TEM-8英美文学总结

British Literature

《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 Historiography

Historian Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorun 《英吉利人教会史》

King Alfred阿尔弗雷德大帝

Father of English Prose

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 《盎格鲁-萨克逊编年史》

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Romance

Geoffrey Chaucer

Father of English Poetry

14th century is the Age of Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales 《坎特伯雷故事集》: Octosyllabic, Heroic Couplet

Troilus 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 Malory

Le Morte d’Arthur 《亚瑟王之死》the milestone of the transportation from Medieval English to Early Modern English

Thomas Wyatt

Firstly introduced the Sonnet to British Literature

Thomas More

Utopia 《乌托邦》

The Painful Life of EdwardⅤ《国王爱德华五世悲凄的一生》

Philip Sidney

Arcadia 《阿卡迪亚》：Forerunner of the Modern Novel, Country Romance

The Defense of Poesie (or Apology for Poetry) 《诗辩》：opened the British Literature Criticism Edmund Spencer

Poet’s Poet 诗人中的战斗机

Spencerian Stanza 斯宾塞体

The Faerie Queene 《仙后》：Epic, Spencerian Stanza

Francis Bacon

Essay and Materialism

The First English Essayist

Essay 《随笔》

The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》

The New Instrument 《新工具》

Christopher Marlowe

University Wits

Tamburlaine 《帖木儿大帝》

The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》

Shakespeare

154 Sonnets and 37 Plays

Iambic Pentameter

Narrative 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, Macbeth

Miracle Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Tempest

Ben Jonson

Comedy of Manners, Satirical Comedy

Every Man in His Humor 《人性互异》

John Donne

The Creator of Metaphysical Poems

Songs 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 Herbert

Saint of the Metaphysical School 玄学派诗圣

Andrew Marwell

Metaphysical

To His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》

John Milton

Puritan Poet

Paradise Lost 《失乐园》: Blank Verse. Metaphor, Pun, Irony, Allusion, Quotation Paradise Regained 《复乐园》

Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》：Closet Drama

Defense of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》

Comus 《科马斯》

L’Allegro 《快乐的人》

John Bunyan

Puritan Prose

The Pilgrim’s Progress 《天路旅程》: Religious Allegory

Grace 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 Dryden

Father of English Criticism

The First Poet of Laureate

An 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 Pope

Neo-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 Addison

The Tatler 《闲谈者》

The Spectator 《旁观者》

Jointly created the newspapers

Samuel Johnson