精选优质文档-----倾情为你奉上English LiteratureGeoffrey Chaucer: the Father of English Poetry the Founder of English Realism the Master of modern English language The pioneer of the English RenaissanceBeowulf: National epic of the Anglo-Saxons The story of Beowulf is a folk legend which reflects the feature of the tribal world. John Milton: Blank verse 双韵体、革命诗人John Donne: peculiar conceits奇喻 metaphysical school形而上学派John Bunyan: The pilgrim’s progress 天路历程Daniel Defoe: Father of English novels 英国现代小说之父Jonathan Swift: Father of English stylisticsHenry Fielding: The founder of English realistic novel 小说艺术之父Alexander Pope: 英语诗歌艺术之父Robert Burns: The poet of peasants 农民作家Lyrical Ballads: The beginning of romantic revivalWalter Scott: The father of historical novel 历史小说之父Old English Literature(mid 5th-mid 11th)Background: Roman conquest A.D 78 Anglo-Saxon settled in English Old English From tribal to feudalismMedieval English Literature (1066-14th末）Background: Norman conquest in 1066 French and Latin prevail Division into class conflictsGeoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales --the rising the bourgeoisie of Britain --praise man’s energy, intellect, wit and love of life --satirize the evil of and degeneration of the noble and corruption of the church --French rhymed stanza: heroic couplet<英雄双韵体> 两行一韵:a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d-e-e-f-f-g-g --create the famous terza rima 三行诗 run on line跳行 --show a true life picture, the first smooth English --the foreshadow of the coming the English Renaissance Troilus and Criseyde 1383 <8000lines>William Langland: Piers the PlowmanThe English Renaissance(14th-17th)Background: politically--Henry VIII--Tudor dynasty --break with Rome --new religious dogma protestantism --Queen Mary--反新教，互相妥协 Economically--the closure movement <生产和土地需求，农民被剥削> --Commercial expansion --exploration and travel --colony Culturally--Renaissance Military--with SpainWilliam Caxton: the first English printer < translate Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde>Thomas More: UtopiaWilliam Shakespeare:----Comedy: A mid summer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice As you like it Twelfth Night ----Tragedy: Hamlet、Othello、King Lear、Macbeth <早期>Romeo and JulietMain features: realistic writing Imitation and adaptation Language master Diversified writing skills and methods:song, sonnet, couplet, blank verseSonnets 十四行诗 a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g ^-^-^-^-^- five feet One foot 一个重音和一个或一个以上的非重音 Iambic Pentameter抑扬格Edmund Spenser: The Shepherd Calendar The Faerie Queene Achievement: the Spenserian stanza 9-line stanza--a b a b b c b c c Iambic pentameter五步格, iambic hexameter六步格Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine、The Jews of Malta、Doctor FaustusBen Jonson(the successor of Shakespeare)---comedy: Every man in His Humour Volpone Bartholomew Fair Fox The Alchemist ---tragedy: Sejanus CatilineFrancis Bacon: Advancement of Learning New instrument The essays “knowledge is power”Translational periodJohn Milton: Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson AgonistesJohn Donne: Songs and SonnetsJohn Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s progress18th English Literature (end of 17th-18th <1789>)Background: The Glorious Revolution in 1688 ended in a compromise between the aristocracy and bourgeois. English became constitutional monarchy and power passed from the King to the Parliament and the cabinet minis。