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an English metaphysical poet Notable works: "To His Coy Mistress", "The Garden", "An Horatian Ode―
To His Coy Mistress: one of Marvell's finest
and is possibly the best recognized carpe diem poem in English. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets Syllogism: 1) if A, then B; 2) if not A, then not B; 3) so C
The Canonization A Valediction
3. Style: complicated reasoning through far-fetched comparisons or ―conceits‖ and in strange imageries and obscure language e.g. The Flea
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
Honored as the Poet Laureate in 1616 Known also as a dramatist Satirical plays: Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (1610)
Song to Celia：ballad meter Four iambic feet in odd-numbered lines and three in the even-numbered lines (also rhymes fall)
Andrew Marvell (1621 –1678)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: one of the most popular and most
frequently quoted poems
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 –1816)
* an Irish playwright, poet * Known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough
The English Renaissance
William Shakespeare
题型
名词解释：术语、流派 4x5分 单项选择: 15x1分 T or F: 10x1分 给出作品名写作者名 分析诗歌：书上详细讲过 小说：1人物形象 2写作风格 3主题 4分析 小说方法 5流派
England's National Poet; "Bard of Avon"
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
His masterpiece that presents a brilliant portrayal of England’s high Society and a biting satire on the morals and manners of that age Considered one of the greatest comedies of manners in English Theme: condemnation of the odious practice of slander; An implied theme in the play is that idleness breeds mischief Hypocrisy
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice: A proof of Shakespeare’s
humanism
Julius Caesar Hamlet: Shakespeare's most famous tragedy: an old story of
murder and revenge
The Seventeenth Century
As a young man known as ―a great Visitor of ladies, a great frequenter of Plays, a great writer of conceited verses‖
*Songs and Sonnets: 55 love lyrics *Go and Catch a Falling Star: iambic tetrameter(四步抑扬格）
ababccddd
1. negative attitude towards love: cynical comments on
the inconsistency of women in love 2. positive attitude towards love: fiery utterances of unruly pቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱssion mixed with coarse suggestions of sensual love and morbid thoughts of death:
Act III, Scene 1 Hamlet’s best known soliloquy: reveals the hero’s inner contradiction and the poet’s penetrating comments on the social reality of his time.
of the year)
•Scots Wha Hae : served for a long time as an unofficial
national anthem of the country
•A Red, Red Rose
Love, humour, pathos, the response to nature---all the poetic qualities that touch the human heart In his poem Burns glorified a natural man--- a healthy, joyous and clever Scotch peasant. He sang honest poor contrasting them to cruel squires, greedy merchants, bigots and hypocrites.
》 a Scottish poet and lyricist widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and celebrated worldwide 》a pioneer of the Romantic movement
•Auld Lang Syne: is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day
political pamphlets
Thomas Gray（1716 –1771)
•an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University •widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751 •Known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, writing about death, mortality, and the finality and sublimity of death
The Tyger is the sister poem to The Lamb It’s one of Blake's best-known and most analyzed poems.
The Age of Romanticism
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
known as the "Lake Poets― with Coleridge and fellow poet Robert Southey nearby a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads： marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850
John Milton
The Eighteenth Century
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
* a Welsh-born English poet, orator
and Anglican priest *In 1633 published The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations *Wrote religious poems characterized by a precision of language, a metrical versatility, and an ingenious use of imagery or conceits
His works:
•The Solitary Reaper: a ballad, and one of his most famous post-Lyrical
Ballads lyrics
•I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: subjects of nature and memory •Lyrical Ballads •The Prelude：a semiautobiographical poem •The Recluse： a long philosophical, autobiographical poem •Poems in Two Volumes
Born in Stratford-on- Avon
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Tragi-Comedies: Measure for Measure, All’s Well that Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida
an English poet, painter and printmaker(1757 –1827) His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". In 2002, placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
To His Coy Mistress: one of Marvell's finest
and is possibly the best recognized carpe diem poem in English. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets Syllogism: 1) if A, then B; 2) if not A, then not B; 3) so C
The Canonization A Valediction
3. Style: complicated reasoning through far-fetched comparisons or ―conceits‖ and in strange imageries and obscure language e.g. The Flea
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
Honored as the Poet Laureate in 1616 Known also as a dramatist Satirical plays: Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (1610)
Song to Celia：ballad meter Four iambic feet in odd-numbered lines and three in the even-numbered lines (also rhymes fall)
Andrew Marvell (1621 –1678)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: one of the most popular and most
frequently quoted poems
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 –1816)
* an Irish playwright, poet * Known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough
The English Renaissance
William Shakespeare
题型
名词解释：术语、流派 4x5分 单项选择: 15x1分 T or F: 10x1分 给出作品名写作者名 分析诗歌：书上详细讲过 小说：1人物形象 2写作风格 3主题 4分析 小说方法 5流派
England's National Poet; "Bard of Avon"
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
His masterpiece that presents a brilliant portrayal of England’s high Society and a biting satire on the morals and manners of that age Considered one of the greatest comedies of manners in English Theme: condemnation of the odious practice of slander; An implied theme in the play is that idleness breeds mischief Hypocrisy
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice: A proof of Shakespeare’s
humanism
Julius Caesar Hamlet: Shakespeare's most famous tragedy: an old story of
murder and revenge
The Seventeenth Century
As a young man known as ―a great Visitor of ladies, a great frequenter of Plays, a great writer of conceited verses‖
*Songs and Sonnets: 55 love lyrics *Go and Catch a Falling Star: iambic tetrameter(四步抑扬格）
ababccddd
1. negative attitude towards love: cynical comments on
the inconsistency of women in love 2. positive attitude towards love: fiery utterances of unruly pቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱssion mixed with coarse suggestions of sensual love and morbid thoughts of death:
Act III, Scene 1 Hamlet’s best known soliloquy: reveals the hero’s inner contradiction and the poet’s penetrating comments on the social reality of his time.
of the year)
•Scots Wha Hae : served for a long time as an unofficial
national anthem of the country
•A Red, Red Rose
Love, humour, pathos, the response to nature---all the poetic qualities that touch the human heart In his poem Burns glorified a natural man--- a healthy, joyous and clever Scotch peasant. He sang honest poor contrasting them to cruel squires, greedy merchants, bigots and hypocrites.
》 a Scottish poet and lyricist widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and celebrated worldwide 》a pioneer of the Romantic movement
•Auld Lang Syne: is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day
political pamphlets
Thomas Gray（1716 –1771)
•an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University •widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751 •Known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, writing about death, mortality, and the finality and sublimity of death
The Tyger is the sister poem to The Lamb It’s one of Blake's best-known and most analyzed poems.
The Age of Romanticism
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
known as the "Lake Poets― with Coleridge and fellow poet Robert Southey nearby a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads： marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850
John Milton
The Eighteenth Century
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
* a Welsh-born English poet, orator
and Anglican priest *In 1633 published The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations *Wrote religious poems characterized by a precision of language, a metrical versatility, and an ingenious use of imagery or conceits
His works:
•The Solitary Reaper: a ballad, and one of his most famous post-Lyrical
Ballads lyrics
•I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: subjects of nature and memory •Lyrical Ballads •The Prelude：a semiautobiographical poem •The Recluse： a long philosophical, autobiographical poem •Poems in Two Volumes
Born in Stratford-on- Avon
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Tragi-Comedies: Measure for Measure, All’s Well that Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida
an English poet, painter and printmaker(1757 –1827) His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". In 2002, placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.