英美文学总结.docVIP

英美文学 英国文学 1. Old and Medieval (约5世纪~1485) Beowulf The national epic史诗 of the English people Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟 “The father of English poetry” and “the father of English fiction”; Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》 2. the English Renaissance(15世纪后期至17世纪初) 文艺复兴 Edmund Spencer 斯宾塞 “the poets’ Poet”; The Faerie Queen《仙后》 Thomas More 摩尔 Prose writer; Utopia《乌托邦》 Francis Bacon 培根 The founder of English materialist philosophy（唯物主义哲学）; The first essayist in England; Of Studies《论学习》, of Travel and of Wisdom，The Advancement of Learning《知识的进步》 Christopher Marlowe 马洛 Playwright; The tragic History of Doctor Faustus《浮士德》， The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》 William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 The greatest English playwright, and one of the founders of realism in English literature; He wrote 37 plays (16 comedies, 11 tragedies and 10 historical plays), 154 sonnets十四行诗 and some long poems. The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night; The Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth; Major historical plays: Henry IV, Henry V. 3. The 17th Century English Literature 新古典主义派 John Milton 弥尔顿 The greatest poet in the Revolution Period大革命时期; Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》, Samson Agonistes《力士参孙》 John Bunyan 班扬 Prose writer; The Pilgrim’s Progress《天路历程》 John Dryden 德莱顿 Writer and poet, the most notable representative of English classicism in the Restoration period王朝复辟时期; All for Love《一切为了爱情》, Antony and Cleopatra 4. The 18th Century English Literature Alexander Pope 亚历山大.蒲伯 The representative writer of the neo-classical school(新古典主义学派) The Rape of the Lock《卷发遭劫记》, an Essay on Man《人论》， Odyssey《奥德赛》 Samuel Johnson Neo-classical writer; A Dictionary of the English Language, Lives of Poets Danniel Defoe 笛福 Realist novelist; “Father of English and European Novels”’ Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》 Jonathan Swift 斯威夫特 Realist novelist; Guilliver’s Travel《格列佛游记》 Henry Fielding 菲尔丁 Realist novelist, the founder of English reali