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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上1. =Beowul= can be termed Englands national epic and its hero Beowulfone of the national heroes of the English people. 贝奥武夫（有记载的最早的一部英国文学作品）2. The literature of Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, -=( Pagan ) and Christian=. The former represents the poetry which the

2、Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of =oralsagas=, -the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the latter represents the =writings= developed under teaching of the monks. 盎格鲁-撒克逊时期的文学自然地分成两个部门,(异教徒)和基督教。前者代表了诗歌的盎格鲁撒克逊人可能带来的形式口头传说, 原油材料文献在慢慢开发英语土

3、壤; 他后者代表作品在教学的僧侣。3. The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the =EuropeanContinent =approximately at the beginning of the 6th century, when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the =Scandinavian peninsula=.4. The old English poetry can be divided into two groups

4、: the =secular =poetry and the =religious= poetry. 世俗诗歌和宗教诗歌。5. =(Beowulf)= is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. 史诗II.1. _c_ is the first important religious poet in English literature. 凯德蒙（公元7世纪盎格鲁-撒克逊基督教诗人）A. John Donne B. George H

5、erbert C. Caedmon D. Milton2. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the _=pagan=_ poetry. 异教徒；无宗教信仰者1. In the year =1066=, at the battle of =Hasting= 黑斯廷（英国东萨塞克斯郡濒临加来海峡的城市）, the Normans headed by William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons.2. The literature which Normans brought to Eng

6、land is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of =love and adventures=, in marked contrast with the =strength and somberness= of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 盎格鲁撒克逊提倡力量和暗淡3. The literature of the Anglo Norman period was of three classes: the matter of _; matter of _; matter of _. 4. After the =Norman= Co

7、nquest, feudal system was established in English society. 5. the most prevalent kind of literature in feudal England was =romance=. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventure of a noble hero. Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里乔叟(Geoffrey Chaucer，1342年-1400年

8、)，英国中世纪著名作家，出生于一个酒商家庭。1359年随爱德华三世的部队远征法国，被法军俘虏，不久以黄金赎回。I. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “=fatherofEnglishpoetry=” and one of the greatest narrative poets叙事诗人 of England, was born in London in or about the year 1340.2. Being especially fond of the great =Italian= writer Boccaccio, Chaucer composes a long

9、narrative poem =Troilus and Cressie=, based upon Boccaccios poem Filostrato Chaucers.3. Chaucer greatly contributed to the founding of the English literary language, the basis of which was formed by the =London= dialect, so profusely丰富的 used by the poet.4. Chaucers masterpiece is杰作=The Canterbury Ta

10、les=坎特伯雷故事集（著作名）, one of the most famous works in all literature.5. The Prologue序言 is a splendid masterpiece of Romantic portrayal, the first of its kind in the history of English literature. 序言是一个辉煌的杰作的浪漫形象,首次在英语文学的历史。 6. In his greatest work, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created a strikingly bril

11、liant and picturesque panorama of his time and his country.在他最伟大的作品,坎特伯雷故事集中,乔叟创造了一个惊人的才华横溢,风景如画的时间和国家的全景。6. Chaucers work is permeated with buoyant free-thinking, so characteristic of the age of Renaissance whose immediate forerunner Chaucer thus becomes.英国浪漫文学当之无愧的先驱1. The 16th century in England

12、was a period of the breaking up of _feudal_ relations and the establishing of the foundations of _ capitalism _.2. The 16th century was a time when, according to Thomas More, “sheep devoured man”.3. The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classic Greek and Roman arts and sciences afte

13、r the dark ages of obscurantism. 文艺复兴一词最初显示的复兴古典希腊和罗马艺术与科学在蒙昧主义的黑暗时代。4. King Henry the VIII broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of Church ofEngland. 国王亨利八世与教皇断绝了,解散了所有的修道院和修道院,没收他们的土地,宣布自己成为英格兰教会的负责人。 5

14、. The old English aristocracy having exterminated in the course of Warofthe Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on the kings power, came to the fore. 古老的英国贵族消灭在玫瑰战争的过程中,新贵族,完全依赖国王的权力,开始崭露头角。6. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ThomasMore wrote his Utopia in which he

15、gave a profound and truthful picture of the peoples sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.7. Edmund Spenser埃德蒙斯宾塞（人名） was the author of the greatest epic poem of the time, The Faire Queen.8. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was William Shakespeare who reformed t

