英国文学人物作品.pptx

Beowulf: Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in British literature.; ; Chaucer’s Literary Career: Works translated from French Works adapted from the Italian 3) Purely English works;;(B.I,P.33………… Utopia: Utopia is Mores masterpiece, written in the form of a con-versation between More and Hythloday, a returned voyager. It is divided into two books. The first book contains a long discussion on the social conditions of England. In the second book is described in detail an ideal communist society, Utopia. The name Utopia comes from two Greek words meaning no place and was adopted by More as the name of his ideal commonwealth.;(P.39.Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. The term sonnet derives from the Latin sonitus (meaning sound) and the Italian sonetto (meaning sound, song) English sonnets, in terms of structure, largely fall into two classes: the Petrarchian or Italian form and the Shakespearian or English form. Shakespearean sonnet， consisting of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg Spenserian sonnet, three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab bcbc cdcd ee;P.39. blank verse This term，which was first brought into England by Surrey，is used to name the unrhymed iambic pentameter 1ine in poetry． ;III. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 ;III. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 ;(B.I.P.42……… The Faerie Queen: Spensers greatest work, The Faerie Queen (published in 1589—96). The work was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, and Spenser explains his intention in writing it in a letter to his friend Walter Raleigh, thus: The general end —of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline. The plan of the whole poem is this: The Faerie Queen (signifying Queen Elizabe