英国文学总结表.doc

History of English Literature Historical period Literary Period Representative writers Representative works Significance Old English (410-1066) Anglo-Saxon (poetry) Beowulf The national epic of the English people. Medieval England (1066-1400) (The Wars of Roses, Founding of the Tudor Dynasty) Medieval / Middle English (poetry, romance and ballad) Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (masterpiece), The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, The parliament of fowls. The founder / father of English poetry, and the earliest forerunner of realism. The Arthurian legends: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Robin Hood Ballads: Lytell Geste of Robin Hood《罗宾汉英雄事迹小唱》 The Pre- Elizabethan and Elizabethan Ages (1400-1603) (The Reformation and the Enclosure Movement ) Renaissance (Humanism) (Poetry and drama) Thomas More Utopia The forerunner of modern socialist thought. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (Spenserian stanza) He has great influences on all the later poets. Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine 《铁木耳转》 Dr. Faustus《浮士德悲剧》 The Jew of Malta 《马尔他岛的犹太人》 The greatest pioneer of English drama. He reformed the English drama by adopting blank verse as the principal form. William Shakespeare (see table 1) The four Great Tragedies: H , M , O , K L . (The summit of his plays: H .) One of the founders of realism in world literature; the summit of the English Renaissance; fist-rank writer the world over. Francis Bacon Essays The first English Essayist; founder of modern science in England (materialist philosophy). Revolution and Restoration (the 17th century) (English Bourgeois Revolution, the Restoration, and the “Glorious Revolution”) Revolution and Restoration (two literary camps) (Poetry: Puritan, Cavalier, Metaphysi-cal.) John Milton Pro Populo Anglicano Defense; Pro Populo Anglicano Defense Secunda; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes. He wrote the greatest epic in literature ---- . He was the first to use blank verse in no