英国文学选读术语（本站推荐）

第一篇：英国文学选读术语（本站推荐）

一．Local Colorism

It is said that Bret Harte was one of the first realists to introduce local color into American literature.His “The Luck of Roaring Camp”(1868)marked a significantdevelopment in the brief history of local color fiction.It was the result of historical & aesthetic forces.1.historical

2.aesthetic force

Local Color:Term applied to literature which emphasizes its setting, being concerned with the character of a district or of an era, as marked by its customs, dialects, costumes, landscape or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influences.The local color movement came into particular prominence in Am after the Civil War, perhaps as an attempt to recapture the glamour of a past era, or to portray the sections of the reunited country.In local color literature one finds the dual influence of romanticism and realism since the author frequently looks away from ordinary life to distant lands,strange customs, or exotic scenes, but retains through minute detail a sense of fidelity and accuracyof description.二．Beat Generation

The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired

Central elements of “Beat” culture included experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being

三．symbol

A symbol is an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an , belief, action, or material.Symbols take the form of words, sounds, gestures, or visual images and are used to convey ideas and beliefs.For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for “STOP”.On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite.are symbols for.Personal names are symbols representing individuals.A red rose symbolizes love and compassion

四．Code Hero

The Code Hero is typically an individualist and free-willed.Although he believes in the ideals of courage and honor he has his own set of morals and principles based on his beliefs in honor, courage and endurance.A code hero never shows emotions;showing emotions and having a commitment to women shows weakness.Qualities such as bravery, adventuresome and travel also define the Code Hero

五．Free verse

Free verse is an open form(see)of.It does not use consistentpatterns, , or any other musical pattern.It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.另

free verse(or, in French, vers libre), a kind of poetry that does not conform to any regular : the length of its lines is irregular, as is its use of rhyme—if any.Instead of a regular metrical pattern it uses more flexibleor rhythmic groupings, sometimes supported byand other devices of repetition.Now the most widely practised verse form in English, it has precedents in translations of the biblical Psalms and in some poems of Blake and Goethe, but established itself only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Walt Whitman, the French , and the poets of.Free verse should not be confused with , which does observe a regular metre in its unrhymed lines.六．Naturalism Naturalism is “the idea or belief that only(as opposed toor)laws and forces operate in the world;(occas.)the idea or belief that nothing exists beyond the natural world.”Adherents of naturalism(i.e.naturalists)assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that theis a product of these laws.naturalism, a more deliberate kind ofin novels, stories, and plays, usually involving a view of human beings as passive victims of natural forces and social.As a literary movement, naturalism was

initiated in France by Jules and Edmond Goncourt with their novel Germinie Lacerteux(1865), but it came to be led by Émile Zola, who claimed a ‘scientific’ status for his studies of impoverished characters miserably subjected to hunger, sexual obsession, and hereditary defects in Thérèse Raquin(1867), Germinal(1885), and many other novels.Naturalist fiction aspired to a sociological objectivity, offering detailed and fully researched investigations into unexplored corners of modern society

七．American Puritanism

American Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.The Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church.The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them.They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles.As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted to purity their religious beliefs and practices.They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace form God.As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind.American Puritanism also had a enduring influence on American literature

Puritan Beliefs

1.Original Sin

Through Adam and Eve's fall, every person is born sinful.2.Predestination

Only a few are selected by God for salvation.3.Limited Atonement(赎罪)

Jesus died for the chosen only, not for everyone.4.Irresistible Grace

Grace is defined as the saving and transfiguring power of God.Puritanism

1.Idealismpracticality and purposiveness

八．Exposition

The exposition is the portion of athat introduces important background information to the audience;for example, information about the setting, events occurring before the main plot, characters' , etc.Exposition can be conveyed through dialogues, through a character's thoughts, through background details, throughmedia such as newspaper clippings, trial reports and letters, or through a narrator telling aor by establishing scenes where a character is followed.Exposition is considered one of fourof discourse, along with , , and

九．Imagery

our senses through imagery.Imagery is more incidental to a poem than metaphors, symbols and theme and they are often confused.Nevertheless, an image should conjure up something more than the mere mentioning of the object or situation.A mistake often made is to take every image as though it were a symbol or metaphor

