文档介绍：英国文学史与选读
讲座课件
汤富华 2004年3月
通过作品找意境,通过中西文学对比,让文学课升华至文化课,让我们的学生成为自己的主人。
Early and Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer, the founder of English poetry, was born, about 1340, in London. He was the son of a wine merchant who had connections with the court.
Francis Bacon
“Of Studies”
To be pared with 《劝学篇》
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring, for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For different expert man can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; But the general courses and the plots and marshalling of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time on study is sloth, to use them too much for ornament, is affectation, to make judgment only by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience, for nature abilities are like nature plants, that need to be pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large.
Of Studies
君子曰:学不可以已。青,取之于蓝,而青于蓝;冰,水为之,而寒于水。木直中绳,揉以为轮,其曲中规,虽有槁暴,不复挺者,輮使之然也。故木受绳则直,金就砾则利。君子博学而日参省乎己,则知明而行无过矣。
吾尝终日而思矣,不如须臾之所学也。吾尝跂而望矣,不如登高之博见也。登高而招,臂非加长也,而见者远。顺风而呼,声非加疾也,而闻者彰。假舆马者,非利足也,而致千里。假舟辑者,非能水也,而绝江河。君子生非异也,善假于物也。
积土成山,风雨兴焉。积水成渊,蛟龙生焉。积善成德,而神明自得,圣心备焉。故不积跬步,无以至千里;不积小流,无以成江海。骐骥一跃,不能十步;驽马十驾,功在不舍。锲而舍之,朽木不折;锲而不舍,金石可镂。蚓无爪牙之利,筋骨之强,上食埃土,下饮黄泉,用心一也。蟹六跪而二螯,非蛇蟺之穴无可寄托者,用心躁也。
荀子·劝学
Thomas More(1478-1535)
He was born in a middle-class father was a prominent lawyer,and later a scholar by nature ,he became a early he was elected to Parliament and he acted as the spokesman of London merchants who were on e of the principal stays of the Tudor monarchy.
Daniel Defoe: 1660-1731
Son of James and Mary Foe, a merchant mitted to Puritanism (Presbyterians)
Sound education at Morton’s Academy. Only Anglicans could graduate from Oxford or Cambridge.
1684: Marries Mary Tuffley, an heiress wit