英国文学简史复习资料
I. Old English Literature & the Late Medieval Ages
Geoffrey Chaucer 杰弗里?乔叟1340()~1400
The father of English poetry.
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first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(双韵体) by middle English
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II The Renaissance Period
A period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the real
mainstream of the English Renaissance.
Renaissance:the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
Three historical events of the Renaissance – rebirth or revival:
1.new discoveries in geography and astrology
2.the religious reformation and economic expansion
3.rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
The most famous dramatists:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson.
William Shakespeare威廉?莎士比亚1564~1616
①Historical plays:Henry VI 亨利六世;Henry IV : Richard III
查理三世; Henry V ；Richard II；Henry VIII
②Four Comedies:
二夜; < A Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦;
③Four Tragedies:
④Shakespeare Sonnet :154
Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg
A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines,
usually in iambic pentameter restricted to a
definition rhyme scheme.
⑤ the comedy of errors 错中错， Titus Andronicus泰特斯·安特洛
尼克斯，The Taming of the shrew 驯悍记 Love's labour's lost （爱的徒劳）
Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧与朱丽叶 Much ado about nothing（无事生非）The merry wives of Windsor. 温莎的风流娘们 King John 约翰王All's well that ends well 终成眷属 Measure for measure（一报还一报）
Bacon: Of Studies; Of Beauty; Of Marriage and Single Life English Bourgeois Revolution，
III：the period of the English bourgeois revolution.
Milton：1608~1674
Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes (力士参孙);
On the morning of Christ’s Nativity，
Bunyan: 1628~1688
①Religionary Allegory:
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinner;
the Holy War
John Don: the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).
Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought）
The Flea; 跳蚤 Forbbiding Mourning， Songs And Sonnets歌与十四行诗，emergent occasions 突变引起的诚念 Hely sonnets
IV The 18th Century：Enlightenment
A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion(抑制情感) and accuracy
The Age of Enlightenment/Reason:the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason(rationality), equality&science(the 18th century)小说崛起：In the mid-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel rised(realistic novel现实主义小说)
Gothic novel(哥特式小说)：mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of century)
Jonathan Swift乔纳森?斯威夫特1667~1745
（十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。）
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Four parts:
Lilliput 小人国 Brobdingnag 大人国
Flying Island 飞岛 Houyhnhnm 马岛
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③ 木桶的故事
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⑤Bickerstaff Almanac 比克斯塔福历书
Daniel Defoe丹尼尔?笛福1660~1731
（小说家，新闻记者，小册子作者；十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。）He is the first writer study of the lower-class people, his language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.
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It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan.
Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful
life.
It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island,
struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets
relieved and returns to England.
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Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁1707~1754
The funder of the English realistic world
He is called “Father of English novel”. He was the first to write a “Comic epic in prose”(散文体史诗), and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
① novels:
② plays:
William Blake威廉?布莱克1757~1827
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A happy and innocent world from children’s eye.
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A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone from men eyes.
Include:
Lamb is a symbol of peace and purity
Tyger is a symbol of dread and oiolence
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Robert Burns罗伯特?彭斯1759~1796
The greatest Scottish poet in the late 18th century.
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写的诗
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苏格兰抒情歌谣集
② 一朵红红的玫瑰
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V The Romantic Period
The romantic period began in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s
Romanticism:It emphasize the specialqualitie of each individual’s mind.(人应该是独立自由的个体)
In it, emotion over reason, spontaneous emotion, a change from the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit, poetry should be free from all rules, imagination, nature, commonplace.
Two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen (realistic) and Walter Scott (romantic).
“The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人，who lived in the lake district.
William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey
William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯1770~1850
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② ③My Heart Leaps up When I Behold，④Above Tintern Abbey; ⑤Intimations of Immortality ⑥Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey ⑦ The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女⑧
George Gordon Byron乔治?戈登?拜伦1788~1824
（拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫，却充满了反抗精神。内心充满了孤独与苦闷，却又蔑视群小。恰尔德?哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中第一个“拜伦式英雄”。）“Byronic hero” is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, against tyrannical rules or moral principles.
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Persy Bysshe Shelley波西?比希?雪莱1792~1822
① Poetic Drama：
Theme: the drama celebraies man’s victory over tyranny and oppression
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③ Lyrics:
Love's Philosophy; The Cloud; To a Skylark(致云雀);
John Keats约翰?济慈1795~1821
(“美即是真，真即是美”是他的著名诗句。)
① Four great odes:
VI The Victorian Period 1832-1900English Critical Realism(Victorian Era)
Common sense and moral propreity, again became the predominant preoccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people and everyday events.
