英国文学史及选读复习大纲

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点

1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors a nd understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题）

2. Romance （名词解释）

3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story

4. Ballad（名词解释）

5. Character of Robin Hood

6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 12 4 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic c ouplet)

7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia

10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）

12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene”

13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读）

14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读）

15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。

16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress

17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosoph ical poems, complex rhythms and strange images.

18. Enlightenment（名词解释）

19. Neoclassicism（名词解释）

20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler”

21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。

22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions

23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”,“Essay on Man”,“The Rape of Lock”,“The Dun ciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations

24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地

方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony也就是反讽手法。

25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature.

26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”,“Moll Flanders”,当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚， Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。

27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”,“Sir Charl es Grandison”

28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”,“Jonathan Wild”,“Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为

father of the English novel.

29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Sha ndy”项狄传

30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal”

31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem),“The Deserted Village” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Nat ured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy), “The Citizen of the World” (coll ection of essays)

32. Sentimentalism（名词解释）

33. Thomas Gray——“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”（英国诗歌里非常著名的一首，曾经被誉为“有史以来英国诗歌里最好的一首”）

(a representative of sentimentalism and graveyard school of poets墓园派诗人)

* Graveyard School / Poets”: A term applied to eighteenth-century poets who wrote medi tative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods whi ch range from elegiac pensiveness to profound gloom. The vogue resulted in one of the most widely known English poems, Thomas Gray’s“Elegy written in a country churchyard ”. The writing of graveyard poems spread from England to Continental literature in the se cond part of the century and also influenced some American poets.

34. In the latter half of the 18th century, Pre-Romanticism; representative: William Blake and Robert Burns.

35. Thomas Percy——“Reliques of Ancient English poetry”许多中古的民谣都是在这个时期重新收集和整理起来的，这个集子是那个时代比较有名的一个民谣集。