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1、English and American LiteratureEnglish LiteratureOld & Medieval(中世纪) English Literature (449-1485) Beowulf(the first long poem in English)(the most important work of Old English literature) The Romances(King Arthur and His Knights of Round Table , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) Chaucer (1343-1400)
2、 The Canterbury Tales the father of English poetry The Renaissance Period (1485-1660) Humanism: it is the essence of the Renaissance.(was a literary and philosophic system of thought which attempted to place the the affairs of mankind at the center of its concerns) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Adva
3、ncement of Learning (1605) William Shakespeare(1564?-1616) Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (无事生非) Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, The Neoclassical(新古典主义) Period (1660 - 1798) John Bunyan (
4、1628-1688) The Pilgrims Progress (天路历程)(the most successful religious allegory 寓言) Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism (论批评) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinson Crusoe (1719)(most famous of his work, his masterpiece) The Neoclassical Period(1660 and 1798) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gullivers Travels
5、(his greatest satiric work) A Modest Proposal (一个小小的建议) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Father of the English Novel Tom Jones Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): A Dictionary of the English Language Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) The School for Scandal (his masterpiece) the only important English dramatis
6、t(剧作家) of the 18th century The Romantic Period (1798-1832)(The first Generation of Romantics ) William Wordsworth(1770-1850) with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was Britains Poet Laureate(桂冠
7、诗人) from 1843 until his death in 1850. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud His Works divided into two groups: Poems about nature and poems about human life Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (古舟子咏)(Coleridge and Wordsworth were called the Lake Poet)The Romantic Period (1798-
8、1832)( The Younger generation of Romantics) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (拜伦) Don Juan(唐璜) his masterpiece Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822 ) Ode to the West Wind John Keats(1795-1821) Ode to a Nightingale The Romantic Period (1798-1832) Jane Austen(1755-1817) (novelist) Pride and Prejudice (the mo
9、st popular) Sense and Sensibility Emma The Victorian Period (1837-1905) Charles Dickens (1812-1870)(novelist) Oliver Twist David Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities Hard Times Great Expectations William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1864) 威廉梅克皮斯萨克雷 Vanity Fair 名利场 Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855) Jane Eyre Shirl
10、ey Emily Bronte(1818-1849) Wuthering Heights Anne Bronte 1820-1849) Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 怀尔德菲尔府的房客 The Victorian Period Alfred Tennyson 阿尔弗雷德丁尼生(1809-1892) In 1850 he was appointed Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth the most representative, if not the greatest, Victo
11、rian poet In Memoriam A.H.H. , Tennysons greatest work Idylls of the King, his most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete Robert Browning (1812-1889)(poet) Elizabeth Barrett Browning(poet) George Eliot(1819-1880) (female novelist) Middle-march, known as one of the most mature works
12、 in English literary history Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)(novelist,poet) Tess of the D Urbervilles, one of the best and most popular work by Hardy The Modern Period George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) (dramatist) Pygmalion 皮格马利翁 William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)( modernist poet) When You Are Old T.S.Eliot(1888
13、-1965)(modernist poet) The Waste Land (the most famous poem, comparable to Wordsworths Lyrical Ballads 抒情诗.) Realistic novels at the Beginning of the 20thCenturyJohn Galsworthy(1867-1933)(novelist) The Forsyte Saga ,composed of The Man of Property(1906); In Chancery(1920); To Let(1921) Arnold Bennet
14、t(1867-1931)(novelist) The old Wives Tale(1908) H.G.Wells(1866-1946)(1866-1946) The Time Machine(1895) The Invisible man(1897)The Modern Period D.H.Laurence(1885-1930 ) (novelist) Sons and Lovers James Joyce(1882-1941) (novelist) Ulysses (his masterpiece) stream of consciousness Joseph Conrad(1857-1
15、924)(novelist) Heart of Darkness Virginia Woolf(1882-1941 ) (female novelist) To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway English Literature from 1945 to the 21th Century William Golding (1911 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord o
16、f the Flies.蝇王 He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage,成人式/成人礼 John Robert Fowles (1926 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 The French L