英国文学知识
一、    中古英国文学
1.    Beowulf : the oldest poem in the English language and the most important specimen of Anglo-Saxon literature.
2.    Geoffrey Chaucer: he is acclaimed as the father of English Poetry and father of English fiction. His masterpiece。
The Canterbury Tales
The Romaunt of the Rose
The Legend of good Women
The House of Fame

二、    文艺复兴时期
时间：14世纪到17世纪中后期
特点： Humanism became the keynote of English Renaissance
著名作家：
1.    Thomas More:  Utopia

2.    Edmund Spenser (a poet):
                     The Faerie Queen
                     The Shepherd Calendar
3.    Christopher Marlowe( a poet and dramatist):
                      Edward II
                      Dr. Faustus
                      Tamburlaine
                      The Jew of Malta
                      
4.    William Shakespeare
         喜剧：A Midsummer Night’s Dream
               As you like it
               Merchant of Venice
               The Twelfth night
         悲剧：Romeo and Juliet
               The Tempest
            
         四大悲剧：Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
         主要历史剧：Henry IV, Henry V
5.    Francis Bacon
           Essays
           The advancement of learning
6.    John Donne
          The Elegies and Satires
          The Songs and Sonnets
7.    John Milton (poet)
晚年三首长诗 Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes

三：新古典主义时期
时间：17世纪中后期到18世纪
特点：The neoclassicists held that all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic and restrained emotion and accuracy.

著名作家：
1.    John Dryden:      All for Love
2.    John Bunyan:      The Pilgrim’s Progress
                 The Holy War
                 The life and Death of Mr. Badman
                   
3.    Alexander Pope    An Essay on Criticism
                 An Essay on Man
                 The Rape of the Lock
                 Odyssey

4.    Daniel Defoe(who is called the father of English and European novels)
                Robison Crusoe
                A journal of the Plague year
                Captain Singleton
5.    Jonathan Swift
                Gulliver’s Travel
                A Tale of a Tub
                A Modest proposal
                The Drapier’s letters

6.    Henry Fielding
                The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
                
7.    Samuel Johnson (著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者)
                 A Dictionary of the English Language
                 The Vanity of Human Wishes
                 London
8.    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
                    The school for the scandal
                    The Rivals
9.    Thomas Gray
                   Elegy Written in a country churchyard
                   Ode on the spring

四：浪漫主义时期
时间：18世纪中期到19世纪中期
特点：Romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty and is marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom. The Romanticism period is an age of Poetry and poets.

主要作家
1.    William Blake
           Songs of Experience
           Songs of Innocence
           Poetical Sketches
           The marriage of heaven and hell

2.    William Wordsworth
           Lyrical Ballads
           To the Cuckoo
           My Heart leaps up

3.    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
              Kubla Khan 忽必烈汗

三巨头
1.    George Gordon Byron
           Cain
           Don Juan
           Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

2.    Percy Bysshe Shelley
           Ode to the West Wind
           Ode to the Skylark
           Prometheus unbounded
           The Necessity of Atheism
           Queen Mab

3.    John Keats
           Ode to Autumn
           Ode to a nightingale
           Ode on a Grecian um 希腊古瓷颂
Isabella
以下各位不太重要：
1.    Charles Lamb
            Tales from Shakespeare
            Essays of Elia
2.    Mary Shelley
            Frankenstein
3.    Robert Southey
               Joan of Arc   圣女贞德
小说家
Jane Austin
           Emma