英语专业八级 英国文学知识总结

1 Old and Medieval Period

1-1 the Anglo-Saxon Period

Beowulf

Caedmon – Caedmon’s Hymn

Cynewulf – The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene

1-2 the Middle English Period

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Thomas Marlory – Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur)

William Langland – Piers the Plowman

Geoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury Tales

1-3 the 15th Century

The Robin Hood Ballads

2 The Renaissance Period

2-1 poem

Thomas Wyatt

Henry Howard

Sir Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry

Edmund Spencer – The Shephearde’s Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene 2-2 prose

Thomas More – Utopia

Francis Bacon – A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry Ⅶ, The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of

Wisdom), The New Atlantis

John Lyly—Eupheus

2-3 drama

Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta

William Shakespeare – Comedies:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Merchant of

Venice, The Twelfth Night

Tragedies:

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The

Tempest

Historical plays:

Henry Ⅳ, HenryⅤ

Long narrative poems:

Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

Ben Johnson – V olpone

3 The Period of Revolution and Restoration

3-1 poets in Revolutionary Period

John Milton – Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes

John Donne – The Sun Rising, The Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, A Hymn to God the Father, Death, Be not Proud, A Valediction: Forbidding

Mourning

George Herbert – The Altar, Easter Wings

3-2 prose writers in Revolutionary Period

John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War

3-3 writers in Restoration

Jeremy Collier – A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage

John Dryden – The Hind and the Panther, All for Love, Absalom and Achitophel, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

4 The Age of Enlightenment

4-1 writers of Neo-Classicism

Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man Richard Steele

Joseph Addison – The Tattler, The Spectator

Samuel Johnson – The Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of English Poets

4-2 writers of Realistic Tradition

Daniel Defoe –Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jacque, Moll Flanders

Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub, Predictions for the Year 1708, Vindication of

Isaac Bickerstaff, Gulliver’s Travels, The Drapier’s Letters, A

Modest Proposal

Henry Fielding – Plays:

The Welsh Opera, Don Quixote in England, Pasqin, The Historical

Register for the Year 1736

Novels:

Joseph Andrew, Jonathan Wild and Great, The History of Tom

Jones, a Founding, Amelia

4-3 writers of Sentimental Tradition

Samuel Richardson –Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa Harlowe, Sir