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英国文学选读 复习资料 一.Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里.乔叟 时期 1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父 2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵) lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格) 3、代表作：the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事 (英国文学史的开端)  人文主义先驱，the father of English poetry..第一个用英语写作的诗人。 二. William Shakespeare 1.The four great tragedies by William Shakespeare are _Hamlet_, _Othello_, _King Lear_, Macbeth. 四大喜剧 是 A Midsummer Nights Dream ;As you like it ;Twelfth Night ;The merchant of Venice . the period of Revolution and Restoration (17世纪) 资产阶级革命与王权复辟 prose 散文 1、文学特点：the Puritans(清教徒) believed in simplicity of life、disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry、breaking up of old ideals. 清教徒崇尚俭朴的生活、拒绝十四行诗和爱情诗、与旧思想脱离。 2、代表人物： 1)、John Donne 约翰.多恩 The founder of the“metaphysical”poets (玄学派诗人) 的代表人物 代表作:Love lyrics:Songs and sonnets.The Flea. A Valediction: forbidding morning 作品特点：① strike the reader in Donne’s extraordinary frankness and penetrating realism.(坦诚的态度和现实描绘) ② novelty of subject matter and point(新颖的题材和视角) ③ novelty of its form.(新颖的形式) 2)、John Milton 约翰.弥尔顿 a great poet 诗人 （ poem 诗歌 blank verse ） was a _radical puritan in politics and religion. 激进清教徒分子。?《Defense for the English People》为英国人辩护 ?《Paradise Lost》失乐园 “Satan is not a villain”撒旦不是坏人 ?《Paradise Regained》复乐园 John Milton’s three great poems are _Paradise Lost_（无韵诗bland verse.故事情节来自Ole Testament，要知道此书的them 和Satan的形象）, _Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. （poetical drama) the Romantic Period (1798-1832)浪漫主义 Pre-Romanticism was greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution 前浪漫主义极大地影响了工业革命和法国大革命。 教育意义Educational：liberty, equality and fraternity 自由，平等，博爱 开始的标志：beginning with the publication of William Wordsworth’s 《Lyrical Ballads》抒情歌谣集 ?从威廉.华兹华斯发表的抒情歌谣开始 lake poets(湖畔诗人)：Coleridge, Robert Southey, Wordsworth 代表人物： 1)、William Wordsworth 威廉.华兹华斯 poet-laureate (桂冠诗人) romanticism英国最伟大的诗人。自然的崇拜者。英国桂冠诗人。湖泊诗人（消极浪漫主义）题材：nature and common peoples lives. Lyri