大学英国文学史整理.docx

Ode to the West Wind 第一段 Stanza 1 Addressing the west wind as a human, the poet describes its activities: It drives dead leaves away as if they were ghosts fleeing a wizard. The leaves are yellow and black, pale and red, as if they had died of an infectious disease. The west wind carries seeds in its chariot and deposits them in the earth, where they lie until the spring wind awakens them by blowing on a trumpet (clarion). When they form buds, the spring wind spreads them over plains and on hills. In a paradox, the poet addresses the west wind as a destroyer and a preserver, then asks it to listen to what he says.The Rhyme scheme-aba bcb cdc ded ff Iambic metreOliver Twist 主要内容和思想主题One of Charles Dickens most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Oliver was a poor orphan orphan. He had no parents. At the workhouse, his masters were very stick. So, one day, he escaped to London. In London, he met a thief and his friends, who taught him to steal from rich people. During this time, he met a kind man, Mr.Brunlow. But the thief forced Oliver to steal from Mr.Brunlow. If Oliver refused, they would kill him. But one day ,the police found the thief and they arrested him and sent him to prison. Finally , adopted Oliver. Mr.Brunlow adopted. In Oliver Twist, Dickens mixes grim realism and merciless satire as a way to describe the effects of industrialism on 19th-century England and to criticize the harsh new Poor Laws. Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped in a world where his only options seem to be the workhouse. industrial/institutional setting, however, a fairy tale also emerges. In the midst of corruption and degradation, the essentially passive Oliver remains pure-hearted; he steers away from evil when those around him give in to it, and in proper fairy-tale fashion, he eventually receives his reward leaving for a peaceful life in the country, surrounded by kind friends. On the way to this happy ending, Dickens explores the kind of life an orphan, outcast boy could expect to lead in 1830s London.My Last Duchess 最后十行赏析The poem is written as a dramatic monologue: one speaker relates the entire poem as if to another person present with him. It uses iambic pentameter of AABB couplets.The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of his prospective second wife a tour of the artworks in his home. He stops before a portrait of the late Duchess, apparently a young and lovely girl. The Duke begins reminiscing about the portrait sessions, then about the Duchess herself. The Duke describes her happy, cheerful and flirtatious nature, which had displeased him. He wants to show himself off and show his wifes disloyalty to him but on the contrary, the readers find out he is a savage, small-minded man. The Duke then resumes an earlier conversation regarding wedding arrangements, and in passing points out another work of art, a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse，as he wants to tame duchess.George Gordon Byron 乔治戈登拜伦 Romantic Poets 1) Hours of Idleness 闲暇的时刻（first volume of poems） 2) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 英格兰诗人和苏格兰评论家3) Childe Harold Pilgrimage恰尔德.哈罗尔德游记 4) Don Juan 唐璜（Byrons greatest work, satiric masterpiece讽刺名作） 5) The Giaour 异教徒6) The Corsair 海盗 7) Lara 莱拉 8) Childe Harold Pilgrimage 恰尔德 哈罗尔游记 9) Manfred曼弗雷德 10) Cain 该隐 11) When We Two Parted 12) She Walks in Beauty 13) Sonnet on ChillonPercy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱Romantic Poets p791) The Necessity of Atheism 无神论的必要性2) To a Sky Lark致云雀3) The CloudJohn Keats约翰济慈Romantic Poets 1) On First Looking into Chapmans Homer 2) Endymion 恩底弥翁 (“feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished”) 3) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes, and other Poems 4) On Melancholy 哀感 5) Ode On a Greeian Urn 希腊古翁颂 6) To Psyche 心灵 7) To a Nightingale 夜莺颂 8) To Autumn 秋颂9) HyperionCharlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂勃朗特 1) Jane Eyre 简爱 2) The Professor 教授3) Shirley 雪莉 4) Villette 维莱特Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯 p1021) Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 2) A Christmas Carlo 圣诞欢歌 3) David Copperfield大卫科波菲尔 4) Bleak House 荒凉山庄 5) Hard Times艰难时刻 6) Little Dorrit 小杜丽 7) A Tale of Two Cities 双城记8) Great Expectations 远大进程 9) Our Mutual Friend 我们共同的朋友Alfred Lord Tennyson 艾尔弗雷德丁尼生-Victorian Poet 1) Ulysses 尤利西斯Robert Browning 罗伯特布朗宁- Victorian Poet /dramatic