文档介绍：课程：英美诗歌欣赏
教材：英美诗歌教程 A Course of English and American Poetry
开课院系：外国语学院任课教师：李正栓教授
开课学期：学分：周学时：2 总学时：36 a
课程性质：学士学位专业课适用专业：非英语专业选修
本课程的教学目的：
本课程旨在通过英美诗歌的具体文本阅读，让选课的学生比较系统地了解并掌握英美诗歌的开展，了解英诗在各个历史时期的形式、风格、技巧和与之相关的时代背景、文学思潮等，掌握诗歌分析和欣赏的根本方法。
教学内容及根本要求：
比较系统和全面地介绍英美诗歌的开展历史，分析各个时期英美诗歌的经典佳作，阐述这些诗作的格式、韵律、风格和诗歌创作理论。重点将放在具体诗歌的分析上。通过比较详尽的分析，让学生掌握英诗的特点，提高他们欣赏英语的能力以及分析水平，熟悉英国诗歌的创作理论。本课程将涉及32位诗人的65首诗歌。除了认真研读这些诗歌以外，学生们应扩大自己的阅读范围，广泛地阅读相关的翻译和赏析材料以及其它优秀的英美诗作，提高自身对英美诗歌的理解和欣赏水平。
English Poetry
Session One

Part One Edmund Spenser
I. Background Information
The Renaissance in England: Renaissance is the ‘rebirth’ of literature, art and learning that progressively transformed European culture from the mid-14th century in Italy to the mid-17th century in England, strongly influenced by the rediscovery of classical Greek and Latin literature, and accelerated by the development of printing. The Renaissance is commonly held to mark the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern Western world. In literary terms, the Renaissance may be seen as a new tradition running from Petrarch and Boccaccio in Italy to Jonson and Milton in England, embracing the work of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare; it is marked by a new self-confidence in vernacular literatures, a flourishing of lyric poetry, and a revival of such classical forms as epic and pastoral literature.
Humanism became the key note of the English Renaissance. The Humanists emphasized the capability of the human mind and the achievements of human culture, in contrast to the medieval emphasis on God and contempt for the things of this world.
English poetry in the Renaissance period has one of its highlights. It achieved original beauty and exuberance, especially in the Age of Elizabeth. Elizabethan poetry is notable for its variety, its freshness, its freshness, its youthfulness, and its romantic ardor. A group of excellent poets appeared (including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Sh