10斯威夫特 Swift.ppt

英国文学史及选读课程组 The greatest poet in the 18th c. An essay on Criticism (1711, first striking success as a poet and critic) Pope’s Heroic Couplet : ∨ / ∨ / ∨ / ∨ / ∨ / A Lit|tle lear|ning is | a dange | rous thing , Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring ( if you want to learn sth , dig deep into the heart of it ) —— An Essay on Criticism (Part II) Richard Steel A poet, essayist, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer. The great pioneer of the English novel, whose Robinson Crusoe has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilization, as a manifesto of economic individualism and also as an expression of European colonial desires.(P133) The literary currents of the 18th century 1. Classicism, or Neoclassicism dominated this century; 2. The middle of this century in England sees the inception of a new literary current– sentimentalism ; 3. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Pre-Romanticism emerged. Classicism A movement or tendency in art, literature, or music that reflects the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Classicism emphasizes the traditional and the universal, and places value on reason, clarity, balance and order. Classicism, with its concern for reason and universal themes, is traditionally opposed to Romanticism, which is concerned with emotions and personal themes. Neoclassicism A revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of classical standards of reason, order, balance and harmony in literature. John Dryden and Alexander Pope were major exponents of the Neoclassical school. In the 1st part of the century, Jonathan Swift was the supreme master of the current. During those years Swift read widely and had time to put his general ideas in order and discover his talent as? a prose satirist. And there he also received a first-r