专八英国文学史笔记.doc

Index 16 William Shakespeare Victorian Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray George Eliot 17 John Donne Thomas Hood John Milton Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte John Bunyan Alfred, Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18 Daniel Defoe Henry Fielding Jonathan Swift Oliver Goldsmith William Blake Romantic William Wordsworth 20 Thomas Hardy Gorge Gordon, Lord Byron John Galsworthy Oscar Wilde Percy Bysshe Shelly George Bernard Shaw John Keats D.H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf Walter Scott James Joyce The Sixteenth Century Beginning of 16th century Thomas More Utopia. More gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. End the century Francis Bacon Scientist and philosopher First half of 16th century Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard They initiated new poetical forms, borrowing freely from English popular songs and Italian and French poetry. Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. Second half of the 16th century Philip Sidney, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser Lyrical poem become widespread in England. Edmund was the author of the greatest epic poem of the time The Fairy Queen. Court life and gallantry novel John Lyly, Thomas Loge Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s novel Ephesus which gave rise to the term “euphuism”, designating an affected style of court speech. Realistic novel Thomas Delaney, Thomas Nashe Devoted to every day life of craftsman, merchants and other representatives of lower class Drama Christopher Marlowe Reformed drama that genre in English and perfected the language and verse of dramatic works. It was Marlowe who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. William Shakespeare The works of William Shakespeare are a great landmark in the history of world literature for he was one of the first founders of realism, a master hand at realistic portrayal of human characters and relations. Works First period: Romeo and Jul