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 and Evil, 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 Devil An 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 Savage London

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 Pamela Clarrissa Harlowe Sir Charles

Grandison16 .Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy A

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 Brigade Tears, 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 Emma Hours of Idleness Childe 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,

 

第二篇:英国文学选读

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:<Beowulf>《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:<Sir Gawain and the Green Knight> 《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:<The Canterbury Tales> 《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 <Utopia> 《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:<Hamlet> (哈姆雷特),<Othello> (奥赛罗),

<King Lear> (李尔王),<Macbeth> (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 )

<Defense for the English People>《为英国人声辩》

<Paradise Lost>《失乐园》 “Satan is not a villain”撒旦不是坏人

<Paradise Regained>《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:<Robinson Crusoe> 鲁宾逊漂流记

<Jonathan Wild> 乔纳森.威尔德

<Moll Flanders> 摩尔.弗兰德斯

2)、Jonathan Swift 乔纳森.斯威夫特

<Gulliver’s Travels>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。 <A Modest Proposal>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 <Lyrical Ballads>

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)

<The Prelude>《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 <Childe Harold Pilgrimage>《查尔德·哈罗德游记》 cantos 诗章 成名作 <Don Juan>《唐璜》 poem 诗 satiric masterpiece 讽刺的杰作 <Hours of Idleness>《闲散时刻》 poem 诗 the first volume of poem 首卷诗

3)、Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱 <Prometheus Unbound>《解放了的普罗米修斯》

drama 戏剧 <Ode to the West Wind>《西风颂》 poem 诗

4)、John Keats 济慈 poet 诗人<The Eve of St. Agnes>《圣阿格良斯之夜》 poem <On a Greeian Urn>《希腊古瓮颂》 poem

<To a Nightingale> 《致夜莺》 poem “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”美学原则

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