英语八级英美文学整理
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
英语专八英美文学常识汇总3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。
the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。
"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。
gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。
the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。
lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。
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英国文学 (English Literature )一、Old and Medieval English Literature 中古英语文学(8 世纪-14 世纪)1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066)A.Pagan poetry (异教诗歌): Beowulf 《贝奥武甫》 - 最早的诗歌；长诗 (3000 行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报B.Religious poetry: Caedmon (凯德蒙 610-680) : 《赞美诗》( Anthem) ,大多取材余《圣经》 (Bible )故事。
Cynewulf (基涅武甫 9C): 《十字架之梦》 ( Dream of the Rood)C.Anglo-Saxon prose : Venerable Bede (673-735) 《英吉利人教会史》 (Historian Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum )Alfred the Great (848-901)Father of English Prose 《盎格鲁 -撒克逊编年史》 ( Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ) 2) The Medieval Period 中世纪(1066-ca.1485 / 1500):Cavalier literature 骑士文学A. Romance 中世纪传奇故事(1200-1500): the Middle Ages; 英雄诗歌Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 《高文爵士与绿色骑士》 : Celtic legend; verse-romance; 2530 lines Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400): the father of English poetry; Heroic couplet( 英雄双韵体 )The Canterbury Tales; The Parliament of Fowls ；The Book of the DuchessThe House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》William Langland (朗兰 1332-1400)： The Vision of Piers Plowman 《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》B. English ballads ( 15th C) Thomas Malory (1395-1471) : Morte d ' Arthu《r亚瑟王之死》 - 圆桌骑士二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660) :人文主义 humanism; 十四行诗 Sonnets; 无韵诗 Blank verse; 戏剧 Drama; 斯宾塞诗体 Spenserian ；University Wits 大学才子派1)诗歌a.Thomas Wyatt ( 怀亚特 1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literatureb.Sir Philip Sidney (雪尼爵士 1554-1586) ：代表了当时的理想 - “the complete man ”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》 Astrophel and Stella 《爱星者与星》 ;Arcadia 《阿卡狄亚》 : a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern worldc. Edmund Spenser （斯宾塞 1552-1599 ）: the poets ' poetThe Shepherd Calendar《牧人日历》； Amoretti《爱情小唱》The Faerie Queen《仙后》： long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the SpenserianStanza Spenserian Stanza（斯宾塞诗体）: Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic（抑扬格）pentameter（五步诗）, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter（六步诗） line.2）散文a.Thomas More （莫尔 1478-1535）: 欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人 Utopia《乌托邦》 : More 与海员的对话b.John Lyly （黎里 1553-160，散文家，剧作家 & 小说家）： Eupheus《尤菲绮斯》Euphuism（夸饰文体）: Abundant use of balanced sentences, alliterations（头韵） and other artificial prosodic（韵律） means.The use of odd similes（明喻） and comparisonsc. Francis Bacon （培根 1561-1626）：Essays（论说文集）： Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beauty: the first true English prose classicPhilosophical : New Instrument《新工具》 New Atlantis 《新大溪岛》 Advancement of Learning《学术的推进》 Professionals : Maxims of the Law 《法律格言》3）戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe : University Wits 大学才子派First made blank verse（无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗） the principle instrument of English drama The Jew of Malta 《马耳他的犹太人》The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成 ; 完善了无韵体诗。
英语专业八级英美文学重点
英美文学重点（１）Old English 450-1066 <Beowulf>Medieval English 1066 - middle 14th centuryGeoffrey Chaucer - the father of English poetry<The Canterbury Tales> first time to use ’heroic couplet’The Renaissance - rebirth or revivalHumanism - the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being & the importance of the present lifeEdmund Spenser - the poets’ poet <The Faerie Queene>Christopher Marlowe - University Wits, the pioneer of English dramaBlank verse, hyperbole夸张<Dr. Faustus> the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness<The Passionate Shepherd to His Love> pastoral lifeWilliam Shakespeare - above all writers in the past and in the present timeFour tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear & Macbeth<Sonnet 18> eternal or immortal beauty<The Merchant of Venice> to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality <Hamlet> hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger To be, or not to be - to live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action Soliloquy or monologue - fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters Francis Bacon - brevity, compactness & powerfulness, hisessays is an important landmark in the development of English proseInductive method 归纳法in place of deductive method 演绎法<Of Studies> uses and benefits of study - studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies - studies and experience are complementary 互补to each other. The correct attitude to reading books - to weigh and consider. How studies exert influence over human character - reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.John DonneMetaphysical poetry - break away from love poetry, a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences and attitudes, and a free range of feelings and moodsConceits, syllogism 三段论<The Sun Rising> the busy sun is always ready to interfere with other things and everywhere<Death, Be Not Proud> whatever you are, you can not escape from death. When you are living, you are always in the shadow of death. Death only lasts a moment, our life after death is eternal. The more pleasure the death gives people, not only the pleasure of the rest & the sleep, because ’whom the gods love die young’. Though death is usually considered powerful, it actually provides a rest for a man’s body and a birth for his soul.John Milton<Paradise Lost> the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. The conflict is between human love and spiritual duty. In heaven, Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.<Paradise Regained><Samson Agonistes> the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.Neoclassicism - a revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion抑制情感& accuracyEnlightenment - a progressive intellectual movement, reason (rationality), equality & scienceGothic novel - mystery, horror & castlesJohn Bunyan<The Vanity Fair> from <The Pilgrim’s Progress>, a religious allegory, pursue the truthAlexander Pope<An Essay on Criticism> a poem written in heroic couplets, criticize the present poem lack of true taste & call on people to turn to the old Greek and Roman writers for guidance, ’true wit’ is best set in a plain (simple & clear) style.Daniel Defoe - the first writer study of the lower-class people<Robinson Crusoe>, praise the human labor and the Puritan fortitude 清教徒坚韧Jonathan Swift - a master satiristIn his opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawedProper words in proper places<A Modest Proposal><Gulliver’s Travels>, four parts - Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Flying Island & HouyhnhnmHenry Fielding - Father of English novel, Prose HomerComic epic in prose<The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling>Samuel Johnson - first combine an English dictionary, last neoclassicist enlightener<A Dictionary of the English Language><To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield>Richard Brinsley Sheridan - the only important English dramatist of the 18th century<The Rivals> and <The School for Scandal> are regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.Thomas Gray---------------英美文学重点（２）<To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield>Richard Brinsley Sheridan - the only important English dramatist of the 18th century<The Rivals> and <The School for Scandal> are regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.Thomas GrayThe Graveyard School <Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard>Romantic - emotion over reason, spontaneous emotion, a change from the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit, poetry should be free from all rules, imagination, nature, commonplaceThe romantic period began with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s <Lyrical Ballads>William Blake -engraver雕刻家<The Chimney Sweeper> from <Songs of Innocence> a happy and innocence world from children’s eye<The Chimney Sweeper> from <Songs of Experience> a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy 忧郁的tone from men eyes Childhood, paradoxes, a pairing of opposites<The Tyger>William Wordsworth - the leading figure of the English romantic poetry, simple, spontaneous, worshipper of nature’Lake Poets’ - William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert SoutheyHe defines the poet as a ’man speaking to men’, and poetryas ’the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in ’emotion recollected in tranquillity’.<I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud> the poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights. In the poem on the beauty of nature, the reader is presented a vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils 水仙and poet’s philosophical ideas and mystical thoughts.<Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802> the sonnet describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London, silent, bright, glittering, smokeless & mildly. It is so touching a sight that the poet expressed his religion piety 虔诚for nature.<She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways><The Solitary Reaper> thanks to poet’s rich imaginati on, the mass of associations, this commonplace happening becomes a striking event, the poet succeeds in making the reader’s share his emotion. The poem also shows the poet’s passionate love of nature.Samuel Taylor Coleridge - supernatural, remotePoet can be divided into two groups - the demonic (supernatural) & the conversationalThe demonic group includes 3 masterpieces - <The Rime of the Ancient Mariner>,<Chrisabel>, <Kubla Khan> George Gordon Byron ’Byronic hero’ is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, against tyrannical rules or moral principles. Such a hero appears first in <Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage>.<Song for the Luddites> ’will die fighting, or live free’ the Luddites destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment. The poet’s great sympathy of the workers in their struggle against the capitalists is clearly shown.<The Isles of Greece> from <Don Juan> (the masterpiece of Byron, a long satirical poem), song by a Greek singer at the wedding of Don Juan and Haidee. ’Fill high the bowl with Samian wine’?Percy Bysshe Shelley<Men of England><Ode to the West Wind> terza rima, destructive-constructive potential, hopeful, ’I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!’, ’If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’John Keats4 great odes - <Ode on Melancholy>, <Ode on a Grecian Urn>, <Ode to a Nightingale>,<Ode to Psyche><Ode on a Grecian Urn> the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience 短暂of human passion, ’Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’, ’Beauty is truth, truth beauty’Jane Austen<Pride and Prejudice>The Victorian PeriodDarwin’s <The Origin of Species> and <The Descent of Man> shook the traditional faith, everything is created by GodUtilitarianism 功利主义was widely accepted and practiced Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common peopleCharles Dickens - one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian AgeCharacter-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his worksA mingling of humor and pathos 悲伤<A Tale of Two Cities><Oliver Twist>The Bronte Sisters - Charlotte, Emily & AnneEmily, a rather reserved and simple girl, was very much a child of nature.<Jane Eyre><Wuthering Heights>Alfred Tennyson - invents dramatic monologue, Poet Laureate 桂冠诗人, a real artist-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<Break, Break, Break> the death of his best friend, his sadness feeling are contrasted with the carefree, innocent joys of the children and the unfeeling movement of the ship and the sea waves<Crossing the Bar> we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife. ’Crossing the bar’ means leaving this world and entering the next world<Ulysses> not endure the peaceful commonplace everyday life, old as he is, he persuades his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge, dramatic monologue, ’Myself not least, but honour’d of them all’ means I am not the least important, buthonoured by all of themRobert Browning - the most original poet, who improve and mature the dramatic monologue<The Ring and the Book> his masterpiece<My Last Duchess> this dramatic monologue is the duke’s speech addressed to the agent who comes to negotiate the marriage, the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man<Meeting at Night><Parting at Morning>George Eliot:As a woman of exceptional 特有的intelligence and life experience, she shows a particular concern for the destiny of women<Middlemarch> a sharp contrast is set between the cold, lifeless, dull house and Dorothea who is full of youthful life and vigorThomas Hardy - both a naturalistic and a critical realist writerLocal-colored,Wessex, ’novels of character and environment’<Tess of the D’Urbervilles> experience is as to intensity, and not as to durationAmerican Romantic PeriodStarted with W ashington Irving’s <The Sketch Book> and ended with Whitman’s <Leaves of Grass>, also called ’the American Renaissance’Free expression of emotion, escapes from society, and return to nature New England TranscendentalismWashington Irving - father of the American short stories, the American GoldsmithPerfected the best classic style that American literature ever producedFirst novel <A History of New York><The Sketch Book> contains German folk tales <Rip Van >, <The Legend of Sleepy Hollow>Ralph Waldo Emerson - the spokesman of New England Transcendentalism movement<The American Scholar>, <Self - Reliance>, <The Over-Soul><The Poet> a reflection upon the aesthetic problems in terms of the present state of literature in America<Experience> a discussion about the conflict between idealism and ordinary lifeAmerican Puritanism, European Romanticism, intuitive knowledge, over-soul, individual, nature<Nature> is regarded as the Bible of New England TranscendentalismNathaniel HawthorneInterior of the heart, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity<The Scarlet Letter><Young Goodman Brown>Walt WhitmanOpenness, freedom, individualismI - me, my nation (society), Free verse, Envelope structure, Catalogue (Listing)A new ideal, a new world, a new life-style<There Was a Child Went Forth> how a child is greatly influenced by his growing environments<Cavalry Crossing a Ford> a scene of the American Civil War, all the movements described in this picture are frozen.<Song of Myself> Whitman is a man bubbling with energy and laden with ideas, spontaneous expression of his original ideasHerman Melville - a master of allegory and symbolism, like Hawthorne<Moby-Dick> the first American prose epic, Ishmael both as a character and a narrator, the captain, Ahab is a monomaniacRealistic period - the Gilded Age, the poor poorer and the rich richer, people’s attention was now directed to the interesting features of everyday existenceLocal colorism, social Darwinism, bestiality, beyond man’s controlMark Twain - the true father of American literatureLocal colorist, vernacular, simple sentence, ’the damned human race’ Th e Gilded Age3 boyhood books <Life on the Mississippi>, <The Adventures of Tom Sawyer>,<Adventures of Huckleberry Finn><Adventures of Huckleberry Finn> Huck’s inner conflict about whether or not he should write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is.Henry James - international theme, psychological realistStream of consciousness, interior monologue, free association<Daisy Miller> the narrator is an American expatriate, named Winterbourne. Daisy is the most innocent girl. The clash is between two different cultures.Emily DickinsonBased on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys<This is my letter to the World> express Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.<I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - > description of a moment of death<I like to see it lap the Miles> Dickinson makes the train part of nature by animalizing it, like a horse.<Because I could not stop for Death - > personify death and immortality so as to make her message strongly feltTheodore Dreiser - America’s literary naturalists Case history including everything Determinism (heredity biological & environment), survival of the fittest, the jungle law Trilogy of Desire - <The Financier>, <The Titan>, <The Stoic> <Sister Carrie> ’who shall cas t the first stone?’The modern period - the second American Renaissance, the expatriate movement, the Lost Generation, a transformation from order to disorderSeize the day, enjoy the present, spiritual wasteland, collective unconscious, psychoanalysisImagist movement, Jazz AgeEzra Pound - a leading spokesman of the ’Imagist Movement’<The Cantos><In a Station of the Metro> Pound attempts to produce the emotion he felt when he walked down into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light. To capture the emotions, Pound uses the image of petals on wet, black boughs.<The River - Merchant’s Wife: A Letter><A Pact> agreement with Whitman’s free verseRobert Lee Frost - four times awarded Pulitzer Prize, pastoral life and scene<After Apple-Picking><The Road Not Taken><Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening>Eugene O’Neill - founder of the American drama, won the Pulitzer Prize four times<The Hairy Ape>F. Scott Fitzgerald - spokesman of the Jazz Age, Dollar Decade, 1920sA double vision of the Jazz Age, both an insider and an outsiderAmerican Dream<The Great Gatsby>Ernest Hemingway - awarded the Nobel PrizeIceberg style, Code hero, the lost generation, grace under pressure<Indian Camp> from <In Our Time> birth and death coexistWilliam Faulkner - awarded a Nobel PrizeSouth, imprisonment in the pastStream of consciousness, multiple points of viewYoknapatawpha Country<A Rose for Emily> Emily is regarded as the symbol of tradition and theold way of life. Thus her death is like the falling of a monument.最常考作家Emily Dickinson F. Scott Fitzgerald Henry James Mark TwainNathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Hardy Washington Irving William Shakespeare 次常考作家Alexander Pope Charles Dickens Daniel Defoe Emily Bronte Eugene O’Neill Ezra Pound Heminway Jane Austen John Keats John MiltonMelville Percy Bysshe Shelly Robert Browning Theodore DreiserWhitman William Faulkner William Wordsworth一般作家Charlotte Bronte Emerson Enlightenment Francis Bacon Henry Fielding James Joyce John Bunyan Jonathan Swift Robert FrostSamuel Johnson Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Blake。
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。
the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。
"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。
gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。
the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。
lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
The Canadian Shield加拿大地盾：The Canadian Shield is a semicircle band of rocky highlands and plateaus around the Hudson Bay from the northern shores of Quebec to the Arctic shores of the Northwest Territories. The Shield covers almost half of the Canadian territory.
铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。内含银。
china clay: the deposits of china clay in cornwall are of great economic value.
瓷土：康沃尔的瓷土沉淀带来了巨大的经济价值。
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本文针对英语专业八级考试的人文知识部分，总结了美国国家的主要地理概况，希望对同学们有所帮助。The Fall Line瀑布线：A point where water-falls or rapids suddenly drop from a higher level to the lower one.
瀑布线指的是瀑布急速地从高处向低处流泻的点。
The Appalachian Range阿巴拉契亚山脉：1200 miles long，consists of the Piedmont Plateau, Appalachian Plateaus and Appalachian Range.
英语专八英美文学常识(English Literature)
英国文学(English Literature)一、Old and Medieval English Literature中古英语文学(8世纪-14世纪)1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066)a. pagan poetry(异教诗歌): Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- 最早的诗歌；长诗(3000行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报b. religious poetry: Caedmon(凯德蒙610-680): the first known religious poet; the father of English songCynewulf(基涅武甫9C): The Christc. 8th C, Anglo-Saxon prose: Venerable Bede(673-735); Alfred the Great(848-901)2) The Medieval Period中世纪(1066-ca.1485 / 1500):a. Romance中世纪传奇故事(1200-1500): the Middle Ages; 英雄诗歌无名诗人- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士与绿色骑士》: Celtic legend; verse-romance; 2530 lines~ 14th C,Age of Chaucer:* Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟1340-1400): 文风：vivid and exact language, his poetry is full of vigor and swiftnessthe father of English poetry; the father of English fiction; 首创“双韵体”;首位用伦敦方言写作英国作家The Canterbury Tales:pilgrims stories 受Boccaccio(薄伽丘) - Decameron《十日谈》启发The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》(译作)* William Langland(朗兰1332-1400)：The Vision of Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》: 普通人眼中的社会抗议b. 15th C, English ballads: Thomas Malory (1395-1471) :Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》- 圆桌骑士二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧1) 诗歌Henry Howard(霍华德1516-1547)a. Thomas Wyatt (怀亚特1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literatureb. Sir Philip Sidney(雪尼爵士1554-1586)：代表了当时的理想- “the complete man”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》: a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern worldc.Edmund Spenser(斯宾塞1552-1599): the poets’ poet; non-dramatic poet of伊丽莎白时代- long allegorical romance文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd CalendarThe Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian Stanza Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗体): Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic(抑扬格) pentameter(五步诗),and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter(六步诗) line.2) Prose 散文a. Thomas More(莫尔1478-1535): 欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人Utopia《乌托邦》: More与海员的对话b. John Lyly (黎里1553-160，剧作家&小说家)：EupheusEuphuism(夸饰文体): Abundant use of balanced sentences, alliterations(头韵) and other artificial prosodic(韵律) means.The use of odd similes(明喻) and comparisonsc. Francis Bacon (培根1561-1626)：英国首位散文家，中世纪至现代欧洲时期; 近代唯物主义哲学奠基人和近代实验科学先驱the trumpeter of a new age;Essays(论说文集)：Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beauty: the first true English prose classic3) 戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe(马洛1564-1593): University Wits 大学才子派Edward II；The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》first made blank verse(无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗) the principle instrument of English dramaThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成; 完善了无韵体诗。
英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)Old English Literature (450-1066)XXX the first English nal epic.中世纪英语文学 (1066-1500)XXX XXX–1400) XXX Langland (1330?-1400?) is known for his 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman.文艺复兴 (16-17世纪)XXX (1564-1616) XXX 38 plays。
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and two long narrative poems。
Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece。
His greatest tragedies include King Lear。
Macbeth。
Hamlet。
Othello。
and Romeo and Juliet。
Some of his great comedies include A Midsummer Night’s Dream。
As You Like It。
The Merchant of Venice。
XXX such as Richard III。
Henry IV。
Henry V。
and Henry VII.XXX most famous for his epic poems Paradise Lost。
Paradise Regained。
and Samson.In the 18th century。
Alexander Pope was XXX。
He was known for his satirical epigrams and XXX。
Some of his major works include the mock XXX Criticism.XXX XXX middle-class people.XXX Fielding was an English novelist who is best known for his novel The History of Tom Jones.Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish XXX.XXX writer of Comedies of Manners.XXX。
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。
?the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.?迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。
"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.?1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。
?gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.?盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。
?the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.?英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。
?lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.?铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。
专八英美文学和语言学知识总结
一．古英语时期（Old English Literature 公元499—1066 年）古英语时期（—英国文学开山之作：头韵体诗歌（《贝奥武甫》（Beowulf）头韵体诗歌（alliteration））开德蒙（Caedmon）：《赞美诗》（Anthem）琴涅武甫（Cynewulf）：《十字架之梦》（Dream of the Rood）比德（Bede）：《英吉利人教会史》（Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum）阿尔弗雷德大帝（King Alfred）：《盎格鲁—撒克逊编年史》（Anglo-Saxon Chronicle），被誉为“英国散文之父”Father “英国散文之父”（of English Prose））世纪）二．中古英语时期（Medieval English Literature 公元1066 年—15 世纪）中古英语时期（头韵体诗歌：《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》（Sir Gawain and the Green Knight）英国名谣：《罗宾汉名谣集》（The Robin Hood Ballads）威廉·兰格伦（William Langland）：《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》（The Vision Concerning piers the Plowman）杰弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer）：英国中世纪最伟大的诗人诗人，享有“英国诗歌之父英国诗歌之父”的美誉（Father of English Poetry）。
诗人英国诗歌之父（）代表作：八音节（octosyllabic）英雄双韵体（heroic couplet）诗歌八音节（（The 八音节）英雄双韵体（）诗歌《坎特布雷故事集》Canterbury Tales）。
托马斯·马洛礼（Sir Thomas Malory）：英国15 世纪优秀的散文家，代表作为《亚瑟王之死》散文家（Le Morte d’Arthur）散文世纪末—世纪）三．文艺复兴时期（Renaissance 15 世纪末—17 世纪）文艺复兴时期（托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More）：伟大的人文主义者人文主义者，代表作：《乌托邦》（Utopia）《国王爱德华五世悲戚的一生》，（The 人文主义者painful Life of Edward Ⅴ）. 托马斯·魏厄特（Thomas Wyatt）和亨利·霍华德（Henry Howard）的十四行诗（Sonnet）。
TEM-8英美文学总结
British Literature<Beowulf> 《贝奥武夫》Pagan literature, epic, alliteration,Caedmon凯德蒙Christian Poet,Anthem《赞美诗》Cynewulf基涅武夫The Christ《基督》Bede比德Father of HistoriographyHistorian Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorun 《英吉利人教会史》King Alfred阿尔弗雷德大帝Father of English ProseAnglo-Saxon Chronicle 《盎格鲁-萨克逊编年史》Sir Gawain and the Green KnightRomanceGeoffrey ChaucerFather of English Poetry14th century is the Age of ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales 《坎特伯雷故事集》: Octosyllabic, Heroic CoupletTroilus and Criseyde 《特罗勒斯与克丽西德》The Romaunt of the Rose 《玫瑰罗曼史》The House of Fame 《声誉之堂》Sir Thomas MaloryLe Morte d’Arthur 《亚瑟王之死》the milestone of the transportation from Medieval English to Early Modern EnglishThomas WyattFirstly introduced the Sonnet to British LiteratureThomas MoreUtopia 《乌托邦》The Painful Life of EdwardⅤ《国王爱德华五世悲凄的一生》Philip SidneyArcadia 《阿卡迪亚》：Forerunner of the Modern Novel, Country RomanceThe Defense of Poesie (or Apology for Poetry) 《诗辩》：opened the British Literature Criticism Edmund SpencerPoet’s Poet 诗人中的战斗机Spencerian Stanza 斯宾塞体The Faerie Queene 《仙后》：Epic, Spencerian StanzaFrancis BaconEssay and MaterialismThe First English EssayistEssay 《随笔》The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》The New Instrument 《新工具》Christopher MarloweUniversity WitsTamburlaine 《帖木儿大帝》The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》Shakespeare154 Sonnets and 37 PlaysIambic PentameterNarrative Poetry: Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》,The Rape of Lucrece 《路克丽丝受辱记》Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, MacbethMiracle Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, TempestBen JonsonComedy of Manners, Satirical ComedyEvery Man in His Humor 《人性互异》John DonneThe Creator of Metaphysical PoemsSongs and Sonnets 《歌谣与十四行诗》The Sun Rising 《升起的太阳》The Flea 《跳蚤》A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 《分别：莫忧伤》Death, Be Not Proud 《死亡，你别骄傲》George HerbertSaint of the Metaphysical School 玄学派诗圣Andrew MarwellMetaphysicalTo His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》John MiltonPuritan PoetParadise Lost 《失乐园》: Blank Verse. Metaphor, Pun, Irony, Allusion, Quotation Paradise Regained 《复乐园》Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》：Closet DramaDefense of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》Comus 《科马斯》L’Allegro 《快乐的人》John BunyanPuritan ProseThe Pilgrim’s Progress 《天路旅程》: Religious AllegoryGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 《罪人受恩记》The Holy War 《圣战》The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 《贝德曼先生的一生》John DrydenFather of English CriticismThe First Poet of LaureateAn Essay of Dramatic Poesy 《论戏剧诗歌》All for Love 《一切为了爱》Alexander’s Feast 《亚历山大的宴会》Alexander PopeNeo-Classicism 1830s is the Age of Pope伏尔泰称之为“欧洲最伟大的诗人”擅长Heroic Couplet是首位将理性主义引入英国的作家An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》Pastorals 《田园诗组》The Rape of the Lock 《卷发遇劫记》Essay on Man 《论人类》Richard Steel & Joseph AddisonThe Tatler 《闲谈者》The Spectator 《旁观者》Jointly created the newspapersSamuel JohnsonA Dictionary of the English Language 《英语辞典》著名的词典编纂家A Letter to Lord Chesterfield 《致切斯特菲尔德爵爷书》London 《伦敦》The Vanity of Human Wishes 《人类的欲望》Daniel Defoe英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一Robinson Cruse 《鲁滨逊漂流记》：英国现实主义小说的创始之作。
专八英美文学常识整理(综合版)
British Literature1.450-1066Old Englisha)Beowulf(7th-8th)头韵alliteration1.Pagan heroism&Fatalism&Christian2.Poem3.Scene:Denmark2.1066-1485Medieval Age French/Latina)Caedmon(610-680)the earliest English poet1.Caedmon’s Hymnb)Bede(673-735)Father of Historiography英国史学之父1.Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorumc)King Alfred(848-901)Wessex Father of English Prose1.Anglo-Saxon Chronicled)William Langland(1332-1400)1.Piers the Plowmane)Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)Father of English Poetry;1st to use Heroic Couplet英雄双行体;Poet of Westminster Abbey1.The Canterbury Tales24stories2.The Romaunt of the Rose翻译的发过作品3.The Legend of good Women4.The House of Famef)The Gawain-Poet(无名诗人)1.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(1360-1370)头韵alliterationg)Sir Thomas Malory(1405-1471)1.Le Morte d’Arthur(The Death of Arthur)(1470)第一部关于亚瑟王传奇故事的英语散文作品3.14th-17th Renaissance Humanism;Poetry&Poeticdramaa)Thomas More(1478-1535)Humanist1.Utopiab)Philip Sidney(1554-1586)the complete man1.Astrophel and Stella被认为是伊丽莎白时代除莎士比亚外最好的十四行诗2.The Defence of Poesie(or Apology for Poetry)最早英语散文之一c)Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)Poet’s poet;Spenserian Stanza1.The Faerie Queene Allegorical work dedicated to Queen ElizabethⅠ2.The Shepherd Calendard)Francis Bacon(1561-1626)唯物主义；现代科学；1st English essayist1.Essays58篇2.The Advancement of Learning3.The New Instrumente)Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)greatest of the pioneers of English Drama;most gifted ofthe“university wits”;blank verse1.Tamburlaine人性对权力的渴求2.Te Tragical History of Doctor Faustus人性对知识、幸福的渴求f)William Shakespeare(1564-1616)Ben Johnson:was not of an age,but for all timei.154sonnets:first126addressed to the young nobleman;later28to Dark Ladyii.4tragedies:Hamlet;King Lear;Othello;Macbethedies:A Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you like itMerchant of VeniceTwelfth NightMuch Ado About Nothing无事生非The Taming of the Shrew驯悍记iv.Tragicomedy:Romeo and Julietv.Chronicle Play:1.亨利六、四、五、八世2.理查德三、二世3.凯撒4.Cleopatra克莉奥帕特拉vi.Miracle Play:1.Pericles2.Cymbeline3.The Winter’s Tale4.The Tempestg)Ben Johnson(1572-1637)Forerunner of classicism;first Poet Laureate1.Every Man in His Humour个性互异2.Song:To Celia英语中最有名的爱情诗之一3.Volpone4.The Alchemist炼金术士h)John Donne(1572-1631)Metaphysical school of poetry奇特的比喻1.Songs and Sonnets best known poem collection;Love主题2.The Flea3.The Sun Rising4.The Holy Sonnets5.Death,Be Not Proud6.Go and Catch a Falling Star7.A Valediction:Forbidding Mourningi)John Milton(1608-1674)1st to use blank verse in non-dramatic works1.Paradise Lost12books;from Old Testment;a revolt against God’s authority2.Paradise Regained New Testment;how Christ overcame Santa3.Samson Agonistes poetical drama;Book of Judges士师记4.Defence of the English people5.Second Defence of the English People4.Mid17th-18th Neoclassical Period early17th:Age of Milton;late17th:Age ofDrydenPoetryMetaphysical poets:17th初受John Donne影响a)John Dryden(1631-1700)Father of English Criticism、桂冠诗人1.All for Love2.Alexander’s Feast3.An Essay of Dramatic Poesy使其成为当时最杰出的批评家b)John Bunyan(1628-1688)英国文学史上首位小说家1.The Pilgrim’s Progress成名作religious allegory与《神曲》（但丁）、《忏悔录》（奥古斯丁）并称为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作2.The Holy War3.The life and Death of Mr.Badmanc)Samuel Pepys(1633-1731)17th最伟大的diaristd)Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)Father of English and European novels现实主义小说代表作家1.Robison Crusoe2.A journal of the Plague year3.Captain Singletone)Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)以Satirical Prose闻名1.Gulliver’s Travel2.A Tale of a Tub3.A Modest proposal4.The Drapier’s lettersf)Alexander Pope(1688-1744)英雄双行体登峰造极1.An Essay on Criticism2.An Essay on Man3.The Rape of the Lock4.Odysseyg)Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)founder of the English domestic novel现实主义小说代表作家1.Pamela2.Clarissa3.The History of Sir Charles Grandisonh)Henry Fielding(1707-1754)现实主义小说先驱，现实注意理论奠基人1.Amelia2.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling代表作，获称Prose Homer3.Joseph Andrewsi)Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者1.A Dictionary of the English Language2.The Vanity of Human Wishes3.Londonj)Lawrence Sterne(1713-1768)k)Thomas Gray(1716-1771)1.Elegy Written in a country churchyard2.Ode on the springl)Oliver Goldsmith(1730-1774)1.The Vicar of Wakefield2.She Stoops to Conquerm)Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816)18世纪最伟大的剧作家1.The school for the scandal2.The Rivals5.Mid-18th–mid-19th Romantic Perioda)Robert Burns(1759-1796)苏格兰最伟大的诗人；前浪漫主义代表诗人1.A Red,Red Rose2.Auld Lang Syme3.The Tree of Liberty4.Holy Willie’s Praiser5.My Heart’s in the Highlands6.A Man’s A Man for A’That7.Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialectb)William Blake(1767-1827)19世纪浪漫主义先驱1.Songs of Experience2.Songs of Innocence3.Poetical Sketches4.The marriage of heaven and hellc)William Wordsworth(1770-1850)湖畔诗人最杰出代表；1843桂冠诗人1.Lyrical Ballads2.To the Cuckoo3.My Heart leaps upd)Walter Scott(1771-1832)Father of Historical NovelEdinburg1.Ivanhoe英国历史为背景2.Waverley3.The Black Dwarf4.Rob Roy苏格兰历史为背景5.Old Mortality6.Quentin Durward欧洲其他国家历史为背景7.The Lady of the Lake8.The Minstrlsy of the Scottish Bordere)Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)湖畔诗人1.Kubla Khan忽必烈汗2.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner3.The Fall of the Bastille4.Christabelf)Robert Southey(1774-1843)湖畔诗人；1813桂冠诗人1.Joan of Arc圣女贞德2.The Battle of Blenheim3.My Days among the Dead Are Past4.Thalaba the Destroyer5.The Curse of Kehamag)Charles Lamb(1775-1834)散文家1.Tales from Shakespeare2.Essays of Elia3.New Year’s Eve4.The Praise of Chimney Sweepers5.Old Chinah)Jane Austen(1775-1817)1.Emma2.Sense and Sensibility3.Pride and Prejudice4.Mansfield Park5.Persuasioni)George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)1.Cain2.Don Juan3.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimagej)Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)1.Ode to the West Wind2.Ode to the Skylark3.Prometheus unbounded4.The Necessity of Atheism5.Queen Mabk)John Keats(1795-1821)1.Ode to Autumn2.Ode to a nightingale3.Ode on a Grecian um希腊古瓷颂4.Isabellal)Mary Shelley(1797-1851)1.Frankenstein第一部科幻小说6.1836-1901Victorian Perioda)Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)1.Sonnets from the Portuguese2.The Cry of the Childrenb)Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892)19th最高产的诗人;1850桂冠诗人；Poet of thePeople1.In Memoriam悼念朋友A.H.Hallam2.The Princess3.Idylls of the King4.Break,Break,Break5.Poems by Two Brothers6.Enoch Arden7.Maudc)Mrs.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell(1810-1865)英国小说史上首批把工人阶级与资本家的斗争些人小说的作家之一1.Mary Barton2.Life of Charlotte Bronte3.North and Southd)William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)critical realism1.Vanity Fair塑造了19th贵族资产阶级的典型形象2.Henry Esmond3.The Newcomese)Charles Dickens(1812-1870)1.Oliver Twist2.The Pickwick Papers3.Sketches by Boz4.The Old Curiosity Shop5.David Copperfield his favorite6.Dombey and Son7.American Notes8.A Tale of Two Cities French Revolution;Paris,London9.Bleak House10.Hard Times11.Great Expectationsf)Robert Browning(1812-1889)诗人及剧作家;戏剧独白诗Dramatic monologues1.My Last Duchess独白诗代表2.Men and Women3.The Ring and the Book奠定位列伟大诗人的作品4.Home Thoughts from Abroad5.Meeting at Night6.Dramatic Lyrics7.Strafford8.Dramatic Romances an Lyricsg)Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)1.Jane Eyre女性主义代表作品2.Shirleyh)Emily Bronte(1818-1848)1.Wuthering Heights诗歌式的语言，多视角i)Anne Bronte(1820-1849)1.Agnes Greyj)George Eliot(1819-1880)原名：Mary Ann Evans;Realism;Psychological insights“1st novelist to start putting al the actions inside”--DH Lawrence1.Adam Bede2.The Mill on the Floss3.Silas Marner4.Middlemarchk)William Morris(1830-1896)principal founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement1.The Earthly Paradise2.News form Nowhere3.A Dream of John Ball4.Chants of Socialism5.Pilgrims of Hopel)Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)Wessex多数小说展开的地点，古七国之一1.Far from the Madding Crowd2.Jude the Obscure3.Tess of the D’Urbervilles男人无法掌控自己的命运4.The Mayor of Casterbridge5.The Return of the Nativem)Robert Stevenson(1850-1894)苏格兰散文家、诗人、小说家；新浪漫主义杰出代表1.Treasure Island金银岛2.The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde化身博士3.Kidnapped4.New Arabian Nights新天方夜谭5.A Child’s Garden of Verses6.Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes7.An Inland Voyagen)Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)爱尔兰诗人、剧作家、小说家、散文家、Aestheticism 唯美主义代表1.The Importance of Being Earnest2.The Picture of Dorian Gray唯一的小说dy Windermere’s Fan4.The Happy Prince and Other Tales5.AN Ideal Husband6.A Woman of No Importanceo)Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)波兰裔小说家1.The Nigger of the Narcissus2.Heart of Darkness黑暗之心3.Lord Jim吉姆老爷4.Youth7.20th Modern Perioda)George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)生于爱尔兰都柏林1925诺奖1.Major Barbara2.Mrs.Warren’s Profession3.Widowers’Houses Joan4.Pygmalion改编成音乐剧My Fair Lady5.Saint Joan圣女贞德赢得诺奖6.The Quintessence of Ibsenism7.John Bull’s Other Island8.Man and Supermanb)William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)爱尔兰诗人、剧作家；1923首位爱尔兰诺奖得主；早期英国象征主义symbolism诗歌代表1.When you are Old2.The Autumn of the Body3.The Wind among the Reeds4.The Land of Heart’s Desire5.The Tower6.The Wild Swan at Coole7.Sailing to Byzantium8.The Second Coming9.Leda and the Swanc)Herbert George Wells(1866-1946)forerunner of modern science fiction1.The Time Machined)John Galsworthy(1867-1933)20th realistic writer;1932诺奖1.The Forsyte Saga most famous trilogya)The Man of Propertyb)In Chanceryc)To Let2.A Modern Comedya)The White Monkeyb)The Silver Spoonc)Swan Song剧本：3.The Silver Box4.Strifee)W.S.Maugham(1874-1965)剧作家，小说、短篇小说家1.Of Human Bondage2.The Moon and Sixpencef) E.M.Forster(1879-1970)讽刺；20th社会阶级不平等及伪善1.A Room with a View2.A Passage to India3.Where Angels Fear to Tread4.Howards Endg)James Joyce(1882-1941)意识流1.Dubliners短篇小说集；共15篇；20世纪中下层市民生活2.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man半自传体3.Ulysses现代主义在文学的重要体现；非传统小说；现代散文体史诗；4.Finnegans Wakeh)Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)stream of consciousness；poetic style;feminist1.Mrs.Dalloway2.A Room of One’s Own3.To the Lighthouse4.The Waves5.Three Guineas6.Jacob’s Room7.Orlandoi)David Herbert Lawrence(1885-1930)小说家、诗人1.Sons and Lovers自传体小说；Oedipus Complex2.The Rainbow3.The White Peacock4.Women in Love结构上比其他的小说更出色dy Chatterley’s Loverwrence Trilogy:a)A Collier’s Friday Nightb)The Daughter-in-Lawc)The Widowing of Mrs.Holroyedj)T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)1948诺奖；modernist；诗人；剧作家；评论家1.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock戏剧独白诗；意识流2.Ash Wednesday3.The Waste Land一战后人们精神上的堕落4.Four Quartets后期主要诗作k)Katharine Mansfield(1888-1923)女；英国小说家1.Bliss2.The Garden Partyl)George Orwell(1903-1950)novelist&journalist1.Animal Farm2.19843.Homage to Catalonia记述西班牙内战m)Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)1969诺奖，forerunner of Absurd Drama荒诞派戏剧1.Waiting for Godotn)William Golding(1911-1994)小说家，诗人，剧作家，诺奖1.Lord of the Flies2.The Inheritorso)Doris Lessing(1919-2013)2007诺奖1.The Golden Notebookp)John Osborne(1929-1994)Angry Young Man领军人物1.Look Back in AngerAmerican Literaturete-16th-mid-17th Literature o Colonial Settlementsa)The Bay Psalmbook first book in Anglo-America;希伯来文-->英文b)John Smith(1580-1631)1.A True Relation of Virginia2.A Map of Virginia:with a Description of the Countryc)Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)1st notable poet1.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America2.Contemplationsd)Edward Taylor(1642-1729)conservative Puritan minister;Metaphysical Poets1.God’s Determinations Touching his Electe)Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)most famed preachers of the Great Awakening1.Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God2.The Freedom of the Will3.The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended4.The Nature of True Virtue2.mid-17th-18th Revolution of Independencea)Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)1.A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money;2.Poor Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书；3.The Way to Wealth致富之道；4.The Autobiography自传b)Thomas Paine(1737-1909)1.The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题；mon Sense常识；3.American Crisis美国危机；4.Rights of Man人的权利：5.Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃；6.The Age of Reason理性时代c)Philip Freneau(1752-1832)poet of American revolution;father of American Poetry1.The British Prison Ship英国囚船；2.The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；3.To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-----同类诗中最佳；4.The Wild Honeysuckle野金银花；5.The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地(lyric)d)Phillis Wheatley(1754-1784)美国史上首位黑人女诗人1.On Messrs Hussey and Coffine)William Dunlap(1766-1839)美国喜剧先驱1.History of the American Theater2.Major Andre3.18th-19th Romanticisma)Washington Irving(1783-1859)美国文学之父1.A History of New York纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；2.The Sketch Book见闻札记浪漫注意的开端，美国文学史上第一部短篇小说集a)The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；b)Rip Van Winkle3.Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；4.Talks of Travellers旅客谈；5.The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉b)James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)frontier sagas and sea adventure tales1.The Spy间谍;2.The Pilot领航者;3.The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿;4.Leather Stocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:a)The Pioneer拓荒者；b)The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;c)The Prairie大草原;d)The Pathfinder探路者;e)The Deerslayer杀鹿者c)William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)1.To a Waterfowl用美国英语写作的最完美的短诗2.Thanatpsis3.The Yellow Violetd)Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Transcendentalism运动领袖1.Concord Hymn康考德颂;2.The Rhodo杜鹃花;3.The Humble Bee野蜂;4.Days日子-首开自由诗之先河5.Essays散文集:6.Nature论自然新英格兰超验主义者的宣言The Bible of Transcendentalism;Manifesto of American Transcendentalism;7.The American Scholar论美国学者;Intellectual Declaration of Independence8.Divinity;The Oversoul论超灵9.Self-reliance论自立;10.The Transcendentalist超验主义者;11.Representative Men代表人物;12.English Traits英国人的特征;13.School Address神学院演说e)Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)人性的原罪1.Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事2.Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔:Young Goodman Brown年轻的古德曼·布朗3.The Scarlet Letter红字1st symbolic novel;Hester Prynne4.The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子--------心理若们罗曼史5.Fanshaw6.The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇7.The Marble Faun玉石雕像f)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)诗人角1.The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗2.Voices of the Night夜吟3.Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗4.Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗5.Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事6.诗集：a)An April Day四月的一天b)A Psalm of Life人生礼赞最出名的一首短诗c)Paul Revere’s Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔d)Evangeline伊凡吉琳e)The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗；f)Poems on Slavery奴役篇---反蓄奴组诗g)Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1848)father of psychoanalytic criticism and detective story1.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque怪诞奇异故事集2.Tales故事集3.The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌4.Ligeia莱琪儿5.Annabel Lee安娜贝尔·李-----歌特风格；6.Tamerlane and Other Poems帖木儿和其他诗7.Al Araaf,Tamerlane and Minor Poems艾尔·阿拉夫，帖木儿和其他诗8.The Raven and Other Poems乌鸦及其他诗:a)The Raven乌鸦b)The City in the Sea海城c)Israfel伊斯拉菲尔d)To Hellen致海伦h)Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)1.Walden2.Civil Disobedience3.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversi)Herman Melville(1819-1891)1.Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；2.Typee泰比3.Omoo奥穆4.Mardi玛地5.Redburn雷得本6.White Jacket白外衣7.Pierre皮尔埃8.Piazza广场故事9.Billy Budd比利·巴德j)Walt Whitman(1819-1892)1.Leaves of Grass草叶集第一部真正的史诗a)Song of Myself自我之歌b)I Sit Here and Look Outc)Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking2.O Captain!O Captain!3.Song of the Broad-Axe阔斧之歌4.I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱5.When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom’d小院丁香花开时6.Democratic Vistas民主的前景7.The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题k)Emily Dickson(1830-1886)romantic poet;1,800poems1.The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集-----a)Because I Could Not Stop for Deathb)I Died for Beauty-But Was Scarcec)I’m Nobody.Who Are You？d)This is My Letter to the Worlde)I Heard a Fly Buzz When I die4.19th-20th Realisma)Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)1.Uncle Tom’s Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋2.A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp德雷德阴暗大沼地的故事片3.The Minister’s Wooing牧师的求婚4.The Pearl of Orr’s Island奥尔岛的珍珠5.Oldtown Folks老城的人们b)Mark Twain(1835-1910)美国文学史上的林肯；first truly American writer-Faulkner1.The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙2.The Innocent’s Abroad傻瓜出国记3.The Gilded Age镀金时代4.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆·索耶历险记5.The Prince and the Pauper王子与贫儿6.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利·费恩历险记现代美国文学之源-海明威7.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court亚瑟王宫中的美国佬8.The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson傻瓜威尔逊9.Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc冉·达克10.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg败坏哈德莱堡的人11.How to Tell a Story怎样讲故事---对美国早期幽默文学的总结c)William Dean Howells(1837-1920)现实主义奠基人1.The Rise of Silas Lapham赛拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹代表着2.A Modern Instance一个现代的例证3.A Hazard of Now Fortunes《新财富的危害》d)Henry James(1843-1916)与豪威尔斯齐名；关注人物复杂心理1.Daisy Miller黛西米勒；2.The Portrait of a Lady贵妇人画像；3.The Bostonians波士顿人；4.The Real Thing and Other Tales真货色及其他故事；5.The Wings of the Dove鸽翼；6.The Ambassadors大使；7.The Golden Bowl金碗8.评论集：French Poets and Novelists法国诗人和小说家a)Hawthorne霍桑b)Partial Portraits不完全的画像c)Notes and Reviews札记与评论d)Art of Fiction and Other Essays小说艺术e)O.Henry(1862-1910)美国短篇小说之父f)Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)1.Sister Carrie嘉莉姐妹2.Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘3.Trilogy of Desire欲望三部曲(Financer金融家,The Titan巨人,The Stoic斯多葛)4.An American Tragedy美国的悲剧（被称为美国最伟大的小说）5.Nigger Jeff黑人杰弗6.The Genius天才g)Stephen Crane(1871-1900)自然主义、印象主义1.Maggie:A Girl of the Streets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）；2.The Red Badge of Courage红色英勇勋章；3.The Open Boat小划子4.The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky新娘来到黄天镇h)Jack London(1876-1916)1.The Son of the Wolf狼之子2.The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤3.The Sea-wolf海狼4.White Fang白獠牙5.The People of the Abyss深渊中的人们6.The Iron Heel铁蹄7.Marti Eden马丁·伊登8.How I become a Socialist我怎样成为社会党人9.The War of the Classes阶级之间的战争10.What Life Means to Me生命对我意味着什么11.Revolution革命12.Love of Life热爱生活13.The Mexican墨西哥人14.The Law of Life生活的法则15.Under the Deck Awings在甲板的天蓬下i)Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)1.Winesburg,Ohio由发生在小镇上的23个相关小故事构成j)Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935)1920s最伟大的诗人；作品有自然主义特色1.Tilbury Town2.The House on the Hill3.Richard Cory4.Miniver Cheevy5.20th-Modernisma)Robert Lee Frost(1874-1963)诗作关于新英格兰的风景和人;四次1.New Hampshireb)Wallace Stevens(1879-1955)1.Harmonium风琴2.Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨3.The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦c)Erza Pound(1885-1972)美国现代诗歌之父；意象派1.In a Station of the Metro2.The Cantos3.A Virginal4.A Pact5.Salutation the Second6.The Spirit of Romance罗曼司精神7.The Anthology Des Imagistes意像派诗选8.Cathay华夏（英译中国诗）9.Literary Essays文学论10.Hugh Swlwyn Mauberley11.A Few Don’ts by Imagiste意像派戒条12.Personage面具13.Polite Essays文雅集14.The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章（109首及8首未完成稿）d)Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)第一位成为诺奖得主的美国作家1.Dur Mr Wrenn我们的雷恩先生2.The Job求职3.The Main Street大先进4.Babbitt巴比特5.Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯6.Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里7.Dodsworth多兹沃斯8.It can’t Happen Here事情不会发生在这里9.Kingsblood Royal王孙梦e)Eugene Galdstone O’Neill(1888-1953)1936诺奖1.Long Day’s Journey into Night长夜漫漫路迢迢代表作；自传性质2.Beyond the Horizon3.Desire Under the Elms4.The Iceman Cometh5.The Hairy Apef)Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965)1.Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克（荒原意识）2.The Waste Land荒原3.The Burial of the Dead死者的葬礼4.A Game of Chess弈棋5.The Fire Sermon火诫6.Death by Water水边之死7.The Hollow Man空心人8.The Sacred Wood圣林9.Gerontion小老头10.What the Thunder Said雷电之言11.名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三12.Four Quarters四个四重奏13.诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案14.Family Reunion大团圆15.Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会g)Pearl S.Buck(1892-1973)赛珍珠1934年前主要在中国；1932普利策；1938诺奖（美国历史上第一个）1.The Good Earth大地获得普利策小说奖h) E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)Forerunner of Concrete Poetry and Visual Poetry1.Tulips and Chimneys郁金香与烟囱2.The Enormous Room大房间3.XLI Poems诗41首4.Viva万岁5.No,Thanks不，谢谢6.Collected Poems诗集7.Eimi爱米（访苏游记）i) F.Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)迷惘的的一代;Spokesman of the Jazz Age1.The Side of Paradise人间天堂2.The Beautiful and the Damned美丽与毁灭3.The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比4.Tender in the Night夜色温柔5.The Last Tycoon最后的巨头6.短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们7.Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事8.Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号→The Ice Palace冰宫9.May Days五一节10.The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石11.Winter Dreams冬天的梦12.The Rich Boy富家子弟13.Babylon Revisted重访巴比伦敦14.The Crack-up崩溃（自传体文集j)William Faulkner(1897-1962)1950诺奖；南方新旧之间冲突的史诗式描写1.The Sound and the Fury lost innocence;意识流2.The Hamlet3.The Town4.The Mansion5.A Fable6.Absalom,Absalom!Historical novel7.Go Down,Moses8.As I Lay Dying9.Light in August10.A Rose for Emilyk)Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)迷惘的一代（Gertrude Stein首先使用；“你们都是迷惘的一代”被作为<太阳照样升起>的卷首语）；iceberg principle;1954诺奖；1953普利策奖1.In Our Time在我们的年代里2.The Torrents of Spring春潮3.The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起4.Farewell to Arms永别了，武器5.For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣6.短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人7.The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获8.The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇9.政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥l)Vladimir Nabokov(1899-1977)俄罗斯裔长短篇小说家、诗人1.Lolitam)John Steinbeck(1902-1968)经济大萧条时期最杰出的小说家；1962诺奖；1940普利策奖1.Cup of Gold金杯2.Tortilla Flat煎饼房3.In Dubious Battle胜负未定4.Of Mice and Men鼠和人5.The Grapes of Wrath愤怒的葡萄经济大萧条时期的美国现状6.The Moon is Down月落7.Cannery Row罐头厂街8.The Pearl珍珠9.The Winter of Or Discontent10.The Pastures of Heaven11.短篇小说：The Red Pony小红马12.The Great Mountains大山13.The Promise许诺14.The Leader of the People人们的领袖n)Langston Hughes(1902-1967)1.Mulatto混血儿（剧本）2.The Weary Blues疲倦的歌声3.Dear Lovely Death亲爱的死神4.Shakespear in Harlem哈莱姆的莎士比亚5.I Wonder as I Wander我漂泊我思考6.The Best of Simple辛普尔精选o)Isaac Bashevis Singer(1904-1991)1978诺奖1.The Magician of Lublin鲁柏林的魔术师p)Tennessee Williams(1911-1983)二战后最杰出剧作家；关注现代人的寂寞和孤立1.American Blues美国的布鲁斯2.Battle of Angels天使的战斗3.The Glass Menagerie玻璃动物园4.The Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车获得普利策奖；揭露暴力和性变态主题5.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof热铁皮屋顶上的猫6.The Night of The Iguana鬣蜥之夜7.Summer and Smoke夏与烟8.The Rose Tattoo玫瑰纹9.Sweet Bird of Yout可爱的青春鸟q)WIBernard Malamud(1914-1986)1.The Assistant店员r)Ralph Ellison(1914-1994)1.看不见的人s)William Burroughs(1914-1997)垮掉一代的重要作家；后现代主义的重要作家1.Naked Lunch裸体午餐t)Arthur Miller(1915-2005)1.Situation Normal情况正常2.The Man Who Had All the Luck吉星高照的人3.All My Sons都是我的儿子4.The Death of a Salesman推销员代表着；获得普利策戏剧奖；托尼戏剧音乐奖；美国梦造成的悲剧5.The Crucible严峻的考验/萨姆勒的女巫6.A View from the Bridge桥头眺望7.A Memory of Two Mondays两个星期一的回忆8.After the Fall堕落之后9.Incident at Vichy维希事件10.The Price代价11.The Creation of the World and Other Business创世及其他12.The Archbishop’s Ceiling大主教的天花板13.The American Clock美国时钟u)Saul Bellow(1915-2005)1976诺奖1.Dangling Man晃来晃去的人2.Humboldt’s Gift洪堡的礼物3.Seize the Day勿失良辰v)Jerome David Salinger(1919-2010)1.长篇小说：The Catcher in the Rye麦田里的守望者2.短篇小说：The Young Folks年轻人短篇小说集：Nine Stories故事九篇3.中篇小说：Franny弗兰尼4.Zooey卓埃5.Raise High the Roof Beam,Carpenters木匠们，把屋梁升高6.Seymour:An Introduction西摩其人w)Jack Kerouac(1922-1969)the beat generation1.On the Road自传性质x)Joseph Heller(1923-1999)讽刺小说家；短篇小说家；剧作家；黑色幽默1.长篇小说：Catch-22第二十二条军规黑色幽默代表2.Something Happened出了毛病3.As Good as Gold像高尔德一样好4.剧本：We Bombed in New Haven我们轰炸纽黑文5.Catch-226.Clevinger’s Trial克莱文杰受审（据Catch-22第八章）y)Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997)The Beat Generation;1.Howl与惠特曼《自我之歌》、艾略特《荒原》为美国文学重要长诗z)Edward Albee(1928-)受荒诞派戏剧和残酷戏剧的影响1.The Zoo Story动物园的故事2.The Death of Bessie Smith贝西·史密斯之死3.The Sandbox沙箱4.The American Dream美国梦5.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫代表作6.Tiny Alice小爱丽丝7.A Delicate Balance脆弱的羊群8.Seascape海景9.The Lady from Dubuque来自杜布克的女人10.The Man With Three Arms在臂人aa)Toni Morrison(1931-)1993诺奖；第一个获得诺奖的非洲裔美国女作家1.The Bluest Eye2.Song of Solomon3.Beloved宠儿ab)John Updike(1932-2009)sweet lonesome singer of Protestant mediocrity1.Rabbit Series:a)Rabbit,Runb)Rabbit Reduxc)Rabbit is Richd)Rabbit at Restac)Alice Walker(1944-)第一位获得普利策奖的黑人女作家1.Everyday Use日用家当2.The Color Purple紫色a)Samuel Butler Erehwon埃瑞璜乌托邦，讽刺英国社会b)Edith Wharton现实主义作家1.The House of Mirth欢乐之家2.The Age of Innocence天真时代讽刺暴发户的庸俗和私利、上层社会狭隘的文化和传统观念c)Upton Sinclair1.The Jungle屠宰场芝加哥屠宰场剥削工人的小说。
英语英美文学常识归纳
英语英美文学常识归纳篇一：英语专八英美文学常识归纳3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。
the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。
"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，手册英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据法律合并成为大不列颠王国。
gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。
the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, theboard ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。
lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。
英美文学(专八)
弗兰西斯.培根
Essayer
Essays论说文
Of Studies论学习
Of Truth论真理
现代科学和唯物主义（materialism）的创始人之一
1572-1631
John Donne
约翰.邓恩
MetaphysicalPoet
玄学派诗人
The Sun Rising升起的太阳
London伦敦
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
理查德德.比.谢立丹
Playwright
The School of Scandal造谣学校
The rivals情敌
Comedy of manners
风俗喜剧
Thomas Gray
扥马斯.格雷
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌
Joan of Arc圣女贞德
Lake poets
1831桂冠诗人
1788-1824
George Gordon Byron
乔治.戈登.拜伦
Childe Harold洽尔德.哈罗德游记
Don Juan唐璜
Cain该隐
1792-1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley
铂.比.雪莱
Ode to the West Wind西风颂
The picture of dorian grey道林格雷的画像
Lady windermere’s fan温德米尔夫人的扇子
A woman of no’important一个无足轻重的女人
The importance of being earnest认真的重要性
唯美主义（aestheticism）的代表
英专八级人文重要考点总结——英美文学
. 英语专业八级人文知识——英国文学Part one Old and Medieval English Literature1. Old English P oetry and “Beowulf ”(贝奥武浦)• “Beowulf ” → the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people →Alliteration( 头韵）national epic: 国家史诗（赞颂一个国家的丰功伟绩 ）2.Middle English Literature and the Canterbury T ales①The R omance ( describing the life and adventures of a noble hero) 浪漫传奇• King Arthur and His Knights o f the R ound T able 《亚瑟王与他的圆桌骑士》②Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟→ the “_ father of English poetry__________________”,→“The Canterbury T ales ” is Chaucer’s masterpiece (stories narrated by Pilgrims 朝圣者)→ he introduced rhymed couplet to English poetry , instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.• (Couplet: A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming. ) couplet: 对句，对联 stanza:诗的一节Renaissance (1485—1660) 文艺复兴→ The Background: the society was in its transition from the feudalism to capitalism.→ Revival or rebirth of classical arts, culture and philosophy after the dark ag e s of medieval → The key word for it is _ humanism _, emphasized secular concerns , express the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.→ Shakespeare, Spenser , and Marlowe are all famous literary figures in this periodThomas More (1478-1535)Utopia (socialism ) The definition of Utopia is "no place." Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) “A poet’s poet” The Faerie Queen 《仙后》Francis Bacon 培根 (1561-1626)1 “Adv an cemen t o f Learning ” 学术的推进:2 “New Instrument ” :新工具 the inductive method of reasoning3. “New Atlantics ” : an ideal society 新大西岛4. “Essays ” / 58 essays 论说文集A wide variety of subjects: love, truth, friendship, beauty, studies, riches…His style: clearness, brevity, force of expression☆ his essays is an important landmark in the development of English pr oseChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)1.University wits, the greatest pioneer of English d rama2. blank verse V erse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格). 无韵诗，素体诗3. Doctor Faustus 《浮士德》William Shakespeare：the greatest English poet and dramatist①154sonnets（十四行诗）（商籁体）,②37plays,including14comedies,12tragedies,and11historical plays,③2long poems.☆But for such a great writer,we have very little definite knowledge about his life. Shakespeare’s T ragedies(1)Hamlet(2)Othello(3)King Lear(4)Macbeth Shakespeare’s Comedies(1)The Merchant o f V enice(2)A Mi d summer Night's Dream(3)As Y ou Like It《皆大欢喜》(4)T welfth nightThe Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship be tw e en Antonio and Bassanio,to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty,wit and loyalty,to expose the insatiable greed and brutality (Shylock)Hamlet hesitate betw een fact and fiction,language and action→T o be,or not to be-to live on in this world or to die;to suffer or to tak e action Soliloquy or monologue-fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters（独白）Poetry1.Narrative poetry①the epic②the r omance③popular ballads2.Lyric poetry①the elegy:a lyric poem lamenting the death of an individual.挽歌②the ode:a lyric poem of considerable length to sing in honor a person or a thing.It is seriousin subject and formal in style.颂歌3.Dramatic poetry:dialogue in the d ramaSonnetA14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.Rhyme:abab cdcd efef gg☆3quatrains(3four-line stanza)+1couplet(2lines)quatrains:四行诗The period of the English Bourgeois Revolution→Historical background:two revolutions:puritan revolution and glorious revolutionthe transition from the absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy→1.two literary schools of poets①the school of Metaphysical玄学②the school of Cavaliers.骑士2.the most important poet:John Milton Metaphysical Poetry（玄学派诗歌)It is the poetry of John Donne and other seventeenth-century poe ts who wrote in a similar style.dislike traditional poem Scholar,Highly abstract or theoretical;John Milton约翰·弥尔顿the last great poemsParadise Lost失乐园Paradise Regained复乐园Samson Agonistes力士参孙.→The two most essential things:Puritanism and his republicanism.Paradise Lost→the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.→the main idea of the poem is a revolt against God’s authority→Satan is the real her o of the poem.Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.John Bunyan(1628-1688)班扬Puritan author His best known work,The Pilgrim‘s Progress天路历程a religious allegory（宗教预言）18世纪英国文学Cultural Background1.Enlightenment Movemen t启蒙运动⑴A progressive intellectual movement⑵E nlighteners considered“Enlightenment”or“education”of the people to be their chief objective.⑶They believed in the power of reason(the age of reason)⑷two groups:①the moderate(Pope,Defoe,Addison)（温和派）→support the principles of the existing social order②the radical(Swift,Fielding,Sheridan)（激进派）→crisis→Sentimentalism（感伤主义）18世纪英国文学Complex:An age of pr ose(Addison’s essay\Swift’s satire\Fielding’s novel)1.Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(P ope\Addison\S teel:model themselves after Greek and Latin authors)2.Sentimentalism(Gray\Goldsmith\Richardson\Sterne:discontent with the social reality “Heart”)3.The beginning of modern novel→Major novelists:Defoe\Swift\Fielding\Richardson,4.Pre-romanticism in English poetry5.English Drama(Sheridan:the school for Scandal) Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(model themselves after Greek andLatin authors)1.Alexander P ope蒲伯:Heroic couplet英雄双韵体2.Joseph Addison艾迪生Sir Richard Steele斯梯尔:The Spectator旁观者3.Samuel Johnson:DictionaryAlexander P ope蒲柏Neo-classicism新古典Heroic couplet英雄双韵体Lines of ia mbic pentameter rhyme in pairs；P ope carried this to its last stage of perfection；An Essay on CriticismSentimentalism格列 n i discontent with the social realityThomas Gray 格雷 (poem) Laurence Sterne (novel)Thomas Gray (1716 -1771)Sentimentalism The graveyard school 墓园派Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard《墓园挽歌》The beginning of modern novelSmollett: First important sea novelist Laurence Sterne 斯泰恩 : SentimentalismSamuel Richardson 理查生: Pamela, or Virtue R ewarded 《帕美拉》Clarissa Harlowe, or Virtue T riumphant 《克拉丽莎》1.Daniel Defoe 迪福 : R obinson Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记R obinson is the very prototype of the empire builder , the pioneer colonist.2.Jonathan Swift 斯威夫特 ： a master satirist Gulliver‘s Travels 佛游记3.Henry Fielding ：Father of English novel 、The founder of English realistic novel T om Jones 汤姆· 琼斯Romanticism in Britain The New Literary T rend (1798---1832)1.Dissatisfaction with the society (1) A revolt against it (2) An escape from it2. An introspection into one ’s inner world ( attention on spiritual and emotional life)3. The passions of man and the beauties of nature4. A period of poetical revival(1) The Romantic period is an age of poetry . (Blake , Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley , Keats)(2) The Romantic period is a great age of prose. Coleridge , Hazlitt, Lamb (3) This period is also a great age of novels.Walter ScottScott ’s historical novels combine a romantic atmospher e with a realistic depiction of historical b ack ground and common people ’s life. Scott mark ed the transition from romanticism to the period realism.William Blake 布莱克 Symbolism: 象征主义1.The earliest poems: Poetical sk etches 素描诗集2.Songs o f Innocence 天真之歌3.Songs o f experience 经验之歌_4.famous poem: The tiger\London\The Chimney SweeperRobert Burns (1759-1796)1.Written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjectsP oems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集2. Songs of love and friendship —a new spirit of romanticism“A Red, Red Rose ”一朵红红的玫瑰3 The rural theme / Beauties of nature“My Heart’s the Highlands ”我的心呀在高原1.Samuel T aylor Coleridge(1772-1834)柯勒律治P oetic and critic “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 1798 《古舟子咏》“Kubla Khan” 1816 《忽必烈汗》•W ordsworth and Coleridge 's Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》William Wordsworth 威廉· 华兹华斯“Lucy ”---《露西组诗》(She Dwelt Among the Untr odden Ways ） ☆harmony be tw ee n humanity and nature2. “The Solitary Reaper ”---《孤寂的刈麦人》 ☆pathetic pictures of the labouring people3. “I wondered lonely as a cloud ”—《我孤独如云》☆ deep love for natureGeorge Gordon“Childe Harold ’s Pilgrimage ” 1812《恰罗德· 哈罗德游记》“Don Juan ” 1812-1823 masterpiece 《唐· 璜》 a great comic epic of the early 19th century . The “ Byronic hero ” is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin• 名诗：She W alks in Beauty The Isles o f GreecePercy Bysshe Shelly 雪莱 (1792-1822)1. “Queen Mab ”:麦布女王 His first long poem expresses almost all his major political ideas.2. “Prometheus Unbound ”:《解放了的普罗米修斯 》His masterpiece; a lyrical drama.3. Lyrics on nature and love: e.g. “Ode to the West Wind”; “To a Skylark”《西风/云雀颂 》 ☆“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”John Keats(1795-1821) Not noble Died of TB Died at 25Ode on MelancholyOde on a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂It reveals the contrast between the permanence o f art and the transience o f human passion. Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂It reveals the contrast between the happy world o f natural loveliness and human world o f agonyOde to Psyche Ode to Autumn 秋颂The Development of Victorian Literature→ Victorian Literature, as a pr oduct of its age, naturally had its quality of magnitude and diversity .It was many-sided and complex, and reflected both romantically and realistically the great changes that were going on in people ’s life and thought.→the great period of the novel in Britain Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common peopleThe Genres of Victorian Literature1)The novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.Charles Dickens,William Makepeace Thackeray,Charlotte Bronte,Emily Bronte,Elizabeth Gaskell,George EliotRobert Browning勃朗宁(1812-1889)the most original poet,who improve and matur e the dramatic monologue戏剧独白Wrote an admiring letter to Elizabeth Barret(an invalid,a poet,six years elder)→famous r omance→secretely wedded,eloped to Italy in1846→Sonnets From the P ortuguese(love poems to her husband)葡萄牙十四行诗The ring and book(poetic drama)My last Duchess(dramatic monologue)→A poem in which a single character,addressing a silent listener,explains his actions at an important moment or crisis in his lifeHome Thoughts From AbroadAlfred T ennyson(1809-1892)P oet Laureate A real artistinvents dramatic monologueJane Austen简·奥斯丁1775-18171.Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺2.Sense and Sensibility理智与情感3.Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见4.Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德庄园5.Emma爱玛6.P ersuasion劝导Austen’s writing style1.The founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people.2.Vivid pictures of everyday life of simple country society,the small world she lived in3.Delicate description of the daily talks and doings of y oung people4.Quiet irony and analysis of characterCharles Dickens(1812-1870)→one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age→famous for his forceful social criticism→urb an poor(Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people)→Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works→A mingling of humor and p ath os悲伤The P osth umou s Papers o f the Pickwick Club匹克威克外传Oliver T wist奥利弗·退斯特/雾都孤儿American Notes美国札记The Old Curiosity Shop老古玩店Dombey and Son董贝父子David Copperfield大卫·科波菲尔Hard Times艰难时世A T ale o f T wo Cities双城记Great Expectation远大前程”·Thackeray (1811-63)萨克雷 Representative of critical realism→different from Dickens, Less interested in direct social criticism→ Showing people ’s vanity and their deluded efforts to achieve wealth and social statusThe book o f Snobs (1846-47)势利者集 V anity Fair (1847-48)名利场P endennis (1848)潘登尼斯 Henry Esmond (1852)亨利爱德芒德The Newcomes (1853)纽卡姆一家 The Virginians (1857)弗吉尼亚人V anity Fair 名利场★V anity Fair is Thackeray ’s masterpiece.★ The term "vanity fair" originates from the allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.★ The sub-title of the book, “A Novel Without a Hero (the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree )★ The novel satirizes society in early 19th-century England (characterised by hypocrisy and opportunism).George Eliot (1819-1880)insightful psychological novels （心理小说 ）Writing about life in small rural towns,《亚当· 比德》 Adam Bede (1859) 《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 The Mill on the Floss (1860)《织工马南》 Silas Marner (1861) 《米德尔玛契》Middlemarch (1871-1872) ----a portrait of life in a provincial town, is considered her masterpiece.As a woman of exceptional (特有的)intelligence and life experience, she shows a particular concern for the destiny of womenThe Bronte SistersCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre Shirley ProfessorEmily Bronte 爱米丽 · 勃郎特 1818-1848 Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄 （Heathcliff ） Anne Bronte 安妮· 勃郎特 Agnes Grey 艾格尼斯格雷简· 爱 Jane Eyre (1847) Jane Eyre Mr. Rochester★ The center theme : women should have equal rights with man. （The position of woman in society ）★ The problem of the bourgeois system of education;★ The problem of orphan;Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood T ree(1872) 绿茵下 Far fr om the Madding Crowd(1874) 远离尘嚣 The Return o f the Native(1878) 还乡 The Mayor o f Casterbridge(1886) 卡斯特桥市长 T ess of the D ’Urbervilles(1891) 德伯家的苔丝Jude the Obscure(1896) 无名的裘德His principal works are the Wessex novelsi.e.novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.He truthfully depicts the impoverishment and decay of small farmers威塞克斯小说His pessimistic philosophy seems to show that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile and mysterious fate,which brings misfortune to human life.English literature at the turn of the century→The turn of the century→Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),John Galsworthy George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),→Irish poet and dramatist→The literary school of decadence→apostle of Aestheticism “art for art’s sake”.→The Picture o f Dorian Gray(1891)道林·格雷的画像剧作→his comic masterpieces The Importance o f Being Earnest(1895)埃耐斯特的重要性. Lady Windermere's Fan(1892)温德米尔夫人的扇子An ideal Husband理想丈夫童话→"The Happy Prince."(his fairy tales especially)快乐王子John Galsworthy(1867-1933高尔斯华绥①The first trilogy“The Forsyte Saga”福尔塞世家:The Man o f Property(1906)有产业的人（It was a landmark in the development of Galsworthy’s art.It established his place in literature as a representative of bourgeois realism in the20th century English novel.）In Chancery(1920)骑虎难下T o let(1921)出租;②The second trilogy,“A Modern Comedy”:现代喜剧The White Monkey(1924)白猿The Silver Spoon(1926)银匙Swan Song(1928)天鹅曲Bernard ShawShaw was an essay-writer，language scholar and critic，but is best-remembered as a playwright.pr oblem plays.Widowers’Houses鳏夫的房产Mrs.W arren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业The Devil’s Disciple魔鬼的门徒Man and Superman人与超人Major Barbara巴巴拉少校Heartbroken House伤心之家The Apple Cart苹果车H.G.Wells（1866-1946）威尔斯•Wells is celebrated as a popularizer of science，but his best novels explore serious social and cultural themes，•科幻小说：The Time Machine时间机器E.M.Forster福斯特（1879-1970）A P assage to India印度之行Howards End霍华德庄园The Longest Journey最漫长的旅程The Room With A View可以远眺的房间Wher e Angels Fear to T read天使们忘而却步的地方,William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)毛姆1915—Of Hu man Bandage 人性 枷锁 1919 — The Moon and Sixpence 月亮 与六 便士 1930—Cakes and Ale 寻欢作乐 1944—The Razor ’s Edge 刀锋 1951—short storiesArnold Bennett ， 1867-1931Naturalism Old Wives' T ale 《老妇谭》Joseph Conrad 康拉德 (1857-1924)☆by birth a P ole ☆ His experience as a sailor made the sea his favorite theme.☆ Conrad's narratives may resemble adventure stories in incident and setting ， but his real concern is with issues of character and morality .Heart o f Darkness 黑暗的心灵 Lord Jim 吉姆老爷An Outcast o f progress 文明的前哨 The Chance 机缘The Nostromo 诺斯特罗莫 The secret Age n t 间谍“The Nigger o f the Narcissus ”(1899) is a magnificent and symbolic story of a ship in a storm. 水 仙号上的黑鬼Modernism(1)A reaction against realism(2)Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.(3)The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships b e tw e en man and nature,man and society, man and man, and man and himself .(4) The modernist writers concentrate more on the private than on the public, more on the subjective th an on the objective.They are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. In their writings, th e past, the present and the future are mingled toge ther and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual.James Joyce (1882-1941)乔伊斯 Irish novelistSecond only to Shak espeare in his mastery of the English language• definitely established “ stream of consciousness ” as a valid way of writing fiction.• 1914—Dubliners 短篇小说集（都柏林人）short stories about the hard life of poor peoplein Dublin• 1916– A Portrait of the Artist as a Y oung Man 青年艺术家的画像, a novel which islargely autobiographical, about a boy growing up in Dublin.• 1922– Ulysses 尤利西斯, a novel about three main characters in Dublin, told entirelythr oug h “stream of consciousness ”• 1939— Finnegan ’s Wake 芬尼根的觉醒, a long , extremely difficult book, written inmany languages, with many layers of symbolism, full of puns, linguistic gymnastics anddeep complicated philosophy• ☆stream-of -consciousness, or interior -monologue: a literary device that renders all theth ough ts ， feelings and sensations of a character with scrupulous psychological realism.• ☆ epiphany Joyce employ ed symbols to create what he called an “epiphany ，” the; revelation of an emotional or personal truthVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) Novelist and critic Leader of the “Bloomsbury Group ” 1922 — J acob ’ s R oom 1925 Mrs. Dalloway 达洛威夫人 1927 – T o the Lighthouse 到灯塔去1929—A R oom of O ne ’s Own 1931—The W aves 浪 1937—The Y ears 1939—Between the Acts 幕间散文集D wrence(1885-1930) 劳伦斯 O ne of the most original and controversial writers of the early 20th century• 1910---- The white P eacock 白孔雀 1913—Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人 • 1915—The Rainbow 虹 1921—Women In Love 恋爱中的妇女 •1923—Kangaroo 1926—The Plumed Serpent •1928—Lady Chatterly ’s Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人P oem of 20th centuryWilliam Butler Y eats 叶芝Irish writer who is considered among the greatest poe ts of the 20th century .• The Winding Stair 盘旋的楼梯T.S.Eliot 艾略特 诗集：Prufrock and Other Observation 普鲁夫洛克及其他The W aste Land 荒原•William Golding (1911-1993)戈尔丁Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize Novelist, essayist, poetThe Lord of the Flies （1954） The Inheritors 继承人T ed Hughs 特德· 休斯 1930-The Hawk in the Rain 雨中鹰 （poem ）Richard Lessing 多丽丝· 莱辛 1919-The Four -gated City 四门城 The Golden Notebook 金色笔记蒸英语专业八级人文知识——美国文学Introduction to American literature1.The Colonial P eriod2.The Romantic P eriod (the first half of 19th century)3.The Age of Realism and Naturalism4.The P eriod ar ound WWIChapter One The Colonial PeriodI. The Colonial P eriod (the early 17th and 18th century)1. Puritanism: idealism and opportunism2. Benjamin Franklin 本杰明· 富兰克林 :→ “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”自传→ Poor Richard ’ s Almanac 穷查理历书 (containing witty maxims for achieving wealth as a result of hard work and thrift)3.Philip Freneau (poem)菲利普· 弗伦诺 The Rising Glory of America 蒸日上的美洲American PuritanismPuritans → The early settlers☆ founding fathers of the America nation☆T o purify the rituals and lessen the authority of bishops → escaped to the new world, create a new paradise→ advocate highly religious and moral principles.→ American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.Chapter Two American Romanticism and New England LiteratureRepresentative figures of the time:Pre-romanticism: W ashington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper 库珀Post-romanticism:Novelists: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman MelvilleP oets: Henry W adesworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan P oe, Walt Whitman Emily DickinsonEssayists: Ralph W aldo Emerson, Henry David ThoreauAmerican RomanticismThe romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century thr oug h the outbreak of the Civil W ar (1790-1865).1. Background(1) Political b ack ground and economic developmentT erritorial Expansion Industrial Growth The Civil WarThe “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism. →optimism and hope among the people There is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider.(2)foreign influence–Romantic movement in European countriesAmerican Romanticism☆Romanticism was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.☆For romantics,the feelings,intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense.☆They stressed th e close relationship be tw ee n man and nature;☆They emphasized individualism and affirmed the inner life of the self.Washington Irving(1783-1859)华盛顿·欧文早期浪漫主义小说家A History of New Y ork纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记→①The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家→②Rip V an WinkleJames Fenimore Cooper1789-1851詹姆斯•费尼莫尔•库珀早期浪漫主义小说家“Leatherstocking T ales”皮裹腿故事集→a series of five novels,that is☆the Pioneers拓荒者(I823)☆the Last o f the Mohicans(1826)最后的莫希干人☆The Prairie(1827)大草原☆The Pathfinder(1840)探路者☆The Deerslayer(1841)杀鹿者→adventure into the wilderness of the West2.The summit of Romanticism---New England T ranscendentalism超验主义1.Emerson/“Nature”2.Henry David Thoreau/“Walden”3.Whitman/“Leaves of Grass”4.Hawthorn/“The Scarlet Letter”5.Herman Meville\“Moby Dick”Post-romanticism(New England T ranscendentalism)• 1.