英国文学作家作品介绍

作家作品介绍Francis Bacon弗朗西斯·培根(1561-1626)PPT55Essays (1594)The Advancement of Learning (1605)Great Instauration and Novum Organum (1620)New Atlantis (posthumous)William ShakespeareAs You Like It皆大欢喜Mid-summer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之梦Twelfth NightThe Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人Hamlet (Oedipus complex)Othello (credulousness)King Lear (reap what one has sown)Macbeth (jealous )PericlesCymbelineThe Winter’s TaleThe TempestJohn Donne (1572-1631)Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee (Death, Be Not Proud)含义：We are humanbeings and we are allin some way connected. We can’t feel free when someone else is in trouble.John Milton (1608-1674)1. Short poems:“L’Allegro”and “Il Penseroso”; Lycidas (1637)2. Prose work:Areopagitica (1644)3. Long poems:Paradise Lost-- Fall of the angels (13 days)--Creation of the world (7days)--Fall of Man (13 days)(1667), Paradise Regained (1671), and Samson Agonistes (1671)Doctrine and Discipline of DivorceJoseph Addison约瑟夫·艾迪生(1672-1719)he founded The Spectator 《旁观者》magazine.Cato（a Tragedy）最出名Indeed, it was almost certainly literary inspiration for the American Revolution, being well known to many of the Founding Fathers.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)Robinson Crusoe （Through Robinson Crusoe story, Defoe wants to tell us the Puritan idea being practiced.）A Journal of the Plague YearMoll FlandersRoxanaJonathan Swift (1667 –1745)satiristGulliver’s Travels（Lilliput小人国，Brobdingnag大人国，Houyhnhnms智马国，Yahoos）主旨：Gulliver’s Travels satired British government, as well as the evil of human beings.1. A satirical view of the state of European government and of petty differences between religions2. An inquiry into whether men are inherently corrupt or whether they become corrupt.3. A restatement of the older “ancient versus moderns”controversy prevously addressed by Swift in The Battle of the BooksWilliam Blake (1757-1827)Songs of Innocence (1809) Innocence is the state in which the self or ego does not establish distinctions between itself and the rest of existence.Songs of Experience (1794)Innocence symbolizes purity, kindness and loveExperience symbolizes maturity, knowledge and evil. Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)The lamb---The work exalts the goodness of the creator and finds within the creator a source of gentleness温和, selflessness, and love.The idea of a kind creator is expressed by the alignment of the creator with the most gentle creation 。

It is in a sense encompassing all creations in its shadow of goodness.The TigerRobert Burns 罗伯特·彭斯(1759-1796)Auld Lang Syne（非常流行的歌曲，关于友谊）Why does the song Auld Lang Syne become so popular? Because it advocates friendshipWilliam Wordsworth威廉·华兹华斯(1770-1850) Descriptive Sketches, an Evening Walk (1793)Lyrical Ballads (1798)Poems in Two V olumes (1807)The Excursion (1814)Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (1850)I wandered lonely as a cloud （诗）The plot is extremely simple, depicting the poet's wandering and his discovery of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored, or restless.The poem discloses the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can affect one’s emotion and behavior with its motion and sound.What could poets get from nature?How about us?Poets can get inspration and truth from nature. If we go into nature, we can get the same things.George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)Don Juan唐璜Harem闺房She Walks in BeautyChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18)The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)Manfred (1817)Don Juan (1818-19)The Vision of Judgment (1822)Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)His first important poem, Queen Mab,Best lyrics:“The Cloud”(1820), “To a Skylark”(1820),“Ode to the West Wind”(1819), etc.PPT323The cycle of the seasonsCycles of death and rebirthThe imagery associated with this suggests that Shelley expected his work to also spread over the universe, like the wind, to destroy the old and to preserve the newPrometheus Unbound (1819)Adonais (1821)In Defence of Poetry (1822)Both Byron and Shelley were from rich families, why were they so rebellious?It’s because of their Romantic spirit and pursuit of freedom.Ode to the West Wind tells us what?The breath of autumn’s being, which on earth, sky, and sea destroys in the autumn in order to revive in the spring.Jane Austen (1775-1817)Sense and Sensibility (1811)Pride and Prejudice (1813)( Good judgment about people,Love and marriage）Northanger Abbey (1814)Mansfield Park (1814)Emma (1815)Persuasion (1818)Walter Scott沃尔特·斯科特(1771-1832)The Lay Of The Last Minstrel (1805)Waverly (1814)Old Mortality (1816)Rob Roy (1817)The Heart of Midlothian (1818)Ivanhoe (1819)劫后英雄传Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯(1812-1870) The Pickwick PapersOliver TwistDavid CopperfieldBleak HouseA Tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsWilliam Thackeray威廉·萨克雷(1811-1863) The Book of Snobs (1846-47)Vanity Fair (1847-8)Pendennis (1849-50)The History of Henry Esmond (1852)The Newcomes (1853-55)Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)Jane Eyre (1847)Shirley (1849)Villette (1853)The Professor (1857)Alfred TennysonBreak, Break, Break鉴赏In this poem, Tennyson contrasts his own feeling of sorrow with the carefree joys of the children at play and the young sailor at work, and with the unfeeling movements of the ship and the sea waves. The repetitive beginning of the first and the last stanza indicates not only the indifferent, mechanical movement of the sea waves but is also an echo of the rushes of grief of the heart-broken poet.Crossing the BarUlysses"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"It shows the spirit of new the bourgeoisie.Ulysses is not a revolutionary seeking to renew the old world. Instead he is an explorer, seeking after new worlds and new experience.Robert Browning（Browning is famous for his dramatic monologue）My Last DuchessFriedrich Nietzsche (1844 –1900)Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891) Jude the Obscure (1896)Wessex PoemsOscar Wilde (1854-1900)“Art for Art’s sake”The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Mrs. Warren's ProfessionD. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)Sons and Lovers (1913)。