英语专业八级 英国文学知识总结.doc

1 Old and Medieval Period1-1 the Anglo-Saxon Period Beowulf Caedmon Caedmons Hymn Cynewulf The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene1-2 the Middle English Period Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Thomas Marlory Le Morte DArthur (The Death of King Arthur) William Langland Piers the Plowman Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales1-3 the 15th Century The Robin Hood Ballads2 The Renaissance Period2-1 poem Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry Edmund Spencer The Shepheardes Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene2-2 prose Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry , The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Wisdom), The New Atlantis John LylyEupheus 2-3 drama Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta William Shakespeare Comedies:A Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, The Twelfth NightTragedies:Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The TempestHistorical plays:Henry , HenryLong narrative poems:Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece Ben Johnson Volpone 3 The Period of Revolution and Restoration3-1 poets in Revolutionary Period John Milton Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes John Donne The Sun Rising, The Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, A Hymn to God the Father, Death, Be not Proud, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning George Herbert The Altar, Easter Wings3-2 prose writers in Revolutionary Period John Bunyan The Pilgrims Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War 3-3 writers in Restoration Jeremy Collier A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage John Dryden The Hind and the Panther, All for Love, Absalom and Achitophel, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 4 The Age of Enlightenment4-1 writers of Neo-Classicism Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man Richard Steele Joseph Addison The Tattler, The Spectator Samuel Johnson The Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of English Poets4-2 writers of Realistic Tradition Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jacque, Moll Flanders Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub, Predictions for the Year 1708, Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Gullivers Travels, The Drapiers Letters, A Modest Proposal Henry Fielding Plays:The Welsh Opera, Don Quixote in England, Pasqin, The Historical Register for the Year 1736 Novels: Joseph Andrew, Jonathan Wild and Great, The History of Tom Jones, a Founding, Amelia 4-3 writers of Sentimental Tradition Samuel Richardson Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa Harlowe, Sir Richardsons Grandison Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey Oliver Goldsmith The Traveler, The Deserted Village, The Vicar of Wakefield Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard Edward Young From Night Thoughts4-4 English drama John Gay The Beggars Opera Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals, The School for Scandal 5 The Age of Romanticism5-1 Pre-Romantic poets James Thomas The Seasons William Collins Ode to Evening William Blake Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Robert Burns My Hearts in the Highlands, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne5-2 Lake poets (or the first generation) William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Lines Written in Early Spring), An Evening Walk, Lucy Poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Excursion, To the Cuckoo, The Solitary Reaper, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, To a Highland Girl, The Prelude Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christable, Kubla Khan, The Fall of the Bastille Robert Southey Joan of Arc, Wat Tyler, The Inchcape Rock, The Battle of Blenheim5-3 Romantic poets of the second generation George Gordon Byron Lyrical poems:She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, Hebrew MelodiesLong Poems:Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Ode to the West Wind, Ode to a Skylark, A Defense of Poetry, The Necessity Of Atheism John Keats When I have a Fear, On Melancholy, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, To Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale 5-4 prose writers of the Romantic Age Charles Lamb Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia, Old China William Hazlitt Literary critics: The Characters of Shakespeares Plays, Lectures on the English Poets, Lectures on the English Comic Writers, Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, The Spirit of the Age Essays: Table Talk, The Plan Speaker, Sketches and Essays Thomas De Quincey The Confession of an English Opium-Eater, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth5-5 English fiction in the Romantic Age Walter Scott The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Ivanhoe Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey6 The Victorian Period 6-1 Critical Realist novelists in Victorian Age Charles Dickens The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, American Notes, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend William Makepeace Thackeray The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, The Virginians Charlotte Bronte Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Anne Bronte Agnes Grey, The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall Mrs. Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte, Mary Barton George Eliot Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of DUrbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Growd6-2 Victorian poetry Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Break, Break, Break, Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, Poems by Two Brothers, The Princess Robert Browning Men and Women, My Last Duchess, Parting at Morning, Meeting at Night Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer, Dover Beach, Essays in Criticism, Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma7 The Modern Period7-1 novelists John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, The Indian Summer of a Forsyte (interlude), In Chancery, Awakening (interlude), To Let A Modern Comedy: The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, Swan Song Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension, Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves Nest, Something Childish, Life of Ma Parker7-2 playwrights Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband, The Important of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorain Gray, A Women of No Importance, Lady Windermeres Fan, The Happy Prince and Other Tales Bernard Shaw Widowers Houses, Mrs. Warrens Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Pygmalion John James Osborne Look Back in Anger Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot7-3 poets W. B. Yeats Sailin