下大雪英国文学复习

2021年1月20日发(作者：浓情蜜意)
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Arcadia
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The Shepherds Calendar
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The Advancenient of Learning
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King Midas
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The Jew of Malta
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As You Like It
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Othello
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Julius Caesar
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Every Man in His Humour
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The Alchemist
and Sonnets
Temple
s
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Samson Agonistes
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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Absalom and Achitophel
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Annus Mirabilis
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Paradise Regained
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The Hind and the Panther
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Anglo-Saxon conquest happened in the 5th century
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The first Englishmen are Anglo-Saxons
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The history of English literature began with Anglo-Saxon settlement in
Britain
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Beowulf is the most important specimen of Old English literature
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The
main
stories
of
Beowulf
are
based
on
the
folk
legends
of
the
primitive northern tribes
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Beowulf presents an all-round life picture of the tribal society
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The use of alliteration, metaphors, understatements strong stresses
and predominance of consonants is a notable feature of Beowulf
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The first known religious poet in England is Caedmon
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When we talk about the Old English prose the first name that comes
into our mind is Venerable Bede
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The
Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle
is
Alfred
the
Great's
most
important
contribution to the Old English prose literature
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The Norman Conquest brought the body of customs and ideals known
as chivalry into England
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After the Norman Conquest, the knightly code, the romantic interest
in women tenderness and reverence paid to Virgin Mary were reflected in
English literature
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The prevailing literary form in the feudal England was the romance
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the culmination of the romances
about King Arthur
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William
Langland
wrote
about
social
discontent
and
preached
the
equality of men and dignity of labour
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Piers Plowman describes the narrator's dream visions
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Chaucer is acclaimed not only as the father of English poetry but
also as the father of English fiction
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The Romaunt of the Rose, the most popular poem of Middle Ages, was
one of
Chaucer’s
translations from French
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Being one of the forerunners of modernism, Chaucer praises man's
energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life
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One
of
Chaucer's
great
contributions
to
English
poetry
is
his
introduction of French poems to English poetry
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The keynote of English Renaissance was humanism
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Elizabethan
poetry
is
remarkable
for
its
variety,
freshness,
youthfulness and its romantic feeling
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One of the great contributions made by Thomas Wyatt to English
poetry is the introduction of the sonnet
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Howard is credited with introducing the blank verse into English
poetry
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Three cycles of sonnets were produced in the Renaissance period
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The first one is Astrophel and Stella
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The
Faerie
Queene
contains
six
stories
about
the
adventures
of
knights, who are made to be allegorical characters by Edmund Spenser
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The
dominating
thoughts
of
The
Faerie
Queene
are
nationalism,
humanism and Puritanism
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It
is
likely
that
when
writing
Hamlet
Shakespeare
borrowed
something from The Spanish Tragedy
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When Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Macbeth, he mainly relied on
Holinshed's Chronicles
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In
writing
plays,
Ben
Jonson
insisted
on
adherence
to
the
three
unities
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The
literature
of
the
Revolution
Period
is
different
from
the
literature of Elizabethan Period
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The works of the Metaphysical Poets are characterised by mysticism
in content and fantasticality in form
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The
poems
by
the
Metaphysical
poets
are
full
of
farfetched
conceits
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John Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, Lycidas, to
memorialise the tragic death of a Cambridge friend and classmate
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The stories of Paradise Lost were taken from the Old Testament
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Paradise Lost was written in blank verse
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Milton
’
s
poetry
is
noted
for
sublimity
of
thought
and
majesty
of
expression
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In The Pilgrim
’
s Progress, the allegorical narrative is based on the
idea of a journey
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In describing the Vanity Fair, Bunyan draws a satirical picture not
only of London at the time of the Restoration but of the whole bourgeois
society
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Dryden's greatest work of literary criticism is An Essay of Dramatic
Poesy
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After
Anglo-Saxon
conquest,
seven
small
kingdoms
appeared
in
Britain
and
later
they
were
combined
into
a
united
kingdom
named
England
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F
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Anglo-Saxon literature is exclusively a prose literature in oral form
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T

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English
poetry
in
the
Anglo-Saxon
period
falls
into
two
groups:
non-religious and religious
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T
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Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in the English language
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T

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Beowulf
reflects
how
people
in
the
tribal
society
fought
against
nature
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F

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Caedmon's
legendary
life
story
is
described
by
Bede
in
The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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F

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Historia
Ecclesiastica
describes
how
religion
was
introduced
and
spread in England
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T
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Venerable Bede is the first scholar in English literature and has been
regarded as the father of English learning
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F

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The
Ecclesiastical
History
of
the
English
People
is
the
best
monument of the Old English prose
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T
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Cynewulf took his poetical subject matter partly from the church
liturgy, but more largely from the homilies of Gregory the Great
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F 11
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After Norman Conquest, three
languages were used
in England
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They
were
French
used
by
the
Normans,
Latin
used
by
scholars
and