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一.Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里.乔叟时期

1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父

2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵) lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格)

3、代表作：the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事 (英国文学史的开端)

人文主义先驱，the father of English poetry..第一个用英语写作的诗人。

二. William Shakespeare

1.The four great tragedies by William Shakespeare are _Hamlet_, _Othello_, _King Lear_, Macbeth. 四大喜剧是 A Midsummer Night's Dream ;As you like it ;Twelfth Night ;The merchant of Venice .

the period of Revolution and Restoration (17世纪) 资产阶级革命与王权复辟

prose 散文

1、文学特点：the Puritans(清教徒) believed in simplicity of life、disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry、breaking up of old ideals.

清教徒崇尚俭朴的生活、拒绝十四行诗和爱情诗、与旧思想脱离。

2、代表人物：

1)、John Donne 约翰.多恩The founder of the“metaphysical”poets (玄学派诗人) 的

代表人物

代表作:Love lyrics:Songs and sonnets.The Flea.

A Valediction: forbidding morning

作品特点：① strike the reader in Donne’s extraordinary frankness and penetrating realism.(坦诚的态度和现实描绘)

② novelty of subject matter and point(新颖的题材和视角)

③ novelty of its form.(新颖的形式)

2)、John Milton 约翰.弥尔顿 a great poet 诗人（ poem 诗歌 blank verse ） was a

_radical puritan in politics and religion. 激进清教徒分子。

《Defense for the English People》为英国人辩护

《Paradise Lost》失乐园“Satan is not a villain”撒旦不是坏人

《Paradise Regained》复乐园

John Milton’s three great poems are _Paradise Lost_（无韵诗bland verse.故事情

节来自Ole Testament，要知道此书的them 和Satan的形象）, _Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. （poetical drama)

the Romantic Period (1798-1832)浪漫主义