英美文学课 文学人物,作品整理.doc

如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流英美文学课 文学人物,作品整理【精品文档】第 6 页Time Table- British LiteratureOld and medieval english periods(450-1066)The renaissance period (14th-mid17th)The neoclassical period (1660-1798)The romantic period (1798-1832)The victorian period (the critical realism) (1837-1901)(late 18th-early 19th)The modern period (late 19th )古英语和中古英语时期Beowulflliad and Odyssey (epic)Geoffery Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower (medieval english literature from the second half of the 14th century)The Romaunt of the Rose, The Legend of Good Women, The canterbury Tales( Chaucer)Ballad:Robin Hood BalladsThomas Percy's Relics of Ancient English PoetryWalter Scott's(浪漫主义时期的） Minstrels of the Scottish Border 文艺复兴时期 14th -mid 17thWilliam Shakespeare: 1564.4.23-1616.4.231590-1600 Romeo and Juliet 1594The Merchant of the Venice (Bassanio, Antonia, Shylock, Portia) 1596A Mid Summer Nights DreamAs You Like ItTwelfth Night1601-1608 Hamlet 1601Othello 1604King Lear 1605Measure for Measure 1604Macbeth 1605Timon of Athens1609-1612 The TempestJohn Milton: 1608-16741625-1640 (short poems)LAllegroIl PenserosoComus Lycidas 1640-1660 pamphlets and tractsAreopagiticaThe Defence of the English PeopleThe Second Defence of . 1660-1674 Great Poems Paradise Lost 1667 Paradise Regained 1671 Samson Agonistes 1671新古典主义时期 1660-1798Thomas More (British utopian socialist) RenaissanceRepresentatives of the enlightenment in the English literature were:Daniel Defoe(1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe 1719Captain SingletonMoll FlandersJournal of the Plague Year Colonel Jack RoxanaJonathan Swift(1667-1745): Gullivers Travels 1726 The Battles of Books A Tale of Tub A Modest ProposalSamuel Richardson: PamelaClarissa (epistolary)Henry Fielding(1707-1754) : The History of Tom Jones, a foundling Mr.Jonathan Wild the Great Joseph Andrews 1742 AmeliaRobert Burns 1759-1796: A Red Red Rose Two Satirical Epigrams*Epistolary:Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random /Humphry ClinkerLaurence Sterne: A Sentimental JourneyRobert Burns: Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of WakefieldRichard B. Sheridan: The School for ScandalRousseau: La Norvelle HeloiseLaelos: Dangerous LiaisonsGoethe The sorrows of young wertherMontesquieu: Persian LettersGothic Novel:Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto (first one)Ann Radcliffe: The Adventure of Mysteries of UdophoMathew Lewis: The Monk Marry Shelley: Frankenstein浪漫主义时期 1798-1832Representative writers and their major works during the English Romantic Period:William Blake(1757-1827): Songs of InnocenceSongs of ExperienceMarriage of Heaven and HellWilliam Wordsworth(1779-1850): Lyrical BalladsTintern AbbeyThe preludeSamuel Taylor Coleridge1788-1824: Lyrical BalladsThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerChristabel Kubla KhanGeorge Gordan Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harolds PilgrimageOriental TalesManfredDon Juan verse dramas CainPercy Bysshe Shelley1792-1822: Ode to the west wind To a Skylarkpoetic drama Prometheus UnboundSongs to the Men of the EnglandJohn Keats1795-1821: Ode to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnIsabellaEndymionJane Austen1775-1817: Sense and sensibilityNorthanger Abbey Mansfield Park Pride and PrejudiceEmma维多利亚时期 1836-1901Chares Dickens 1812-1870The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubOliver TwistThe old Curiosity shopDombey and His SonDavid CopperfieldA tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsEmily Bronte 1818-1848Wuthering HeightsThomas Hardy1840-1928The Return of the Native The Mayor of CasterbridgeTess of the DUrbervilles 1891Jude and Obscure 1895现代主义时期 the end of 19th to the end of the second world war )Doris May Lessing (1919.10.22): The Grass Is SingingThe Golden Notebook五道题目1. Which one is not true in the following sentences, according to what you have learned about Old English Literature and Medieval English Literature?A. Old English Literature begins with the Anglo一Saxon settlement in England at about 450 and ends at 1066 , the year of the Norman Conquest of England.B. Medieval English Literature starts at 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest of England and ends about the 15th century.C. Beowulf is the first surviving epic written in the English language, and shows how the primitive people fight against the forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.D. The most remarkable English popular ballad is Relics of Ancient English Poetry , which is about an outlawed hero who lives in the forest with his men, robs the rich and helps the poor .答案：D，Robin Hood ballads2. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement? A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture. B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology. C. The Glorious revolution. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.答案：C3.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.答案：C4. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _. A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech答案：D5. Which statement is true?A. Beowulf kills the fire breathing dragon, and reigns as the king of his homeland for 50 years.B. Shakespeare's literary works can be divided into four periods, The Merchant of Venice in the third.C. The Songs of Innocence is a lively volume of poems which represents a happy and innocent world where there are no evil and suffering existing.D. One kind of Dickens' best-depicted characters is innocent, persecuted, helpless children, such as David Copperfield.答案：D