第二篇：英国文学选读（推荐）

文学体裁：诗歌poem 小说novel 戏剧drama Origin起源： Christianity 基督教 bible 圣经

Myth 神话 The Romance of king Arthur and his knights 亚瑟王和他的骑士

一、The Anglo-Saxon period(449-1066)

1、这个时期的文学作品分类： pagan(异教徒)Christian(基督徒)

2、代表作：《贝奥武夫》(national epic 民族史诗)采用了隐喻手法

3、Alliteration 押头韵（写作手法）

例子： of man was the mildest and most beloved, To his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.二、The Anglo-Norman period(1066-1350)Canto 诗章

1、romance 传奇文学

2、代表作： 《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》是一首押头韵的长诗。

三、Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)杰弗里.乔叟时期

1、“the founder of English poetry”（英国诗歌之父）

2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格).3、代表作： 《坎特伯雷故事》(英国文学史的开端)

大致内容：The pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walks of life and social groups.朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人,代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体

小说特点：Each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character.这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事，无形中表明了各自的观点，展示了各自的性格。小说观点：He believes in the right of man to earthly happiness.He is anxious to see man freed from superstitions and a blind belief in fate.他希望人们能从迷信和对命运的盲从中解脱出来。

4、Popular Ballads 大众民谣 ：A story holds in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed.Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission.歌谣是匿名叙事歌曲,一直保存着口头传播的方式

代表人物：Bishop Thomas Percy 托马斯.帕希主教

代表作：Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 罗宾汉和阿林代尔

四、The Renaissance(16世纪)文艺复兴时期

（Greek and Roman）戏剧drama 诗章canto

The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical(Greek and Roman)arts and sciences.文艺复兴最初是指经典艺术和科学在英国的复兴。

The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama.在文艺复兴时期的英国，戏剧也得到了迅速的发展。

1、key word: humanism: admires human beauty and human achievement

2、代表人物：

1)、Thomas More 托马斯.莫尔 《乌托邦》

2)、Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯.培根 第一个散文家 3)、Thomas Wyatt 托马斯.怀亚特 引入十四行诗的第一人

Sonnet(十四行诗)：form of poetry intricately rhymed(间隔押韵)in 14 lines iambic pentameter 4)、Edmund Spenser 埃德蒙.斯宾塞 poet’s poet(诗人中的诗人)< The Fairy Queene>《仙后》(epic poem 史诗)5)、Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托弗.马洛

blank verse(无韵体：不押韵的五步抑扬格)是十六世纪英国戏剧的主要表现形式。

6)、William Shakespeare 威廉姆.莎士比亚 戏剧 drama 四大悲剧：(哈姆雷特)，(奥赛罗)，(李尔王)，(麦克白)

五、The period of Revolution and Restoration(17世纪)资产阶级革命与王权复辟

prose 散文

1、文学特点：The Puritans believed in simplicity of life, disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry, breaking up of old ideals.清教徒崇尚俭朴的生活、拒绝十四行诗和爱情诗、与旧思想脱离。

2、代表人物：

1)、John Donne 约翰.多恩 “metaphysical poets”(玄学派诗人)的代表人物

sonnet 十四行诗 《Death be not proud》

作品特点：① strike the reader in Donne’s extraordinary frankness and penetrating realism.(坦诚的态度和现实描绘)

② novelty of subject matter and point(新颖的题材和视角)③ novelty of its form.(新颖的形式)

2)、John Milton 约翰.弥尔顿 a great poet 诗人（blank verse）

《为英国人声辩》

《失乐园》 “Satan is not a villain”撒旦不是坏人

《复乐园》

六、The Age of Enlightenment(18世纪)启蒙运动

prose 散文

1、Emphasized formality or correctness of style, to write prose like Addison, or verse like Pope.强调正确的格式和写作规范，像艾迪生一样创作散文，和蒲柏一样创作诗歌。

The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisie against feudalism.启蒙运动实际上是当时先进的资产阶级同落后的封建主义斗争的一种形式。