Charles Dickens查尔斯?狄更斯1812~1870
（批判现实主义小说家）the greatest representative of English critical realist writer
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④ 圣诞颂歌
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③Cox's Diary庸人之书
Jane Austen简?奥斯丁1775~1817
She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only inches squire.
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Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂?勃朗特1816~1855
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Emily Bronte艾米莉?勃朗特1818~1854
① < Wuthering Heights>呼啸山庄 < Old Stoic>
George Eliot乔治?艾略特1819~1880
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③ < Silas Marner>织工马南④ < Middlemarch>米德尔马契
Mid and Late 19th Century
Robert Browning罗伯特?白朗宁1812~1889
① < My Last Dutchess>我已故的公爵夫人
② < Home Thoughts From Abroad>海外乡思
Men and Women; Dramatic Lyrics; Pippa Paaaes; The Ring and the Book; Elizabeth Barrett Browing:
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Christina. G. Rossetti: 1830-1894 Seek and Find; A Story for Girls; Song; A Birthday
VII 1900~1950 The 20th Century
Playwrights
① Oscar Wilde
② George Bernard Shaw
Henrry James: the wings of a dove; a portrait of a women; Daisy Miller; the ambassadors; the golden bowl
George Bernard Shaw乔治?伯纳?萧1856~1950
(英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist
① Plays Unpleasant
② Plays Pleasant
③Plays
.Thomas Hardy托马斯?哈代1840~1928
（小说多以农村生活为背景；自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of character and environment）
⑴ Novels ① < Tess Of The D’Urbervilles>德伯家的苔丝 Theme:experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration ② < Jude The Obscure>无名的裘德③ < Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下④ < Far From The Madding Crowd>远离尘嚣⑤ < The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长⑥ < The Return of the Native>还乡
⑵ Poems ： Wessex Poems And Other Verses ， Poems Of The Past And Present
The Dynasts 列国
Oscar Wilde奥斯卡?王尔德1856~1900 salome
（The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake）
① 4 Comedies:
② Novel:
③ Fairy Stories:
The Truth Of Masks
.William Butler Yeats威廉?勃特勒?叶茨1865~1939
（爱尔兰诗人，剧作家； The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动； The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴； The Irish Literary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团）
⑴ collections
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⑵ Poems
When You are Old; The Lake Isle of Innisfree;
Thomas Sterns Eliot（诗人，剧作家，批评家）
⑴ Poems
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⑵ Plays ①
Morning at the Window;
David Herbert Lawrence戴维?赫伯特?劳伦斯1885~1930 Modernist
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James Joyce詹姆斯?乔伊斯1882~1941 Modernist
（爱尔兰小说家，意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
Virginia Woolf弗吉尼娅?沃尔芙1882~1941 Modernist
（意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
① Novels
The Voyage Out; A room of one’s own
Edward Morgan Foster Passage To India>印度之行
A Passage to India; Maurice
Dorris Lessing
The Grass is Singing; The Golden Notebook; Particularly Cats; Love, Again Samuel Beckett
Finnegans Waken ; More Pricks Than Kicks; Waiting for Godot;The Trilogy Molloy;Malone Dies; The Unameable
Harold Pinter
The Room; The Birthday Party; Tea Party;The Homecoming; Old Times
“文艺复兴”（Renaissance）原意是“再生”，指的是希腊、罗马文化的再生。世俗学校在“神学学科”以外添设了“人文学科”，内容就是希腊、罗马古典各科学术（包括文艺、哲学、历史乃到自然科学）。这些古典学术的研究者和倡导者，被称为“人文主义者”。古典文化大体上是人道主义（即把人看成万物的中心）和现世主义，重视科学和哲学的探讨及对美好事物的创造和享受，要求人在身心各方面均衡发展。基督教则以神权中心和来世主义为基本内容，实行蒙昧主义和禁欲主义，两种文化形成了尖锐的对立。以人为本、以人性反神性、以人权反神权、以个性自由、理性至上和人性全面发展为理想的“人文主义”是文艺复兴运动的指导思想，也是文艺复兴时期文学的思想核心。文艺复兴运动在15世纪末、16世纪初影响到英国。早期的人文主义者托马斯·莫尔、科列特、格罗辛、林纳克等被称为“牛津改革派”18世纪的欧洲被称为理性时代或启蒙时代。这个时期产生了全欧性的思想运动——启蒙运动。启蒙思想家们把启蒙教化民众看作改造社会的基本途径，他们推崇人的理性万能和至高无上，以理性检验旧的制度、传统观念，依赖科学、经验和理智.在崇尚理性的文化环境中，英国文学中自德莱顿开始的古典主义蔚然成风，在18世纪上、下半叶分别以蒲伯和约翰逊为代表人物。在前期出现的新的散文文学：期刊文学和现实主义小说，
也具有启蒙的性质。在中期，特别是40到50年代，现实主义小说取得辉煌成就。到18世纪后期，英国文学中出现了引人瞩目的新的文学潮流：感伤主义和前浪漫主义，表现出对理性主义的不满，预示着英国文学中新的时代——浪漫主义时期的到来.
