uk-literature 英美文化的课件.ppt

An Introduction to British Literature An Overall View of British Literature Early and Medieval English Literature The English Renaissance The Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century Victorian Literature The Twentieth Century Early and Medieval English Literature back Old English Literature Medieval English Literature Old English Literature back Anglo-Saxon Poetry Romance Anglo-Saxon Poetry back Beowulf The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Alliteration Metaphors Understatements The English Renaissance back Humanism Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The 17th Century English Literature back Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Metaphysical Poets Cavalier Poets John Milton (1631-1700) Metaphysical Poets Cavalier Poets back Metaphysical poetry: mysticism in content and fantasticality in form John Donne (1572-1631) Cavalier poetry: courtliness, urbanity, and the theme of love and “carpe diem” Ben Johnson (1572-1637) The 18th Century English Literature back NeoClassicism:reason rather than emotion, form rather than content Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Daniel Defoe(1661-1731) PreRomanticists: Robert Burns(1759-1796) William Blake(1757-1827) The 19th Century English Literature back Romanticism:subjectivism rather than objectivism, “the heart” rather than “the head” Lake poets: Lyrical Ballads Active Romanticists Romantic Novelists Lake Poets back William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Robert Southey (1774-1843) Active Romanticists back George Gordon Byron (1788-1824): Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Prometheus Unbound “A Defence of Poetr