1707~1754

(英国小说家,戏剧家,被誉为“英国小说之父”。)

He is called “Father of English novel”. He was the first to write a “Comic epic in prose”(散文体史诗), and the first to give the modern novel its structure

and style.

①novels:

弃婴汤姆?琼斯

约瑟夫?安德鲁

大诗人江奈生?威尔德

爱米利亚

②plays:

一七三六年历史记事

堂吉柯德在英国

7 William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯1770~1850

(与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“湖畔派”诗人。The Lake Poets)

抒情歌谣集(with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Theme:1.Nature embodies human beings in their diverse circumstance. It

is nature that give him “strength and knowledge fullof peace”

2.It is bliss to recolled the beauty of nature in poet mind while he

is in solitude.

Comment:The poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights. In

the poem on the beauty of nature, the reader is presented a

vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils(水仙) and poet’s

philosophical ideas and mystical thoughts.

③Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

④The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女

序曲

8 George Gordon Byron乔治?戈登?拜伦1788~1824

(拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫,却充满了反抗精神。内心充满了孤独与苦闷,却又蔑视群小。恰尔德·哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中第一个“拜伦式英雄”。)

“Byronic hero”is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, against tyrannical rules or moral principles.

唐?璜

恰尔德?哈罗德尔游记

该隐

当初我们俩分别

9 Jane Austen简?奥斯丁1775~1817

She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only inches squire.

理智与感情

傲慢与偏见(chapter I)

【Elizabeth Bennet & Darcy】in the end false pride is humbled and prejudice

dissolved

【Collins & Charlotte Lucas】see the reality of marriage as a necessary step

if a woman is to avoid the wretchedness of

aging spinsterhood

【Lydia & Wickham】shown the dangers of feckless relationships

unsupported by money.

【Mr.&Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Burgh】comic

characters

曼斯菲尔德庄园

爱玛

诺桑觉寺

劝导

10. Charles Dickens查尔斯?狄更斯1812~1870

(批判现实主义小说家)critical realist writer

匹克威克外传

奥利弗?特维斯特(雾都孤儿)

老古玩店

圣诞颂歌

董贝父子

大卫?科波菲尔

荒凉山庄

艰难时世

双城记(London & Paris)

远大前程

我们共同的朋友

是英国19世纪小说繁荣时期最杰出的代表作家,影响遍及欧美以及世界各国。他那富有社会批判意义的现实主义小说不仅使英国文坛焕然一新,而且对世界文学的发展也产生了深远的影响。

11 Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂?勃朗特1816~1855

简?爱

Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan, was sent to Lowood, a charity school. There she suffer a lot and 8 years later she left school and became a boverness at

Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with the master,Mr. Rochester.

It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. charity institution such as Lowood School

It is a successful introduction to the first governess heoine in the English novel, whom represents those middle-class working women struggling for

recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.

雪莉

教师

12 Emily Bronte艾米莉?勃朗特1818~1854

① < Wuthering Heights>呼啸山庄

A story about two familie and an intruding stranger.

【TheEarnshaw Family】Mr. Earnshaw, his wife, the son Hindley, the daughter

Catherine, Heathcliff

【The Linton Family】Mr.Linton, his wife, son Edgar, daughter Isabella

② < Old Stoic>

13 Alfred Tennyson阿尔弗莱德?丁尼生1809~1892

(维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人)

Poet Laureate (桂冠诗人)

① < In Memoriam>悼念

To memorialize his friend

② < Break, Break, Break>

③ < Idylls of the King>国王叙事诗

14 Thomas Hardy托马斯?哈代1840~1928

(小说多以农村生活为背景;自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of character and environment)

?Novels

德伯家的苔丝

Theme:experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration

② < Jude The Obscure>无名的裘德

③ < Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下

④ < Far From The Madding Crowd>远离尘嚣

⑤ < The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长

⑥ < The Return of the Native>还乡

? Poems

Wessex Poems And Other Verses

Poems Of The Past And Present

The Dynasts 列国

15 Thomas Gray(托马斯.格雷)1716~1771

Quadruple Alliance(四国联盟,英俄奥地利普鲁士)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 墓园挽歌

Ode on Spring 春之颂

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Hymn to Adversity逆境颂

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《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题) 2. Romance (名词解释) 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad(名词解释) 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance(名词解释)9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet(名词解释)11. Blank verse(名词解释)12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”(推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句,非常值得一读) 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要,最重要属sonnet18。(其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读) 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要,特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的,故事情节来自Old Testament,另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment(名词解释) 19. Neoclassicism(名词解释) 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要,注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样,它虚构了一系列的人物,以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文,这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要,要知道具体内容,就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称,和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; (我们主要讲了三个地方)“A Modest Proposal”比较重要,要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要,剧情要清楚,Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形,以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature,另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要,需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家,另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),

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1.(1)Chaucer:He is the earlist writer of humanist thought .he is the first man use many common English word in his writing.His early influence as a satirist is also important.Chaucer was a man of immense knowledge, culture and experience. He wrote wittily and observantly and never boringly. He lived at a time when English was beginning to emerge in something resembling its present form, which makes him accessible to the modern reader. Chaucer's great achievement was to establish English as a major literary language. Nothing like his "Canterbury Tales" had been produced before in English and it is a masterpiece of characterisation and narrative. He is able to present them with a wonderfully detached but sympathetic eye .he also might have been continuing an English tradition that had evolved from the alliterative verse of the Middle Ages and reflected the 'natural' rhythms of English speech. 1.(2)MIlton:h e is political both in life and art.he is a militant pamphleteer of the English literature and the he is the greatest revolutionary poet of the 17th century;h e wrote the greatest epic in English literature,and he and Shakespeare have always been regard as two patterns of English verse;h e is a master of blank verse,he is the first man use in non-dramatic works;h e is a great stylist and famous for his grand style.h is sublimity of thought and majesty of expression have admired by many people. 2. "Of Studies" is written by Francis Bacon,the founder of English materialist philosophy.He is the first English essayist. "Of Studies" is the most famous essay of Bacon's collection of 58 essays. This paper analyzes the main purpose of learning, shows that different people has different learning methods.Also it tells that how study could have a subtle influence on human character. "Of studies" uses the marvelous and convincing language.It has concise and compact structure. Bacon reveals the objective attitude of learning to readers . AS its structure,he used many rhetoric methods,such as parallelism, Using this way could enhance persuasiveness of this essay. 3.(1)Shakespeare is a major representative in Renaissance.He has 154 sonnets,37 plays and 2 long narrative poems.He is one of the founders of realism in world literature.Shakespeare's work has made a lasting impression on later theatre and literature. In particular, he expanded the dramatic potential of characterization, plot, language, and genre. His work heavily influenced later poetry. The Romantic poets attempted to revive Shakespearean verse drama, though with little success. Shakespeare influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. In Shakespeare's day, English grammar, spelling and pronunciation were less standardize than they are now,and his use of language helped shape modern English.The popularity of Shakespeare is a worldwide phenomenon.His name has been known to China for more than a hundred year,and many of his plays have been widely read among Chinese people.Shakespeare has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance,and one of the greatest writers the world over.

(完整word版)吴伟仁--英国文学史及选读--名词解释

①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】

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