The_History_English_Literature.pptVIP

An Introduction to The History of English Literature From Anglo-Saxon Period to 20th Century Major Periods of English Literature Old English Literature Medieval English Literature Renaissance English Literature 17th Century English Literature 18th Century English Literature Romantic English Literature Victorian English Literature 20th Century English Literature Medieval English Literature (1066-1350): Romance, popular ballads, Geoffrey Chaucer Renaissance English Literature (late 15th century –early 17th century): poetry (sonnet and blank verse), drama (Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, etc.), prose (Bacon) 十四世纪时，学者认为西方艺术衰退已有一千年,他们怀念古代( 400 B.C.-A.D.400)希腊、罗马的艺术与文学。开始钻研古典时代的文学、建筑和雕刻。文艺复兴是古典艺术的再生；也是对中世纪艺术的反动。 中世纪的美德，不再被盲目接受。人们开始对许多事情发出疑问，寻求答案。人文主义精神成了整个文艺复兴的推动力。 人文主义思想（Humanism）的核心就是强调以“人”为本，宣传个性解放、现世幸福，并积极推进学术，传播科学知识和国家统一等新思想，对封建制度、宗教禁欲主义和上层僧侣的腐败虚伪则进行了无情的嘲讽与抨击。 William Shakespeare（1564-1616） Born in Stratford The 3rd of 8 kids Married at age 18 (his wife was 26) Worked as an actor By 1594 at least 6 plays had been published Comedies The Taming of the Shrew Much Ado About Nothing As You Like I Twelfth Night Midsummer Night’s Dream Tragedies Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Othello King Lear Macbeth 18th Century English Literature: Enlightenment Literary Trends: neo-classicism (Pope, Addison and Steele), realistic novel (Defoe, Swift, Henry Fielding), sentimentalism (Gray, Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne), Pre-romanticism (Blake, Burns) Romantic English Literature : Age of Poetry (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats), prose (Charles Lamb), novel (Scott, Austen) * * Old English Literature (449 A.D. to 1066): The Song of Beowulf (national epic of English people) 唐朝:618年－907年 宋Song Dynasty :960年--1279年 －北宋Northern Song Dynasty960－1127 －南宋Southern Song Dynasty1127－1279 Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was born, about 1340, in London. He was the son of a wine merchant who had connections with the co