英国文学作品与作家一、Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里•乔叟1343~1400(首创“双韵体”,英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。
约翰·德莱顿(John Dryden)称其为“英国诗歌之父”。
代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。
)The father of English poetry.Writing style: wisdom, humor, humanity.作品:① <The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集:first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(双韵体) by middle English②<Troilus and Criseyde>特罗勒斯与克丽西德③ <The House of Fame>声誉之堂④<The book of the Duchess>公爵夫人之书⑤<The Parliament of Fowls>百鸟议会二、William Shakespeare威廉•莎士比亚1564~1616l playwright,poet评价comments:Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English literatur e莎士比亚同时代戏剧家本·琼森(Ben Johnson)--他不属于一个时代,而是属于。
(He was not of an age, but for all time.)作品:①Historical plays: Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; He nry V ;Richard II;Henry VIII②Four Comedies: <As You Like It>皆大欢喜; <Twelfth Night>第十二夜; <A Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦; <Merchant Of Venice>威尼斯商人③Four Tragedies: <Hamlet>哈姆莱特; <Othello>奥赛罗; <King Lear>李尔王; <Macbeth>麦克白④Shakespeare Sonnet :154 <The Sonnets>Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg三、Francis l Bacon弗兰西斯•培根1561~1626Bacon’s quote1、 knowledge is power 知识就是力量。
2、 Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance 美犹如盛夏的水果,是容易腐烂而难保持的,世上有许多美人,她们有过放荡的青春,却迎受着愧悔的晚年。
3、 Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.天生的能力好像天然生成的植物,必须通过学习加以修整;然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束,必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。
4、 Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set 美德好比宝石,在朴素背景的衬托下反而更华丽。
评价⏹∙the founder of English materialist philosophy.⏹∙The founder of modern science in England.⏹∙a representative of the English renaissance.⏹∙a well-known philosopher, scientist and essayist.Bacon’s works establish and popularize an inductive methodology f or scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. In duction(归纳法)implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through ex perimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses.(哲学家、散文家;在论述探究知识的著作中提出了知识就是力量这一著名论断;近代唯物主义哲学的奠基人和近代实验科学的先驱。
)Philosopher, scientist, lay the foundation for modern s cience. The first English essayist.n马克思称他为“英国唯物主义及现代实验科学之父”Writing style:brevity, compactness&powerfulness, well-arranging and e nriching by Biblical allusions, metaphors and philosophy to man’s reason.作品:①<The Advancement of Learning>学术的推进,总结了前人的一切知识,并进行归类。
②<Essays>随笔③<new instrument>新工具,阐述了归纳法④<new Atlantis>新大西岛,是乌托邦性质的作品十七世纪英国诗人John Donnethe Metaphysical poet(17世纪玄学派诗人)⏹∙English poet, preacher⏹∙He was the most outstanding of the English MetaphysicalPoets作品:⏹∙Songs and Sonnets 《歌与十四行诗》The Flea 《跳蚤》The Good-Morrow 《早安》Break of Day《破晓》⏹∙Epithalamions, or marriage songs 《颂歌》⏹∙Elegies 《挽歌》On His MistressTo His Mistress Going to bed⏹∙Divine poems 《圣歌》⏹∙Holy Sonnets 《神圣十四行诗》At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corner, BelowDeath Be Not ProudArtistic features:1. conceits or imagery奇思妙喻2. syllogism三段论John Milton约翰•弥尔顿1608~1674John Milton was an English poet, 政论家,polemicist (辩论家)He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, which is considered as the greatest English literary epic.评价:William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest En glish author". He remains generally regarded "as one of thepreeminent writers in the English language and as a thinker of world importance."写作的3个主题:rch governmentorceublicanism作品::Lycidas 《利西达斯》:Areopagitica 《为英国人民声辩》: Paradise Lost 《失乐园》是无韵体: Paradise Regained 《复乐园》: Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in ab ba abba cde cde, typical of Italian sonnet.Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and t hey serve him best who can endure the suffering best.冒险小说作家Daniel Defoe丹尼尔•笛福1660~1731小说家,新闻记者,小册子作者;十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。
He started The Review, a political and literary magazine in prison. 1704年,他创办《评论》杂志,这是英国第一份定期出版的社会和政治刊物。
评价:He is called “The Father of the English fiction”(英国小说之父)考,填空He is the first writer study of the lower-class people, his language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernac ular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.作品:① The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robi nson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记It praises the fortitude of the human labor and the Pur itan.Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventfu l life.It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goe s to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets reli eved and returns to England.② Captain Singleton 《辛格顿船长》③ Moll Flanders 《摩尔·弗兰德斯》④ A Journal of the Plague Year 《大疫年日记》⑤ Roxana 《罗克萨娜》Jonathan Swift乔纳森•斯威夫特1667~1745十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。