英国文学概况及你喜爱的英国作家

British Literature

（一）Early and Medieval English Literature 早期及中世纪英国文学

1.“Beowulf” 《贝奥武夫》

The national epic of the English people,finished in 8th century.The hero narrative poem around the year 750.Up to 3000 lines.It’s the most ancient work of all the old English record.And it’s the most great work of the existing ancient literature in English.Also the earliest dialect epic in Europe.

它是英国民族史诗，完成于8世纪，约750年左右的英雄叙事长诗，长达3000多行。是以古英语记载的传说中最古老的一篇，是现存古英文文学中最伟大之作，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗。

2.Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400),the founder of English poetry. .

His work The Canterbury Tales telling the clue of the story with a group of pilgrims from various social strata in their way to religious pilgrimage.Showing us clearly the life of people at that time.In all the 23 story, in addition to the two articles, the rest is the work of poetry genre.

以一伙来自社会各个阶层的香客在宗教朝圣的路上讲述故事为线索，向我们清楚地展示了那个时代人们的生活。在所有的23个故事中，除了两篇之外，其余都是诗歌体裁的作品。

（二）The Renaissance文艺复兴时期文学

1. William Shakespeare （1564～1616）

The great British Renaissance dramatist and poet.And the master of the European Renaissance humanism literature.Shakespeare left 37 plays including some general plays he co-wrote with others.In addition, he also wrote 154 sonnets and three or four long poem.

英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的集大成者。莎士比亚给世人留下了37部戏剧，其中包括一些他与别人合写的一般剧作。此外，他还写有154首十四行诗和三、四首长诗。

His working:

The four great comedy：A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It ,Twelfth Night

The four great tragedy: Hamlet ,Othello ,King Lear ,Macbeth

others：Romeo and Juliet ,etc...

2.Francis Bacon, The founder of English materialist philosophy and modern science. 培根（ 1561-1626 ）英国唯物主义和现代科学奠基人,散文家.

Bacon is especially famous for his Essays.His representative work is Of Studies.《论学习》

（三）The period of English Bourgeois Revolution and Restoration 资产阶级革命时期文学

1. John Milton :Paradise Lost 《失乐园》

2.John Bunyan :The Pilgrim’s Progress 《天路历程》

（四）Eighteenth Century English Literature 十八世纪英国文学

1.Daniel Defoe:Robinson Crusoe 《鲁滨逊漂流记》

2.Jonathan Swift:Gulliver’s Travels 《格列佛游记》

3.Henry Fielding, the Founder of the English Realistic Novel:Joseph Andrew 《约瑟夫安德鲁》

4.William Black and Robert Burns: Poet

（五）Romanticism in England浪漫主义时期文学

1.William Wordsworth ：the representative poet of the early romanticism.

2.George Gordon Byron ：Don Juan 《唐·璜》

3.Percy Bysshe Shelley:Prometheus Unbound 《解放了的普罗米修斯》

(If winter comes, can spring be far behind? )

4. John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale 《夜莺颂》

5.Jane Austen:Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》

（六）The Victorian Age 维多利亚时期文学

1.Charles Dickens：Oliver Twist 《雾都孤儿》、A Tale of Two Cities《双城记》、David Copperfield 《大卫·科波菲尔》

2.William Makepeace Thackeray：Vanity Fair 《名利场》

3.George Eliot

4.The Brontë Sisters

Charlotte Brontë：Jane Eyre《简·爱》Emily Brontë：Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》Annie Brontë：Agnes Grey《艾格尼丝·格雷》

5.The Brownings

Husband: Robert Browning ,Wife: Elizabeth Browning ,Sonnets from the Portuguese

（七）Twentieth Century English Literature 20世纪英国文学

1.Thomas Hardy：Tess of the d’Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》

2.John Galsworthy

3.Oscar Wilde：Poet，dramatist, novelist and essayist. The Happy Prince and Other Tales 《快乐王子和其他故事》

4.George Bernard Shaw ：the most important English dramatist.Saint Joan《圣女贞德》

5. D. H. Lawrence : Lady Chatterley’s Lover 《查泰来夫人的情人》

6.Virginia Woolf: the stream of consciousness and the pioneer of the feminism and modernist novels.

7.James Joyce :Ulysses《尤里西斯》also the stream of consciousness.

My favorite writer-- Jane Austen

There are many famous writers or poets in British history.But my favorite writer