英国美国文学作者及作品

英国美国文学作者及作品
英国美国文学作者及作品

专八人文英国美国文学作者及作品

1、Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利?乔叟1340-1400;长诗:The House of Fame声誉之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克丽西德

小说:Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作

(他是最早有人文主义思想的作家,现实主义文学的奠基人)

2、William Shakespeare莎士比亚1564-1616The Tempest暴风风雨;The Two Gentlemen of Veronaz维罗纳二绅士;The Mercy Wives of Windsor温莎的风流妇人;Measure for Measure恶有恶报;The Comedy of Errors错中错;Much Ado about Nothing无事自扰;Love’s Labour’s Lost 空爱一场;A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之梦;The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人;As You Like It如愿;The Taming of the Shrew驯悍记;All’s Well That Ends Well皆大欢喜;Twelfth Night 第十二夜;The Winter’s Tale冬天的故事;The Life and Death of King John/Richard the Second/Henry the Fifth/Richard the Third约翰王/理查二世/亨利五世/理查三世;The First/Second Part of King Henry the Fourth亨利四世(上、下);The First/Second/Third Part of King Henry the Sixth亨利六世(上、中、下);The Life of King Henry the Eighth亨利八世;Troilus and Cressida脱爱勒斯与克莱西达;The Tragedy of Coriolanus考利欧雷诺斯;Titus Andronicus泰特斯?安庄尼克斯;Romeo and Julet罗密欧与朱丽叶;Timon of Athens雅典的泰门;The Life and Death of Julius Caesar;朱利阿斯?凯撒;The Tragedy of Macbeth麦克白;The Tragedy of Hamlet 哈姆雷特/王子复仇记;King Lear李尔王;Othello奥塞罗;Antony and Cleopatra安东尼与克利欧佩特拉;Cymbeline辛白林;Pericles波里克利斯;Venus and Adonis维诺斯?阿都尼斯;Lucrece露克利斯;The Sonnets十四行诗

3、Francis Bacon培根1561-1626 Advancement of Learning学术的进展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西岛;Essays论文集(Of Studies论学习;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self)

4、John Milton约翰?弥尔顿1608-1674 L‘Allegro欢乐的人;Il Penseroso沉思的人;Comus科马斯;Lycidas列西达斯;Areopagitica论出版自由;Pro Populo Anglicano Defense为英国人民声辩; Pro Populo Anglicano Defense Secunda再为英国人民声辩;Paradise Lost失乐园;Paradise Regained复乐园;Samson Agonistes力士参孙

5、John Bunyan班扬1628-1688 The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程;

The Life and Death of Mr Badman培德曼先生的一生

6、Joseph Addison艾迪生诗:The Campaign 远征;剧本:Cato加图

名文;Adventure of A shilling一先令的历险

7、Richard Steele理查德?斯梯尔1672-1729 The Christian Hero基督教徒的英雄

名文:The Spectator Club旁观者俱乐部

8、Danniel Defoe丹尼尔?迪福1660-1731 (标志着近代英国小说的形成)

Hymn to the Pillory枷刑颂;Robinson Crusoe鲁宾孙飘流记;Captain Singleton辛格顿船长;Moll Flanders莫尔弗兰德斯;A Journal of the Plague Year大疫年日记

9、Jonathan Swift斯威夫特1667-1745 The Battle of Books书的战争;A Tale of A Tub一个木桶的故事;The Drapier’s Letters布商的书信;A Modest Proposal一个温和的建议;Guilliver’s Travels格列佛游记(A Voyage to Lilliput/Brobdingnag/Laputa,Balnibarbi,Luggnagg,Glubbdubdriba and Japan/The Country of the Houyhnhnms小人国/大人国/拉普他等地/智马国游记)

10、Alexander Pope蒲柏1688-1744 Pastorals田园诗集;An Essay on Criticism批评论;Windsor Forest温莎林;The Rape of the Lock卷发遇劫记;The Duncial愚人志;Moral Essays道德论;An Essay on Man人论;Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot与阿布斯诺博士书

11、Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁1707-1754(英国现实主义小说的奠基者)剧本:The Coffeehouse Politician咖啡屋政客;Don Quixote in England堂?吉诃德在英国;The Historical

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长篇小说:The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews,and of His Friend Mr Abraham Adams约瑟?安德鲁传;The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great大伟人江奈生?魏尔德传;The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling汤姆?琼斯;Amelia阿美利亚

