专八人文知识之Literature
Literature British literature 中古时期-before 15th
1. Beowulf reprents the highest achievement of the old English
2. Caedmon is the earliest English poet
3. Sir Gawain and the green knight is one of the best Middle English romance
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4. William Langland-piers the plowman -the great work along with the Canterbury tales
5. Geoffrey Chaucer-“the father of English poetry ” and “the father of English fiction ”
6. The Robin Hood Ballads -English folk literature 文艺复兴时期-14th —17th
Drama is the most distinctive achievement Poetry
1. Thomas Wyatt is the first to introduce sonnet into English
2. Edmund Spenr is “the poets’ poet ” and poet laureate
Masterpiece: the faerie queen (Spenrian stanza-eight iambic pentameter lines and a line of six iambic feet) Other works: the shepherd’s calendar epithalamion Pro
1. Thomas More Masterpiece-utopia
2. Francis Bacon is England’s first essayist
3.John Lyly-euphues (the u of euphuism 夸饰文体) Drama
1. Christopher Marlowe-the greatest playwright
before Shakespeare and most gifted university writer
He first u blank ver in drama and paved the way for Shakespeare
Works: Tamburlaine the tragic history of doctor Faustus (best play) the Jew of Malta 2. William Shakespeare(37 plays,154 sonnets) Four great Comedies : a midsummer night’s dream, as you like it, the merchant of V enice, twelfth night
contextualFour great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
3. Ben Johnson-vulpine -satirical comedy 资产阶级革命和王朝复辟时期-17th
Literature of the revolution period (age of Milton) of restoration period (age of Dryden) Poets
1. John Milton (a master of blank ver ) Masterpiece: paradi lost others: Samson agonist’s paradi regained
John Donne-the founder of the metaphysical school
Masterpiece: a valediction: forbidding mourning Pros
1. John Bunyan-the pilgrim’s progress Writers
Jeremy Collier-a short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage
2. John Dryden -the father of English criticism Forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th and poet laureate for 20 years, he also created the heroic couplet
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an essay of dramatic poesy (best work) all for love Absalom and acidophil the hind and the panthe r 启蒙运动时期-18th The age of enlightenment/reason
Enlightenment movement (reason, equality, science) Neoclassicism (a revival of classical standards of order, balance and harmony, john Dryden and alexander pope) Sentimentalism
The graveyard school (ntimental lamentation or meditation, Thomas gray is the leading figure) Writers of Neoclassicism
1. Alexander Pope-the greatest English poet of the
18th century
Best known for his satirical ver , one of the first to introduce rationalism
Works: an essay on criticism the rape of the lock essay
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2.Samuel Johnson-“grand champion in literature of
that age”
Works: the dictionary of the English language the lives of English poets
启程歌词英文导游词Writers of realistic tradition
1.Daniel Defoe-the discoverer of the modern novel
“father of English and European novels”Robinson Crusoe-the first English novel
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Other works: captain singleton colonel Jacque moll Flanders
2.Jonathan Swift(an Irish master of satires) Works: a tale of a tub (established his name as a satirist) a modest proposal
Masterpiece: Gulliver’s travels
3.Henry Fielding-father of the English novel Playwrights: the welsh opera pasquin
Novels: Joph Andrew-“a comic epic poem in pro “Jonathan wild the great
The history of tom jones, a founding (masterpiece) Writers of ntimental tradition
1.Samuel Richardson
Works: Pamela, virtue rewarded (letters); Clarissa harlowe (letter) sir Richard grandson
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Tristram Shandy (his most famous book) a ntimental journey
英语阅读网3.Oliver Coldsmish(an outstanding reprentative of
the English ntimentalist)
Works: the traveler (heroic couplet) the derted village (his best poet) the vicar of Wakefield
4.Thomas Gray
The leader of the graveyard school
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5.Edward Young-from night thoughts
shut up English drama
1.John Gay-the beggar’s opera
2.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Works: the rival the school for scandal (the best English comedy since Shakespeare)
浪漫主义时期-18th—19th
It began with the publication of lyrical ballads Romanticism (passion, emotion, natural beauty)
