早期与中世纪英国文学.ppt

Purpose Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; 读书的意义 读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其博彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。 书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。----F · 培根 introduction History, Literary trends, ideas, writers and their works. Concepts, features of different era and their influence on literature; of writers; significance and status of works. Periods of British Literature Early and Medieval British Literature British Literature of Renaissance Br L of Bourgeois Revolution (17th c) Br L of Enlightenment (18th c) Br L of Romanticism (19th c) Br L of Critical Realism Realism and Modernism (20th c) Early and Medieval British Literature OE Beowulf MidE Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales British Literature of Renaissance Thomas More……..Utopia Spenser……………Faire Queene University wits Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; Hamlet; The Tempest; sonnets Francisc Bacon Br L of Bourgeois Revolution Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson. Banyan, The Pilgrimage which opened the way for modern narration Metaphysic poets John Donne Cavalier poets Br L of Enlightenment Pope (poet) Defoe and his Robinson Crusoe Swift and his Gulliver’s Travels Fielding and his The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Br L of Romanticism Percy and his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Burns; Blake Lake poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey Lyrical Ballads (by WC) Byron, Don Juan,Chalde Harold’s Pilgrimage, Shelley On West Wind, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale Scot Ivanhoe Rob Roy Br L of Critical Realism Austin Pride and Prejudice Dickens Great Expectation, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Thackeray Vanity Fair Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Br