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英国文学纵览 一．英国文学大事记 1. The Medieval period : 450---1485 Anglo-saxon or Old English Period (450---1066): poetry in oral form Anglo-Norman Period (1066---1340): romance The 14th Century (1340---1400):Age of Chaucer The 15th Century 2. The Renaissance Period (the late 15th century---1750s): Drama and poetry The Renaissance Humanism The Elizabethan Age (1558-1603): the golden age of English poetry 3. The 17th Century The Jacobean Age (1603-1625): the Metaphysical poetry The Caroline Period (1625-1649): the Cavalier poetry The Revolutionary period or The Puritan Age (1640---1660): Milton The Period of Restoration (1660---1688): Age of Dryden 4. The 18th century: Age of Prose The Enlightenment Movement New-classicism（1700-1745）：The Augustan Age Realism Sentimentalism Preromanticism 二．文学术语集萃 Alliteration or Head Rhyme or Initial Rhyme refers to the repetition of the same sounds—usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables—in any sequence of neighboring words. A Ballad is a story told in song, usually in four-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed. Romance is the prevailing literary form of literature in the Middle Ages(1000-1453). It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero. Heroic Couplet is a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines. It was established by Chaucer as a major English verse-form for narrative and other kinds of non-dramatic poetry; it dominated English poetry of the 18th century notably in the poetry of Pope, before declining in importance in the early 19th century. The Ecologue was a classical form, practiced by Virgil and others; it represents usually in dialogue between shepherds, the moods and feeling and attitudes of the simple life. Essay is a literary form which can be defined as a short piece of expository prose. The purpose is to inform or explain rather than to dramatize or amuse. Its feature is brevity. New-classicism is