12、Samuel Johnson塞缪尔?约翰生1709-1784 A Dictionary of the Engligh Language英语语言辞典;Lives of Poets诗人传;Vanity of Human Wishes人类欲望的虚幻;Rasselas拉塞勒斯

名文:Letter to Lord Chesterfield给吉士菲尔伯爵的信

13、Oliver Goldsmith哥尔斯密1728-1774 The Vicar of Wakefield威克菲尔德牧师传;The Citizen of the World世界公民;The Deserted荒村;She Stoops to Conquer屈身求爱;The Rivals情敌;The School for Scsanda造谣学校

14、William Blake布莱克1757-1827Poetical Sketches素描诗集;Songs of Innocence天真之歌;Songs of Experience经验之歌The French Revolution法国革命;The Marriage of Heaven and Hell天堂与地狱的婚姻;America;Milton;Jerusalem

名诗:London;The Tiger

15、Robert Burns彭斯1759-1796 Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect苏格兰方言诗集

名诗:The Tree of Liberty自由村;Scots Wha-Hae苏格兰人;The Two Dogs两只狗;Holy Willie’s Prayer威利长老的祈祷;My Heart’s in the Highlands我的心呀在高原;A Red,Red Rose一朵红红的玫瑰;John Anderson约翰?安德生,My Jo; A Man’s A Man for A’That不管身在何处都须保持尊严;Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn

16、William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯1770-1850 An Evening Walk黄昏漫步;Lyrical Ballads 抒情歌谣集(与柯勒律治合编);Lucy Poems露西组诗(She Dwett Among the Untrodden Ways;To the Cuckoo杜鹃颂;I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud;The Solitary Reaper孤寂的刈麦人);Ode on Intimations of Immorality不朽颂;Ode to Duty义务颂;The Excursion远足;The Prelude序曲

17、Samuel Taylor Coleridge柯勒律治1772-1834Lyrical Ballads; The Fall of the Bastille巴士底狱的毁灭;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner老船夫;Kubla Khan忽必烈汗;Biographia Literaria文学传记

18、Walter Scott瓦尔特?司各特1771-1832 诗:The Minstrlsy of the Scottish Border苏格兰边区歌谣集;Marimion玛里恩;The Lady of the Lake湖上夫人

小说:Waverley威弗利;Guy Mannering盖?曼纳令;Rob Roy罗布罗伊;The Heart of Midlothian 米德洛西恩监狱;Ivanhoe艾凡赫;Kenilworth坎尼尔华斯;Woodstock皇家猎馆; Queenti Durward 昆廷?达沃

19、Jane Austin简?奥斯丁1775-1817 Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见;Sense and Sensibility理智与情感;Emma爱玛;Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德公园;Persuasion好事多磨;Northanger Abbey 诺桑觉寺

20、Charles Lamb查尔斯?兰姆1775-1834 Tales from Shakespeare莎士比亚故事集;Alburn Verses诗集;Essay of Elia伊利亚散文集(Dream Children梦中儿女;A Dissertation unpon Roast Pig 烤猪论;Old China古瓷;New Year’s Eve除夕;The Praise of Chimney Sweepers扫烟囱童工赞;The Superannuated Man领取养老金的人;A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People 单身汉对结过婚的人的行为的抱怨)

21、William Hazlitt威廉?赫兹里特1778-1830 Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays莎剧中的人物;A View of the English Stage英国舞台一瞥;Lecture on the English Poets论英国诗人;The Spirit of the Age时代精神;Sketches and Essays素描与随笔;Table Talk桌边文谈

名文:On Familiar Style

22、George Gordon Byron乔治?拜伦1788-1824 Hours of Idliness懒散的时刻;English Bords and Scottish Reviewers英国诗人与苏格兰评论家;Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,Cantos I and II,Canto III 1818恰罗德?哈罗德游记;Ode to the Framers of the Frame-bill编织机法案编制者颂;Oriental Tales东方叙事诗(The Bride of Abydos阿比道斯的新娘;The Corsa海盗;The Siege of Corinth柯林斯之围);Manfred曼弗雷德;The Age of Bronze青铜世纪;Don Juan唐?璜

名诗:She Walks in Beauty;The Isles of Greece

23、Percy Bysshe Shelley波西?比希?雪莱1792-1822Queen Mab麦布女王;Prometheus Unbound解放了的普罗米修斯;Adonais阿东尼斯;The Cenci钦契;Song to the Men of England 致英国人民;England in 1819;The Masque of Anarchy专制魔王的化装游行;Ode to the West Wind/a Skylark西风/云雀颂;A Defence of Poetry诗辩

