英国文学简史
古英语时期(Old English Period)
时间:450-1600
背景:盎格鲁撒克逊人(Anglo-Saxon无所谓的英文)入侵英国
作品种类:史诗(epic)
代表作家:不详
理智与感情代表作品:贝奥武夫(Beowulf)
中世纪英语时期(Middle English Period)
时间:1066-1500
背景:诺曼人(Normans)征服英国
作品种类:传奇(Romans)
代表作家:不详
代表作品:高文爵士和绿骑士(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
文艺复兴时期(The Renaissance)
时间:1500-1660
背景:新航路开辟,伊丽莎白一世登基,自然科学技术的发展。
refreshed作品种类:戏剧(drama),诗歌(poetry)
代表作家:莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)
代表作品:哈姆雷特(Hamlet)
17世纪时期(The 17th Century)
时间:1603-1688
背景:资产阶级革命与复辟时期
作品种类:散文(essayadversity),史诗(epic),寓言故事(allegory),诗歌(poetrydigital是什么意思)
代表作家:弥尔顿(John Milton)
代表作品:失乐园 (paradi lost)
新古典主义时期(The Neoclassical Period)
时间:1660-1785
背景:启蒙运动
作品种类:散文(essay),小说(novelundertake),诗歌(poetry)
代表作家:亚历山大.蒲泊(Alexander Pope)
代表作品:An Essay on Man
浪漫主义时期(The Romantic Period)
时间:1798-1832
背景:法国大革命,工业革命
作品种类:诗歌(poetry)
代表作家:雪莱(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
代表作品:西风颂(Ode to the West Wind)
维多利亚时期(The Victorian Period)
时间:1832-1900英语翻译器下载
背景:维多利亚女王统治时期,资本主义经济发展,自然科学的发展
作品种类:小说(novel)
代表作家:狄更斯(Charles Dickens)
肖申克的救赎电影代表作品:远大前程(Great Expectations)
现代主义时期(The Modern Period)
时间:1914-1965
背景:第二次世界大战,人们对西方文明的危机感
作品种类:诗歌(poetry),小说(poetry)
代表作家:艾略特(T.S Eliot)
代表作品:荒原(The Waste Land)
The Middle English Period
Geoffrey Chaucer
Special features
The first most significant poet in English literary history to write in Middle English.
Help perfect English language as as a literary medium.
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A first rate story-teller. Reading him can be an immenly enlightening and educational experience.distinctive
Points of view
Enormous n of humor.
Loyalty to reality. A master of realism.
Infinite n of humanity.
Major Works
Canterbury Tales
A collection of 20-odd stories.
Similar with Boccacio’s Decameron.
Including 20 complete stories and 4 fragments---already an amazing number.
People come from virtually all walks of life. A picture of 14-century English life.
Place women on an equal footing with men. (“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” What is that women desire most?)
Prominence: The holy orders and the middle class
Thomas More
Special features
The wist and noblest person that lived then.
Privy councilor to the king.
Beheaded by the king becau of he did not go along with the king’s divorce.
Points of view
More was first and foremost a humanist at heart.
Major Works
Utopia
Look forward to the future of man.
Offer an ideal which has inspired generations of rious social thinkers.
An imaginary country where democracy replaces tyranny, commonwealth replaces private property.
Its strict adherence to conformity, simplicity and monotony is totally incompatible with human nature, and curbs individual rights and freedom.