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UK literature 英国文学 西方文学两个源头 古希腊罗马文学 《圣经》 古希腊罗马文学 希腊文学 古希腊神话：神的故事和英雄的故事 伊索(Aesop)寓言 《木马屠城记》 《特洛伊》 Medieval literature（中世纪文学） Originally, British literature is oral like other countries. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language and the most important specimen of Anglo-Saxon literature. The main stories are based on the folk legends of the primitive northern tribes. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight It is thought to be composed about 1375-1400 and one of the greatest literary works of Middle English. The theme is based on King Arthur and The Round Table Knights Geoffrey Chaucer about1343～1400 the father of British Poetry. Chaucer‘s poetry writing is divided into three periods ①France affected period ②Italy affected period ③maturity period The Canterbury Tales the history of the British literary realism of the first model 《侠盗罗宾汉》 Renaissance literature（文艺复兴时期文学） Thomas More Utopia 乌托邦 Open the idealistic novels Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene 仙后 Francis Bacon 58 essays Some quotations: 1. Knowledge is power. 2.The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. 3.Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. 4. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 5. Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle-age, and old men’s nurses. 6. There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion 7.Studies serve of delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in private- ness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. William Shakespeare A dramatist “not of an age, but of all time” by Ben Jonson, not of England, but of the world. Not only a master of English language but also a genius of character portrayal and plot construction A “po