24、John Keats约翰?济兹1795-1821Endymion恩底弥翁;Isabella伊莎贝拉;The Eve of Sanit Agnes圣爱尼节前夜;Ode on a Grecian Urn希腊古瓮颂;Ode to a Nightingale夜莺颂;To Autumn 秋颂;Hyperion赫披里昂(未完成)

25、Thomas Hood胡德1799-1845 The Song of the Shirt衬衫之歌;The Bridge of Sighs悲叹之桥;Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg基尔曼塞格小姐和她贵重的腿

26、Ernest Jones琼斯1819-1869 小说:The Women’s Wrongs妇女们的委屈

名诗:The Song of the Lower Class;The Song of the Future

27、Afred Tennyson丁尼生1809-1892 Poems of Two Brothers壎篪;Timbuctoo提姆巴克图;The Pricess公主;In Memoriam H H悼念哈拉姆;Maud毛黛;Enoch Arden伊诺克?阿登;Idylls of the King国王之歌

名诗:Ulysses;The Eagle;Break,Break,Break

28、Robert Browning 勃朗宁1812-1889 Paracelsus巴拉塞尔士;Strafford斯特拉福;Pippa Passes 比芭走过;Dramatic Lyrics戏剧抒情诗;Dramatic Romances and Lyrics戏剧传奇与抒情诗(Home Thoughts;From Abroad;Prospice向前看);Dramatic Personae登场人物;Men and Women男男女女

29、Elizabeth Barrel Browning 1806-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese葡萄牙十四行诗;The Cry of the Children

30、Charles Dickens狄更斯1812-1870 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club匹克威克外传;Oliver Twist奥利弗?退斯特;American Notes美国札记;Martin Chuzzlewit马丁?朱述尔维特;The Old Curiosity Shop老古玩店;Dombey and Son董贝父子;David Copperfield大卫?科波菲尔;Hard Times艰难时世;A Tale of Two Cities双城记;Great Expectation远大前程

31、William MakepeaceThackery萨克雷1811-1863 The Book of Snobs势利者集;Vanity Fair名利场;History of Pendennis潘丹尼斯的历史;The History of Henry Esmond亨利?艾斯芒的历史;The Newcomes纽可谟一家;The Virginians弗吉尼亚人

32、Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell盖斯凯尔1810-1865 Mary Barton玛丽?巴顿;Ruth露斯;Cranford 克兰弗德;North and South北与南;Life of Charlote Bronte夏洛蒂勃郎特传

33、Charlote/Emily/Anne Bronte夏洛蒂/爱米丽/安妮?勃郎特1816-1855

Jane Eyre简爱;Shirley雪丽/ Charlote

Wuthering Height呼啸山庄/Emily

Agones Grey艾格尼斯?格雷Anne

34、George Eliot爱略特1819-1880 Adam Bede亚当?贝德;The Mill on the Floss弗洛斯河上的磨坊;Silas Marner织工马南;Middlemarch米德尔马契;Felix Holt,the Radical

35、Thomas Carlyle卡莱尔1795-1881 Sartor Resartus衣裳哲学/旧衣新裁;The Life of Schiller 席勒传;The French Revolution;Heroes and Hero-worship论英雄与英雄崇拜

36、George Meredith梅瑞狄斯1828-1909 诗:Modern Love;Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth 大地欢歌

小说:The Ordeal of Richard Feverel理查德?法弗尔的考验;The Egoist利己主义者;Diana of the Crossways彷徨中的戴安娜;The Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit喜剧的概念与喜剧精神的作用

37、William Morris莫里斯1834-1896 诗:The Earthly Paradise地上乐园;Chants of Socialism 社会主义歌集;Pilgrims of Hope希望的探求者

小说:A Dream of John Ball梦见给翰?保尔;News from Nowher乌有乡消息

38、Samuel Butler勃特勒1835-1902 The Way of All Flesh如此人生;Erewhon埃瑞璜;Erewhon Revisited重游埃瑞璜

39、Thomas Hardy哈代1840-1928Under the Greenwood Tree绿茵下;Far from the Madding Crowd远离尘嚣;The Return of the Native还乡;The Mayor of Casterbridge卡斯特桥市长;Tess of the D’urbervilles德伯家的苔丝;Jude the Obscure无名的裘德

