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Chapter 4
Robert Browning
.
(1) Life: married Elizabeth Barret, a
poetess.
(2)
Works
：①
< My Last
Dutchess>
我已故的公爵夫人
②
<
Home Thoughts From
Abroad>
海外乡思
③
Pippa Passes
3) the Dramatic
Monologue
The dramatic monologue is a
soliloquy in drama in which the voice speaking is
not the poet himself, but a
character
invented by the poet, so that it reflects life
objectively. It was imitated by many poets after
Browning
and brought to its most
sophisticated form by T. S. Eliot in his
The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock
(1915)
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）
He introduced
to English poetry a new form ,the dramatic
monologue
He has been praised as a
Elizabeth Barrett
Browing
:
Sonnet from the
Portuguese>
葡萄牙十四行诗
Chapter 5
the
Rossettis and Swinburne
1 Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Poem: The
Blessed Damozel
2 Christina Georgina
Rossetti
Poem: Goblin
Market
3 Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Chapter 6
William Morris
Poet, artist, socialist
Poem: The Defence of Guenvere
The
Life and Death of Jason
The Early
Paradise
Sigurd the V
olsung
The aim of his works is to bring beauty
into the life of his countrymen
Prose:
A Dream of Jhon
Ball
News from Nowhere
Chapter 7
literary trends at the end
of the century
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naturalism:
Naturalism is a literary trend
prevailing in Euope. According to the naturalism,
literature must be ture to
life and
exactly reproduce real life, including all its
details without any selection. They usually write
about the
life of the poor and
oppressed, or the slum life, they can oly
represent the external appearance instead of the
inner essence of real life.
George Gissing,:
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neo-romanticism
Dissatisfied with the drab and ugly
social reality and yet trying to avoid the
positive solution of the acute
social
contradictions. They laid emphasis upon the
invention of exciting adventures and fascinating
stories to
entertain the reading
public. They led the novel back towards stiry-
telling and to romance.
Robert
Louis Stevenson
金银岛
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aestheticism
the basic theory of the aesthetic
–
“art for art’s
sake” –
was set forth by a French poet,
Theophile Gautier. The
first
Englishman
who
wrote
about
the
theory
of
aestheticism
was
Walter
Peter,
the
most
important
critical
writer of the late
Victorian period, whose most important works were
studies in the
History of Renaissance
and
Appreciations
.
The
chief
representative
of
the
movement
in
England
was
Oscar
Wilde,
with
his
The
Picture of Dorian
Gray
. Aestheticism places art above
life, and holds that life should imitate art, not
art imitate
life. According to
aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely
subjective as opposed to objective. Art should be
free from any influence of egoism. Only
when art is for art’s sake can it be immortal.
It should be restricted to
contributing beauty in a highly
polished style.
.
Oscar Wild
e
奥斯卡
?
王尔德
1856~1900
（
The Aesthetic
Movement: Art for Art
’
s
Sake
）
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Comedies:
认真的重要
Windermere’s
Fan
>
温德米尔夫人的扇子
一个无足轻重的女人
理想的丈夫
②
Novel:
多利安
?
格雷的画像
③
Fairy Stories:
快乐王子故事集
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Chapter 8
English Literature of the first half of the
20
th
Century
Historical Background
1.
rational
changes on old traditions, in social standards and
in people’s thoughts
2.
the high tide
of anti-Victorianism
3.
the First World War
4.
the success of
women’s struggle for social and civil
rights
II.
Overview of the Literature
–
the Modernism
1.
What is
modernism?
The reaction against the
value of Victorian society and the theme of its
literature that began in the
1890s,
particularly with the so-called dissident writers,
was manifested in the early decades of the
20
th
century
by
drastic
changes
in
form,
vocabulary,
and
image.
These
changes
were
not
limited
to
England.
The
movement,
which
has
come
to
be
called
modernism,
was
international
in
scope
and
drew
heavily
on
the
French
Symbolist
poets
as
well
as
on
the
new
psychological
teachings
of
Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and
their followers in Vienna and Switzerland.
2.
Features of
modernism
(1)
Complexity
(2)
Radical and deliberate break with
traditional aesthetic principles
(3)
Back to
Aristotle
3.
Development of modernism after WWII
Section 1 Poetry
I.
A General
Survey
1.
The
century
has
produced
a
large
number
of
both
major
and
minor
poets,
many
of
whom
have
received general acclaim.
2.
Many writers
of significant works of fiction also write
distinguished poetry.
3.
The
poets
of
the
20
th
century
have
tended
to
group
themselves
into
schools
whose
poetry
has
particular distinguishing
characteristics.
II.
Thomas Hardy
1.
life
2.
works
(1)
his poetry
a.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses
b.
Poems of the
Past and the Present
c.
Time’s Laughing Stocks
d.
Moments of
Vision
e.
Late
Lyrics and Earlier
f.
The famous Tragedy of the Queen of
Cornwell
g.
Winter Words
(2)
his fictions
a.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b.
Jude the
Obscure
c.
The
Return of the Native
d.
Far from the Madding Crowd
e.
The Mayor of
Casterbridge
3.
point of view
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