英国文学总结表

History of English Literature

Historical

period

Old English

(410-1066)

Medieval

England

(1066-1400)

(The

Wars

of

Roses,

Founding

of

the

Tudor Dynasty)

Literary

Period

Anglo-Saxo

n

(poetry)

Representative

Representative works

writers

Beowulf

Significance

The

national

epic

of

the

English people.

The

founder

/

father

of

English

poetry,

and

the

earliest

forerunner

of

realism.

Medieval

/

Geoffrey

Middle

Chaucer

English

(poetry,

romance

and ballad)

Canterbury Tales

(masterpiece)

,

The House

of Fame

,

Troilus and

Criseyde, The parliament

of fowls.

The Arthurian legends:

Sir Gawain and the Green

Knight

Robin Hood Ballads:

Lytell Geste of Robin Hood

《罗宾汉英雄事迹小唱》

Utopia

The

forerunner

of

modern

socialist thought.

The

Pre-

Elizabethan

and

Elizabethan

Ages

(1400-1603)

(The

Reformation

and

the

Enclosure

Movement )

Renaissanc

e

(Humanis

m)

(Poetry

and

drama)

Thomas More

Edmund

Spenser

Christopher

Marlowe

The

Faerie

Queene

He has great influences on

(Spenserian stanza)

all the later poets.

Tamburlaine

《铁木耳转》

Dr. Faustus

《浮士德悲剧》

The Jew of Malta

《

马尔他

岛的犹太人》

(see

table

1)

The

four

Great

Tragedies

:

H

,

M

, O

, K

L

.

(The

summit

of

his

plays:

H

.)

Essays

The

greatest

pioneer

of

English

drama.

He

reformed

the

English

drama

by

adopting

blank

verse as the principal form.

One

of

the

founders

of

realism in world literature;

the

summit

of

the

English

Renaissance;

fist-rank

writer the world over.

The

first

English

Essayist;

founder of modern science

in

England

(materialist

philosophy).

He

wrote

the

greatest

epic

in literature ----

.

He

was

the

first

to

use

blank

verse

in

non- dramatic works.

He ranks with Shakespeare

as

two

patterns

of

English

verse.

William

Shakespeare

Francis Bacon

Revolution

and

Restoration

(the

17

th

century)

(English

Bourgeois

Revolution,

the

Restoration,

and

Revolution

John Milton

and

Restoration

(two literary

camps)

(Poetry:

Puritan,

Cavalier,

Pro

Populo

Anglicano

Defense;

Pro

Populo

Anglicano

Defense

Secunda;

Paradise

Lost

;

Paradise

Regained;

Samson Agonistes.

the

“Glorious

Met aphysi-

Revolution”)

cal.)

John Bunyan

Pilgrim’s Progress

;

The Life and Death of Mr.

Badman.

“The

Sun

Rising”

Representative

of

the

“Death, Be Not Proud”

“metaphysical poets.”

“Song”

“The Flea”

“An

Essay

of

Dramatic

Forerunner

of

the

English

Poesy”

classical

school

of

literature

in

the

18

th

century.

The Rape of the Lock

The

most

important

representative

of

the

English classical poetry.

John Donne

John Dryden

(Restoration)

18

th

Century

Enlightenm

(The

Industrial

ent

Revolution

and

(Classicism,

the

Realism,

Enlightenment)

Pre-roman

-ticism and

Sentimen-

talism)

(Novel,

prose

and

poetry)

(see

the

table

of

18

th

century

literature)

Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Defoe

Henry Fielding

Tobias Smollett

A

Modest

Proposal;

Guilliver’

s Travels

.

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

The

Father

of

English

Novel.

The

Founder

of

the

English Realist Novel.

Humphry Clinker; Rodrick

Random.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

(the most

(sentimentalist)

original

work

in

English

literature)

Richard

Brinsley

Sheridan

The School for Scandal

(the

best

English

comedy

since Shakespeare)

Oliver

The Vicar of Wakefield

Goldsmith

(poet,

novelist,

dramatist

and

essayist

combined in one

person)

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard

(a

model

of

sentimentalist poetry)

Songs

of

Innocence

and

Experience

;

“The

Tyger”

“The

Lamb”

“Lodon”

“The Chimney Sweeper”

.

Forerunners

of

the

Romantic

poetry

of

the

19

th

century.

Poems

Chiefly

in

the

(R. B: The national poet of

Scottish

Dialect;

“A

Red,

Scotland;

a

poet

of

the

peasants.)

Red Rose”

.

William Blake

Robert Burns