monologue(手法) p1171) My Last Duchess 我已故的公爵夫人 2) The Ring and the Book 指环和书William Makepeace Thackeray-Victorian PoetVanity Fair 名利场Vanity FairTime and place: 19th century of EnglandCircumstance: the story happens in the middle-upper class. At that time, the industry and business are booming and the war between Britain and France breaks.Plot: two plotsOne is about the deceased poor painters daughter Rebecca Sharp, who ends up as a “respected” member of society after many vicissitudes.The other clue writes the pure girl Amelia Sedley who is deeply in love with the officer George Osborne.Character: Thackeray presented his characters as they are real in life. He recorded the failings of his characters, as well as their merits and capacities. He also described his characters through contrast, like Amelia vs Becky. Becky: an orphan trying so hard to climb up into the upper class. Amelia: a kind-hearted , weakly sentimental girl who wholeheartedly loved her husband. Rawdon Crawley: Thackeray describes him as a “heavy dragoon with strong desires and small brains, who had never controlled a passion in his life”. George Osborne: a hypostatical young man, a son of a trader.- Rebecca Sharp: the leading character, wife of Rawdon (Becky is short for Rebecca)Amelia Sedley: Beckys schoolmate and dear friendRawdon: Beckys husband, a soldierGeorge: Amelias husbandWillian Dobbin: Georges friend, loved AmeliaJoseph Sedley: Amelias brother, liked BeckyTheme:The title suggests the theme: vanity fair. The treasures of vanity fair, that is money and position, are desirable but transient. Thackerays idea, then, is that although one may live in vanity fair, one need not be a slave to its values, which eventually turn into emptiness.Thomas Hardy-Naturalistic writer1) My Last Duchess 我已故的公爵夫人 2) The Ring and the Book 指环和书Oscar Wilde-Modern dramatist1） The Picture of Dorian Gray道林格雷的画像2） The Happy Prince and Other Tale快乐王子和其他故事3） A House of Pomegranates石榴屋4） Poems诗集George Bernard Shaw 乔治伯纳萧-Modern dramatist1) The Quintessence of Ibsenism 易卜生主义的精华 2) The Perfect Wagnerite 完美的瓦格纳 3) Widowers Houses 4) The Philanderer 拉皮条者 5) Mrs. Warrens Profession 华伦夫人的职业Joseph ConradHeart of DarknessT.S. Eliot-Nobel Prize Winner1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock （poem）2) The Waste Land3)Ash Wednesday4) Murder in the Cathedral (play)William Butler Yeats1)The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems 2)The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics 3)In the Seven Woods 4)The Wild Swans at Coole 5)Michael Robartes and the Dancer6)The Tower (1928) 7)The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)James Joyce 詹姆斯乔伊斯-Modernist Novelist1) Dubliners 都柏林人 2) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 一个年轻画家的肖像 3) Ulysses 尤利西斯Virginia Woolf-Modernist Novelist1) Monday or Tuesday2) Jacobs Room 3) Mrs. Dalloway 达洛维夫人4) To the Lighthouse 5) The waves 海浪 6) Between the Acts 幕间D.H. Lawrence劳伦斯1) Sons and Lovers 儿子和情人 Oedipus Complex 俄狄浦斯情结2) The White Peacock 白孔雀 3) Rainbow 虹William Golding1) Lord of the flies 2) The InheritorsLord of the fliesThe ThemeThe theme is the dark sideor evilof human nature. Lord of the Flies is the most adequate illustration of the point.The StoryA group of boys ages 6 to 12 are left on a desert island as a result of a plane crash. Completely on their own in a world where there is no adult guidance and supervision, the children begin to take life into their own hands. As they differ on the issue of how to live as a group, they take different courses of action. Ralph, the leader figure, would like to establish law and order, but Jack Merridew wants to go hunting and killing. Jack forms his own separate group and leads some boys away. Soon the two distinct notions of life and modes of behavior come to clash with one another, and things begin to happen at an amazing rapidity. First Piggy gets killed by Roger, Jacks “executioner”. （刽子手，死刑执行者） Then Simon is murdered.Jack gets the upper hand, and Ralph has to hide himself to run from his hot pursuit. The twins, Sam and Eric (known as Samneric) are threatened with torture if they refuse to tell on his whereabouts. Jacks gang sets the island on fire in order to drive Ralph out in the open. The fire catches the attention of a passing ship, which then comes over to stop their barbarism and take them back to their country.1.Romanticism浪漫主义 1)a movement in literature, philosophy, music and art from late