英美文学史简介

1、英美文学史简介Part A British Literature Early and Medieval English Literature 早期及中世纪英国文学1. “Beowulf”, the national epic of the English people.贝奥武夫 （Beowulf），完成于八世纪，约750年左右的英雄叙事长诗，长达3000多行。是以古英语记载的传说中最古老的一篇。是现存古英文文学中最伟大之作，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗。2. Geoffrey Chaucer ,the founder of English poetry.乔叟(1343-1400),英国诗歌之父.Th

2、e Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集, 以一伙来自社会各个阶层的香客在宗教朝圣的路上讲述故事为线索，向我们清楚地展示了那个时代人们的生活。在所有的23个故事中，除了两篇之外，其余都是诗歌体裁的作品。 The Renaissance rineis()ns 文艺复兴时期文学1. William Shakespeare 莎士比亚（15641616）英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的集大成者。莎士比亚给世人留下了37部戏剧play，其中包括一些他与别人合写的一般剧作。此外，他还写有154首十四行诗sonnet和三、四首长诗poem。四大喜剧：A Mids

3、ummer Nights Dream 仲夏夜之梦The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人As You Like It 皆大欢喜Twelfth Night 第十二夜四大悲剧:Hamlet 哈姆雷特 (To be, or not to be, that is the question)Othello 奥赛罗King Lear 李尔王Macbeth 麦克白其他：Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧与朱丽叶2. Francis Bacon 培根（ 1561-1626 ）The founder of English materialist philosophy and modern

4、science. Bacon is especially famous for his Essays.培根,英国唯物主义和现代科学奠基人,散文家.代表作：散文 Of Studies 论学习 The period of English Bourgeois buw: Revolution and Restoration 资产阶级革命时期文学1. John Milton 米尔顿Paradise Lost 失乐园2. John Bunyan 班扬 The Pilgrims Progress天路历程 Eighteenth Century English Literature 十八世纪英国文学1. Dan

5、iel Defoe: 笛福Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊漂流记2. Jonathan Swift：斯威夫特 Gullivers Travels 格列佛游记3. Henry Fielding 菲尔丁the Founder of the English Realistic Nov 英国现实主义小说奠基人Joseph Andrew 约瑟夫·安德鲁4. William Blake 布莱克 and Robert Burns彭斯 : Poet Romanticism in England 浪漫主义时期文学1. William Wordsworth 华滋华斯the representati

6、ve poet of the early romanticism. 标志着浪漫主义的开始2. George Gordon Byron 拜伦 Don Juan 唐·璜3. Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱Prometheus Unbound解放了的普罗米修斯If winter comes, can spring be far behind? 冬天来了,春天还会远吗?4. John Keats 济慈 Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂5. Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀 Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见 The Victoria

7、n Age 维多利亚时期文学1. Charles Dickens 狄更斯代表作：Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿、A Tale of Two Cities双城记、David Copperfield 大卫·科波菲尔2. William Makepeace Thackeray 萨克雷 代表作：Vanity Fair 名利场3. George Eliot 乔治·艾略特4. The Brontë Sisters 勃朗特三姐妹Charlotte Brontë夏洛蒂·勃朗特：Jane Eyre简·爱Emily Brontë艾米莉

8、83;勃朗特：Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄Annie Brontë安妮·勃朗特5. The Brownings 勃朗宁夫妇Husband: Robert BrowningWife: Elizabeth BrowningSonnets from the Portuguese 葡语十四行诗集 Twentieth Century English Literature 20世纪英国文学1. Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代Tess of the dUrbervilles德伯家的苔丝2. John Galsworthy 高尔斯华绥3. Oscar Wi

9、lde 王尔德Poet，dramatist, novelist and essayist.The Happy Prince and Other Tales 快乐王子和其他故事4. George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳 the most important English dramatist5. D. H. Lawrence 劳伦斯Lady Chatterleys Lover 查泰来夫人的情人6. Virginia Woolf 伍尔芙Feminism, the stream of consciousness意识流女权主义与现代主义小说的先驱7. James Joyce 乔伊斯Ulyss

10、es尤里西斯the stream of consciousness意识流Part B American Literature The Literature During the Colonial American and the American Revolution殖民地时期及独立战争时期的文学Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 American Romanticism and New England Literature 浪漫主义及新英格兰时期文学1. Washington Irving华盛顿欧文 (1783-1859)the first American to

11、 achieve an international literary reputation. 是美国文学的奠基人之一。他是第一个得到欧洲承认的美国作家，被称为“美国文学之父”。2. James Fenimore Cooper 库珀The Last of the Mohicans最后的莫希干人3. Nathaniel Hawthorne 霍桑 The Scarlet Letter 红字4. Edgar Allan Poe 爱伦·坡十九世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家。创立了侦探、惊悚小说的类型基础。5. Henry David Thoreau 梭罗 Walden 瓦尔登湖散文集6. W

12、alt Whitman 惠特曼the greatest innovator and pioneer in American poetry诗集 Leaves of Grass 草叶集7. Herman Melville麦尔维尔Moby Dick 白鲸 The Age of Realism and Naturalism 现实主义及自然主义文学1. Mark Twain 马克·吐温The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝里·芬历险记The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆·索亚历险记2. Henry James 亨

13、利·詹姆斯 The Portrait of a Lady 贵妇人画像3. Theodore Dreiser 德莱塞 Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹4. Jack London杰克·伦敦 The Call of the Wild 野性的呼唤5. Harriet Beecher Stowe：Uncle Tom's Cabin斯托夫人：汤姆叔叔的小屋 Twentieth-Century American Literature Before the War 20世纪文学1. Robert Frost 弗罗斯特We have ever learnt one of his

14、 poem Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Wood.其诗歌相对还是较浅显易懂的Here's another piece of work of Frost:Stopping By Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping here,To watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must thin

15、k it queer.To stop without a farmhouse near.Between the woods and frozen lake.The darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shake.To ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweep.Of easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.2. Ezra Pound庞德a forerunner or founder of American modern poetry美国现代诗歌的先驱及创始人Imagism 意象派 In a Station of the Metro在地铁车站:The apparition of these faces in the crowd.Petals on a wet, black