美国英国文学专八复习要点

美国文学 一、早期美国作家 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac, Autobiography

Philio Freneau The Wild Honey Suckle, To the Memory of the Brave Americans

Father of American

Poetry Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 美国第三任总统

二、浪漫主义文学 Pre-Romanticism Washington Irving The Sketch Book, The Legend of Sleep Hollow, Rip Van Winkle William Cullen Bryant The Yellow Violet, Iliad, Odyssey James Fennimore Cooper The Last Mohicans Post-Romanticism Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, Song of myself Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, A Psalm of Life

Edgar Allan Poe To Helen, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Emily Dickson Because I Could Not Stop Death Henry David Thoreau Walden, Life in the Woods

三、现实主义文学 Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy, The Financier, The Titan Henry James The American, The Wings of the Dove, The Portrait of a Lady Herman Melville Moby Dick Jack London The Call of Wild, Love of Life, Martin Eden Edwin Arlington Robinson The Town Down the River, The Man Against the Sky

四、现代主义文学 Earnest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and The Sea Ezra Pound Metro Station Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Robert Frost A Boy's Wish, North of Boston, Desert Places William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying, Absalom,Absalom Willa Cather My Antonia Sherwood Anderson Winesburg,Ohio, Death in the Woods Sinclair Lewis Main Street, Babbitt Eugene O'Neil The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 五、American Literature since 1945 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Saul Bellow The Dangling Man, The Adventures of Augie March Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find John Updike Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest William Carlos Williams Paterson, The Yachts, The Red Wheel Barrow Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Edward Albee The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Allen Ginsberg Howl Jack Kerouac On The Road

英国文学 一、中古英国文学 Beowulf the oldest poem in the English language Ceadmon the first known religious poet of England Cynewulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer the Canterbury tales the father of English fiction Thomas Malory Morte d’Arthur

二、文艺复兴时期文学 1. English Poets Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queen the poets’ poet 2. English Prose Thomas More Utopia John Lyly euphuism Francis Bacon Of Studies, Of Travel, and Of Wisdom England’s first essayist 3. English Drama Christopher Marlow The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus first made blank verse 4.William Shakespeare 16 comedies, 11 tragedies,10 history plays 5.Ben Johnson Song to Celia

三、17世纪英国文学 1.Literature of the Revolution Period (age of Milton) John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning George Herbert saint of the Metaphysical School John Milton Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agnoistes John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress 2.Literature of the Restoration Period (age of Dryden) John Dryden heroic couplet

四、18世纪英国文学 Realism

1.Neo-Classicism in English Literature Alexander Pope Essay on Man Richard Steele The Tattler, The Spectator Samuel Johnson The Dictionary of the English Language 2. English Novelists of Realistic Tradition Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe father of English and Europe Novels Jonathans Swift Gulliver's Travel Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Tobias George Smollett 3. English Novelists of Sentimental Tradition Samuel Richardson Laurence Sterne Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village 4. Poetry of the Pre-Romanticism and Sentimentalism James Thomson The seasons Edward Young William Collins Ode to Evening Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 5. William Blake Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience 6. Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Sine the greatest songwriter in the world 7. English Drama in the 18th Century Richard Brinkley Sheridan The School for Scandal

五、浪漫主义时期文学 1. Romantic Poets of the First Generation

William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads, Poems on Nature and Country Life Poet Laureate Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan