英美文学著作及作者归类

1、英国文学The Old English poetry （ 450-1066）1、 the religious group:Genesis A， Genesis B Exodus based on the Old Testament （旧约） The Dream of the Roadbased on the New Testament （新约）2、 the secular groupOld English poets produced the national epic poem- Beowulf The Medieval Period （1066-mid 14th century）1、Rom

2、a nee （骑士文学）代表作 The Death of the King Arthur2、Geoffery Chaucer 乔首 : Father of Modern English Literature （英语诗歌之父 现代文学之 父）3、The Canterbury Tales（坎特布雷故事集）运用了 the heroic couplet英雄双韵体4、Folk Ballad 民谣的特点1）oral nature/ simple language 2）rhying abcb/ wonderful story 3）dominant mood or tone 4）make full use o

3、f hyperbole （夸张） 5）use of refrains （副歌、迭句） and other kinds of repetition.The Renaissance Period （14th-mid-17 th century）Edmund Senser埃德蒙 斯宾塞：A poets poet （诗人中的诗人）William Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon （莎翁）Tragicomedies 悲喜剧The Tempest（暴风雨）Measure for Measure（一报还一报）Five histories:Richard n King John He

4、 nry WParts I and Parts n,Henry V Six comedies: A midsummer Nights Dream ，The Merchant of Venice， Much Ado About Nothing （无事生非 ） AS You Like It （ 皆大欢喜 ） Twelfth Night The Merry Wives of Windsor （温莎的风流娘们）Tragedies：， Romeo and Juliet Juliet Caesar，四大悲剧：Hamlet，Othelio，King Lear，MacbethFrancis Bacon: Th

5、e first important English essayist（ 散文家 ） The founder of modern science of EnglishEssays散文集John Milton: the three great poem: Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson AgonisesChristopher Marlowe: He perfected the blank verse and made it principal medium of English drama.The University Wits: William Sh

6、akespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Robert GreeneThe Neoclassical Period （1660-17998）John Bunyan:The Pilgrims Progress（天路进程）预言体，除圣经外，流传最广的著作Jonathan Swift:The Battle of the BooksA Tale of TubGullivers TravelsDaniel Defoe: Father of modern novelist in history of western literature Robinson Crusoe Captain

7、 Singleton Moll Flanders Robert Burns: A Red Red RoseThe Romantic Period（1798-1832）William Wordsworth（ 消极诗人 ）， Lake poetAn Evening Walk Captain Singleton Lyrical Ballad （与 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 合作）I Wonder Lonely as a Cloud （我独自漫步去云端）Samuel Taylor Coleridge: （消极诗人） Kubla Khan （忽必烈，与 Wordsworth 合作）

8、George Gordon Byron: （积极诗人） Childe Harolds Pilgrimage Don JuanPercy Bysshe Shelley:（积极诗人）Queen Mab（仙后麦布）The Revolt of Islam（伊斯兰的 起义）The Cenci（钦契一家）Prometheus Unbound（解放的普罗米修斯）Ode to the WestWind John Keats:（积极诗人）To AutumnMajor Novelist: Jane Austen, Walter ScottJane Austen: Sense and SensibilityPrid

9、e and PrejudiceMansfield Park （曼尔菲尔德庄园）EmmaPersuasion（劝导）Northanger Abbey（诺山觉寺）The Victorian Period （1837-1901）Charles Dickens: Great ExpectationHard TimesOlive TwistDavid Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities The Posthumous Paper of Pickwick Club （匹克威客外传）Charlotte Bronte: Jane EyeJude the Obscure（无名的裘德）

10、 Tess of DUrbevilles（德伯家的苔 统治者）Thomas Hardy:Wessex小说集Un der the Green wood Tree（常青树）Far from the Madd ingCrowd （远离尘嚣）丝） The DynastsThe Modern PeriodLiterary trends of modernism: expressionism, surrealism, futurism, Dadaism, imagism and streams of consciousnessGeorge Bernard Show（ 萧伯纳，戏剧家，生于都柏林 ） Pyg

11、malion （卖花女）James Joyce:（生于都柏林）：The Portrait of Artist as a Young Man（青年艺术家的肖像） UlyssesDH Lawrence: Sons and Lovers Woman in Love Lover 意识流代表作： Dorathy Richardson Pilgrimage Mrs.Dalloway E.M.Forster: A Passage to India（the second half of the 19th -early decades of 20th ）The RainbowLady ChatterleysJo

12、yce Ulysses Virginia WoolfSamuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 美国文学The Literature of the Colonial PeriodFour classes of writers:1 the annalists and historians2 the poets代表人物： Anne Bradstreet3 a few characteristic books dealing with nature and the Indians4 theological writers 代表人物： Jonathan EdwardsThe Re

13、volutionary Period1 two things no Europeans had experienced: the natural wildness and the Revolution2 the first great generation of American writers:Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson.3 B

14、enjamin Franklin:The Romantic Period (the American Renaissance, 美国文学的开端 )1 begin: in 1820, Washington Irving published End: the American Civil War broke out2 英美浪漫时期的共同点：They both believed in man s being good in nature and corruption in society;They both stressed individualism and affirmed the inner

15、life of the self;They both cherished string interest in the past, especially the medieval, and were attracted by the wild, the indefinite, the exotic, the mysterious, and the strange.3 英美浪漫时期的不同点American romanticism exhibited from the very beginning some distinct features of its own. The national ex

16、perience of “ pioneeringinto the west ”proved to be rich and unique resources for American writers.American Puritanism as a very important cultural heritage also exerted a great influence over American literature.American moral values were essentially puritan. Compared with their European counterpar

17、ts, American romantic writers tended more to moralize than to entertain in their works.4 Walt Whitman: 5 Washington Irving: 美国文学之父The Sketch Book之 &The Lege nd of Slee py Hollow6 Edgar Allan Poe: the father of the detective story 7 Ralph Waldo Emerson was called intellectuals of the declaration of independence.8 Henry David Thoreau 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne: 最具影响力的浪漫主义小说家He was the first American novelist to develop truly native and American settings, characters, and e