Charles-Lamb英国文学.ppt

Charles Lamb (17751834),Charles Lamb,1775,1789,1796,1834,Youth and schooling,Family Tragedy,Major Works,Features of Essays,Youth and Schooling,Charles Lamb was born in London in 1775. His father, John Lamb, was a poor clerk. Charles lamb studied at Christs Hospital .Here he had for a schoolfellow Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his senior by rather more than two years, and a close and tender friendship began which lasted for the rest of the lives of both.,Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favored political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, Henry Brougham, Lord Byron, Thomas Barnes and Leigh Hunt. He worked as a clerk in the east India House from 1792 to 1825.,The Old Familiar Faces (1789) ,his best-known poem A Tale of Rosamund Gray, a prose romance(1798) John Woodvil, a poetic tragedy(1802) On an Infant Dying As Soon As It Was Born (1828) is his finest poetic achievement.,His first period) : poetical drama,I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Love once, fairest among women: Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man: Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly;,Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces. Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seemd a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my fathers dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces; How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.,Tales from Shakespeare (1807) The Adventures of Ulysses (1808) Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare (1808) Mrs. Leicesters School (1809),His second period,Essays of Elia, 伊利亚随笔集，伊利亚散文集published in 1823. Last Essays of Elia, 后随笔集published in 1833,His third period: series of essays,Family Tragedy,Charles and his sister Mary both suffered periods of mental illness .On 22 September 1796, a terrible event occurred: Mary, “worn down to a state of extreme nervous misery by attention to needlework by day and to her mother at night,“ was seized with acute mania and stabbed her mother to the heart with a table knife Lamb reacted with courage and loyalty, taking on himself the burden of looking after Mary.,Features of Lambs Essays,The most important feature of his essays is humor,Lamb was especially fond of old writers.,His essays are intensely personal.,Lamb is a romanticist of the city,Features of Lambs Essays,1)The most important feature of his essays is humor. He starts with manner of subjects, but no matter what his themes is, he generally diverges into some personal incident or opinion. This done with such serio-comic humor that it becomes the most attractive feature of his essay. 2)Lamb was especially fond of old writers. The style of Lamb is old-fashion with reminiscences of Elizabethan writers. His vocabulary is often archaic and so are his sentences, which tend to become involved. He is fond of the semicolon and parenthesis. His style is also scholarly and bookish. Many of his phrases are copied from the old books that he loved to read.,3) His essays are intensely personal. He indulged in his own contemplation and imagination. He didnt care about national democratic movement or the liberation movement at home and abroad. He was not actually concerned about the miserable conditions of the poor. To him, literature was a means to express his own subjective world and to escape from the sordid. 4) Lamb is