英国文化提纲.doc

Early and Medieval English Literature: ( 5th century-1485) Beowulf: An English Epic Three major poets in 14th century England Geoffrey Chaucer: the father of English poetry, being famous for his The Canterbury Tales William Langland (c.1332-c.1440) and his poem The Vision of Piers Plowman (c.1362) The Gawain-Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Renaissance (late 15th century-early 17th century; an age of poetry and drama) What is Renaissance? It is the period of the revival of ancient Greek and Roman cultural heritage and the rebirth of humanism (A system of thought that centers on human beings and their values, capacities, and worth.) roughly the 14th through the 16th century, marking the transition from medieval to modern times. Christopher Marlowe and his famous tragedy Doctor Faustus(1604) (p74) William Shakespeare and his four greatest tragedies: Hamlet (1601) Othello (1604) King Lear (1605) Macbeth (1605) And his famous sonnets: Edmund Spenser and his famous poem The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) Seventeenth Century English Literature John Donne (1572—1631): a founder of Metaphysical school of poetry; Jonne’s conceits; Donne’s themes; can analyze his poems: The Flea; Song; and A Valediction-Forbidden Mourning John Milton (1608—1674) and his famous poem Paradise Lost 《失乐园》 (1667) John Bunyan (1628—1688) and his The Pilgrim’s Progress《天路历程》 (1678) Eighteenth Century English Literature (Enlightenment) Enlightenment: It is a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe including England, Germany especially France where there were Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau in 18th century and in Russia in the 19th century. a. Neo-classicism (1688---the end of the 1730’s) 新古典主义 What is neo-classicism? A type of classicism, which draws its name because they regarded classical literature of ancient Greek and Roman writers as models. It dominated English literature from 1660 to the 18th century. They believed artistic ideas should be orde