英国文学简史复习重点.docx

Byronic hero: with immense superiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kinds of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. E.g. George Byron “Don Juan”Conceit: In?/wiki/Literatureliterature, a?conceit?is an?/wiki/Extended_metaphorextended metaphor?with a complex?/wiki/Logiclogic?that governs a poetic passage or entire?/wiki/Poempoem. In?/wiki/English_literatureEnglish literature?the term is generally associated with the 17th century?/wiki/Metaphysical_poetsmetaphysical poets, an extension of contemporary usage. In the?/wiki/Metaphysicsmetaphysical?conceit, metaphors have a much more purely?/wiki/Conceptconceptual, and thus tenuous, relationship between the things being compared. E.g. John Donne “The Flea” English renaissance: The?English Renaissance?was a?/wiki/Cultural_movementcultural?and?/wiki/Art_movementartistic movement?in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. The beginning of the English Renaissance is often taken, as a convenience, to be 1485. Renaissance style and ideas, however, were slow to penetrate England, and the?/wiki/Elizabethan_eraElizabethan era?in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance. E.g. Thomas More “Utopia” William Shakespeare “Hamlet” Romanticism in English poetry: at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries romanticism appeared in England as a new trend in literature. It rose and grew under the impetus of the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution. In 1798 Coleridge and William Wordsworth jointly published the “Lyrical Ballads”, which marked the beginning of romanticism in England. (Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and int