英美文学欣赏课程笔记

English

上古及中世

1.An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature

纪英国文学简介

The period of Old English :450~1066

Genesis A 创世纪甲本,Genesis B 创世纪乙本and Exodus 出埃及记based on the Old Testament 旧约全书

The Dream of the Rood 十字架之梦comes from the New Testament 新约全书

Beowulf 贝奥武甫the national epic poem

The Wan derer, Deor 流浪者，狄奥尔；The Seafarer 航海者,The Wife ' s Comp la妻子的抱

怨

Medieval period 中世纪from 1066 up to the mid-14th century

Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght高文爵士与他的绿衣骑士John Gower约翰高厄

Piers Plowman农夫皮尔斯William Langland 威廉兰格伦

The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集Geoffrey Chaucer 吉奥弗雷乔叟The Romaunt of the Rose玫瑰传奇；The Lege nd of Good Wome n 好女人的故事Joh n Dryde n约翰德莱顿called Chaucer the father of English poetry

2.The Renaissance Period 文艺复兴时期

I .Edmund Spenser埃德蒙斯宾塞(1552-1599)

The Shepheardes Calender 牧人日记

Epithalamion 新婚喜歌

The Faerie Queene 仙后

The five main qualities of Spenser ' s poetry are 1)a perfert melody;2)a rare sense of beauty;3) a

splendid imagination;4)a lofty moral purity and seriousness; and 5) a dedicated idealism,

he also uses strange forms of speech and obsolete words in order to increases the rustic effect

n .Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)克里斯托夫马洛

Tamburlaine (1587-1588) 帖木儿

Dr. Faustus (1589)浮士德博士的悲剧

The Jew of Malta(1590) 马耳他岛的犹太人

Edward II(1592-1593) 爱德华二世

Hero and Leander 海洛与勒安得耳

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 激情的牧人致心爱的姑娘

Translation : Amores 爱的艺术---Ovid 奥维德

in . William Shakespeare (1564-1616)威廉莎士比亚

Frist period -five history plays:Henry VI,Parts l,ll,and III 亨利六世(上，中，下)；Richard

III

理查三世；Titus Andronicus 泰托斯安东尼；four comedies:The Comedy of Errors 错误的喜

剧；The Two Gentlemen of Verona 维洛那二绅士；The Taming of the Shrew 驯悍记；Love's Labour ' s Los爱的徒劳；

Second period -five histories: Richard II 理查二世；King John 约翰王；Henry IV, Parts I and

II 亨利四世 (上，下)；Henry V 亨利五世；six comedies:A Midsummer Night ' s Dream#夏夜之梦；The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人；Much Ado About Nothing 无事生非；As You

Like It 皆大欢喜；Twelfth Night 第十二夜；The Merry Wives of Windsor 温莎的风流娘儿们；two tragedies:Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧与朱丽叶；Julius Caesar 裘利斯凯撒

Third period -his greatest tragedies:Hamlet 哈姆莱特；Othello 奥赛罗；King Lear 李尔王；Macbeth 麦克白；Antony and Cleopatra 安东尼与克利奥佩特拉；Troilus and Cressida 特洛伊勒斯与克利西达；Coriolanus 科里奥拉那斯and his so-called dark comedies：All 's well That Ends Well 终成眷属；Measure for Measure 一报还一报

The last period - principal romantic tragicomedies: Pericles 伯里克利；Cymbeline 辛白林；The Win ter ' s Ta冬天的故事；The Temp est 暴风雨；two final plays: Henry VIII 亨利八世；The Two Noble Kinsmen 两位贵族亲戚

Two long narrative poem: Venus and Adonis 维纳斯与安东尼斯(1593) ；The Rape of Lucrece 鲁克里丝受辱记( 1594)

Sonnet 18 第18号十四行诗one of the most beautiful sonnets

IV.Francis Bacon (1561-1626)弗兰西斯培根philosopher scientist and essayist

The Advancement of Learning (1605) 学术的进展

Novum Organum(1620) 新工具an enlarged Latin version of The Advancement of Learning

Essays 散文集of Studies 论读书the most popular of Bacon ' s 58 essays

Apophthagmes New and Old (1625) 新旧格言集

The History of the Reign of Henry VII(1622) 亨利七世的统治

The New Atlantis 新大西岛；unfinished

Maxims of Law 法律原理

The Learned Reading upon the Statue of Uses(1642) 法令使用读本

V. Joh n Do nne (1572-1631)约翰邓恩meta physical poetry 玄学派诗歌

The Elegies and Satires 挽歌与讽刺；

The Songs and Sonnets 歌与短歌Farewell to Love 告别爱情

Holy Sonnets 圣歌集；A Hymn to God the Father 圣父赞美诗

The Sun Rising 升引的太阳

Death, Be Not Proud 死神，休得狂妄written in the strict Petrarchan pattern 彼特拉克

筍.John Milt on 约翰•弥尔顿(1608-1674)

Paradis Lost (1665)失乐园the only generally acknowledge epic in English literature since Beowulf

Paradise Regained (1671)复乐园

Samson Agonistes (1671)力士参孙the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English

Lycidas (1637)利西达斯composed for a collection of elegies dedicated to Edward King Areopagitica (1644) 论出版自由his most memorable prose

3.The Neoclassical Period

★ Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual ' s feeling and experiences.

I .Joh n Bun ya n 约翰•班杨(1628-1688)

The Pilgrim ' s Progi天路历程The Vanity Fair 名利场