诗集:Wessex Poems 威塞克斯诗集史诗剧:The Dynasts统治者三部曲

40、Robert Couis Stevenson史蒂文生1850-1894 小说:New Arabian Nights新天方夜谭;Treasure Island宝岛;The Strange Case of Dr Jeykell and Mr Hyde化身博士;Kidnapped诱拐

游记:An Inland Voyage内陆游记;Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes骑驴旅行;A Child’s Garden of Verses儿童诗园

41、Isabella Augusta Gregory/Perse格葛瑞/珀斯1852-1932 The Travelling Man旅行者;Spreading the News道听途说;Hyachinth Halvey海钦斯?哈尔威;The Gaol Gate监牢之门;The Rising of the Moon月亮上升的时候

42、Oscar Wilde王尔德1856-1900长篇小说:The Picture of Dorian Gray道林?格雷的画像童话:The Happy Prince and Other Tales快乐王子

诗集:De Prafundis惨痛的呼声;The Ballad of Reading Gaol累丁狱之歌

剧作:Lady Windermere’s Fan温德米尔夫人的扇子;A Woman of No Importance一个无足轻重的妇女;An Ideal Husband理想丈夫;The Importance of Being Earnest埃耐斯特的重要性43、George Bernard Shaw萧伯纳1856-1950 长篇小说:An Unsocial Socialist业余社会主义者评论:Quintessence of Ibsenism

剧本:Widoer’s Houses鳏夫的房产;Mrs Warren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业The Devil’s Disciple魔鬼的门徒;Man and Superman人与超人;John Bull’s Other Island英国佬的另一个岛;Major Barbara巴巴拉少校;Pygmalion劈克美梁;Heartbreak House伤心之家;The Apple Cart 苹果车;Too True to be Good真相毕露

44、George Gissing吉辛1857-1903 小说:Demos民众;New Crub Srreet新穷士街;Born in Eile 在流放中诞生;The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft拉伊克罗夫特的日记(散文);Charles Dickens:A Critical Study狄更斯研究

45、Joseph Conrad康拉德1859-1924 长篇小说:Almayer’s Folly奥尔迈耶的愚蠢;The Nigger of the Narcissus水仙号上的黑鬼;Lord Jim吉姆老爷;Nostromo诺斯特罗莫;The Secret Agent间谍;Chance机缘;Victory胜利

短篇小说:An Outpost of Progress文明的前哨;Heart of Darkness黑暗的中心;Youth青春46、Joseph Rudyard Kipling罗德雅德?吉卜林1865-1936 诗集:Barrak Room Ballad营房诗集;The Seven Seas七海;Recession and Other Poems赞美诗及其他;The Five Nations五国

长篇小说:Kim基姆;Captain Courageous勇敢的船长

短篇小说:Plain Tales from the Hills;Soldiers There;The Story of the Gadsby;Life Handcap生命的阻力;The Jungle Book;The Second Jungle Book林莽之书;The Lost Legion

47、William Butler Yeats叶芝1865-1939 诗:Respondibilities责任;The Tower塔;The Winding Stair盘旋的楼梯

名诗:A Deap Sworn Vow;Easter 1916

剧本:The Land of Heart’s Desire理想的国土;The Hour Glass时漏;Dedidre黛德尔Autobiographies自传三部曲;Essays and Introduction

48、Herbert George Wells威尔斯1866-1946 科幻小说:The Time Machine时间机器;The Island of Dr Morau莫洛博士岛;The Invisible Man隐身人;When the Sleeper Waked;The Shape of Things to Come未来事物的面貌An Outline of World Histrory 世界史纲

社会生活小说:Tono Bungay托诺?班格;Ann Veronica安?维罗尼卡;Kipps基普斯

49、Enoch Arnord Bennett阿诺德?本涅特1867-1931 A Man from the North北方人;Anna of the Five Towns五镇上的安娜;The Old Wives’Tale老妇谭;Clayhanger克莱亨厄

剧本:Milestones;How to Live Twentyfour Hours a Day

50、John Galworthy高尔斯华绥1867-1933 From the Four Winds天涯海角(The Man of Property 有产业的人;In Chancery骑虎难下;To Let出租→The Forsyte Saga福尔塞世家);(The White Monkey白猿;The Silver Spoon银匙;Swan Song天鹅曲→A Modern Comedy现代喜剧)

剧作:The Silver Box银匣;Strife斗争

51、Saki萨奇(Hector Hugh Munro孟柔)1870-1916 短篇小说集:Reginald雷金纳德;Reginald in Russia;The Chronicles of Clovis克洛维斯记事;Beats and Super-beats;The Toys of Peace;The Square Egg方蛋

