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Thomas More During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, a violent opponent of the Reformation of Martin Luther。Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism.More coined the word …utopia‟ and his complexly ironic account of an ideal, imaginary island nation not only has given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers.

Edmund Spenser The poet’s poet English poet whose long allegoricalpoem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.English poet known chiefly for his allegorical epic romance The Faerie Queene. His other works include the pastoral Sheperdes Calendar and the lyrical marriage poem Epithalamion

Christopher Marlowe One of the University Wits:

Christopher Marlowe‟works：1 Tamburlaine 2 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus----Dr. Faustus

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ：

published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the most well-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. It is composed in iambic tetrameter (four feet of unstressed/stressed syllables), with six stanzas each composed of two rhyming couplets.

It is often used for scholastic purposes because the poem is a good example of regular meter and rhythm.

The shepherd enjoys an ideal country life, cherishing a pastoral and pure affection of his love.

Strong emotion is conveyed through the beauty of nature where lovers are not disturbed by worldly concern.

Pastoral Poem： a poetic kind that concerns itself with simple life of country folk and describes that life in stylized, idealized terms.

Marlowe’s Literar y Achievement：

• 1 He perfected the blank verse素体诗and made it the principal medium of English drama.

• 2 He created the Renaissance hero for English drama. They are such as Tamburlaine and Faustus. His heroes are full of ambition and aspire for power, knowledge and glory.

• 3.the greatest of the pioneers of English drama;

• 4 Marlowe paved the way for the plays of the greatest English dramatist—Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare

生平：William Shakespeare (1564—1616) is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known. Likely the most influential writer in all of English literature and certainly the most important playwright of the English Main