英国文学

Table1

中古时期Renaissance

17世纪

Age of Milton

Dryden

(neo-classism)

18世纪(neo-classism

Sentimentalism

、Realism)

Poet Geoffrey Chaucer

Caedmon

Bede

Thomas More

Philip Sidney

Edmond Spenser

Ben

Jonson(classism)

John Milton

John

Done(metaphysical)

John

Dryden(neo-classism)

John Dryden

Alexander Pope neo-classism

Samuel Johnson

Robert Burns(Scottish)

pre-romantic

Thomas Gray(Graveyard School)

Oliver Goldsmith(Sentimentalist)

诗人、小说家、戏剧家、散文家

Prose/ essay Thomas Malory

King Alfred

Francis Bacon

Novel John Bunyan Daniel Defoe(.realistic) Jonathan Swift(satirist)

Henry Fielding(realistic) Lawrence Sterne(sentimentalist) Samuel Richardson(realistic)

Drama/ play Christopher

Marlowe

Richard Brinsley Sheriden

18世纪

Pre-romanticism

19世纪(维多利亚时期）

Romanticism

Critical realism

Poet William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Southey

George Gordon Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelly

John Keats

Alfred Tennyson

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Robert Browning

(诗人、戏剧家）

Oscar Wilde

(诗人、散文家、戏剧家、小说家）

Novel Walter Scott(historical novel)

Jane Austen(realistic)

Mary Shelly(Science Fiction)

Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackeray

Charlotte/Emily/Anne Bronte

Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

George Eliot

Joseph Conrad(modernist)

Robert Louis Stevenson(neo-romanticism) 英国各时期主要作家一览表

20世纪Modernism / Symbolism /Steam of Consciousness

Poet James Joyce(Irish)

Thomas Hardy(critical realism) 小说家、诗人

David Herbert Lawrence

William Butler Yeats(Irish) Symbolism

T.S. Eliot(Critic) 诗人、戏剧家

William Somerset Maugham(戏剧家、小说家、短篇小说家）

Novel John Galsworthy(realistic)

Virginia Woolf(Critic Steam of Consciousness) E.M Forster （短篇小说家、散文家）Herbert George Wells

Katharine Mansfield（短篇小说家）

Arnold Bennett

George Orwell(小说家、记者）

Doris Lessing(2007 诺贝尔文学奖）

Drama George Bernard Shaw(Irish)

John Osborne

Samuel Beckett(1969 诺贝尔文学奖）

Table2:

Poet Laureate Nobel Prize 文艺复兴时期Ben Jonson 首位桂冠诗人

1616

浪漫主义时期William Wordsworth 1843

Robert Southey 1813

维多利亚时期Alfred Tennyson 1850

Poet Laureate Nobel Prize

现代主义时期Cecil Day Lewis 1968

John Galsworthy 1932 George Bernard Shaw 1925 William Butler Yeats 1923 T.S.Eliot 1948 Samuel Beckett 1969 William Golding 1983 Seamus Heaney 1995 Harold Pinter 2005 Doris Lessing 2007

一、中古时期

1、The earliest English poet: Caedmon.

2、Father of English poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer.

3、The first poet to use heroic couplet: Geoffrey Chaucer.

4、The Canterbury Tales consists of 24 incomplete stories.

5、Le Morte d’Arther (the death of Arther) is the first English-language prose version of the Arthurian legend,completed by Sir Thomas Malory.

6、Sir Gawain and the Green ight is a 14th-century alliterative romance.

7、The Robbin Hood Ballads Knight was the most famous ballads in the 15th century.

8、The most prevailing lind of literature in Anglo-Saxon period was the metrical romance.

9、The Norman Conquest marked the beginning of Medieval English literature.

10、Romance is the most prevailing kind of literature in Anglo-Norman period.

11、Ballad became popular in 15th century,usually in 4-line stanzas.

12、Bede is the Father of Historiography“英国史学之父”，he wrote Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anlorum(英吉利人教会史），which represented the highest achievement of prose in Old English period.

13、King Alfred is the Father of English Prose, he translated many Latin works in Old English.

14、The whole 14th century was called Age of Chaucer.

二、文艺复兴时期

15、Renaissance originated in Italy in the 14th century. Britain starts Renaissance Movement until late 15th century.

16、In the early stage of the Renaissance ,poetry and poetic drama was the most outstanding literary forms.

17、The Elizabethan Drama (16th-early 17th century)was the golden age of English drama.