Chapter One Old English Literature (5-11th )literature: BeowulfMajor plot: two major events; Beowulf slays the monster Grendel and its mother, becomes king of the GeatFeatureNational epic alliterationThemea folk legend brought to England by Anglo-saxons from their continental homes.Reflect the feature of tribal society in ancient times.Chapter Two Medieval English Literature(11-15th )Works:Sir Gawain and the Green KnightThe Romaunt of the rose“The Canterbury TalesWritters:Geoffrey ChaucerFeature：innovations in poetic vocabularyhumorlanguagevivid and exactChapter Three Literature of Renaissance and ReformaitonWriter and works1.Edmund SpenserThe Shepherd’s CalendarThe Faerie QueeneStyle: allegory written in Spenserian2. Francis BaconFamous for his EssaysOf StudiesWriting Features: His essays which were an introduction to Bacon’s worldly-wise philosophy, have won popularity for their clearness, brevity and force of expression.3. William ShakespeareWorks:Romeo and JulietThe Merchant of VeniceHamletChapter Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration(17th )Writters and worksJohn Milton’s Paradise LostJohn Bunyan Pilgrim’s ProgressFeature:language is chiefly plain and colloquial and quite modern in comparison with that of the writers of the Renaissance. His language is clear, vivid, natural, homely (朴实的), fluent, musical and powerful.Chapter Five Literature of Enlightenment(18th ) and classicismDaniel Defoe’s masterpiece is Adventures of Robinson CrouseJonathan Swift’s masterpiece is Gulliver's Travels.Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardChapter Six Literature of Romanticism in England (the first half of 19th )Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose《一红的玫瑰》Auld Lang Syne《友谊地久William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a CloudSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner 古舟子咏George G. Byron (1788-1824)Don Juan 唐璜Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)Prometheus Unbound 《解放了的普罗米修斯》Ode to the West Wind 《西风颂》John Keats (1795-1821)“ Ode on a Grecian Urn” 1819 希腊古瓮颂“To Autumn” 秋颂“ Ode to a Nightingale” 1819Chapter Seven Literature of Critical Realism (1837-1901) the Victorian AgeCharles Dickens (1812-70)David Copperfield 1848 masterpieceOliver Twist雾都孤儿1838Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)Jane Eyre:Chapter Twentieth Century Literature The Transition from 19th to the 20th Centuryin English Literature(1900-1945)Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Under the Greenwood Tree 《绿荫下》(1872);Oscar Wilde Wilde(1854 ---1900)The Picture of Dorian Gray 《道林•格雷的画像》George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)作品一Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece is Gulliver's Travels.Gulliver shipwrecks in Lilliput where the tallest people were six inches high. In his account of the two parties in the country, distinguished by the use of high and low heels, Swift satirizes the Tories and the Whigs in England.（Jonathan Swift RadicalDemocrats Gulliver's Travels irony exaggeration, contrast, irony）二Oliver TwistThe standard pattern in his novels is the basic conflict between money on the one hand, and love on the othereflect the nature of Victorian urban society with all its conflicts and disharmoniesHis novels are multifarious ([mʌltiˈfeəriəs]多种的，各式各样的), digressive（枝节的离题的）, humorous and fluid. His novels are urban ficiton of a new era, of which the plots are rarelytight-knit.1.Dickens took a popular art form, the comic novel, and gave it a distinctive wit, energy andvariety. Comedy in his novels consists of laughing at characters trapped in difficult situations.三William Shakespeare Hamlet .Structure: A. His plays usu. have more than one plot. Through contrast and parallel, the major and minor plots are woven into an organic whole.B. the device of a play within the play also plays an important part.4. Language: Shakespeare is a master of the English language, with a large vocabulary of 16000 English words. More important are the figurative speeches such as analogy and metaphor.5. Style: realistic style. The reader may be impressed by the typical speech modes —the question in Hamlet, the ambiguities in Macbeth, the exclamations and very simple but also very basic questions in King Lear.6. Theme：Living in the historical period of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, he paintsa panorama of the decline of the old feudal nobility and the rise of new bourgeoisie.四William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,（ English Romantic poet）五Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ode to the West Wind Theme: Shelly’s faith in the victory of man’s struggle against tyranny and depressionEvery stanza is a sonnet.Every stanza consists of 3 terzarima（三行诗隔句押韵法）+ couplet.The rhythmical pattern is aba bcbcdcdedee.Terzarima is poetry written in three-line stanzas (or “tercets”) linked by end-rhymes patterned aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe, etc.Theme Revolutionary spirit. Wish to destroy the old and build up a new7地下铁道2.In a Station of the Metro ˈˈˈˈˈˈˈThe apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.Apparition:This poem by Ezra Pound is perhaps the most famous of the imagist poems. Pound used it as an example of what he meant by imagism in his introduction to the first collection of his friends’ poems. It is a description of people in the Paris subway on a rainy, dark night.Four Great comediesThe Merchant of VeniceA Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you Like itTwelfth NightShakespeare’s four great tragediesHamletOthelloKing LearMacbethBeowulfBeowulf: The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem believed to have been composed in the early eighth century. written down in the tenth century. The first major poem in a European vernacular（本国语，地方语）language;Major plot: two major events; Beowulf slays the monster Grendel and its mother, becomes king of the Geats（耶阿特人，瑞典南部的斯堪的纳维亚人，6世纪是瑞典人所征服。