文学史读后感

Reading a book, sometimes you may be deeply moved by a very small period I think. Let me share an English great writer John Bunyan in 18th English history.

British revolution and civil wars had very deep and bad effects on the development of the whole British land and caused serious social turbulence. Also, this had profound influence on the British Literature. Literature in British went into a new time and the very first great writer named John Bunyan (1628—1688). He was a tinker who also was a Puritan. Bunyan was born in a devoted Puritan family in London. His father died when he was very young and then his mother left himself. Bunyan joined the army which belonged to English Parliament to fight for the ambitions. Then, Bunyan left the Parliament and made a living being a tinker, at the same time, Bunyan studied 《Bible》 intensively. In 1648, Bunyan married and his wife brought him two books 《Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven》and 《Practice of Piety》, which had profound impact on his later literature works, and other two books 《Bible》、 《Prayer Book》, these four books were the sources of Bunyan’s knowledge and thoughts. After several years, Bunyan was put into prison because of some social issue and political events, however, Bunyan persisted to write and completed the great immortal work 《The Pilgrim’s Progress》, and he wrote more than nine books in prison.

Bunyan’s work 《The Life and Death of Mr. Badman》(1608). The book is formed by conversations and appeared in the way of fables, a wise man told a story about a bad man’s whole life. Its aim is to criticize and satirize the evil crimes of the English bourgeoisie and noblemen. And another great work 《圣战》also made big contributions to the history of world’s literature. Now, let me share a splendid period which was impressed me.

Well, I told you before, how the prisoners entertained by the noble Prince Emmanuel, and how they behaved themselves before him, and how he sent them away to their home with pipe and tabor going before them. And now you must think that those of the town that had all this while waited to heat of their death, could not but be exercised with sadness of mind, and with thoughts that picked like thorns…… But at last as they, with many a long book, looked over the wall of Man soul, they thought that they saw some returning to the town; and thought again, who should they be? At last they discerned that they were prisoners. But can you imagine how their hearts were surprised with wonders! Especially when they perceived also in what equipage, and with what honor they were sent home. They went down to the camp in black, but they came back to the town in white; they went down to the camp in ropes, they came back in chains of gold; they went down to the camp with their feet in tatters, but they came back with their steps enlarged under them; they

went also to the camp looking for death, but they came back from thence with assurance of life; they went down to the camp with heavy hearts, but came back again with pipe and tabor playing before them. So, so soon as they were come to Eye-gate, the poor and tottering town of Man soul adventured to give a shout; and they gave such a shout, as made the captains in the Prince’s army leap at the sound thereof……They looked for nothing but axe and the block; but behold! Joy and gladness, comfort and consolation, and such melodious notes attending of them, that was sufficient to make a sick man well. So when they came up, they salute each other with welcome, welcome, and blessed be he that spared you.

This paragraph described a scene that Prince Emmanuel forgave the captures and prisoners who were in Man soul, and Prince was kind to them. Bunyan used a serious of parallel sentences forming obvious contrasts to praise the tolerance and kindness of god and he led to a bright road for the prisoners.

Undoubtedly, Bunyan was a great famous writer. I was deeply impressed on his works and his special characteristics. In daily life, Bunyan was a serious, optimistic and positive person. Though he was put in prison for many years, he never gave up, never became upset, he persisted to write, to fight for ideal life. His works infected so many readers, his achievements are beyond comparison. Bunyan was born in a war time, but he never complained because of the bad society, he wrote to

criticize unfair treatments, to encourage people see the bright future, to praise kind persons, to lead people to have a right attitude! What a great writer he was!

I think that all of us should learn to Bunyan, learn his great spirits. We now live in a peace and harmonious world; we should cherish it and try our best to make contributions to our common homeland; and we also should study hard to preserve and inherit the splendid culture and great works, create a new, a more excellent literary time! But in modern life, we see that so many persons choose to take their own lives when suffering some barriers, so many persons cannot bear pressure from life. Can you imagine that if all of us cannot have brave and strong minds, where is our future? How can we talk about sustainable development? So we have duties and obligations to work hard for our common life. And from a comprehensive view, we can learn that wars or revolutions could have big influence on the development of every fields of life, whatever happened, we should hold a right and positive attitude to face anything, survival of the fittest, every should achieve their own worth, make the life meaningful!

 

第二篇：外国文学史 读后感 - 2

在人类灿烂的文明史中，文学可以说是占据了极其重要的地位，而外国文学则是其中颇为耀眼的一个组成部分。只有能够较为完整地了解了人类创造的全部文化，只有对全世界优秀的文化进行有效的接纳，吸收，才能够造福于本民族的文化。“取其精华，去其糟粕”就是这个道理。所以，要发展我们自己的文学，也要带有批判精神积极学习外国文学，在这如今这个文化大熔炉的地球村里，促进不同民族，不过国家文学艺术方面的交流。学习外国文学其实也是我们进一步了解世界的一个重要途径。对于一个民族而言，其文学艺术的发展，一定会受到其他民族文学艺术的影响，所以批判地吸收外来文学的精华，是民族文艺不断发展，不断前进的一个重要保证。

外国文学中，欧美文学是很重要的一个分支。欧美有着很深的文化渊源，尽管它们各国有自己的特征，我们还是可以把它们作为一个整体进行研究。整个课程很全面地给我们介绍了不同时期，不同国家的文学传统，但是对于我个人而言，我最喜欢的还是希腊神话。