英美文学重点.docVIP

英语专业考研英美文学重点 英美文学重点（１） Old English 450-1066 Beowulf Medieval English 1066 - middle 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer - the father of English poetry The Canterbury Tales first time to use ’heroic couplet’ The Renaissance - rebirth or revival Humanism - the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being the importance of the present life Edmund Spenser - the poets’ poet The Faerie Queene Christopher Marlowe - University Wits, the pioneer of English drama Blank verse, hyperbole夸张 Dr. Faustus the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness The Passionate Shepherd to His Love pastoral life William Shakespeare - above all writers in the past and in the present time Four tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear Macbeth Sonnet 18 eternal or immortal beauty The Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality Hamlet hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger To be, or not to be - to live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action Soliloquy or monologue - fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters Francis Bacon - brevity, compactness powerfulness, his essays is an important landmark in the development of English proseInductive method 归纳法 in place of deductive method 演绎法Of Studies uses and benefits of study - studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies - studies and experience are complementary 互补 to each other. The correct attitude to reading books - to weigh and consider. How studies exert influence over human character - reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. John Donne Metaphysical poe