The enlighteners repudiate the false religious doctrines about the viciousness of human nature, and prove that man is born kind and honest, and if he becomes depraved, it is only due to the influence of corrupted social environment.启蒙主义者颠覆了宗教所宣扬的人类本恶的观点；论证了人生诚实而友善，而腐化堕落则是后天腐败的社会环境所致。

Contrary to all reasoning, social injustice still held strong, found the power of reason to be insufficient, and therefore appealed to sentiment as a means of achieving happiness and social justice.无论怎样讲究理性，社会不平等现象仍然普遍存在，理性的力量明显不足。因此呼吁把情感的诉求作为一种谋求幸福和社会公平的手段。

2、18th century 文学的三个方面：Classicism(古典主义)、revival of romantic poetry(新兴的浪漫主义诗歌)、beginnings of the modern novel(刚启萌的现代派小说)

3、代表人物：

1)、Daniel Defoe 丹尼尔.笛福 realistic novel 现实主义小说

Novel： 鲁宾逊漂流记

乔纳森.威尔德

摩尔.弗兰德斯

2)、Jonathan Swift 乔纳森.斯威夫特

格列佛游记 novel 反讽

作品特点：no visible sign of anger, nor raising the voice;the tone is cold, restrained, ironic, varied only by some flashes of fooling when Swift’s sense of the ridiculous gets the better of him.努不动颜，骂不扬声，语调冷酷，锋芒暗藏，讽刺辛辣，仅在讽喻之情难以抑制时才偶露揶揄之态。

一个温和的建议

七、the Romantic Period(1798-1832)浪漫主义

散文 prose

1、前浪漫主义代表人物：William Blake 威廉.布莱克 诗人

Robert Burns 罗伯特.彭斯 苏格兰诗人

Pre-Romanticism was greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution 前浪漫主义极大地影响了工业革命和法国大革命。

2、教育意义Educational：liberty, equality and fraternity 自由，平等，博爱

3、开始的标志：beginning with the publication of William Wordsworth’s 从威廉.华兹华斯发表的“抒情歌谣”开始

4、lake poets(湖畔派诗人)：Coleridge Southey Wordsworth

5、代表人物：

1)、William Wordsworth 威廉.华兹华斯 poet-laureate(桂冠诗人)《序曲》 自传性诗歌Autobiographical poetry

With S.T.coleridge, they jointly published the “Lyrical Ballads”.与s.t.coleridge一起,联合发表了“抒情民谣” 作品特点：simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry 简单而纯洁的语言,反传统形式的18世纪诗歌

2)、Lord Byron 拜伦 《查尔德·哈罗德游记》 cantos 诗章 成名作 《唐璜》 poem 诗 satiric masterpiece 讽刺的杰作 《闲散时刻》 poem 诗 the first volume of poem 首卷诗

3)、Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱

《解放了的普罗米修斯》 drama 戏剧 《西风颂》 poem 诗

4)、John Keats 济慈 poet 诗人《圣阿格良斯之夜》 poem 《希腊古瓮颂》 poem

《致夜莺》 poem “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”美学原则

第三篇：新编英国文学简史及选读--第五章

第五章 文艺复兴（1550--1642）1.历史背景

经过长期的国外国内战争，英格兰在伊丽莎白女王（1558--1603）统治下进入了和平繁荣发展时期。伊丽莎白女王实行宗教宽容政策，维护了封建君主和正在上升的资产阶级力量，及天主教与新教之间的平衡。

另一件巩固英国君主立宪制、加速民族意识觉醒的大事件是1588年，英国海军打败了西班牙的海上无敌舰队。多年来，西班牙就一直准备攻打岛国，这些攻击性举措还受到英格兰天主教会的支持。当西班牙舰队来袭时，伊丽莎白女王早已安排好自己强大的军舰队迎战。经历过这场战争后，英国逐渐建立起了海上霸权。

