英国文学简史主要作品作家

集美大学外国语学院英国文学简史主要作品作家

Beowulf

King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.亚瑟王和他的圆桌骑士

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight高文爵士和绿衣骑士

Robin Hood罗宾汉

William Langland wrote Vision of Piers the Plowman. 威廉·朗格兰（英国文学之父，著有《耕者皮尔斯》）

Geoffrey Chaucer The Book of Duchess，Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集 诗体小说

Thomas More Utopia

Tottel’s Miscellany were Thomas Wyatt

Spenser——The Faerie Queene《仙后》Spenserian stanza斯宾塞诗体

The Shepheardes Calendar(牧羊人日历

poetical father

Philip Sidney——Astrophel and Stella《爱星者与星星》Apologie for Poetrie为诗一辩

John Lyly’s——Eupheus Euphemism委婉语

Christopher Marlowe克里斯托弗·马洛（英国戏剧家）The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.浮士德博士的悲剧blank verse素体诗（rhyme-less iambic pentameter）

William Shakespeare

All these dramas end happily：

A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之梦

The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人

The Merry Wives of Windsor温莎的风流娘们

As You Like It皆大欢喜

Though Romeo and Juliet is essentially a tragedy and The Merchant of Venice is tragic for

Shylock.

All tragedies：

Julius Caesar尤利乌斯•凯撒

Hamlet哈姆雷特

Othello奥赛罗

King Lear李尔王

Macbeth麦克白

Antony and Cleopatra安东尼与克里奥佩特拉

Timon of Athens雅典的泰门

Francis Bacon Bacon’s Essay was the first of its kind to appear in English literature.

Ben Jonson：

One of these was to bring the classic form of the three unities——unity of action, unity of time

and unity of place——back to the stage.戏剧三一律

he first poet laureate(桂冠诗人

The Authorized Version of the Bible——授权版本的圣经

King James’ Bible——国王詹姆斯圣经The Bible consists of two parts——the Old Testament旧约 and the New Testament新约.

John Donne

the Flea”跳蚤与爱情, “A Valediction: Forbidden Morning”一个告别演说Meditation冥想

Metaphysical Poets”玄学派诗人The basic features of Metaphysical poetry are its “wit”机巧 or

“conceit”奇喻.

John Milton

Paradise Regained复乐园 Paradise Lost失乐园 Samson Agonistes力士参孙 Lycidas往诗

Lycidas：It is a pastoral elegy. 田园挽歌

John Dryden

Dryden has been seen as “the father of English criticism.”英国批评之父

John Bunyan约翰·班杨

The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷

Alexander Pope亚历山大·蒲柏

heroic couplet英雄双韵体, in rhymed iambic pentameter五步抑扬格

1）The Rape of the Lock夺发记, the mock-epic戏仿史诗（writing technique）2）Essay on Man论人ethic work” 伦理作品Essay on Criticism论批评

Thomas Gray托马斯·格雷

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌/乡村墓园哀歌

poet laureate桂冠诗人

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village荒村: The Vicar of Wakefield威克菲德的牧师

Richard Brinsley Sheridan理查德·布林斯莱·谢立丹

The Rivals情敌and The School for Scandal造谣学校18th 三大喜剧之三：哥尔德斯密斯 高士密的《屈身求爱》 She Stoops to Conquer】

Thomason’s The Seasons四季 and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts夜思, both written in the

then unpopular blank verse.素体诗

George Crabbe乔治·克雷布

The Deserted Village.

William Blake

Songs of Innocence天真之歌(孩童之歌语言简明，孩子都看得懂) and Songs of Experience经验之歌,Tiger

Robert Burns

My Heart’s in the Highlands我的心在高原

“A Red, Red Rose” “Tam O’Shanter”

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal一个小小的建议

Gulliver’s Travels格列夫游记

Daniel Defoe丹尼尔·笛福

Robinson Crusoe鲁兵逊漂流记

Samuel Richardson

Pamela帕梅拉 Virtue Rewarded美善德报

Henry Fielding

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews约瑟夫·安德鲁斯的冒险的历史（冒险是时代主旋律）

Tom Jones汤姆·琼斯, the Foundling弃儿

William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads抒情诗谣集 标志着浪漫主义的开始[William Wordsworth和Samuel Taylor

Coleridge合作]

he Lakers”湖畔诗人

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan 写了忽必烈汗，充满东方色彩

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner老水手谣

Walter Scott

Ivanhoe（艾凡赫，劫后英雄传） and The Woodstock.伍德斯托克

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility理智与情感，Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见, Mansfield Park，Emma,

Northanger Abby, and Persuasion.

