英国文学总汇

Beowulf
The background of the peroid of Normandy. The language of the period of Normandy.
old English
The content of the literature in the period of Normandy including?
The Seventeenth Century
The historical background：
the bourgeois revolution the Glorious Revolution in 1688
Literature : 1.King James translate the Bible, one the Old Testment , is about the creation of the universe ,the origin of Jewish People, written in Greek . The other New Testment , is about The life of Juses christ 2.Francis Bacon: He is praised as the progenitor of English materialism His work: Of Studies, Of Turth, Of Friendship, Of Riches
一.The Middle Ages
(450-1550)
二.The English Renassiance
(1550-1640)
三.The Seventeenth Century
（1603-1688）
四. The Age Of Enlightenment
(1688-1798)
The Middle Ages
The writers and their works in the age of chaucer :
Geoffery Chacer: The Canterbury Tales John Wycliff: translating the Bible William Langland: Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Kni
The period of Anglosaxon The The period of period of Normandy Chaucer The Fifteenth Century
Caedmon and venerable pope, king Alfred Norman conquest
The two highlight of literature and the poetry in the period of Anglo-saxon time.
The works of the writers:
Edmund Spenser: The Shephearde Calender(pastoral poem), The Fairy Queen(allegoriopher Marlowe : Tamburlaine the Great William Shakespeare: Great comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ,The Merchant of Venice , As You Like It ,Twelfth Night Great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello,King Lear, The Tragedy of Macbeth Sonnets: 154 Sonnets,126 for Mr.W.H , the rest it for Dark Lady
• TheFrench Revolution and the English Industrial Revolution exert great influence on English Romanticism.
The features: spontaneity, A love for nature The spontaneous overflow of feelings An emphasis on feeling, imagination, intuition A belief in individuality and freedom Lake poets : Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
English Romanticism
• The background:
It begins in 1798 with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge • ends in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death
3.Metaphysical poets: John Dryden, Samuel Johnson Cavalier poets: Ben Jonson 4.John Donne: songs and sonnets, a collection of 55 love lyrics 5.George Herbert: Virtue 6.Ben Jonson: representative of the Cavalier 7.John Milton: Paradise Lost Paradise Regain (It ’s all based on the story of the Old Testament of the Bible) 8.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress ( a religious allegory) 9. John Dryden : in the restoration period He compare Ben Jonson with Shakespeare: Shakespeare was the Homer, Ben Jonson was the Virgil
Robinson Crusoe
moll flanders
• Jonathan swift: • Gulliver’s Travels a modest proposal The Battle of the Books The Tale of a Tub • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: • Stared the periodical essays that the most characteristic genre of 18 century • The works: • The Tatler , The Spectator
Alexander Pope: Pastorals, The Rape Of The Lock, The Windsor Forest, An Essay On Man Samuel Johnson: Dictionary Of The English Language, The Rambler, the lives of the poets Henry Fiflding : Shamela, Joseph Andrews Tobias George Smollett : The Adventure Of Roderick Random Tomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School of Scandal Robert burns: Is There For Honest Poverty, A Red ,Red rose William blake: The song of innocence, the lamb
The background of the English Renaissance.
The rising of burgher:(which movement)
The enclosure movement
Humanism writers:
Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare
Romance love ,religion, chivalry
The age of chaucer: 1350-1400 The historical background: The fifitennth century
The hundred year’s war, the war of roses, the new sea routes, reformation of church
.
The Age Of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is a progressive intellectual movement that celebrates reason, equality, science and human ability to perfect themselves and their society. New morality: It’s an age of reason The typical example: neoclassicism Politic writing: the age of prose Science and technology: Newton Daniel Defoe :
The English Renaissance(p51)
The policy of tolerance during Queen Elizabeth, causing the balance between feudal lords and rising burghers, English became the mighty naval power