英国文学选读复习考试资料罗经国.doc

Chapter 1 Earliest settlers---Celts 55 B.C. TO 407 A.D. ---Roman Empire(London was founded) 演变Celts- Romans – Anglo-Saxon – English Julius Caesar , the first general came to British 500A.D. THE founder of the kingdom wessex, the Celts King Arthur. His followers , who were know as the knights of the round table, fight for their kingdom against the AS invaders. 9th century, King Alfred , the great of Wessex lead the AS kings to defeat the invaders by uniting their forces. the Norman Conquest 1066, Duck of Normandy came from Normandy to attack England to gets the land promise to be given to him for protecting from the Danes invasion by Edward Ⅱ. And Normandy Two highlight in the development of AS literature A. Northumrian eq \o\ac(○,1)the first AS poet ---Caedmon The earliest English poet. According to Bede, he was an elderly herdsman who received the power of song in a vision. eq \o\ac(○,2)Vernerable Bede, A monk write in Lain The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Father of English History B. the reign of Alfred Contribution eq \o\ac(○,1)translate a number of Latin books into West Saxon dialect eq \o\ac(○,2)The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle eq \o\ac(○,3)created a style of Anglo-Saxon Prose A long epic poetry 长篇叙事诗 Beowulf the earliest heroic poetry the most significant poetry existed in oral form as early as the 6th century Beowulf is a mixture of paganism and Christian elements Difference between Old Eng poetry , later poetry is technical structure There are two poetic features of Old English poetry: alliteration and kenning. Chapter 2 流行Romance 主要写Knights Duke William of Normandy. The Norman Conquest in 1066 accelerated the development of feudalism 封建主义in ENG Categories of Romances: The matter of Erance ,the matter of Rome , the matter of Britain Middle ENG: words that are related with enjoyment and pleasure are usually of the French origin many inflectional form of words were dropped formal grammar simplified 5. Medieval Ro