Lesson 5 Britain-Culture 英国文化.pptVIP

David Herbert Lawrence (1885 – 1930) Innovator of psychological fiction One of the most controversial writers of the early 20th century Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Kangaroo, etc. James Joyce (1882 – 1941) Was considered the most important and influential novelist writing in English Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, etc. Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) One of the most important “stream of consciousness” novelists in Britain To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, etc. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) Science fiction writer The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, etc. William Golding (1911 – 1993) Won Nobel Prize Lord of the Flies Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) Nobel Prize Winner, very influential, even in China Opposed WWI – was put in jail Doris Lessing (1919 - ) Most influential contemporary English writer Grew up and was educated in Zimbabwe The Golden Notebook – landmark of the women’s movement 2. Poetry “Beowulf” – Folk legend brought to England by the Anglo-Saxons Passed down from person to person for hundreds of years before it was written down in the 10th century Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – 1400) Father of English poetry “The Canterbury Tales” John Milton (1608 – 1674) “Paradise Lost” – tells the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – the best-known poem in the English language Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Excelled in calm descriptions and at expressing his innermost thoughts and doubts “In Memoriam” T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965) Won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 “The Wasteland” – caused an uproar because of its originality and the severity of its attack on English and American society 3. Drama William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Great playwright and poet of the Renaissance Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers who ever lived “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” “Othello,” “Hamlet,” etc. Christopher Marlow