John Wycliff
Father of English pro
Reform the church to away with the corruption and rottenness; translate Bible into standard English; maintain church must not interfere in temporal matters; fixes a national standard for English pro to replace various dialects.
William Langland
poet
The Vision of Piers Plowman(takes form of allorgory but gives realistic picture of 14th century)
Sir Thomas Malory
poet
Le Morte d'Arthur/The Death of Arthur
Goeffrey Chaucer
the father of English poetry
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born in rising family, join army then prisoned. smooth in political life.1st imitated French poetry and translated French poem, influenced by Italian,famous for his tales by links
The Book of Duchess, Troilus and Cryyde, The Parliament of Fowls, The Hou of Fame, The Canterbury Tales
Renaissance
Edmund Spenr
“the poet’s poet”
born poor, became part of noble family, cretary of influential political members, queen son-in-law, boss burn down, he die in poor
The Shepheard's Calender(poem in 12parts, Virgil's ver dialogues, different descriptions of the English countryside, theme of love, poetry, religion);The Faerie Queene(allegorical romance, 7 deadly sins)
Christopher Marlowe
The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance
have been cooperate with Shakespeare.write all tragedies, works are remarkable for their imagination, burning passion, nsuous richness, variety of pace and respon to varying emotions. his ver is known for its stateliness and its poetic beauty. 美国之声评委english studyPerfect blank-ver
Tamburlaine the Great(1587,Tamburlaine reprent the Renaissance desire for infinite power and authority); The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus(1592, reflect the desire for infinite knowledge and express his atheism and patriotism, conforms with the orthodox teachings of the church)
William Shakespeare
Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best reprentatives of the English humanism.
rich,help father of his shop, 18 married. left native town,a rising actor, disappear, write plays
2 narrative poems: Venus and Adonis(1593),The Rape of Lucrece(1594)
1st period of experimentation about history plays and comedies(imitation of exciting plays, by the spirit of youthfulness and rich imagination): King Henry VI(3parts, Richard III(1593),Two Gentlemen of Verona(1594), Love's Labour Lost(1594))
2nd period show more careful and artistic work, better plot and a marked increa in the knowledge of human nature: Midsummer Night's Dream(1595); Romeo and Juliet(1596); The Merchant of Venice(1597); two parts of Henry IV( As You Like It(1598), Julius Caesar(1599)); Henry V(1599)
3rd period of gloom and depression: Hamlet(1601), Othello(1604),King Lear(1605),Macb
eth(1605)
4th period of restored renity, a calm after storm: The Winter's Tale(1610), The Tempest(1611)四级听力高频词汇
17th century
Francis Bacon
The first important essayist and the founder of modern science in England
dedicationchief figure in 1700-1750, father is Lord, be a Lord but corruption and dismisd. pursuit of literary and scientific works; stress the importance of experience, or experiment, which is oppoed to common belief in Middle Ages,58essays. his essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness
Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Riches
John Donne
Catholic family. write religious rmons and poems; love lyrics with both positive(purify love as sth holy) and nagetive attitude(cynical tone to satirize women's inconstancy反复无常).Reprentetive of Metaphysical poets
Songs and Sonnets
George Herbert
poet
follows John Donne
The Temple
Ben Jonson
also a dramastist,reprentitve of Cavaliers
Robert Herrick
poet
follows Ben Jonson
Hesperides
John Milton
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chief Puritan poet, enthusiasm of bougeois revolution & bitter hatred for the despotic ruler；allusion to classic works, Miltonic style。
L'Allegro; Il Penroso; The Defence of the English People; Paradi Lost（his greatest poetical work，allusion.the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.）
John Bunyan
chief puritan writer of pro, not have much education， real picture of true life, purduesatire at ruling class
The Pilgrim's Progress（allegory and drama）;the Vanity Fair
John Dryden
The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century .
a critic, poet, and playwright
depone of the leading writers in the Restoration period.support revolution, ver satires in heroic couplets
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