Week Tw A Brief Survey of the History of English and American Literature.docVIP

English Literary History The Renaissance Period from the 14th century to mid-17th century Renaissance :the revival interest in antique authors and the Greek and Roman civilization English Renaissance began in the 15th century--- Englands Golden Age Humanism: the essence of the Renaissance man is the measure of all things William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 38 plays 154 sonnets 2 long narrative poems four periods of dramatic career first period (1590-1595) : history plays- HenryVI; Richard III; Comedy- The Taming of the Shrew; Tragedy – Romeo and Juliet. third period (1600-1608) :greatest tragedies -Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth; dark comedies -Alls Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. fourth period (1608-1612) : principal romantic tragicomedies-Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, The Tempest; and his final plays: Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Francis Bacon (1561-1626),  philosopher, scientist and essayist Advancement of Learning (1605)《学术的进展》 Novum Organum (New Instrument)(1620)《新工具》 New Atlantis (1627) 《新大西岛》 Essays (1597, 1612, 1625) 《论说文集》 /sevenlit/bacon/quotes.php The Neoclassical Period (from 1660 to 1798)  The Enlightenment Movement: a furtherance of the Renaissance, was a progressive intellectual movement flourishing through the Western Europe in the 18th century. Enlighteners upheld rationality, equality and science reason eternal truth eternal justice eternal equality Neoclassicism: reviving the interest in old classical works took classical works as their models kept to order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy Match the author with his works Daniel Defoe John Bunyan Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Robinson Crusoe The Pilgrim’s Progress A Dictionary of the English Language The Rape of the Lock The Romantic Period (from 1798 to 1832) begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scotts death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in