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英美文学选读框架Old English 450-1066 BeowulfMedieval English 1066 - middle 14th centuryGeoffrey Chaucer - the father of English poetryThe Canterbury Tales first time to use heroic couplet The Renaissance - rebirth or revivalHumanism - the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being the importance of the present lifeEdmund Spenser - the poets poet The Faerie QueeneChristopher Marlowe - University Wits, the pioneer of English drama Blank verse, hyperbole夸张Dr. Faustus the human passion for knowledge, power and happinessThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love pastoral lifeWilliam Shakespeare - above all writers in the past and in the present timeFour tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear MacbethSonnet 18 eternal or immortal beautyThe Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality Hamlet hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger To be, or not to be - to live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action Soliloquy or monologue - fully reveal the inner conflict of the charactersFrancis Bacon - brevity, compactness powerfulness, his essays is an important landmark in the development of English proseInductive method 归纳法 in place of deductive method 演绎法Of Studies uses and benefits of study - studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies - studies and experience are complementary 互补 to each other. The correct attitude to reading books - to weigh and consider. How studies exert influence over human character - reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.John Donne Imeta/Iphysical poetry - break away from love poetry, a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences and attitudes