[英语学习]milton.ppt

John Milton (1608-1774) ⅠLife and Work: ⒈ Boyhood: His father, a Puritan, a lover of music and literature a hard-working student; at 12 we find him already a scholar in spirit “When I was yet a child, No childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things.” ⒉ Cambridge Days: Went to Christ’s College, Cambridge Strongly condemned the subjects and methods of study at the college, “to make you a more finished fool” Out of beauty and the strictness of his life, he was nicknamed “the lady of the Christ’s” ⒊ At Horton: In 1632, Milton took his M.A. at Cambridge, then retired to the family homes in London and Horton, for years of private study and literary composition ⒋ Early Poems: ? On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity on December 25, 1629. 《基督诞生晨颂》 ? LAllegro and Il Penseroso 《快乐的人》和《幽思的人》 Comus , a masque 音乐假面剧《科玛斯》 Lycidas《利西达斯》 a pastoral elegy一首牧歌风格的挽诗 ⒌ His travel on the Continent set out for a tour of Europe in the spring of 1638 and he returned home in July 1639 because of the impending civil war in England ⒍ Principle pamphlets: Areopagitica or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (1644) 《论出版自由》 a prose polemis Eikonoklastes (1649)《偶像破坏者》 Defensio pro populo Anglicano or Defense for the English People(1650)《为英国人民而辩》 ⒎ After the Restoration In June, 1659, both Defensio pro populo Anglicano and Eikonoklastes were publicly burned. In early autumn, Milton was arrested and thrown in prison, to be released by order of Parliament before Christmas. ⒏ Later Works: Paradise Lost (1665)《失乐园》 Paradise regained (1671)《复乐园》 Samson Agonistes (1671)《力士参孙》 Ⅱ Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is Milton’s masterpiece. a long epic in 12 books written in blank verse (无韵体) taken from the Old testament ⒉ Story (see P142-P144,textbook) ⒊ Theme : “to justify the ways of God to man” (要拥