16、hat genre in England and perfected the language and verse of dramatic works. 最伟大的英国戏剧是莎士比亚改革的先驱,在英格兰和完善语言和诗歌流派的戏剧作品。9. William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon史特拉福, Warwickshire.10. Hamlet speaks the famous “To be, or not to be”11. Shakespeares sonnets fall int

17、o two series: The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man, and the rest (except the last two ones) are addressed to dark lady.黑暗淑女12. The four great tragedies in Shakespeares mature period are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. 哈姆雷特,奥赛罗,李尔王和麦克白。13. Pope describe Francis Bacon as “the wis

18、est, brightest, and meanest of mankind”. 教皇培根描述为“最聪明的,最聪明的,最差的人类”。14. Of Bacons literary works, the most important are the Essays.1. The 17th century was a period when absolute monarchy impeded the further development of capitalism in England and the bourgeoisie could no longer bear the sway of land

19、ed nobility. 17世纪是一个君主专制时期阻碍了资本主义的进一步发展,在英格兰和资产阶级再也无法忍受贵族地主的影响。2. There are religious division and confusion and a long bitter struggle between the peoples Parliament and the Throne- Puritans fighting against the Cavaliers who helped the king.清教徒与骑士3. In 1653, Oliver Cromwell imposed a military dict

20、atorship on the country; after his death monarchy was again restored. It was called the period of the Restoration. 1653年,克伦威尔强加一个军事独裁国家,君主在他死后又恢复。它被称为复辟时代。4. In 1688, the Glorious Revolution took place.5. The Glorious Revolution meant three things: the supremacy of Parliament,议会 the beginning of mod

21、ern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.6. The puritans believed in simplicity of life. 清教徒信奉简朴的生活。7. Restoration created a literature of its own that was often wittyandclever, but on the whole immoralandcynical. The most popular genre was that of comedy whose chief

22、aim was to entertain the licentious aristocrats. 恢复了自己的文学,内容诙谐幽默,聪明,但总的来说不道德的、愤世嫉俗的。最常见的类型是喜剧的主要目的是为了娱乐那些放肆的贵族。8. The first thing to strike the reader is Donnes extraordinary frankness and penetrating realism. The next is the _ cynicism _ which marks certain of the lighter poems and which represents

23、 a conscious reaction from the extreme _ idealism _ of woman encouraged by the Petrarchan tradition.9. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the youthful love lyrics, and the latter sacred verses. 约翰多恩的诗歌属于两类:年轻的爱歌词,后者神圣的经文。10. Milton opposed the Monarchic party and gave all his energies

24、 to the writing of pamphlets dedicated to the peoples liberties. 弥尔顿反对君主的党,给了他所有的精力写小册子致力于人民的自由。11. Paradise Lost tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden.12. Paradise Lost presents the authors views in an allegorical form.寓言形式13. Paradise Lost consists of tw

25、elve books. It is based on the Biblical legend of the imaginary progenitors of the human raceAdam and Eve. 失乐园由十二个书。它是基于圣经传说虚构的祖细胞的人类race-Adam和夏娃。14. John Miltons Paradise Lost ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. 15. Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books, th

26、e stories of which are taken from The Old Testament. 旧约。16. Milton gave us the only _ epic 叙事诗_ since Beowulf, and Bunyan 班扬（姓氏）；英国的传教士gave us the only great _ allegory _.寓言17. Bunyans most important work is Pilgrims Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of _ allegory_ and _dream _.1

27、8. The Pilgrims Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. 19. The Pilgrims Progress begins with a man called Christian setting out with a book in his hand a great load on his back from the city of Destuction.20. _ John Donne _is famous for his metaphysical conceit,

28、that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resembling objects. 约翰多恩所在的著名的为他的形而上学的自负,也就是说,两个惊人地类似对象之间的比较。21. Samson Agoniste was written by John Milton. 22. “If thou beest hebut oh how fallen! How unchanged /From him!who in the happy realms of light,/clothed with transcendent brightness,/didst

29、outshine/Myriads, though bright” are the lines from Miltons Paradise Lost spoken to Beelzebub by Satan.1. The enlighteners repudiate拒绝 the false religious doctrines主义 about the viciousness堕落 of human nature, and prove that man is born kind and honest, and if he becomes depraved,堕落腐化 it is only due t

30、o the influence of corrupted social environment.2. We study eighteenth century writings in three main division s: the reign of so-called, the revival of romantic poetry, and the beginnings of the modern novel.3. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. 理性时代