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)爱默生•→The leading New England T ranscendentalist•→“Nature”论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar论美国学者• 2.Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)•→T ranscendentalist\Emerson’s friend→W alden《瓦尔登湖》The major features of T ranscendentalism1.The T ranscendentalists placed emphasis on spirit,or the Oversoul,as the most importantthing in the universe.2.The T ranscendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.T o them the individualwas the most important element of society.3.The T ranscendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit orGod.Nature was,to them,not purely matter.It was alive,filled with God’s overwhelming presence.·The Development of T ranscendentalism• ☆ Nature (in 1836) by Ralph W aldo Emerson• Nature ’s voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of NewEngland T ranscendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism.• T ranscendentalist Club• ☆ T ranscendentalism was indebted to the dual heritage of American Puritanism, thereligious idealism of their Puritan past.T ranscendentalists ’ emphasis on the individualwas directly traceable to the Puritan principle of self -culture and self -improvement. Thusthere is good reason to state that New England T ranscendentalism was Romanticism onthe Puritan soil.• ☆ New England T ranscendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired awhole new generation of famous authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)☆ Novels:Scarlet Letter 《红字》 Hester Prynne; The House of Seven Gables 《七个尖角 阁的房子》;• The Blithedale R omance 《福谷传奇》; The Marble Faun 《大理石神像》☆Short story collections:• T wice-T old T ales 《故事新编》Moses from an Old Manse 《古屋青苔》Herman Melville 赫尔曼· 梅尔维尔 1819-1891• Moby Dick/The White Whale 莫比· 迪克/白鲸Edgar Allan P oe 埃德加· 爱伦· 坡 1809-1849→The first professional writer in AmericaThe first writer of detective story in the world• -----歌特风格；首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头• The Fall o f the House o f Usher 厄舍古屋的倒塌(novel);• → The Raven 乌鸦(poem) T amerlane and Other P oems 帖木儿和其他诗;• T o Hellen 致海伦（以诗为诗；永为世人共赏的伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）Walt Whitman(1819-1892)沃尔特· 惠特曼 •••••O ne of the great innovators in American P oetry Free verse Growing up in a working-class back ground, having little education Leaves o f Grass 草叶集 → Song o f Myself ”自 我 之 歌 reveals a world of equality , without rank and hierarchy .poets •①Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) • The P oems o f Emily Dickinson 埃米莉 迪金森诗集(love, death,nature,friendship, andimmortality)·”• ② Henry W adsworth Longfellow 亨利·沃兹沃思朗费罗 1807-1882 →A Psalm of Life 生命礼赞（short poem ）→ The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗•③; William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 柯伦· 布莱恩特 •→ T o a Waterfowl 致水鸟-----英语中最完美的短诗Harriet Beecher Stowe 哈丽特· 比彻· 斯托 1811-1896• Uncle T om ’s Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 ☆“一个女人和一本书引发的战争 ”—南北战争Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism• The three strong advocates of 19th century American realismWilliam Dean Howells (critic)豪威尔斯 Henry James 威廉· 詹姆斯 Mark Twain 马克· 吐温Henry James 1842-1910→ James ’novel ’s “international situation” are set against a b ack gr ound be tw een America and Europe→James contribution to literary criticism is immense.• T o him, “art without life is a poor affair ”. “the aim of the novel is to represent life ”.→ His realism was called as Psychological realism .• He was esp. an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of the times.• The American Daisy Miller The Portrait o f a Lady 贵妇人画像• The Wings o f the Dove 鸽翼 The Ambassadors 大使Mark Twain 马克· 吐温1. “The Adventures o f Tom Sawyer 汤姆· 索耶历险记2. “The Adventures o f Huckleberry Finn ”----his masterpiece/ 哈克贝利· 费恩历险记“The Gilded Age ” 镀金时代3. F amous for his localism, colloquial style, humor and bitter attacksAmerican Naturalism : pessimistic realism1. Naturalism cam e from France.2. Reasons: civil war , social upheavals ☆Darwin ’s theory of evolution : the survival of the fittest→ Men were conditioned\ d omi nat ed by social and economic forces, by heredity and environment.3. Features of naturalist writing:A. naturalist writers turned literary creation into a mechanical record of society, in a way of attempting to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness. They never made comments on the characters and their behaviors.B. The characters were o ften figures of low social and economic classesC.They stressed men had no free will,their lives were controlled by heredity and environment.4.American Naturalist writers:S tephen Crane,Frank Norris,Jack London,Henry Adams,Theodore Dreiser.Stephen Crane(1871-1900)斯蒂芬·克莱恩•Maggie:A Girl o f the S treets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）•The R ed Badge o f Courage红色英勇勋章•The Black Riders(his first book of poems)Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)德莱塞•Sister Carrie1900☆A feather in wind,she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend and control.She does not seem to possess what may be called a moral fibre in her.•Jennie Gerhardt1911T rilogy of Desire欲望三部曲Financer金融家1912,The Titan巨人1914,The Stoic斯多葛1915•An American T ragedy美国的悲剧1925（被称为美国最伟大的小说）Frank Norris(1870-1902)弗兰克·诺里斯The Octopus1901章鱼Jack London(1876-1916)杰克·伦敦Martin Eden马丁·伊登（masterwork）The Call o f the Wild野性的呼唤The Sea-W olf海狼White Fang白獠牙O Henry(1862---1910)欧·享利☆famous for short stories1“The Gift o f Magi”2“The Cop and the Anthem”3.F amous for his fascinating plot,h umor ous touch,interesting puns,localism,and unexpected endings.Chapter Four The Period around WWIAmerican literature in the1920s and1930s1.P oets:T.S.Eliot:“the W aste Land”R obert Frost2.Novelists:Fitzgerald/“the Great Gatsby”Hemingway/“A Farewell to Arms”Faulkner/ wrote about the SouthThe Lost Generation迷惘的一代→a disillusionment about the value of war→disgusted by th e new frivolous,greedy way of life in AmericaWhen the First World W ar brok e out,many idealistic y oung Americans volunteered to tak e part in the war and test their own bravery.They discovered that modern warfare was not。
英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
Old English Literature 古英语文学（450-1066年）Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic中世纪英语文学（1066-1500）Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture“英国文学之父”William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》.文艺复兴（16-17世纪）William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》Shakespeare’s greatest works:greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》great comedies: A Midsumme r Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》.18世纪文学和新古典主义Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class peopleHenry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones.Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver’s Travels《格列佛游记》.Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners.Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）.Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar ofWakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》)Thomas Gray (托马斯•格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（《墓畔哀歌》）, writer of sentimentalism感伤派.浪漫主义（18世纪末19世纪初）William Blake (1757 –1827) was an English poet, best known for his poetical collections of Song of Innocence 《天真之歌》and Song of Experience《经验之歌》.William Wordsworth (1770-1850),a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads《抒情歌谣集》.Wordsworth‘s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude《序曲》.Samuel Taylor Coleridge(柯勒律治, 1772 –1834) was an English poet who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner《古舟子颂》and Kubla Khan《忽必烈汗》George Gordon Byron (拜伦，1788—1824 )was a English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.Amongst Byron‘s best-known works are his narrative poems Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage 《哈罗尔德游记》and Don Juan《唐璜》Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is perhaps most famous for Ode to the West Wind《西风颂》, To a Skylark《致云雀》, Prometheus Unbound《解放了的普罗米修斯》.Mary Shelley (玛丽• 雪莱1797 –1851) was a British novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein 《弗兰肯斯坦》, considered as first science fictionJohn Keats ( 济慈, 1795—1821) was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. His masterpieces such as Ode on a Grecian Urn 《希腊古瓮颂》and Ode to a Nightingale《夜莺颂》浪漫主义时期小说家Jane Austen (1775—1817) , was an English novelist. Her major novels include Sense and Sensibility (《理智与情感》), Pride and Prejudice (《傲慢与偏见》), Emma (《爱玛》). Walter Scott (司各特, 1771---1832), a prolific Scottish historical novelist . His major works is Ivanhoe《艾凡赫》Realism 现实主义时期（Victorian Age 维多利亚时期1837-1901）Bronte sisters 勃朗宁姐妹, Charlotte (夏洛蒂, 1816 – 1855), Emily (艾米丽, 1818 – 1848) and Anne (安妮, 1820 – 1849), were English writers of t he 1840s and 1850s. Charlotte‘s Jane Eyre 《简爱》, Emily’s Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》and Anne's Agnes Grey《艾格妮斯·格雷》are masterpieces of English literature.George Elliot (乔治-爱略特，1819—1880 ) was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England. Her major novelsinclude:The Mill on the Floss《佛洛斯河上的磨坊》Middlemarch《米德尔玛契》.Charles Dickens (1812–1870)：one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era. His major novels include: A Tale of Two Cities 《双城记》,Oliver Twist 《奥利弗退斯特》,David Copperfield 《大卫科波菲尔德》, Great Expectation 《远大前程》, Hard Times 《艰难时世》William Makepeace Thackeray (萨克雷，1811—1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair《名利场》Mrs. Gaskell (盖斯凯尔夫人, 1810-1865)was an English novelist during the Victorian era. Her major novels include: Mary Barton 《玛丽• 巴顿》Thomas Hardy(哈代, 1840 – 1928) ,an English novelist of the naturalism自然主义. His major novels include: Tess of the d‘Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》Far from the Madding Crowd 《远离尘嚣》Jude the Obscure. 《无名的裘德》Most of his novels are set in Wessex（威塞克斯）.现实主义时期诗歌Robert Browning (布朗宁, 1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues戏剧独白, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.Alfred Tennyson (丁尼生，1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "Break, break, break"Oscar Wilde (王尔德, 1854 – 1900)playwright and one novel, known for his aestheticism唯美主义(art for art’s sake为了艺术而艺术). His major plays include The Importance of Being Earnest《不可儿戏》; His major novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林-格雷的画像》20世纪和现代主义Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳, 1856-1950), an Irish playwright, the greatest dramatist in English literature in the 20th century. He adhered to the tradition of realism, writing plays as a way to discuss social problems. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. His major plays include, Mrs Warren’s Profession《华伦夫人的情人》, Major Barbara《芭芭拉少校》, Pygmalion 《皮革马力翁》and Saint Joan《圣女贞德》John Galsworthy (高尔斯华绥, 1867-1933) one of the most important novelists in the Early 20th century，a Nobel Prize winner. His major works is Forsyte Saga 《福尔赛世家》which comprises three novels:The Man of Property《有产业的人》, In Chancery《衡平法院》To Let 《出租》Joseph Conrad (康拉德, 1857-1932)Conrad was born in Poland and an English novelist. His major novels include Lord Jim 《吉姆爷》and The Heart of Darkness《黑暗的心》.James Joyce (乔伊斯, 1882-1941):An Irish born novelist, known for the technique of the stream of consciousness. His main works: Ulysses 《尤利西斯》;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; 《青年艺术家的肖像》Finnegan’s Wake; 《芬尼根彻夜祭》Dubliners《都柏林人》E. M. Forster （福斯特, 1879-1970）an English novelist, A Passage to India 《印度之行》T.S. Eliot (T.S.艾略特, 1888-1965)：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land 《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.David Herbert Lawrence (D.H.劳伦斯, 1885-1930),an English novelist. His most important novels are, Rainbow 《彩虹》and Sons and Lovers《儿子与情人》. He is the founder of stream of consciousness意识流.William Butler Yeats (叶芝, 1865-1939)an Irish poet and awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. His major poems include Sailing to Byzantium《驶向拜占庭》and Leda and Swan《利达和天鹅》.Samuel Beckett (贝克特，1906-1989), an Irish dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. His masterpiece is Waiting for Godot《等待戈多》. He is the exponent of the theatre of the absurd 荒诞派戏剧.Iris Jean Murdoch (默多克, 1919-1999), English female novelist, her major novels include Black Prince《黑王子》, The Sea, the Sea《大海啊，大海》and Unicorn 《独角兽》Doris Lessing (莱辛, 1919--) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Muriel Spark （斯帕克, 1918-2006）English female novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) 《布罗迪小姐的青春》Virginia Woolf (伍尔夫, 1882-1941)Woolf is an exponent of modernism and one of the most important female novelists. Her major works include Mrs. Dalloway《达洛威夫人》, To the Lighthouse 《向灯塔去》.