alexander pope亚历山大·蒲柏 英文介绍培训材料

1、Alexander Pope 亚历山大蒲柏 课程：英语Alexander Pope Alexander Pope，1688年5月21日 - 1744年5月30日，是18世纪英国最伟大的诗人，杰出的启蒙主义者。 English essayist, critic, satirist, and one of the greatest poets of Enlightenment. Pope wrote his first verses at the age of 12. His breakthrough work, AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM (1711), appeared whe

2、n he was twenty-three. It included the famous line a little learning is a dangerous thing. Popes physical defects made him an easy target for heartless mockery, but he was also considered a leading literary critic and the epitome of English Neoclassicism.蒲柏出生于一个罗马天主教家庭，他幼年时期患有结核性脊椎炎，造成驼背，身高没有超过1.37米

3、，寿命不长（56岁去世）。 1727年的蒲柏.蒲柏从12岁即开始发表诗作，他的第一部重要作品是1711年他23岁时出版的诗体批评论，其中许多名句已经成为英语成语。 Alexander Pope was born in London as the son of Alexander Pope, a Roman Catholic linen-merchant, and Edith (Turner) Pope, who was forty-four when Alexander, her only child, was born. Edith Pope belonged to a large York

4、shire family, which divided along Catholic and Protestant lines. His early years Pope spent at Binfield on the edge of Windsor Forest, and recalled this period as a golden age: Thy forests, Windsor, and thy green retreats, / At once the monarchs and the Muses seats, / Invite my lays. Be present, syl

5、van maids! Unlock your springs, and open all your shades. Anecdotes from Popes life were deemed worthy of collecting during his lifetime. Joseph Spence, a critic, minor poet, and Popes biographer, tells that Pope was a child of a particularly sweet temper and had a great deal of sweetness in his loo

6、k when he was a boy.Alexander Pope故居Alexander Pope故居牌坊他的第一部重要作品是1711年他23岁时出版的诗体批评论，其中许多名句已经成为英语成语。1712年他写作了长篇讽刺诗夺发记，1714年又补充了两章。这首诗描写一家男孩偷剪了另一家女孩的一绺金发，因为此事引起两家的争执。蒲柏把此事描写得和伊利亚特中特洛伊战争一样壮观，写成了一部英雄史诗。早期作品中后期作品1713年起，他着手翻译荷马的史诗伊利亚特和奥德赛。蒲柏的代表作是讽刺长诗鬈发遇劫记（TheRapeoftheLock，1714），诗人称之为“英雄滑稽诗”（AnHeroi-ComicalPoem）。蒲柏的其他诗作还有讽刺长诗愚人志（TheDunciad，1742）、哲理诗道德论（MoralEssays，1731-1735）、人论（AnEssayonMan，1734）和与阿布斯诺博士书（EpistletoDr.Arbuthnot，1735）等。30年代他计划写一部关于人、自然和社会关系的巨著，但只完成一部序论：人论（1734年）。1735年，他写作了致阿巴思诺医生书，讽刺了身居高位，逍遥法外的道德败坏者。 蒲柏还为牛顿写了著名的墓志铭：“自然和自然法则隐藏在暗处，上帝说：让牛顿来然后所有的都暴露出来了”。亚历山大蒲柏