《英美文学教学资料》Literary History英美文学复习资料.docVIP

英美文学复习资料 English Literary History I. Old and Medieval English Literature (from 450 to 1066, and from 1066 to the second half of the 14th century) 1. Beowulf is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. 2. Romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period. 3. Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales. 坎特伯雷故事集 II. The Renaissance Period (from the 14th century to mid-17th century) 4. Humanism人文主义 is the essence of the Renaissance. 5. Edmund Spenser is known as “the poets’ poet”. Masterpiece the Faerie Queene仙后 is a great poem of its age. 6. Christopher Marlowe克里斯托弗 马洛 is the most gifted of the “University Wits”大学才子. His masterpieces are Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, the Jew of Malta and Edward II. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama and the creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama. 7. William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets. His greatest tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人 is the most important play among the comedies. 8. Francis Bacon is a well-known Renaissance philosopher, scientist and essayist. 9. John Donne is the leading figure of the “Metaphysical school.”英国玄学派 III. The Neoclassical period (from 1660 to 1789) 10. The neoclassical period, that is the eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Enlightenment Movement brought about in reviving the interest in old classical works is known as neoclassicism. 11. The mid-century was predominated by a newly rising literary form – the modern English novel. 12. John Bunyan was a devout Christian, and a firm non-conformist of the Anglican Church. His masterpiece is the Pilgrim’s Progress.天路历程 (最成功的宗教寓言诗) 13. Alexander Pope’s亚历山大·蒲柏best satiric work is The Dunciad (愚人志). 14. Daniel Defoe’s works are the first literary