2.圈地运动

英国新型的资产阶级力量和新地主是圈地运动的发起者。新航路开辟后，英国商人通过东西方贸易获得巨大利润。然而资产阶级赚取利润的最大的领域是毛织业。英格兰羊毛业发达，几个世纪以来，英国为弗兰德斯的织工提供羊毛。随着羊毛需求量的扩大，一些新贵族和资产阶级占据大量的可耕地，并将这些可耕地变成草场，圈地养羊。大批农民丧失了土地。许多农民被迫离开自己的土地，迁居到城镇里，靠出卖自身劳动力生存。就这样，分化出了两大阶级，资产阶级和工人阶级。3.人文主义

伊丽莎白统治时期，许多文人活跃在文学舞台上。这一时期出现的才华横溢的文人之多，是英国历史上前所未有的。他们作为知识分子贡献了自己的力量，同时也为文学运动作出了巨大贡献。14世纪起源于意大利的文学运动后来波及了法国、西班牙、荷兰以及英国。这场文学运动称为文艺复兴，其中心思想是人文精神。文艺复兴（Renaissance）一词源于法国，英语意思是“诞生（birth）”。在15、16世纪，西欧学家密切关注希腊和拉丁文化，这是古希腊罗马文化多年被人遗忘后的重生。1453年，土耳其人夺取了君士坦丁堡，这个千年以来地中海的中心城市。君士坦丁堡落入土耳其人手中时，众多希腊学者带着自己的书籍逃到意大利，并在意大利大学中重新任职。在意大利求学的英国人将学到的新知识带回英国牛津、剑桥大学，在这里古希腊罗马文化散播到了各处。

随着古希腊罗马文化的散播，一群以人为本的人文主义涌现在文学界。他们反对神学的禁欲主义和来世观念，提倡人们对现实生活的追求；宗教方面，他们主张宗教改革；在文学艺术领域，他们反对中世纪神学抬高神、贬低人的观点，强调人的可贵。人文主义解放了天主教会对人类思想的束缚，为人类打开了新世界。

第四篇：英国文学大事记与文学术语集萃

英国文学纵览

一．英国文学大事记

1.The Medieval period : 450---1485

Anglo-saxon or Old English Period(450---1066): poetry in oral form

Anglo-Norman Period(1066---1340): romance

The 14th Century(1340---1400):Age of Chaucer

The 15th Century

2.The Renaissance Period(the late 15th century---1750s): Drama and poetry

The Renaissance Humanism The Elizabethan Age(1558-1603): the golden age of English poetry

3.The 17th Century

The Jacobean Age(1603-1625): the Metaphysical poetry The Caroline Period(1625-1649): the Cavalier poetry The Revolutionary period or The Puritan Age(1640---1660): Milton

The Period of Restoration(1660---1688): Age of Dryden

4.The 18th century: Age of Prose

The Enlightenment Movement

New-classicism（1700-1745）：The Augustan Age

Realism Sentimentalism

Preromanticism

二．文学术语集萃

Alliteration or Head Rhyme or Initial Rhyme refers to the repetition of the same sounds—usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables—in any sequence of neighboring words.A Ballad is a story told in song, usually in four-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed.Romance is the prevailing literary form of literature in the Middle Ages(1000-1453).It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero.Heroic Couplet is a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines.It was established by Chaucer as a major English verse-form for narrative and other kinds of non-dramatic poetry;it dominated English poetry of the 18th century notably in the poetry of Pope, before declining in importance in the early 19th century.The Ecologue was a classical form, practiced by Virgil and others;it represents usually in dialogue between shepherds, the moods and feeling and attitudes of the simple life.Essay is a literary form which can be defined as a short piece of expository prose.The purpose is to inform or explain rather than to dramatize or amuse.Its feature is brevity.New-classicism is a revival of classical standards of order, balance and harmony in literature in the 17th and 18th centuries in England.Realism is a mode of writing that gives the impression of recording life as it really is without sentimentalizing or idealizing it.It may be found as an element in the works of Chaucer or Defoe prior to the 19th century, but as a dominant trend in the novels of the middle-or lower class life in the 19th century