31、“If the censure of Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain.” This quotation is selected from Gullivers Travels.格列夫游记4. The Yahoos are attacked by the writer named Jonathan

32、 Swift乔纳森斯威夫特 in his fantasy work bearing the title Gullivers Travels.5. The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by Daniel Defoe in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.6. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “_”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of th

33、e modern novel. (Father of the English Novel)7. In his world-famous novel Tom Jones Jonathan Swift typified the bourgeois world, drew ruthless pictures of the depraved aristocracy and satirically portrayed the whole of the English State system.8. The exciting tale of Robinson Crusoe is largely _ ana

34、dventure _ story, rather than the study of human character. 鲁宾逊漂流记的激动人心的故事主要是_一个冒险_的故事,而不是人类性格的研究。9. Jonathan Swift was born of English parents in DublinIreland.10. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.11. The Songs of Experience are in m

35、arked contrast with The Songs of Innocence. The brightness of the earlier work gives place to a sense of gloom and mystery, and of the power of evil.12. Robert Burns poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the Scottish common people. 罗伯特彭斯13. Elegy Witten in a Country Churchyard by Thom

36、as Gray is taken as a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard School14. Friday is a character in the novel Robinson Crusoe.15. Auld Lang Syne written by Robert Burns deals with friendship and has long become a universal parting song of all the English-speaking countries. 往时由罗伯特伯恩斯处理友谊和长期以

37、来成为一个普遍的所有英语国家的离别之歌。1. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half of the _18th_century2. William Blake and Robert Burns represented the spirit of what is usually called Pre-Romanticism.3. With the publication of William Wordsworths _Lyrical Ballads_ in col

38、laboration with S. T. Coleridge, romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.4. The Romanticism was generally influenced by the Industrial Revolution and _.5. Liberty, equality and fraternity 自由、平等、博爱were the watchwords of the French Revolution.6. The eight

39、eenth century was distinctively an age of _prose_. The Age of Wordsworthlike the Age of Shakespearewas decidedly an age of _poetry_.7. In 1798, _William Wordsworth _and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads, which became a landmark in English poetry. (Wi

40、lliam Wordsworth)8. Many of Wordsworths poems in the Lyrical Ballads were devoted to the position of landless and homeless peasants. 华兹华斯关心无家可归者。9. In his poems Wordsworth aimed at simplicity & purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry. 简答和纯真10. The d

41、efinition that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” was written by _ in _. (William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads) 抒情诗集（书名）11. Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty,” that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.This quotation is selected from _Ode on a Grecian Urn_ by _J

42、ohn Keats_.希腊古瓮颂（济慈诗歌）12. Childe Harolds Pilgrimage is a _travelogue_旅行见闻讲演_ narrated by a melancholy, passionate, well-read and very eloquent tourist.13. Byron chose for his poems the poem stanza.14. _Don Juan_, Byrons greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative power, in the years 1818

43、-1823.15. As a leading Romanticist, Byrons chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. 16. The long narrative poem the story of Endymion, the Latmian shepherd beloved by the moon-goddess, _Selene_, was published in 1818.17. The English

44、Romantic period produced two major novelists: Scott and Jane Austen 18. In all Austens novels the love-making of her young people, though serious and sympathetic, is subdued by _ to the ordinary plane of emotion on which most of us live.19. Austens style is _elegant_ and _satirical_。奥斯丁风格高雅讽刺20. The

45、 Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune.This quotation is selected from _ by _. (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen)1. The precisian may limit

46、the Victorian period to the years between the Queens accession in 1837 and her death in _ 1901 _, but a new era really began with the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832and closed at the end of the Boer War in -_ 1881.2. The awakened workingclasswriters is the predominant theme in Early Victorian lit

47、erature. 唤醒工人阶级早期维多利亚文学作家是主要的主题。3. The picture in _ OliverTwist (1838) by Dickens is of the typical workhouse in the years before experience and protests introduced ameliorating modifications in the administration of the law. 4. The repeated upsurge of Chartist 宪章派agitation forced the ruling classes

48、 in England to make certain concessions, resulting in the Repeal of the Corn Law in 1846 and the passage of the Ten Hours Act in 1847. 宪章派风潮的一再高涨迫使英国统治阶级做出某些让步,导致的废除谷物法在1846年和1847年十个小时法案的通过。5. Though it failed, Chartism signified the first great political movement of the proletariat_ in English history.6. The greatest English realist of the Victorian time was Charles Dickens.7. The greatness