文学赏析

1.The Germanic tribes from the Northern Europe brought with

them not only the Anglo-Saxon langueage.

2.Old English poets produced the national epic,

Beowulf.Beowulf,a typical example ofof an old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo- Saxons.However, the hero and the setting of Beowulf have nothing to do with England,for the story took place in Scandinavia.

3.England.French became the official language used by the

king and the Norman lords; Latin became the principal tongue of church affairs and in uinivercities; and Old English was spoken only by the common English people.

4.However,it is Chaucer alone who,for the first time in English

literature,presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in his masterpiece.The Canterbury Tales.

5.John Dryden,who modernized several of the Canterbury

tales, called Chaucer the father of English poetry,

6.The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the

modern world.Generally,it refers to the period between the 14th and 17th centuries.It first started in Italy.

7.Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.

8.Thomos More,Christopher Marlowe and William

Shakespear are the best representatives of the English humanists.

9.The Elizabethan drama,in its totality,is the real mainstream

od the English Renaissance.

10.I n the early stage of the renaissance,poetry and poetic

drama were carried in especially by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

11.F rancis bacon,the first important English essayist,is best

known for his essays.He was also the founder of modern science in England.

12.S penser’s masterpiece is The Faerie Queene,a great poem

of its age.

13.S ix comedies:A Midsummer Night’s dream,The Merchant of

Venice,Much Ado About Nothing.As You Like It, Twelfth Night,and the Merry Wives of Windsor;and two tragedies;Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.The trafedies of this period are Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth,Antony 14.S hakespeare-----the important play among the comedies is

The Merchant of Venice.四大悲剧Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are:Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,and Macbeth

15.S onnet18节选Shall Icompare thee a summer’s day?Hamlet

节选To be, not to be ------that is the question;Francis Bacon 作品of studies。John Milton约翰米尔顿the third greatest poet after chance and Shakespeare

16.P aradise Lost 作品Sgonistes和Samson Satan wage war

against God by crrupog man and woman created by God 17.I n Samon Sgonisters,Milton again borrows his story from the

Bible.

18.T he eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of

Enlightment or the Age of Reason The Enlightment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourishes in France and swept through the wholw Western Europe at the time.The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality,equality and science.They held that rationality or reason shoule be the only,the final cause of any human thought and activities.

19.T he modern English novel,gives a realistic

presentation ,among the pioneers were Daniel Defoe.Samul Richardson

20.R obinson Cruso e the 18th century English rhe national spirit

of the best representative.His life takes a turn for the better when he saves from the hands of savages a young