Byron—rebellion叛乱 Shelley—deep-thinking沉思冥想 Keats-—beauty唯美quiet宁静

“the Satanic Scholl”撒旦派a school for romantic poem

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein the Modern Prometheus现代普罗米修斯

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage公子哈罗德的朝圣之旅,Don Juan唐璜,The Giaour异教徒,The

Corsair书名,Lara

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound解放了的普罗米修斯

Ode to the West Wind西风颂

The poem, composed in iambic pentameter, consists of five stanzas of 14 lines each,5节14行

or four 3-line sub-stanzas 4个3行为一小节plus one 2-line couplet sub-stanza.结尾句对句

There are many run-on lines跨行and sub-stanzas跨小节句子, which suit well the depiction

of the unruly wind不羁的风 and the onrush of emotion.突进的情感

西风的象征A symbol of west wind：

1、destroy the old systems, society and things

2、The symbol of human revolution in the storm

“hear” appearing in the last line of the stanza. It describes the power of the west wind and its

double role as both destroy and preserver.

Destroy of the old; preserver of the new

To a Sky Lark一个天空云雀

A Defense of Poetry为诗歌辩护

John Keats济慈

Crecian Urn” 希腊古瓮颂

“Ode to a Nightingale” is one of Keats’ masterworks.

To Autumn致秋天

The Eve of 圣前夕

John Stuart Mill

Utilitarianism on Women

Wilkie Collins

The first detective stroty writer in English history

The moonstone The Woman in White

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist奥利弗·退斯特;

David Copperfield大卫·科波菲尔;

A Tale of Two Cities双城记

;Great Expectation远大前程

BleakHouse

Optimistic locale in London

William MakepeaceThackery萨克雷

The Book of Snobs势利者集;

Vanity Fair名利场;

Comes from Pilgrim;s Progress

Revecca(becky) Amelia Sedley

History of Pendennis潘丹尼斯的历史;

The History of Henry Esmond亨利·艾斯芒的历史;

The Newcomes纽可谟一家;

Charlote Bronte

Jane Eyre简爱Rochester

EmilyBronte

Wuthering Height呼啸山庄 Catherrine Heathclliff

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss弗洛斯河上的磨坊；

Silas Marner织工马南;

Middlemarch米德尔马契;

amuel Butler勃特勒1835-1902

The Way of All Flesh如此人生

Thomas Hardy

The most passive tragedy

Wessex novels

Under the Greenwood Tree绿茵下;

Far from the Madding Crowd远离尘嚣;

The Return of the Native还乡;

The Mayor of Casterbridge卡斯特桥市长;

Tess of the D’urbervilles德伯家的苔丝;

Jude the Obscure无名的裘德

Tess Alec Angel

George Gissing吉辛1857-1903

New Crub Srreet新穷士街;

Oscar Wilde王尔德1856-1900

The Picture of Dorian Gray道林·格雷的画像

Lady Windermere’s Fan温德米尔夫人的扇子;

A Woman of No Importance一个无足轻重的妇女;

An Ideal Husband理想丈夫;

The Importance of Being Earnest埃耐斯特的重要性

De Prafundis自深深处

Robert Louis Stevenson史蒂文生1850-1894

Treasure Island宝岛;

The Strange Case of Dr Jeykell and Mr Hyde化身博士;

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam悼念集 三大挽歌之一

For his friend who died early. Get peace through the entrance of the death

2nd section Contrast

Break

Pun:the lash of the waves and heartbreak

Rhetorical repetition

Robert Browning

My last Duchess已故的公爵夫人

The Lost Mistress失去的恋人

Use of the dramatic monologue喜剧独白

The Ring and the book

Victorian Drama

Problem play 问题剧

To show the attitude for the society

George Bernard Shaw

Mrs Warren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业

Pygmalion皮革马列翁

Man and Superman人与超人;

【世界三大挽歌】

Thomas Gray托马斯·格雷

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌/乡村墓园哀歌

John Milton

Lycidas：It is a pastoral elegy. 田园挽歌

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam悼念集