英国文学简史第六章.pptVIP

Chapter 6  The Classic Age · Pope · Johnson · Gray · Goldsmith · Sheridan 古典时期 · 蒲伯 · 约翰逊 · 格雷 · 哥德史密斯 · 谢立丹 Literary Terms [文学术语解释] Enlightenment Movement(启蒙运动)1)It was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through Western Europe in the 18th century.2)The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance from 14th century to the mid-17th century.3)Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.4)It celebrated reason or nationality, equality and science. It advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.5)Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Sheridan, etc.(北航2008年考研试题) Neoclassicism(新古典主义)1)In the field of literature, the 18th century Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.2)The neoclassicists hold that forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Homer and Virgil and those of the contemporary French ones.3)They believed that the artistic ideas should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (川大2002、人大2003、北交大2006、吉林大学2006考研题) Representative Writers and Their Works [作家作品] Alexander Pope(亚历山大·蒲伯) An Essay on Criticism《论批评》、 The Rape of the Lock《夺发记》、 The Dunciad 《群愚史诗》 Why is Alexander Pope known as a representative of the Enlightenment? (国际关系学院2007年考研题) Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The first epistle of Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man can be considered an articulation of the Enlightenment, because it encompasses three major concerns of the people du