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专八辅导—文学常识;出题趋势;作家在文学史中的地位与成就eg.Mark Twain is considered to be the true father of Americans national literature.马克 吐温被誉为美国文学之父。 文学术语的定义（allegory, sonnet, blank verse…）;English Literature;1. Old and Medieval English Literature ; Beowulf: a typical example of Old English poetry; the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400): father of English poetry 长诗：The House of Fame《声誉之堂》 小说：Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》— 英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作;2. The Renaissance Period; Major writers of this period Christopher Marlowe (成就） Edmund Spenser( the poet’s poet) William Shakespeare Hamlet；King Lear；Macbeth；Othello Francis Bacon: philosopher, scientist, essayist Of studies. John Donne: leading figure of the “metaphysical school” John Milton; 3. The Neoclassical Period Neoclassical period: the years between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full development of Romanticism(1798). Enlightenment Movement: an expression of struggle to the bourgeoisie against feudalism to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. the 18th England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason ;Major Writers of This period Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift: a master satirist Henry Fielding: He was the first to set out both in theory and practice to write specifically a “comic epic in prose” and to give modern novel its structure and style. 英国现实主义小说的奠基者 Richard Brinsley Sheridan : the only important English dramatist of the 18th century. Samuel Johnson; 4. The Romantic Period (age of poetry) It began in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads and ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament. ; Characteristics: * a strong protest against the bondage of neoclassicism (reason, order); * the primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty; * to designate a literary and philosophic