英国文学简史问答题期末考试复习提纲教学教材
1. How much do you know about the English literature in the Romantic Age? ①The Romantic Age in England was like the Elizabethan Age, distinctively an age of poetry. It was regarded as the second great age in English literary history; for poetry is the highest form of literary expression, and seems to have been most in harmony with the noblest powers of the English genius. The glory of the age is in the poetry of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats, Moore, and Southey； ②Women novelists appeared in this age. It was during this period that women assumed for the first time, an important place in English literature. Mrs. Anne Radcliff was one of the most successful writers of the school of exaggerated romance. Jane Austen offered us her charming descriptions of everyday life in her enduring work her masterpiece----Pride and Prejudice; ③The greatest historical novelist Walter Scott also appeared in this period. His historical novels combine a romantic atmosphere with a realistic description of historical background and common people life. Scott marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it; ④Romantic prose was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hume. Lamb was the best essayist, whose familiar essays are very famous. 3.What are the major features of Dickens’ novels? ①Dickens’ novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. His novels tell much of the unhappy experiences of his own childhood. They reflect the protest of the people against capitalist exploitation, and criticize the vices of capitalist society. ② The success of Dickens novels also lies in his character-portrayal. Not only are the major characters in his novels very carefully delineated and given distinctive individual characteristics but also his minor figures create in the readers’ mind strong impressions of their personalities. Some of Dickens’characters are really such “typical characters under typical circumstances”that they become proverbial or are representative of a whole group of similar persons. ③Dickens is a great humorist and satirist. His novels are full of humor and satire ④Dickens is not especially known for the construction of plot in his novels. There is in his novels often more than one minor thread of story beside the major one, and these threads are generally very loosely woven together. He seems to love a complicated and involved plot. ⑤In almost every one of Dickens’ novels there is a happy ending, which points to the author’s optimism which is an admirable thing for a critical realist because that means his still has his hopes after seeing the gloomy world all around him and one hand, and as a petty-bourgeois intellectual, could not overstep the limits of his class on the other hand. ⑥Another feature in Dickens’novels is his adroit use of language. On the whole Dickens has a richness of expressions and generally succeeds in using the right words and phrases at the right moments for the right characters to attain the right effects. 12. What are the characteristics of Dickens’ novels?(同第三题)
英美文学考题-
英美文学 I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. 1、The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ____to____. A. 1861...1914 B. 1863 (1918) C. 1865...1914 D. 1865 (1918) 2、____is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States. A. Henry James B. Emily Dickinson C. William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain 3、The impact of ____on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American of letters gave rise to American naturalism. A. Darwin’s evolutionary theory B. Marxist theory C. Transcendentalism D. Puritanism 4、____is not the work of Mark Twain. A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Mill on the Floss 5、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against____. A. British colonists B. slavery C. chauvinism D. monocracy II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook . 1、The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “____”. 2、While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life ” of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid greater emphasis on the ____ of man. 3、The works of Mark Twain are characterized with ____. 4、In 1859, Darmin published____, which exerted great influence on American Naturalism. 5、____is regarded as “the true father of our national literature”. 6、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its characterization of ____. 7、____and the West became Twain’s major theme. 8、In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes sharp contrasts between____. 9、Henry James won his literary reputation for his novels of ____. 10、James’s realism is characterized by his ____ approach to his subject matter.
