2. Geoffrey chaucer 英国文学作品选读课件.ppt

Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343-1400 ) (1) Life Experience Born in London between 1340 and 1344. He was the first established English poet buried in Westminster Abbey. (poet’s corner) John Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, the Bront? sisters, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Gray, John Dryden, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas. (2) Early works The first period of Chaucer’s literary career includes his early works greatly influenced by French literature, especially the Roman de la Rose. He tried to translate part of the book into English. Chaucer’s chief early work: The Book of the Duchess. (3) Italian period During this time, his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio. Representative writings: The House of Fame; The Parliament of Fowls; Troilus and Criseyde. one term related: heroic couplet Heroic couplet couplet: A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. The most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet (introduced from French). Read and think So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. --Shakespeare (4) The late period In this period, Chaucer reached the climax of his artistic value. The Canterbury Tales: about 17000 lines. around 1386-1395, 24 tales. (120 tales planned) In this professional life, Chaucer was able to travel from his home in England to France and Italy. There, he not only had the chance to read Italian and French literature, but possibly, even to meet Boccaccio, whose Decameron may have inspired the frame story of The Canterbury Tales. (5) The Great poet: Chaucer The first poet who introduced the heroic couplet The first poet who wrote in English, the dialect of London. (Middle Engl