外研社英国文学史及选读（第二版）第一册教学课件Chapter 6 Henry Howard.pptxVIP

《高级汉英笔译教程》教学示范 Content Part IV The 16th Century: The Age of Drama and Poetry Chapter 5 Thomas Wyatt Chapter 6 Henry Howard Chapter 7 Edmund Spenser Chapter 8 Walter Raleigh Chapter 9 Philip Sidney Content Part IV The 16th Century: The Age of Drama and Poetry Chapter 10 Francis Bacon Chapter 11 Christopher Marlowe Chapter 12 William Shakespeare Chapter 13 Ben Jonson 正文 Part 1 Chapter 6 Henry Howard Life and Works Brief Comment Sonnet Blank Verse Selections Notes For Study and Discussion Chapter 6 Henry Howard Life and Works Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) the eldest son of the third Duke of Norfolk, was descended from kings on both sides of his family He was called the founder of the golden Elizabethan poetry. He was versed in Italian and French poetry. In his works, he also tried to show that English was, like other languages, flexible, elaborate and good for writing poetry. He tried his hand on various metres and forms. Howard was an able soldier and went to fight whenever called upon. Chapter 6 Henry Howard Life and Works That was also the year when Howard—who took after his father and grandfather in military prowess—served with his father against the Pilgrimage of Grace protesting the dissolution of the monasteries. He and his friend Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Howard was the first English poet to use blank verse in his translation of the second and the fourth books of Virgil’s Aeneid. Together, Wyatt and Howard, due to their excellent translations of Petrarch’s sonnets, are known as “fathers of the English sonnet”. Chapter 6 Henry Howard Life and Works It was Howard who gave it the rhyming metre and the division into quatrains that now characterise the sonnets variously named as English, Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnets. As a courtier poet, he was interested in circulating his poems in manuscript rather than in printing them. The bulk of his poetry was published in