名文:Dusk

52、Edward Morgan Forster福斯特1879-1970 长篇小说:Where Angels Fear to Tread天使们忘而却步的地方;The Longest Journey最漫长的旅程;A Room with a View可以远眺的地方;A Passage to India印度之行

短篇小说集:The Eternal Moment永恒的时刻

散文集:Abinger Harvest在阿宾格村的收获;Two Cheers for Democracy

53、John Millington Synge沁孤1871-1909 The Playboy of the Western World西方世界的花花公子;Riders to the Sea骑马下海的人们;Deridre of Sorrows悲伤的黛达尔;In the Shade of the Glen在幽谷的阴影下;The Tinker’s Wedding补锅匠的婚礼

54、Bertrand Russell罗素1872-1970 Road to Freedom到自由之路;Marriage and Morals婚姻与自由;Mysticism and Logic神秘主义与逻辑;Sceptical Essays怀疑论集;The Analysis of Mind心理分析;History of Western Philosophy西方哲学史;Priccipia Mathematica数学原理;A Free Man’s Worship

短篇小说:Satan in the Suburbs撒旦在郊区;Portraits from Memory回忆中的画像

55、William Somerset Maugham毛姆1874-1965 小说:Liza of Lambeth兰贝思的莉莎;Of Human Bondage人类枷锁;Cakes and Ale寻欢作乐;The Moon and Six Pence月亮与六便士

短篇小说:Complete Short Stories短篇小说集

剧本:Smith ;The Circle;Our Betters位居我们之上的人们

56、John Masefield梅斯菲尔德1878-1967 诗:Salt-Water Ballads海上歌谣;The Everlasting Mercy永久的仁慈;The Widow in the Bye Street小街的寡妇;The Daffodil Fields水仙田;Reynard the Fox狐狸雷纳德

小说:Captain Margaret;Multitude and Solitude群与独;Sard Harker萨德?哈克尔

剧本:The Locked Chest

57、Giles Lytton Strachey斯特雷奇1880-1932 传记:Emiment Victorians维多利亚时代的杰出人物;Queen Victoria

评论集:Land-marks in French Literature;Books and Characters

58、Sean O’casey肖恩?奥凯西1880-1964 剧本:The Shadow of a Gunman枪手的影子;Juno and the Peacock裘诺与孔雀;The Plough and the Stars犁与星;The Star Turns Red;Red Roses for Me给我红玫瑰

自传体小说:I Knock at the Door我敲门;Pictures in the Hallway门厅里的图画;Drums under Windows窗下鼓声;Inishfallen,Fare Thee Well英尼希法伦,再见;Rose and Crown;Sunset and Evening Star日落与金星

59、James Joyce乔伊斯1882-1941 短篇小说:Dubiners都柏林人

长篇小说:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man青年艺术家的画像;Ulysess尤利西斯;Finnegans Wake芬尼根的觉醒

60、Virginia Woolf沃尔芙1882-1941 长篇小说:Mrs Dalloway达洛威夫人;To the Lighthouse 到灯塔去;Orlando奥兰多传;The Waves浪;Flush弗乐希;Between the Acts幕间

散文集:The Common Readers;The Death of the Moth and Other Essays;A Room of One’s Own;Three Guineas三个基尼亚

名文:Modern Fiction现代小说日记:A Writer’s Diary

61、David Herbert Lawrence劳伦斯1885-1930 The White Peacock白孔雀;Sons and Lovers儿子与情人;The Reinbow虹;Women in Love恋爱中的妇女;Lady Chatterley’s Lover查泰莱夫人的情人

62、Katherine Mansfield曼斯菲尔德1888-1923 In a German Pension在一个德国公寓里;Blis幸福;The Garden Party园会;The Dove’s Nest鸽巢;Something Childish幼稚集

63、Thomas Stearns Eliot艾略特1888-1965 诗集:Prufrock and Other Observation普鲁夫洛克及其他;The Waste Land荒原;The Hollow Men空虚的人们;Ash-Wednesday圣灰星期三;Four Quarters

诗剧:Murder in the Cathedral大教堂里的谋杀案;The Family Reunion团圆

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66、Hugh MacDiarmid麦克迪尔米德1892-1978 Sangshaw诗歌集;A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle醉汉看蓟;First/Second/Third Hymn to Lenin;In Memoriam James Joyce悼念乔伊斯;Collected Poems

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