英国文学复习重点.doc

Key Points for British Literature Old and Medieval English literature 1. Beowulf p. 1-3 p. 7-8 2. medieval romance p. 16-17 3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales and the heroic couplet p. 29-34 4. popular ballads Robin Hood and the ballad meter p. 50-51 The English Renaissance 1. Edmund Spenser Faerie Queen and the Spenserian stanza p. 69-70 (the paragraph) Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus p. 85-86 William Shakespeare p. 93-99, p.149, p.156-157 Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; The Twelfth Night Sonnet 18 The 17th Century Francis Bacon Essays “Of Studies” p. 169, p.178-179 John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry p.182-184, p.192 John Milton: Paradise Lost p.202-205, p.209-210 John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress p. 216-217 The 18th Century Historical background p. 232-237 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders p. 238-242 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal” Neoclassism and Alexander Pope : p.236 Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield. p. 291-292 Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose” “Auld Lang Syne” William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, “The Tyger” The Age of Romanticism general features of Romanticism p. 4-5 William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, “The Solitary Reaper”, “Tintern Abbey”, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” p. 6-8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan George Gorgon Byron: the Byronic hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind” John Keats：“Ode to a Nightingale” The Victorian Age general features: p. 126-134 Charles Dickens: p. 135-136, Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House William Thackeray: Vanity Fair The Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights Thomas