The Renaissance in England: Renaissance is the „rebirth‟ of literature, art and learning that progressively transformed European culture from the mid-14th century in Italy to the mid-17th century in England, strongly influenced by the rediscovery of classical Greek and Latin literature, and accelerated by the development of printing.The Renaissance is commonly held to mark the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern Western world.In literary terms, the Renaissance may be seen as a new tradition running from Petrarch and Boccaccio in Italy to Jonson and Milton in England, embracing the work of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare;it is marked by a new self-confidence in vernacular literatures, a flourishing of lyric poetry, and a revival of such classical forms as epic and pastoral literature.The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout the Western Europe in the 18th century.It greatly influenced the English social life and literature.Generally speaking, the Enlightenment movement was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.The enlighteners fought against class in equality, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism.They thought the chief means for improving society was “enlightenment” or “education” for the people.The English enlighteners fell into two groups: the moderate and the radical.The moderate includes: Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Dr.Johnson.The Radical includes such writers as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Tobias George Smollet, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.Spenserian stanza is a 9-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme of abab bcbc c, invented by Edmund Spenser.The first eight are iambic pentameter lines, and the last line is an iambic hexameter line.Pastoral, a highly conventional mode of writing that celebrates the innocent life of shepherds and shepherdesses in poems, plays, and prose romances.Pastoral literature describes the loves and sorrows of musical shepherds, usually in an idealized Golden Age of rustic innocence and idleness;paradoxically, it is an elaborately artificial cult of simplicity and virtuous frugality.Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.There are two major patterns of rhyme in sonnets written in English.The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet(named after the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch)comprises an octave(8 lines)rhyming abbaabba and a sestet(6 lines)rhyming cdecde or cdccdc.The transition from octave to sestet usually coincides with a „turn‟ in the argument or mood of the poem.The English or Shakespearean sonnet(named after its greatest practitioner)comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg.The „turn‟ comes with the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve an epigram.There was one notable variant, the Spenserian sonnet, in which Spenser linked each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.There are three famous sonnet sequences in the Elizabethan Age----Spenser‟s Amoretti, Shakespeare‟s sonnets and Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella.Ballad stanza or Ballad metre, the usual form of the folk ballad and its literary imitations, consisting of a quatrain in which the first and third lines have four stresses while the second and fourth have three stresses.Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme.The rhythm is basically iambic.The Metaphysical Poets: John Dryden said in his Discourse Concerning Satire(1693)that John Donne in his poetry “affects the metaphysics,” meaning that Donne employs the terminology and abstruse arguments of the medieval Scholastic philosophers.In 1779 Samuel Johnson extended the term “metaphysical” from Donne to a school of poets in his “Life of Cowley.” The name is now applied to a diverse group of 17th-century English poets whose work is notable for its ingenious use of intellectual and theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes and far-fetched imagery.The leading metaphysical poet was John Donne, whose colloquial, argumentative abruptness of rhythm and tone distinguishes his style from the conventions of Elizabethan love lyrics.Other poets to whom the label is applied include Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland and the predominantly religious poets George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Richard Crashaw.Conceit: an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor or simile presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feelings.Poetic conceits are prominent in Elizabethan love sonnets, in metaphysical poetry.Conceits often employ the devices of hyperbole, paradox and oxymoron.Originally meaning a concept or image, conceit came to be the term for figures of speech which establish a striking parallel, usually ingeniously elaborate, between two very dissimilar things or situations.The Cavalier poets are a group of English lyric poets who were active, approximately, during the reign of Charles I(1625-1640).This group includes Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, and Waller.These poets virtually abandoned the sonnet form which had been the favoured medium for love poems for a century.They were considerably influenced by Ben Jonson.Their lyrics are light, witty, elegant and, for the most part, concerned with love.They show much technical virtuosity.Carpe Diem: a tradition theme dating back to classical Greek and Latin poetry and particularly popular among the English Cavalier poets.Carpe Diem means, literally, “seize the day”, that is, “live for today.” The Carpe Diem theme is epitomized in a line from Robert Herrick‟s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”: “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.”

