刘炳善英国文学史课件完整版

Chapter 4 Robert Browning.

(1) Life: married Elizabeth Barret, a poetess.

(2) Works：①< My Last Dutchess>我已故的公爵夫人

②< Home Thoughts From Abroad>海外乡思③Pippa Passes

3) the Dramatic Monologue

The dramatic monologue is a soliloquy in drama in which the voice speaking is not the poet himself, but a character invented by the poet, so that it reflects life objectively. It was imitated by many poets after Browning and brought to its most sophisticated form by T. S. Eliot in his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

4）He introduced to English poetry a new form ,the dramatic monologue

He has been praised as a "a genius in courageous and high- hearted figure", well-known for buoyant optimism. Elizabeth Barrett Browing: Sonnet from the Portuguese>葡萄牙十四行诗

Chapter 5 the Rossettis and Swinburne

1 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem: The Blessed Damozel

2 Christina Georgina Rossetti Poem: Goblin Market

3 Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat

4 Algernon Charles Swinburne

Chapter 6 William Morris Poet, artist, socialist

Poem: The Defence of Guenvere The Life and Death of Jason

The Early Paradise Sigurd the V olsung

The aim of his works is to bring beauty into the life of his countrymen

Prose: A Dream of Jhon Ball News from Nowhere

Chapter 7 literary trends at the end of the century

1 naturalism:

Naturalism is a literary trend prevailing in Euope. According to the naturalism, literature must be ture to life and exactly reproduce real life, including all its details without any selection. They usually write about the life of the poor and oppressed, or the slum life, they can oly represent the external appearance instead of the inner essence of real life.

George Gissing,:

2 neo-romanticism

Dissatisfied with the drab and ugly social reality and yet trying to avoid the positive solution of the acute social contradictions. They laid emphasis upon the invention of exciting adventures and fascinating stories to entertain the reading public. They led the novel back towards stiry-telling and to romance.

Robert Louis Stevenson 金银岛

3 aestheticism

the basic theory of the aesthetic –“art for art’s sake” – was set forth by a French poet, Theophile Gautier. The first Englishman who wrote about the theory of aestheticism was Walter Peter, the most important critical writer of the late Victorian period, whose most important works were studies in the History of Renaissance and Appreciations. The chief representative of the movement in England was Oscar Wilde, with his The Picture of Dorian Gray. Aestheticism places art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According to aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Art should be free from any influence of egoism. Only when art is for art’s sake can it be immortal. It should be restricted to contributing beauty in a highly polished style.

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Oscar Wilde奥斯卡•王尔德1856~1900 （The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake）

① 4 Comedies:

认真的重要

温德米尔夫人的扇子

一个无足轻重的女人

理想的丈夫

② Novel: 多利安•格雷的画像

③ Fairy Stories: 快乐王子故事集