英国文学史笔记(刘炳善著 河南人民出版社)part7-8
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Part 7 prose-writers and poets of the mid and late 19th century
Chapter 1 Thomas Carlyle
He was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University
He is a literary critic
Sartor Resartus
The French Revolution
Heroes and Hero-Worship
Past and Present
Chapter 2 Ruskin and some other prose-writers
1 John Ruskin
He is a critic. Art criticism and social criticism
He is a social thinker and a master of English. His prescription for the contemporary social problems was faulty, but he sincerely sympathized with the people and exposed with holy wrath the evils
Modern Painters
2 Matthew Arnold
3 Macaulay
Chapter 3 Alfred Tennyson1809~1892
（维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人）
Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人）
① < In Memoriam>悼念
To memorialize his friend
② < Break, Break, Break>冲击、冲击、冲击
③ < Idylls of the King>国王叙事诗
Chapter 4 Robert Browning罗伯特•白朗宁1812~1889
A follower of Shelley
①< My Last Dutchess>我已故的公爵夫人
②< Home Thoughts From Abroad>海外乡思
③Pippa Passes
Elizabeth Barrett Browing:
①
He introduced to English poetry a new form ,the dramatic monologue
He has been praised as a "a genius in courageous and high- hearted figure", well-known for buoyant optimism.
Chapter 5 the Rossettis and Swinburne
1 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poem: The Blessed Damozel
2 Christina Georgina Rossetti
Poem: Goblin Market
3 Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat
4 Algernon Charles Swinburne
Chapter 6 William Morris
Poet, artist, socialist
Poem:
The Defence of Guenvere
The Life and Death of Jason
The Early Paradise
Sigurd the V olsung
The aim of his works is to bring beauty into the life of his countrymen
Prose:
A Dream of Jhon Ball
News from Nowhere
Chapter 7 literary trens at the end of the century
1 naturalism:
Naturalism is a literary trend prevailing in Euope. According to the naturalism, literature must be ture to life and exactly reproduce real life, including all its details without any selection. They usually write about the life of the poor and oppressed, or the slum life, they can oly represent the external appearance instead of the inner essence of real life.
George Gissing,:
2 neo-romanticism
Dissatisfied with the drab and ugly social reality and yet trying to avoid the positive solution of the acute social contradictions. They laid emphasis upon the invention of exciting adventures and fascinating stories to entertain the reading public. They led the novel back towards stiry-telling and to romance.
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 aestheticism
Art for sake. Art should serve no religious, moral or social ens, nor any end except itself.
Walter Pater:< Studies in the History of the Renaissance> later called The Renaissance
Hte "Conclusion" of the The Renaissance is acrystallization of his faith in the pursuit pf beauty as the sole "success of life".
Oscar Wilde奥斯卡•王尔德1856~1900
（The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake）
① 4 Comedies:
② Novel:
③ Fairy Stories: