English and American Literature

English Literature

Old & Medieval（中世纪） English Literature (449-1485)

? Beowulf(the first long poem in English)(the most important work of Old English

literature)

? The Romances(King Arthur and His Knights of Round Table , Sir Gawain and the Green

Knight)

? Chaucer (1343-1400)

? The Canterbury Tales

? the father of English poetry

The Renaissance Period (1485-1660)

? Humanism: it is the essence of the Renaissance.(was a literary and philosophic system of

thought which attempted to place the the affairs of mankind at the center of its concerns)

? Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

? The Advancement of Learning (1605)

? William Shakespeare(1564?-1616)

? Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing

（无事生非）

? Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth

? John Milton (1608-1674)

? Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,

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The Neoclassical（新古典主义） Period (1660 - 1798）

? John Bunyan (1628-1688)

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? The Pilgrim’s Progress （天路历程）(the most successful religious allegory 寓言) Alexander Pope ? An Essay on Criticism （论批评） Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) ? Robinson Crusoe (1719)(most famous of his work, his masterpiece) The Neoclassical Period (1660 and 1798） Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

? Gulliver’s Travels (his greatest satiric work)

? A Modest Proposal （一个小小的建议）

? Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

? Father of the English Novel

? Tom Jones

? Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):

? A Dictionary of the English Language

? Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

? The School for Scandal (his masterpiece)

? the only important English dramatist（剧作家） of the 18th century

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)(The first Generation of Romantics )

? William Wordsworth(1770-1850) with helped to launch the

in with the 1798 joint publication Wordsworth was Britain's from 1843 until his death in 1850.

? I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

? His Works divided into two groups: Poems about nature and poems about

human life

? Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)

? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner （古舟子咏）

(Coleridge and Wordsworth were called the Lake Poet)

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)( The Younger generation of Romantics)

? George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) （拜伦）

? Don Juan（唐璜） － his masterpiece

? Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822 )

? Ode to the West Wind

? John Keats(1795-1821)

? Ode to a Nightingale

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)

? Jane Austen(1755-1817) (novelist)

? Pride and Prejudice (the most popular)

? Sense and Sensibility

? Emma

The Victorian Period (1837-1905)

? Charles Dickens (1812-1870)(novelist)

? Oliver Twist

? David Copperfield

? A Tale of Two Cities

? Hard Times

? Great Expectations

? William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1864) 威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷

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? ? Vanity Fair 名利场 Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855) ? Jane Eyre Shirley Emily Bronte(1818-1849) ? Wuthering Heights Anne Bronte 1820-1849)

? Agnes Grey

? 怀尔德菲尔府的房客

The Victorian Period ?

? Alfred Tennyson阿尔弗雷德丁尼生

? the most representative, if not the greatest, Victorian poet

? In Memoriam A.H.H. , Tennyson’s greatest work

? Idylls of the King, his most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to

complete

? Robert Browning (1812-1889)(poet)

? Elizabeth Barrett Browning(poet)

? George Eliot(1819-1880) (female novelist)

? Middle-march, known as one of the most mature works in English literary

history

? Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)(novelist,poet)

? Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, one of the best and most popular work by Hardy

The Modern Period

? George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) (dramatist)

? Pygmalion皮格马利翁

? William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)( modernist poet)

? When You Are Old

? T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)(modernist poet)

? The Waste Land (the most famous poem, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical

Ballads抒情诗.)

Realistic novels at the Beginning of the 20thCentury

John Galsworthy(1867-1933)(novelist)

? The Forsyte Saga ,composed of The Man of Property(1906); In Chancery(1920);

To Let(1921)

Arnold Bennett(1867-1931)(novelist)

The old Wives’ Tale(1908)

H.G.Wells(1866-1946)(1866-1946)

The Time Machine(1895)

The Invisible man(1897)

The Modern Period

? D.H.Laurence(1885-1930 ) (novelist)

? Sons and Lovers

? James Joyce(1882-1941) (novelist)

? Ulysses (his masterpiece)

? stream of consciousness

? Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)(novelist)

? Heart of Darkness

? Virginia Woolf(1882-1941 ) (female novelist)

? To the Lighthouse

? Mrs. Dalloway

English Literature from 1945 to the 21th Century

? William Golding (1911 –laureate, best known for his novel .蝇王 He was also ,成人式/成人礼

John Robert Fowles (1926 –20xx) was an English novelist and In 20xx,

法国中尉的女人(his masterpiece, a postmodenist fiction)

? Doris May Lessing (1919-) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The and .

American Literature

American Romanticism(1815-1865)

? Washington Irving (1783-1859) 欧文

? Rip Van Winkle

? The legend of Sleepy Hollow 睡谷传奇

? Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)(write poems and short stories)

? ? The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)(Father of American Literature,spokesman for

Transcendentalism)

? The American Scholar(1837)(known as America’s “intellectual Declaration of

Independence”)

? Nature(1836))

Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)

? Walden(1854)

Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)霍桑

? The Scarlet Letter 红字

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American Romanticism(1815-1865)

Walt Whitman (poet)(1819-1892)

? Leaves of Grass

Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)

? I heard a Fly buzz-when I died (her masterpiece

Herman Melville (novelist) 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔

? Moby-Dick

? Symbolism

American Realism(1865-1914)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

? The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

? Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James (1843-1916)(in 1876 he moved permanently to England, and in 1915 he ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

became a British subject)

? The Portrait of A Lady