英国文学发展史一览.ppt

文档介绍：英国文学发展史一览
By Tiger
版权所有者:何良武
Literature of Anglo-Saxon Period
Time: about 7th century
Features:
verse literature (唱诗)
two groups: pagan (非宗教性的) and religious
Main works:
“Beowulf”
poetry by Caedmon and Cynewulf
Literature of Middle Centuries
Time: mid 11th Century – 15th Century
Features:
of the Norman Conquest
works and writers:
Romances (骑士文学)
’s “The Canterbury Tales”
Literature of Renaissance
Time: early 16th Century—mid 17th Century
Features: the first glorious period of English literary history, “ A nest of singing birds …”(百家争鸣,百花齐放)
Main writers:
More
Spencer
Bacon

Literature during the Bourgeois Revolution
Time:1625—1688
The English Bourgeois Revolution begins from 1642
Features:
Puritan age represented by John Milton
Main literary form: Poetry
Main writers:
John Milton 1608--1674
Literature of the 18th Century
Features:
Also as the Enlightenment Movement Period (启蒙时期)
It is divided into 3 stages:
1.“Glorious revolution” to the end of 1730’s;
mature period (1740’s—1750’s);
last period covers the rest decades of the 18th century.
Main authors:
(小说家)Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding
(诗人)Alexander Pope
in England
Time: 1798--1832
Features:
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Main poet