美国文学殖民地革命时期Benjamin Franklin (富兰克林, 1706-1790): one of American founding fathers (建国之父) Major works: Autobiography《自传》Poor Richard’s Almanack《穷人理查历书》Jonathan Edwards (爱德华兹，1703 –1758) was a colonial theologian and writer. His work is often associated with the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,"《落在忿怒之神手中的罪人》is credited for starting the First Great Awakening.Thomas Pain (潘恩, 1737-1809):British pamphleteer. Major works: Common Sense《常识》（1776）Federalists’ Papers《联邦党人文集》:Alexander Hamilton汉密尔顿John Jay杰伊James Madison曼迪逊浪漫主义时期Romantic Period（1790-1865）：Earlier Romantic Period (1790-1830)Romantic Heyday (1830-1865)Earlier Romantic Period:Washington Irving (1783-1859)Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)Washington Irving (华盛顿• 欧文, 1783-1859):American romantic novelist. He was best known for his short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, both of w hich appear in his book The Sketch Book《见闻札记》. Irving is the first American writer who gained international fame.James Fenimore Cooper (库珀, 1789-1851):American romantic novelist , best remembered for his Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事》(The Pioneer《拓荒者》, Deer Slayer《猎鹿者》, Pathfinder《探路人》, Prairie《大草原》, The Last of the Mohicans《最后的莫西干人》) featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.2) Romantic Heyday (1830-1865):Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanEmily DickinsonNathaniel HawthorneHerman MelvilleHarriet Beecher StoweEdgar Allan PoeTranscendentalists（超验主义）:Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanWalt Whitman (惠特曼，1819-1882): American romantic poet, father of free verse(自由诗) , best known for his collection of poems Leaves of Grass 《草叶集》Waldo Ralph Emerson (爱默生，1803-1882): leader of the transcendentalism, his essay Nature 《论自然》is the manifesto of transcendentalism. his another essay The American Scholar《美国学者》is considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence”.Henry David Thoreau (梭罗, 1817–1862) : American romantic writer best known for his book Walden《瓦尔登湖》, a reflection upon simple living.Herman Melville (麦尔维尔, 1819–1891) : American novelist, best known for his novel Moby-Dick《白鲸》Nathaniel Hawthorne (霍桑, 1804–1864): American novelist, best known for his four romances(传奇小说):The Scarlet Letter《红字》The House of the Seven Gables 《七个尖尖角的房子》The Blithedale Romance《福谷传奇》The Marble Faun《玉石人像》Emily Dickinson (狄金森，1830–1886) American poetess, whose poetry are concerned with life, death and immortality.Harriet Beecher Stowe (斯托尔夫人, 1811–1896 American female novelist, whose novel Uncle Tom‘s Cabin (1852) 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》attacked the cruelty of slavery.)Realism 现实主义Mark Twain (马克•吐温1835 –1910), American novelist. most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer （《汤姆索亚历险记》）and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝恩历险记》Life on the Mississippi River《密西西比河上的生活》Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur‘s Court 《亚瑟王朝的康涅狄克州的美国佬》The Gilded Age 《镀金时代》Henry James (亨利•詹姆斯1843-1916), American realist novelist, founder of international novel（国际题材小说）Important works:The American 《美国人》The Europeans 《欧洲人》The Portrait of a Lady 《贵妇画像》The Wings of the Dove 《鸽冀》The Ambassadors 《大使》The Golden Bowl 《金碗》O. Henry 欧亨利was the pen name of American novelist William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910). O. Henry‘s short stories are well known for his short stories such as Cop and Anthem (《警察和赞美诗》) and Gift of Magie (《麦琪的礼物》)William Dean Howells (豪威尔斯, 1837 –1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic. Major works include The Rise of Silas Lapham 《赛拉斯• 拉帕姆的发迹》Theodore Dreiser (德莱塞, 1871–1945) American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for his novels Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》and An American Tragedy 《美国悲剧》and his desire trilogy《欲望三部曲》:The Financier 《金融家》The Titan 《巨头》The Stoic 《斯多葛》American Naturalist （自然主义）1) Stephen Crane 克莱恩2) Frank Norris 诺里斯3) Jack London 杰克-伦敦1) Stephen Crane (克莱恩, 1871–1900) was an American novelist. He won international acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage《红色的英勇勋章》.2) Frank Norris (诺瑞斯1870–1902) American novelist. His notable works include McTeague 《麦克提格》, The Octopus《章鱼》3) Jack London (杰克• 伦敦, 1876–1916) American novelist, known for his novel Martin Eden 《马丁• 伊登》, The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》.20世纪和现代主义-诗歌T.S. Eliot (T.S.艾略特, 1888-1965)：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land 《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.Ezra Pound（庞德）: American imagist poet意象派诗人, major poems include Cantos 《诗章》, Hugh Selwyn Maubery (莫伯里), Cathay (《华夏》translation of ancient Chinese poems) Robert Frost (弗罗斯特, 1874–1963)American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life in New England and his command of American colloquial speech. His work was first recognized in England and then in America.Wallace Stevens（斯蒂文斯, 1879-1955）American poet, best known for his poem Anecdote for the Jar and his emphasis on Imagination.Allen Ginsberg (金斯伯格, 1926-1997), American poet of Beat Generation (垮掉的一代), best known for his poem “Howl”《嚎》Ernest Hemingway (海明威, 1899—1961)American novelist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation". He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Major works:The Sun also Rises 《太阳照样升起》A Farewell to Arms 《永别了-武器》The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》For Whom the Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》“Meditation XVII”, an essay by metaphysical poet John Donne 多恩“any man's death dim inishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”Fitzgerald (菲茨杰拉德, 1896–1940) American writer of novels, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a memb er of the “Lost Generation“. Most important works is The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》which represents the destruction of American dream. Lost Generation迷惘的一代:The 'Lost Generation' is a phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway in his first published novel The Sun Also Rises. Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" include authors and poets Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos.William Faulkner 福克纳: American novelist, winner of Nobel Prize for literature. Most of his works was set in an imaginary location named Yoknapatawpha. Major works include:The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》Sartoris《家族小说》Go Down, Moses 《去吧，莫西》Light in August 《八月之光》Absalom, Absalom! 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》Sanctuary 《圣地》John Steinbeck (斯坦贝克, 1902–1968) American novelist, Nobel Prize winner. He is known for his novel The Grapes of Wrath《愤怒的葡萄》Saul Bellow（贝缕, 1915-2005）American novelist, Nobel Prize winner, best known for his novel such as The Adventures of Augie March,《奥吉•玛其历险记》Herzog, Seize the Day,Humboldt's GiftJames Baldwin （鲍德温, 1924-1987）, black American novelist, best known for his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain 《向苍天呼吁》.Ralph Ellison （艾里森, 1913-1994）, black American novelist, best known for his The Invisible Man 《看不见的人》Alex Harley (1936-1969), black American novelist, best known for his Roots 《根》Toni Morrison(莫里森, 1931-)Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning female American novelist. among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye《最蓝的眼睛》and Beloved《宠儿》.20世纪戏剧家Eugene O‘Neil （尤金-奥尼尔, 1888-1953）American playwright, Nobel Prize winner, best known for his Long Day’s Journey Into Night《长夜漫漫路迢迢》, Beyond the Horizon 《天边外》，The Hairy Ape 《毛猿》Arthur Miller （亚瑟-米勒,1915-2005 ）, American playwright, best known for his The Death of Salesman《推销员之死》Edward Albee (阿尔比1928---) is an American playwright best known for Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(《谁怕弗吉尼亚伍尔夫》). His early works reflect a Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd 荒诞派that found its peak in works by Irish playwrights such as Samuel Beckett贝克特.。
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
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(完整word版)英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
Old English Literature 古英语文学（450-1066年）Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic中世纪英语文学（1066-1500）Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture“英国文学之父”William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》.文艺复兴（16-17世纪）William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》Shakespeare’s greatest works:greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》.18世纪文学和新古典主义Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class peopleHenry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones.Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver’s Travels《格列佛游记》.Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners.Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）.Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》)Thomas Gray (托马斯•格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in aCountry Churchyard（《墓畔哀歌》）, writer of sentimentalism感伤派.浪漫主义（18世纪末19世纪初）William Blake (1757 –1827) was an English poet, best known for his poetical collections of Song of Innocence 《天真之歌》and Song of Experience《经验之歌》.William Wordsworth (1770-1850),a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads《抒情歌谣集》.Wordsworth‘s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude《序曲》.Samuel Taylor Coleridge(柯勒律治, 1772 –1834) was an English poet who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner《古舟子颂》and Kubla Khan《忽必烈汗》George Gordon Byron (拜伦，1788—1824 )was a English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.Amongst Byron‘s best-known works are his narrative poems Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage 《哈罗尔德游记》and Don Juan《唐璜》Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is perhaps most famous for Ode to the West Wind《西风颂》, To a Skylark《致云雀》, Prometheus Unbound《解放了的普罗米修斯》.Mary Shelley (玛丽• 雪莱1797 –1851) was a British novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein 《弗兰肯斯坦》, considered as first science fictionJohn Keats ( 济慈, 1795—1821) was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. His masterpieces such as Ode on a Grecian Urn 《希腊古瓮颂》and Ode to a Nightingale《夜莺颂》浪漫主义时期小说家Jane Austen (1775—1817) , was an English novelist. Her major novels include Sense and Sensibility (《理智与情感》), Pride and Prejudice (《傲慢与偏见》), Emma (《爱玛》). Walter Scott (司各特, 1771---1832), a prolific Scottish historical novelist . His major works is Ivanhoe《艾凡赫》Realism 现实主义时期（Victorian Age 维多利亚时期1837-1901）Bronte sisters 勃朗宁姐妹, Charlotte (夏洛蒂, 1816 – 1855), Emily (艾米丽, 1818 – 1848) and Anne (安妮, 1820 – 1849), were English writers of t he 1840s and 1850s. Charlotte‘s Jane Eyre 《简爱》, Emily’s Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》and Anne's Agnes Grey《艾格妮斯·格雷》are masterpieces of English literature.George Elliot (乔治-爱略特，1819—1880 ) was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England. Her major novels include:The Mill on the Floss《佛洛斯河上的磨坊》Middlemarch《米德尔玛契》.Charles Dickens (1812–1870)：one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era. His major novels include: A Tale of Two Cities 《双城记》,Oliver Twist 《奥利弗退斯特》,David Copperfield 《大卫科波菲尔德》, Great Expectation 《远大前程》, Hard Times 《艰难时世》William Makepeace Thackeray (萨克雷，1811—1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair《名利场》Mrs. Gaskell (盖斯凯尔夫人, 1810-1865)was an English novelist during the Victorian era. Her major novels include: Mary Barton 《玛丽• 巴顿》Thomas Hardy(哈代, 1840 – 1928) ,an English novelist of the naturalism自然主义. His major novels include: Tess of the d‘Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》Far from the Madding Crowd 《远离尘嚣》Jude the Obscure. 《无名的裘德》Most of his novels are set in Wessex（威塞克斯）.现实主义时期诗歌Robert Browning (布朗宁, 1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues戏剧独白, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.Alfred Tennyson (丁尼生，1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "Break, break, break"Oscar Wilde (王尔德, 1854 – 1900)playwright and one novel, known for his aestheticism唯美主义(art for art’s sake为了艺术而艺术). His major plays include The Importance of Being Earnest《不可儿戏》; His major novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林-格雷的画像》20世纪和现代主义Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳, 1856-1950), an Irish playwright, the greatest dramatist in English literature in the 20th century. He adhered to the tradition of realism, writing plays as a way to discuss social problems. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. His major plays include, Mrs Warren’s Profession《华伦夫人的情人》, Major Barbara《芭芭拉少校》, Pygmalion 《皮革马力翁》and Saint Joan《圣女贞德》John Galsworthy (高尔斯华绥, 1867-1933) one of the most important novelists in the Early 20th century，a Nobel Prize winner. His major works is Forsyte Saga 《福尔赛世家》which comprises three novels:The Man of Property《有产业的人》, In Chancery《衡平法院》To Let 《出租》Joseph Conrad (康拉德, 1857-1932)Conrad was born in Poland and an English novelist. His major novels include Lord Jim 《吉姆爷》and The Heart of Darkness《黑暗的心》.James Joyce (乔伊斯, 1882-1941):An Irish born novelist, known for the technique of the stream of consciousness. His main works: Ulysses 《尤利西斯》;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; 《青年艺术家的肖像》Finnegan’s Wake; 《芬尼根彻夜祭》Dubliners《都柏林人》E. M. Forster （福斯特, 1879-1970）an English novelist, A Passage to India 《印度之行》T.S. Eliot (T.S.艾略特, 1888-1965)：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land 《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.David Herbert Lawrence (D.H.劳伦斯, 1885-1930),an English novelist. His most important novels are, Rainbow 《彩虹》and Sons and Lovers《儿子与情人》. He is the founder of stream of consciousness意识流.William Butler Yeats (叶芝, 1865-1939)an Irish poet and awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. His major poems include Sailing to Byzantium《驶向拜占庭》and Leda and Swan《利达和天鹅》.Samuel Beckett (贝克特，1906-1989), an Irish dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. His masterpiece is Waiting for Godot《等待戈多》. He is the exponent of the theatre of the absurd 荒诞派戏剧.Iris Jean Murdoch (默多克, 1919-1999), English female novelist, her major novels include Black Prince《黑王子》, The Sea, the Sea《大海啊，大海》and Unicorn 《独角兽》Doris Lessing (莱辛, 1919--) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Muriel Spark （斯帕克, 1918-2006）English female novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) 《布罗迪小姐的青春》Virginia Woolf (伍尔夫, 1882-1941)Woolf is an exponent of modernism and one of the most important female novelists. Her major works include Mrs. Dalloway《达洛威夫人》, To the Lighthouse 《向灯塔去》.