Blank verse is the verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.It is the verse form used in some of the greatest English poetry, including that of William Shakespeare and John Milton.Elegy: a poem of mourning, usually over the passing of life and beauty or a meditation on the nature of death.An elegy is a type of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.Epitaph: an inscription on a gravestone or a short poem written in memory of someone who has died.Many epitaphs are actually epigrams, or short witty sayings, and are not intended for serious use as monument inscriptions.Pre-romanticism: a general term applied by modern literary historians to a number of developments in late 18th century culture that are thought to have prepared the ground of Romanticism in its full sense.In various ways, these are all departures from the orderly framework of neoclassicism and its authorized genres.A Song is a short lyric poem with distinct musical qualities, normally written to be set to music.It expresses a simple but intense emotion.Byron‟s “She Walks in Beauty” is a song.Romanticism: a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in Western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revote against classicism.There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places.Many of the ideas of English Romanticism were first expressed by William Wordsworth and Samuel Talor Coleridge.It prevailed in England during the period 1798-1832.Romanticists expressed the ideology and sentiment of those classes and social strata that were discontent with and opposed to the development of capitalism.They split into two groups because of the different attitudes toward the capitalist society.The Passive Romantic poets or the Lake poets are represented by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.The Active or Revolutionary Romantic poets are represented by Byron, Shelley and Keats.Ode: a complex lyric poem of some length, dealing with a noble theme in a dignified manner and originally intended to be sung.Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or a season or to commemorate an event.Terza Rima: it is an Italian verse form consisting of a series of three-line stanzas in which the middle line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the following stanza as follows aba bcb cdc etc.Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind” is partly written in terza rima.Dramatic Monologue: a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem.The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker‟s life, and the dramatic monologue reveals the speaker‟s personality as well as the incident that is the subject of the poem.The Victorian Period: the beginning of the Victorian Period is frequently dated from 1837 to 1901(the reign of Queen Victoria).Much writing of the period dealt with or reflected the pressing social, economic, religious and intellectual issues and problems of that era.Among the notable poets were Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins.The chief characteristics of the Victorian poetry are its moralizing tendencies, its overpadding of extra-poetic matter, and its traditional iambic pentameter.

第五篇：英国文学选读 作家作品总结

注：加粗的部分是在老师课件里出现的那些作品。

1.Geoffrey Chaucer

The House of Fame ,Troilus and Criseyde,the Canterbury Tales,2.民谣主要在18世纪才被记录或固定下来较为主要的是珀西主教的《古英诗拾遗》即Thomas Percy Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,和司各特的《苏格兰边区歌谣集》即 Sir Walter Scott Minstrelsy of The Scottish Border,Wynkyn de Worde 出版了A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood, 另外比较著名的民谣有Chevy

Chase,The Battle of Otterburn, 书中讲的是The Babes in the Wood, Robin hood and Allin-A-Dallin,3.William Shakespeare

历史剧Henry VI, Richard III, Henry IV,喜剧A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night,悲剧Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth,传奇剧Cymbeline, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale ,Troilus and Cressida,4.Francis Bacon

Advancement of Learning,Novum Organum,New Atlantics,Essays, the Colours of Good andEvil,the Meditations, of Studies,5.John Milton

L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas, Areopagitica, Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio,Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes,6.John Bunyan

The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Life and Death of Mr.Badman,7.Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, Hymn to the Pillory, The Review, ,The Political History Of The DevilAn Essay On The History And Reality Of Apparitions（幽灵）Moll Flanders,Captain JackRoxanaA Journal of the Plague Year, 8.Jonathan SwiftThe Battle of Books, A Tale of a Tub, The Drapier’s Letters, A Modest

Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels,9．Alexander Pope

他翻译了古希腊史诗Iliad, Odyssey, 发表了Pastorals,An Essay on Criticism, Windsor Forest, The Rape of the Lock,The Dunciad, Moral Essays, An Essay on Man, Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot,10.Henry FieldingThe Coffee-house Politician, Don Quixote in England, The Historical Register for the Year, The History of the Adventures of Joseph

Andrews,and of his Friend Mr.Abraham Adams, Amelia, The Life of Mr.Jonathan Wild the Great,Tragedy of Tragedies of Tom ThumbThe History of Tom Jones,a Foundling,The Female HusbandShamela

