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The Song of Beowulf: England's national epic.
the only existing manuscript was written at the beginning of the 10th
century, and discovered until 1705.
It reflects events that happened approximately at the beginning of the 6th century.
3182 lines
in alliterative verse and artistic form, metaphors and understatements.
Geoffrey Chaucer: the "father of English poetry"
his translated various works of French authors, among which is the famous
Romance of the Rose.
composed a long narrative poem: Trolius and Cressie, which based upon Italian
writer Boccaccio's Filostrato.
The Canterbury Tales: first time to use "heroic couplet"英雄双韵体
tells the story that 32 Pilgrims gathered at Tabard Inn in Southwark, on their way to
the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. Each of them were required to tell 2
tales on the way to Canterbury and 2 more on their way back. Chaucer failed to carry
out his plan (128 in total),was to exceed that of Boccaccio's Decameron, and only 24
were written.
"A Wife from the town of Bath"
Thomas Percy was among the first to take a literary interest in ballads.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
Robin Hood, the first mention in literature is in Langland's The Vision of Piers, the
Plowman.
Get Up and Bar the Door is a humorous ballad.
The Renaissance
16th century: "sheep devoured men"(Thomas More)
breaking up of feudal relations and the establishing of the
foundations of capitalism.
outstanding humanist: Thomas More Utopia
Thomas Wyatt: the first one to introduce sonnet into English literature
Edmund Spencer: the poets’ poet (The Fairy Queen)斯宾塞的《仙后》是第一首用
canto 来划分章节的英国长诗。
Christopher Marlowe: the greatest of the pioneers of English drama (blank verse,
hyperbole)
William Shakespeare: 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis, The
Pape of Lucrece.
Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It,
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
17th century: the age of Revolution and Restoration
John Donne: metaphors and extravagant hyperboles in his works
works: Songs and Sonnets 《歌与短歌》
The Relic《遗物》
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning“别离辞，节哀”
Death be not Proud
John Milton: pamphlets: Areopagitica or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed
Printing “论出版自由”
Eikonoklastes “偶像破坏者”
Defense for the English People “为英国人民辩护”
Sonnets: On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
Paradise Lost：the only generally acknowledged epic in English
literature since Beowulf
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes： the most perfect example of the verse drama after
the Greek style in English.
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress
18th century: the Age of Enlightenment
three main literary divisions: the reign of classicism
the revival of romantic poetry
representative: Alexander Pope(heroic couplet)
the beginning of modern novel
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding and Tobias George Smollet are the real founders of the genre of the
bourgeios realistic novel in England and Europe.
Tobias George Smollet: The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Samuel Richardson: Pamela,or Virtue Rewarded
Charissa, or The History of a Young Lady
The History of Sir Charles Grandson
Jonathan Swift: the most outstanding peroch of Enligtenment in England.
works: A Modest Proposal
Tale of a Tub
Gulliver's Travels (four parts - Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Flying
Island & Houyhnhnm)
his first notable work: The Battle of the Books
Richard B.Sheridan: the only important English dramatist of the 18th century
comedies: The School for Scandal, The Rivals
tragdy: The Revenge
the beginning of the sentimentalism: the middle of the 18th century
Oliver Goldsmith: novel: The Vicar of Wakefield
elergy: The Deserted Village
poem: The Travelers
comedies: She Stoops to Conquer
The Good-natured Man
essay: The Citizen of the World
the most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism: Laurence Sterne (Tristran
Shandy, Sentimental Journey)
Thomas Gray:（literature of melancholy）
Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard《墓园挽歌》32 节 128 行
Ode to Eden《伊甸园颂》
George Grabbe: The Village
"Gothic novel": the latter half of the 18th century(pre-romanticism)
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
Ann Radcliff: The Mysterious of Udolpho
Daniel Defoe: Hymn of the Pillory《立枷颂》
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Singleton《辛格顿船长》，
Duncan Campbell《邓肯坎贝尔》，
Memoirs of Cavalier《骑士回忆录》，
Colnoel Jack《杰克上校》，
Moll Flanders《瘟疫年纪事》，
The History of the Devil《魔鬼的历史》
Joseph Addison: The Campaign《战役》
The Tatle《闲谈者》
together with Dick Steele: “The Spectator”
he created a role called Sir Roger
Dick Steele: The Christian Hero《基督英雄》
Henry Fielding: father of English novel
first novel: Joseph Andrews
last works: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon《里斯本航海日记》
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
William Blake: Poetic Sketches 《诗歌札记》
Songs of Innocence《天真之歌》
Songs of Experience《经验之歌》
"London", "Tiger"," The Chomney Sweeper"
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell《天堂与地狱的婚姻》
lyrics: The Morning, The Land of Dreams, The Everlasting Gospel《永恒的
福音》
Robert Burns: Poems Chiefly in Scottish Dialect《主要用苏格兰方言写的诗集》
"To a Mouse",
"To a Mountain Daisy",
"Man Was Made to Mourn",
"The Two Dogs", "Adress to the Devil"
"A Bard's Epitaph", a summary of his own life
"My Heart's in the Highlands ","A Red, Red Rose"
William Blake and Robert Burns represented the spirit of Pre-Romanticism.
Romanticism began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads 1798 《 抒 情 歌 谣
集》,(William Wordsworth together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and S.T.Cloridge's
chief cotribution was his masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner《古舟子
咏》),ended with Walter Scott's death in 1832.
William Wordsworth: the leading figure of the English romantic poetry
poems: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
“延腾寺”,"The Prelude"“序曲”,"The Excursion"“远足”,"She Dwelt Among the
Untrodden Ways"“她住在人迹罕至的路边”,"I Travelled Among Unknown Men"
“我在陌生人中孤独旅行”,"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"“我好似一朵孤独的
流云”，"The Solitary Reaper"“孤独的刈麦女”
Lake Poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey
Geroge Gordon, Lord Byron:
his first volume: Hours of Idleness《闲暇的时刻》
dramas: Manfred《曼弗雷德》，Cain《该隐》
satire masterpiece: Don Juan《唐璜》
poems: When We Two Parted, She Walks in Beauty
Childe Harold's pilgrimage (four cantos)in Spenserian stanza
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Necessity of Atheism《无神论的必要性》
Queen Mab
Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
Laon and Cythna, published later as The Revolt of Islam
《伊斯兰的叛变》in Spenserian stanza
lyrical drama: Prometheus Unbound《解放了的普罗米修斯》
The Cenci《钦契》
Ode to the West wind"西风颂"
Ode to a Sky Lark"致云雀"
A Song: "Men of England"
John Keats: Ode on Melancholy“忧郁颂”, Ode on a Grecian Urn“希腊古瓮颂”, Ode
to a Nightingale“夜莺颂”, Ode to Psyche“心灵颂”
To Autumn, Bright Star
Walter Scott: the creator and a great master of the historical novel.历史小说的奠基人
及集大成者
Ivanhoe《伊凡赫》
Rob Roy《罗布罗伊》
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》，Persuasion《劝导》,Sense and Sensibility
《理智和情感》,Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》,Mansfield《曼斯菲尔德公
园》,Emma《爱玛》
Charles Lamb: Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespear,
with Notes《莎士比亚同时代戏剧诗人范作及注》
The Old Familiar Faces"熟悉的老面孔"
lyrical ballad: Hester“赫斯特”
elergy: On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"昙花一现婴儿"
The Victorian Age: critical realism in England(1836-1902)
Charles Dickens - one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age
his works: The Pickwick Papers《匹克威尔外传》
his first true novel: Oliver Twist
his first and best Christmas book: A Christmas Carol
his most popular novel: A tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Bleak House《荒凉山庄》,a satire on the abuses of the Court of
Chancery
Hard Times《艰难时代》
Little Dorit《小杜丽》
Great Expectations《远大前程》
William Makepeace Thackeray:
Vanity Fair《名利场》
The Snob《势利人》
George Eliot：Middlemarch
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss(tells the story of her life)
The Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hood: The Song of Shirt
The Bridge of Signs“叹息桥”
Alfred Tennyson：Poet Laureate(桂冠诗人),invents dramatic monologue
Ulysses“乌利西斯”
Break, Break, Break (the death of his best friend, his sadness
feeling are contrasted with the carefree, innocent joys of the children and the
unfeeling movement of the ship and the sea waves)
Crossing the Bar(we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his
faith in God and an afterlife. ’Crossing the bar’ means leaving this world and entering
the next world)
Robert Browning: the most original poet, who improved and matured the dramatic
monologue
his masterpiece: The Ring and the Book
My Last Duchess (dramatic monologue)
one of his most perfect short poems: One Word More
Elizabeth Robert Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Thomas Hardy: both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer. Local-colored, Wessex,
novels of character and environment’
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Son's veto
John Galsworty: The Forsyte Saga《福尔赛世家》
"The Man of Property", "Conscience"
Oscar Wilde： The Picture of Dorian Gray《多里安格雷的画像》
the pioneer of aestheticism movement
George Bernerd Shaw:
D.H. Lawerence:
Mrs.Warren's Profession
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Virginia Woolf:
Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce: Araby