英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
Old English Literature 古英语文学 （450-1066年） Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic 中世纪英语文学（1066-1500） Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture―英国文学之父‖William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》. 文艺复兴（16-17世纪） William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 Shakespeare‘s greatest works: greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night‘s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》 John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》. 18世纪文学和新古典主义 Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》 Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class people Henry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones. Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver‘s Travels《格列佛游记》. Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners. Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）. Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》) Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a
英美文学考试复习点重点整理
1.现实主义、批判现实主义（代表人物、作品，以及每部作品讲了什么故事）P276—比如《匹克威克外传》主要讲什么？P281 《双城记》主要讲什么？P298 《大卫科波菲尔》主要讲什么？P292 2.其中自传体形式的作品有哪些？ 3.傲慢与偏见的第一个名字：first impression(Pride and prejudice现) 4.三姐妹指的是？ 5.19世纪有名小说名利场副标题：“A Novel Without a Hero”作者：William Makepeace Thackeray P303 6.18th浪漫主义作家、代表作P211 反对什么,反抗什么思想？ 7.Pop代表作有哪些？P134 剪发记？ 8.玄学诗派有哪些人物组成？Leading Feature? P116 9.乌托邦is written in form of ?P33 10.Universal Wicks大学才子是谁？P50 11.中世纪文学流行的是? 主题特征骑马精神P8？ 12.最著名作家：乔叟P19 13.对于三次征服的概念（1）罗马征服P1 （2）英国人征服P2（3）诺曼征服P5 14.人民大宪章什么时候出现？时间：1837年
1.John Milton He was born in London in 1608. He is a master of the blank verse, and a great stylist. And he is famous for his grand style.But his style is never exactly natural. He devoted almost twenty years of his best life to the fight for political, religious and personal liberty as a writer. His famous works are Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. 2.Romance Romance was the most prevailing kind of literature of the upper class in feudal England in the Medieval Ages. It is a long composition in verse or in prose which describes the life and chivalric adventures of a noble hero. The central character of romances is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapon. The theme of loyalty to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. 3.the Enlightenment It is the philosophical and artistic movement growing out of the Renaissance and continuing until the nineteenth century. It was an optimistic belief that humanity could improve itself by applying logic and reasons to all things. Typically, these enlightenment writers would use satire to ridicule what they felt illogical errors in government, social
英国文学简史期末考试复习要点 刘炳善版
英国文学史资料British Writers and Works I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
英美文学测试题1
测试题（1） 1.Of the four alternative answers, choose the one that would best complete the statement. 1.Spenser is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English Renaissance. His masterpiece is _______________. a.Utopia b. The Song of Beowulf C. The Faerie Queene D. The Canterbury Tales 2.Which of the following is not Malowe’s play? a.Tamlurlaine the Great b. The Jew of Malta c. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus d. Cymbeline 3. “Hamlet” “Othello” “King Lear” and “_________” are regarded as Shake speare’s four great tragedies. a. Macbeth b. Romeo and Juliet c. The Winter’s Tale d. Tempest 4. Of the following plays by Shakespeare, which is not a comedy? a. Midsummer Night Dream b. The Merchant of Venice c. Twelfth Night d. Romeo and Juliet 5. Which of the following is not a historical play by Shakespeare? a. Henry VI b. Henry IV c. Richard III D. Charles I 6. From the following choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work. a. The Advancement of Learning b. The New Instrument c. Essays d. Venus and Adonis 7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ___________________. a. songs b. plays c. comedies d. sonnets 8. English Renaissance Period was an age of __________. a. prose and novel b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs 9. Of the following _______was the important metaphysical poet. a. John Donne b. Ben Johnson c. John Milton d. George Peele 10. Of the following “________” was not written by Milton. a. Paradise Lost b. Paradise regained c. Samson Agonistes d. Volpone 11. “Dr. Faustus” is a play based on the _______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end. a. English b. French c. German D. Irish 12. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his _______plays. 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. a. 47 b. 38 c. 27 d. 52 13. The principle of Shakespeare’s historical play is that the national ______under a mighty and jut sovereign is a necessity. a. peace b. prosperity c. unity d. progress 14. “Romeo and Juliet” though a tragedy, is permeated with ____________spi rit. a. optimistic b. pessimistic c. satirical d. realistic
英国文学简史期末考试复习要点资料
英国文学简史期末考试复习要点