11.Samuel Johnson

杂志The Rambler,词典A Dictionary of the English Language,散文Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,小说Rasselas,诗歌Vanity of Human Wishes,The Life of Richard SavageLondon

12.Oliver Goldsmith

The Vicar of Wakefield,The Citizen of the World, 模仿孟德斯鸠的Les Letters Persanes, 的风格The Deserted Village, She Stoops to Conquer,13.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Rivals, The School for Scandal, St Patrick's Day(1775)The Duenna(1775)A Trip to Scarborough(1777)The Camp(1778)The Critic(1779)The Glorious First of June(1794)Pizarro(1799)

14.William Blake

Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence,诗集Songs of Experience,The French Revolution, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America, Milton, Jerusalem,15.Samuel Richardson PamelaClarrissa Harlowe Sir Charles

Grandison16.Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyA

Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.15.George Eliot《Adam Bede》《The Mill on the Floss》《Silas Marner》《Middlemarche》《Felix Holt,the Radical》《Daniel Deronda》

16.William Makepeace ThackerayVanity fair, 它的subtitle 是A Novel without a Hero The Book of Snobs, The History of Pendennis, The History of Henry

Esmond, The Newcomes, Catherine, The Virginians, The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch-Book,17.Alfred TennysonThe Eagle, Poems by Two Brothers, Timbuctoo, The Princess, In Memoriam H.H., Maud, Enoch Arden, Idylls of the

King, Ulysses, Break, Break, Break, The Charge of the Light BrigadeTears,idle tears

18.Robert BrowningMen and Women,Collected Poems,Dramatic

Personae,The Ring and the Book》《Prospice》Paracelsus, Strafford, Pippa Passes, Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Home Thoughts, From Abroad,19.Mrs.BrowningSonnets from the Portuguese, The Cry of the Children,20.Charlotte BronteCharlotte's Jane Eyre, ,（Shirley）Emily's Wuthering Heights, Ann's Agnes Grey,21.George Gordon ByronTo EmmaHours of IdlenessChilde Haroid’s PilgramageThe CorsairShe Walks in Beauty

22.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West Wind, , TO a Skylark, ,The Masque of AnarchyQueen Mab, , The Necessity of Atheism, Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Song to the Men of England, England in 1819, A Defence of Poetry,23.Charles Dickens《American Notes, Martin Chuzzlewit, The old Curiosity Shop, Dombey and Son, Hard Times, A Tale of Two City, Great

Expectations, 《'Little Dorrit'》Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Bleak HouseNicholas Nickleby.David Copperfield, Great Expectations,24.William WordsworthI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, , 《Tintern Abbey, 》 《To the Cuckoo》,《My Heart Leaps up》,《To a Butterfly》《An Evening Walk》, 《 The Sparrow’s Nest.》《Lucy Poems, 》 《The Solitary Reaper》《The Old Cumberland Beggar》,《Michael》《To a Highland Girl》.Lyrical Ballads, It is “one of the revolutionary works of criticism,helping usher in the Romantic Age in

literature”Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Ode to Duty, The Excursion, The Prelude,25.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner,Kubla Khan,Chtristabel,Frost at Morning, Dejection: An Ode(沮丧）, EssaysBiographia Literaria, Lectures on Shakespeare.,26.Walter ScottIvanhoe, ,Rob Roy, ,The Lady of The Lake, Marmion, Guy Mannering, The Heart of

Midlothian, Kenilworth, Woodstock, Quentin Durward, Waverley,.27.Jane Austen《Sense and Sensibility》《Pride and Prejudice》《Emma》《Mansfield》《Persuasion》《Northanger》

28.Ernest JonesThe Wood Spirit, The Revolt of HindostanThe People's Paper, 'The Song of the Low, The Notes of the PeopleThe Battle Day,The Painter of Florence,The Emperor's Vigil,Beldagon Church' Corayda.29.John KeatsOde to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on

Melancholy, Endymion, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes, To Autumn, Hyperion,30.Robert BurnsPoems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, The Tree of Liberty, Scots Wha Hae, Holy Willie’s Prayer, My Heart’s in the Highlands, A Red, Red Rose, John Anderson,My JO, A Man’s A Man for That, Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn,