英国文学史第六讲：18th literature and A.Pope;Dr. Johnson.pptVIP

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) A representative of the Enlightenment. The greatest poet of his time. In many ways Dryden’s successor. Pope was born to a Catholic family in London. Ill health accompanied him from cradle to grave: physical deformity (hunchback, dwarfed, crippled), violent headaches. Isolated from the society, read widely. Wide association with literary men of his time. Friends and enemies in the literary circle. Pope was one of the 1st to introduce rationalism to England. Pope wrote highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein. For Pope, the supreme value was order – cosmic order, political order, social order, aesthetic order, and this emphasis on order found expression in all of his works. Pope brought the heroic couplet to its ultimate perfection. Pope is a master satirist and splendid craftsman of the heroic couplet. Pope’s chief works An Essay on Criticism 1711 The Rape of the Lock 1711 The Dunciad 1728 An Essay on Man 1733 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 1735 Iliad and Odyssey (trs. 1720 1726) The Works of Shakespeare, in Six Volumes 1723-25 Famous quotes from Pope’s Essay (see p.64) 一知半解害人不浅， 要么干脆不要问津，要么就深入钻研。 能带来美感的不是孤立的一片唇一只眼， 而是万物的统一和谐。 美好的东西必然唤起美好的感受， 犯错的是人，宽容的是神。 /essay-on-criticism.html Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The author of the 1st English dictionary by an Englishman A Dictionary of the English Language 1755 Born to a book-seller in 1709 in Richfield. Richfield Grammar School for 8 years a solid foundation in Latin. Oxford university on an off 1728-1731 without a degree. 1737-1755 difficulty for him to “write for a living”. 1755 publication of his dictionary. 1762 a special governmental pension freed him from the burden of writing. Energetic and versatile writer: trying his hand in all the different branches of literary activities. He was a poet, dramatist, prose romancer, biographer, essayist, critic, lexicographer and publicist. Chief works: London (poem) The Vanity of H