美国文学殖民地革命时期Benjamin Franklin (富兰克林, 1706-1790): one of American founding fathers (建国之父) Major works: Autobiography《自传》Poor Richard’s Almanack《穷人理查历书》Jonathan Edwards (爱德华兹，1703 –1758) was a colonial theologian and writer. His work is often associated with the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,"《落在忿怒之神手中的罪人》is credited for starting the First Great Awakening.Thomas Pain (潘恩, 1737-1809):British pamphleteer. Major works: Common Sense《常识》（1776）Federalists’ Papers《联邦党人文集》:Alexander Hamilton汉密尔顿John Jay杰伊James Madison曼迪逊浪漫主义时期Romantic Period（1790-1865）：Earlier Romantic Period (1790-1830)Romantic Heyday (1830-1865)Earlier Romantic Period:Washington Irving (1783-1859)Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)Washington Irving (华盛顿• 欧文, 1783-1859):American romantic novelist. He was best known for his short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, both of w hich appear in his book The Sketch Book《见闻札记》. Irving is the first American writer who gained international fame.James Fenimore Cooper (库珀, 1789-1851):American romantic novelist , best remembered for his Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事》(The Pioneer《拓荒者》, Deer Slayer《猎鹿者》, Pathfinder《探路人》, Prairie《大草原》, The Last of the Mohicans《最后的莫西干人》) featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.2) Romantic Heyday (1830-1865):Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanEmily DickinsonNathaniel HawthorneHerman MelvilleHarriet Beecher StoweEdgar Allan PoeTranscendentalists（超验主义）:Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanWalt Whitman (惠特曼，1819-1882): American romantic poet, father of free verse(自由诗) , best known for his collection of poems Leaves of Grass 《草叶集》Waldo Ralph Emerson (爱默生，1803-1882): leader of the transcendentalism, his essay Nature 《论自然》is the manifesto of transcendentalism. his another essay The American Scholar《美国学者》is considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence”.Henry David Thoreau (梭罗, 1817–1862) : American romantic writer best known for his book Walden《瓦尔登湖》, a reflection upon simple living.Herman Melville (麦尔维尔, 1819–1891) : American novelist, best known for his novel Moby-Dick《白鲸》Nathaniel Hawthorne (霍桑, 1804–1864): American novelist, best known for his four romances(传奇小说):The Scarlet Letter《红字》The House of the Seven Gables 《七个尖尖角的房子》The Blithedale Romance《福谷传奇》The Marble Faun《玉石人像》Emily Dickinson (狄金森，1830–1886) American poetess, whose poetry are concerned with life, death and immortality.Harriet Beecher Stowe (斯托尔夫人, 1811–1896 American female novelist, whose novel Uncle Tom‘s Cabin (1852) 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》attacked the cruelty of slavery.)Realism 现实主义Mark Twain (马克•吐温1835 –1910), American novelist. most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer （《汤姆索亚历险记》）and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝恩历险记》Life on the Mississippi River《密西西比河上的生活》Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur‘s Court 《亚瑟王朝的康涅狄克州的美国佬》The Gilded Age 《镀金时代》Henry James (亨利•詹姆斯1843-1916), American realist novelist, founder of international novel（国际题材小说）Important works:The American 《美国人》The Europeans 《欧洲人》The Portrait of a Lady 《贵妇画像》The Wings of the Dove 《鸽冀》The Ambassadors 《大使》The Golden Bowl 《金碗》O. Henry 欧亨利was the pen name of American novelist William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910). O. Henry‘s short stories are well known for his short stories such as Cop and Anthem (《警察和赞美诗》) and Gift of Magie (《麦琪的礼物》)William Dean Howells (豪威尔斯, 1837 –1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic. Major works include The Rise of Silas Lapham 《赛拉斯• 拉帕姆的发迹》Theodore Dreiser (德莱塞, 1871–1945) American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for his novels Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》and An American Tragedy 《美国悲剧》and his desire trilogy《欲望三部曲》:The Financier 《金融家》The Titan 《巨头》The Stoic 《斯多葛》American Naturalist （自然主义）1) Stephen Crane 克莱恩2) Frank Norris 诺里斯3) Jack London 杰克-伦敦1) Stephen Crane (克莱恩, 1871–1900) was an American novelist. He won international acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage《红色的英勇勋章》.2) Frank Norris (诺瑞斯1870–1902) American novelist. His notable works include McTeague 《麦克提格》, The Octopus《章鱼》3) Jack London (杰克• 伦敦, 1876–1916) American novelist, known for his novel Martin Eden 《马丁• 伊登》, The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》.20世纪和现代主义-诗歌T.S. Eliot (T.S.艾略特, 1888-1965)：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land 《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.Ezra Pound（庞德）: American imagist poet意象派诗人, major poems include Cantos 《诗章》, Hugh Selwyn Maubery (莫伯里), Cathay (《华夏》translation of ancient Chinese poems) Robert Frost (弗罗斯特, 1874–1963)American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life in New England and his command of American colloquial speech. His work was first recognized in England and then in America.Wallace Stevens（斯蒂文斯, 1879-1955）American poet, best known for his poem Anecdote for the Jar and his emphasis on Imagination.Allen Ginsberg (金斯伯格, 1926-1997), American poet of Beat Generation (垮掉的一代), best known for his poem “Howl”《嚎》Ernest Hemingway (海明威, 1899—1961)American novelist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation". He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Major works:The Sun also Rises 《太阳照样升起》A Farewell to Arms 《永别了-武器》The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》For Whom the Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》“Meditation XVII”, an essay by metaphysical poet John Donne 多恩“any man's death dim inishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”Fitzgerald (菲茨杰拉德, 1896–1940) American writer of novels, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a memb er of the “Lost Generation“. Most important worksis The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》which represents the destruction of American dream. Lost Generation迷惘的一代:The 'Lost Generation' is a phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway in his first published novel The Sun Also Rises. Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" include authors and poets Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos.William Faulkner 福克纳: American novelist, winner of Nobel Prize for literature. Most of his works was set in an imaginary location named Yoknapatawpha. Major works include:The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》Sartoris《家族小说》Go Down, Moses 《去吧，莫西》Light in August 《八月之光》Absalom, Absalom! 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》Sanctuary 《圣地》John Steinbeck (斯坦贝克, 1902–1968) American novelist, Nobel Prize winner. He is known for his novel The Grapes of Wrath《愤怒的葡萄》Saul Bellow（贝缕, 1915-2005）American novelist, Nobel Prize winner, best known for his novel such as The Adventures of Augie March,《奥吉•玛其历险记》Herzog, Seize the Day, Humboldt's GiftJames Baldwin （鲍德温, 1924-1987）, black American novelist, best known for his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain 《向苍天呼吁》.Ralph Ellison （艾里森, 1913-1994）, black American novelist, best known for his The Invisible Man 《看不见的人》Alex Harley (1936-1969), black American novelist, best known for his Roots 《根》Toni Morrison(莫里森, 1931-)Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning female American novelist. among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye《最蓝的眼睛》and Beloved《宠儿》.20世纪戏剧家Eugene O‘Neil （尤金-奥尼尔, 1888-1953）American playwright, Nobel Prize winner, best known for his Long Day’s Journey Into Night《长夜漫漫路迢迢》, Beyond the Horizon 《天边外》，The Hairy Ape 《毛猿》Arthur Miller （亚瑟-米勒,1915-2005 ）, American playwright, best known for his The Death of Salesman《推销员之死》Edward Albee (阿尔比1928---) is an American playwright best known for Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(《谁怕弗吉尼亚伍尔夫》). His early works reflect a Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd 荒诞派that found its peak in works by Irish playwrights such as Samuel Beckett贝克特.。
(完整版)英语专八英美文学常识汇总
3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。
the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。
"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。
gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。
the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。
lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。
专业八级英国美国文学知识考点
英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学〔499-1066〕1、贝奥武夫2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父二、中古英语时期的英国文学1、allegory体非常盛行2、Romance开场上升到一定的高度3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士4、Willian Langlaud "农夫皮尔斯的幻象"5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集〔英雄双韵体〕6、托马斯.马洛礼"亚瑟王之死"三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学〔伊丽莎白时代〕〔14-16世纪〕1、托马斯.莫尔"乌托邦"2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet3、Philips Sidney "The defense of Poesie""阿卡迪亚"描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱4、斯宾塞"仙后" 诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节；5、莎士比亚：长篇叙事诗："维纳斯和阿多尼斯"、"露克丝受辱记"四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白7、本.琼森风俗喜剧〔edy of manners〕"人性互异"8、约翰.多恩"玄学派〞诗歌创始人9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一"Essays"英国开展史上的里程碑"学术的推进"和"新工具"四、启蒙时期〔18世纪〕1、约翰、弥尔顿："失乐园"、"为英国人民争辩"2、约翰、班扬："天路历程"religious allegory3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的出色代表、桂冠诗人；"论戏剧诗"4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用到达登峰造极的使用；"田园组诗"是其最早田园诗歌代表作5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物"墓园挽歌"6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经历之歌；7、罗伯特、斯：格兰最出色的农民诗人；8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办"The tatler"和"the spectator"9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；"鲁滨逊漂流记"；"铲除非国教徒的捷径"，仪表达自己的不满；10、Jonathan Swift "一个小小的建议"；"格列佛游记"；"桶的故事"；11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史；12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；"约瑟夫。
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美国文学第一阶段独立革命之前（十七世纪中期之前）（before the revolution of independence）第一节美国本土文学（美国印第安传统文学）印第安传统文学的主要内容和形式：在各种典仪上咏颂的祝词，在劳作中吟唱的歌曲，时代交口相传的部落神话故事和英雄故事，刻写在山河岩壁上的象形史诗。
第二节北美殖民时期文学（十六世纪末-----十七世纪中）（colonial settlement）这一时期的文学作品主要是一些英国的殖民地官员或者传道士、冒险家们以日记或游记等形式记录的新大陆的风土人情、自然景色和民间生活等。
John Smith 约翰·史密斯《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》A True Relation of Virginia（被认为是美国文学史上的“第一部作品”）第三节请教思想的表述（Puritanism）他们的作品主要是以传布清教主义思想的布道文为主第二阶段独立革命时期（十七世纪中期-------十八世纪末）（around the revolution of independence）独立革命前后的美国文学，标志着北美文学产生后的第一次大转折该期文学特色：充满浓烈的政治性和思辨性。
主题多为爱国主义及对于独立民主自由的热切呼唤。
Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林《穷查理历书》Poor Richard’s Almanac《自传》The AutobiographyThomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩《常识》Common Sense 《美国危机》The America Crisis《人的权利》Rights of Human《理性时代》The Age of ReasonPhilip Freneau 菲利普·弗伦诺（18世纪最杰出的美国诗人，被誉为“the poet of the American revolution）《英国囚船》The British Prison Ship 《美国的荣耀蒸蒸日上》The Rising Glory of America《印第安人殡葬地》（lyric）The Indian Burying Ground 《野金银花》The Wild Honey Suckle第三阶段浪漫主义时期（18世纪末---19世纪中后期）（American Romanticism）该时期主题多为传统文化与现代文明之间的冲突、“对久远与遥远故事的兴趣”以及对死亡、潜意识的剖析等。
Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文the first prose stylist of American Romanticism / “Father of American Literature”《纽约史》A History of New York《见闻札记》The Sketch Book---标致美国浪漫主义的开始《瑞普·凡·温克尔》Rip Van Winkle 《睡谷的传说》The Legend of Sleepy Hollow《旅行者的故事》Tales of Traveler 《阿尔罕伯拉》The AlhambraJames Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀《间谍》The Spy《领航者》The Pilot“皮袜子故事系列”: 《杀鹿者》The Deerslayer《最后的莫希干人》The Last Mohicans 《拓荒者》The Pioneers《探路人》The Pathfinder《大草原》The PrairieHenry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利·沃慈沃斯·朗费罗（美国第一个写叙述诗的诗人）《夜吟》Voices of the Night《人生礼赞》A Psalm of LifeWilliam Cullen Bryant 威廉·柯伦·布莱恩特（强调美国人个人意识，关注自然）《泉》The Fountain 《白蹄鹿》The White-Footed Deer 《森林赋》The Forest Hymn《似水流年》The Flood of Years 《死亡随想》ThanatopsisRalph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生带领进入超验主义（Transcendentalism ，19世纪中期）与梭罗一并为超验主义代表《论自然》Nature----the manifesto of American transcendentalism《美国学者》The American Scholar-----America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence《论自立》Self Reliance 《超验主义者》The Transcendentalist《神学院演说》Divinity School AddressHenry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗《瓦尔登湖》W alden 《论市民之不服从》Civil DisobedienceEdgar Allan Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡《怪诞奇异故事集》Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque---他的第一部短篇故事集“美国侦探小说之父”《致海伦》To Helen《乌鸦》The Raven《厄舍古屋的倒塌》The Fall of the House of UsherNathaniel Hawthorne 纳塞尼尔·霍桑《古屋青苔》Mosses from an Old Manse《红字》The Scarlet Letter---象征主义手法《有七个尖叫阁的房子》The House of the Seven Gables《福谷传奇》The Blithedale Romance 《玉石雕像》The Marble FaunHerman Melville 赫尔曼·迈尔维尔《白鲸》Moby Dick----first American prose epic 《泰比》TypeeWalt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼《草叶集》Leaves of Grass---标志着美国浪漫主义的结束《自我之歌》Song of MyselfEmily Dickinson 艾米莉·狄金森《这是我给世界的一封信》This is my letter to the World（爱情，死亡，生命）《我死时听到一只苍蝇叫》I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died第四阶段现实主义时期（19世纪中期—20世纪初期）American Realism南北战争是美国文学从浪漫主义转向现实主义的起点。
第一个构成部分是废奴小说，被看做是浪漫主义向现实主义小说发展的过度。
威廉·豪威尔斯—站在大贵族大资产阶级立场—温和现实主义；马克·吐温—站在底层社会角度—乡土小说。
美国建国以来继浪漫主义文学之后美国文学的第二个高潮。
Harriet Reecher Stowe 哈利特·比切·斯托《汤姆叔叔的小屋》Uncle Tom’s CabinWilliam Dean Howells 威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》The Rise of Silas Lapham《一个现代的例证》A Modern Instance《新财富的危害》三部小说A Hazard of New FortunesMark Twain 马克·吐温《卡拉维拉斯县有名的跳蛙》The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country “the true father of our national literature”《傻瓜出国记》The International Abroad 《镀金时代》The Gilded Age《汤姆·索亚历险记》The Adventure of Tome Sawyer《王子和贫儿》The Prince and The Pooper海明威称“所有现代美国文学的蓝本“----《哈克贝利·赞恩历险记》The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnO·Henry 欧·亨利《警察与赞美诗》The Cop and the AnthemHenry James 亨利·詹姆斯psychological realism创始人《黛西·米勒》Daisy Miller 《鸽翼》The Wings of the Dove《贵妇人的画像》The Portrait of a Lady 《大使们》The AmbassadorsJack London 杰克·伦敦《狼之子》The Son of the Wolf 《野性的呼唤》The Call of the Wild《白獠牙》White Fang 《马丁·伊登》Martin Eden 《海狼》The Sea WolfTheodore Dreiser 西奥多·德莱赛《嘉莉妹妹》Sister Carrie《珍妮姑娘》Jennie Gerhardt《欲望三部曲》Trilogy of Desire《金融家》The Financier《天才》T he “Genius”《美国悲剧》An American TragedySherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森《俄亥俄州瓦恩斯堡镇》Winesbury. OhioStephen Crane 斯蒂芬·克兰《红色英雄勋章》The Red Badge of Courage《街头女郎梅姬》Maggie: A Girl of the Streets第五阶段现代主义时期（20世纪初--）Modernism第一节现代诗歌带自省和社会批判的趋势Ezra Pound 艾慈拉·庞德《在地铁站》In a Station of the Metro《比萨诗章》Pison Cantos现代美国诗歌之父Robert Lee Frost 罗伯特·弗罗斯特《新罕普什尔》New HampshireWallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯《秋天的晨曦》The Auroras of AutumnThomas Stearns Eliot 托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特《圣灰星期三》Ash Wednesday 《大教堂谋杀案》Murder in the Cathedral 诗人、剧作家、文学评论家《荒原》The Waste Land 《空心人》The Hollow Man《圣林》The Sacred Wood《小老头》Gerontion第二节现代小说一战后，在20年代，以海明威为代表的“迷茫一代”（lost generation/beat generation垮掉的一代）文学和以福克纳为代表的“南方文学”是其中最主要的流派Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威《永别了，武器》A Farewell to Arms 《哀钟为谁而鸣》For Whom the Bell Tolls “迷茫一代”代表《太阳照常升起》The Sun Also Rises 《老人与海》The Old Man and the Sea《午后之死》Death in the AfternoonAllen Ginsberg 艾伦·金斯堡《嚎叫》HowlJack Kerouac 杰克·克鲁亚克《在路上》On the RoadJohn Updike 约翰·厄普代克《兔子系列》The Rabbits Series“ sweet lonesome singer of Protestant mediocrity “William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳《在我弥留之际》As I Lay Dying《八月之光》Light in August20世纪南方文学最出色的作家《喧嚣与骚动》The Sound and The Fury----运用意识流《押沙龙，押沙龙！》Absalom,Absalom!Eugene Galdstone O` Nell 尤金·奥尼尔《长夜漫漫路迢迢》Long Day’s Journey Into Night英国文学第一阶段中古英国文学（8世纪—14世纪）（old and medieval English literature）《贝奥武甫》Beowulf---- 公元前700年左右史诗；英国古英语诗歌的开始Geoffrey Chaucer 杰弗里·乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》The Canterbury Tales 《特罗勒斯和科丽西德》Troilus and Criseyde “father of modern English poetry”《玫瑰罗曼史》The Romance of the Rose 《声誉之堂》The House of FameWilliam Langland 威廉·兰格伦《农夫皮尔斯之幻想》The Vision of Piers PlowmanThe Gawain-Poet ( 无名诗人) 《高文爵士与绿色骑士》Sir Gawain and the Green Knight第二阶段文艺复兴时期（14世纪---17世纪中期）（renaissance period）文艺复兴时期的主要诗体是十四行诗和对白体无韵诗，十四行诗是先锋，但主体是对白体无韵诗。