一、中世纪文学（约5世纪—1485） ?《贝奥武甫》（Beowulf） ?《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》（Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ) 杰弗利·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer) “英国诗歌之父”。（Father of English Poetry） 《坎特伯雷故事》（The Canterbury Tales） 二、文艺复兴时期文学（15世纪后期—17世纪初） ?托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More ） 《乌托邦》（Utopia） ?埃德蒙·斯宾塞（Edmund Spenser） 《仙后》（The Faerie Queene) ?弗兰西斯·培根（Francis Bacon） 《论说文集》（Essays) 克里斯托弗·马洛 Christopher Marlowe ?《帖木儿大帝》（Tamburlaine） ?《浮士德博士的悲剧》（The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus） ?《马耳他岛的犹太人》（The Jew of Malta） 威廉·莎士比亚William Shakespeare ） 《哈姆莱特》（Hamlet） SONNET18 三、17世纪文学 约翰·弥尔顿 John Milton 《失乐园》（Paradise Lost） ?约翰·班扬（John Bunyan） 《天路历程》（The Pilgrim’s Progress） 四、启蒙时期文学（17世纪后期—18世纪中期） 18世纪初，新古典主义成为时尚。新古典主义推崇理性，强调明晰、对称、节制、优雅，追求艺术形式的完美与和谐。 亚历山大·蒲柏（Alexander Pope）是新古典主义诗歌的代表。 ?乔纳森·斯威夫特 Jonathan Swift 《格列佛 ?丹尼尔·笛福 Daniel Defoe 英国小说之父 《鲁滨孙漂流记》（Robinson Crusoe） ?亨利·菲尔丁 Henry Fielding 《汤姆·琼斯》（Tom Jones） ?乔纳森·斯威夫特 Jonathan Swift 《格列佛游记》Gulliver’s Travels ?亨利·菲尔丁 Henry Fielding 《汤姆·琼斯》（Tom Jones） 托马斯·格雷 Thomas Gray 《墓园哀歌》（Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard） 五、浪漫主义时期文学（1798-1832） ?罗伯特·彭斯 Robert Burns ?威廉·布莱克 William Blake ?威廉·华兹华斯 William Wordsworth ?塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 《抒情歌谣集》（Lyrical Ballads）
英美文学试题
2011年7月试题 1.All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England. A. Bleak House B. Hard Times C. Great Expectations D. A Tale of Two Cities 2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage. A. The Return of the Native B. The Mayor of Casterbridge C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles D. Jude the Obscure 3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young. A. Getting Married B. Too True to Be Good C. Widowers’ Houses D. The Apple Cart 4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist. A. The Trespasser B. The White Peacock C. Sons and Lovers D. The Rainbow 5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land. A. “Prufrock” B. “Gerontion” C. The Hollow Men D. Lyrical Ballads 6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions. A. The Professor B. Wuthering Heights C. Villette D. Jane Eyre 7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind’s potential. A. Adonais B. Queen Mab
英美文学欣赏知识点
英美文学欣赏知识点100句 1.The work that presented,for the first time in English literature,a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. 首次在英国文学，中世纪英国社会的全面逼真的画面，创造了从各行各业生动的人物整体画廊是杰弗里·乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集。 2. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. 乔叟被看作是英国诗歌之父。 3. The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer. 3.英雄对联的诗体被引入英国诗歌和诗与真正的轻松和魅力，第一次在英国文学的杰弗里·乔叟的历史就业。 4. The Canterbury Tales presents a whole gallery of vivid characters,the team of pilgrims,people from all walks of life,including 31 members altogether. 4.坎特伯雷故事呈现生动的人物整体画廊，朝圣者的队伍，来自各行各业，其中包括31名成员共有人。 5. Generally,Renaissance refers to the intellectual movement during the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries,its essence was humanism. 5.一般来说，文艺复兴是指智力运动在14和中17世纪之间的时期，它的本质是人文精神。 6. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.
英国文学简史复习资料
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1. the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were three tribes from Northern Europe. 2.English literature began with the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the English people. 3.Features of Beowulf 贝奥武普: the most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration头韵.（definition）In alliterative verse, certain accented words in a line begin with the same consonant sound. Other features of Beowulf are the use of metaphors and of understatements. 4. The French-speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066.(the Norman Conquest) 5. The Romance 罗曼司---the most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England. It was a long composition, sometimes in prose, describing the life and a adventures of a noble hero. Adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table 6. The Class Nature of the Romance The theme of loyalty to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romance , as loyalty was the corner-stone of feudal morality, without which the whole structure of feudalism would collapse. They were composed for the noble, of the noble, and in most cases by the poets patronized by the noble. 7.the Ballads 民谣The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad. A ballad is a story told in song; usually in 4-line, with the second and fourth lines rhymed. 8. The Robin Hood Ballad --- the various ballads of Robin Hood are gathered into a collection called The Geste of Robin Hood.绿林好汉罗宾汉的故事 9. The founder of English poetry is Geoffrey Chaucer. 乔叟 The Canterbury Tales ---(1) a collection of 24 stories (2)close links---stories are closely connected to each other (3)stories into groups on different subjects -- story-tellers, from ranks, professions, religions (4)variation in form 三大著名教堂：Westminster Cathedral 西敏寺大教堂Saint Pail’s Cathedral 圣保罗大教堂Canterbury Cathedral 坎特布雷大教堂 10.The Renaissance and Humanism The rise of the bourgeoisie soon showed its influence in the sphere of cultural life. The result is an intellectual movement known as the Renaissance, or, the rebirth of letters. It spang first in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. Two features