高级英语第二版第三课Pub Talk and the King#39;s English.docVIP

Lesson Three Pub Talk and the Kings English I. See Additional Background Material for Teachers’ Reference points 6 and 7. 1) Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), English essayist and historian born at Ecclefechan, a village of the Scotch lowlands. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he rejected the ministry, for which he had been intended, and determined to he a writer of hooks. In 1826 he married Jane Welsh, a well-informed and ambitious woman who did much to further his career. They moved to Jane’s farm at Craigenputtoeh where they lived for 6 years (1828-1834 ). During this time he produced Sartor Restarts (1833-1834), a book in which he first developed his char- act eristic style and thought. This book is a veiled sardonic attack upon the shams and pretences of society, upon hollow rank, hollow officials, hollow custom, out of which life and usefulness have departed. In 1837 he published The French Revolution, a poetic rendering and not a factual account of the great event in history. Besides these two masterpieces, he wrote Chartism (1840), On Heroes, hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (I841), Past and Present (1843) and others. Carlyle, a peculiar style of his own, was a compound of biblical phrases, cool loquialisms, Teutonic twists, and his own coining, arranged in unexpected sequences. One of the most important social critics of his day, Carlyle influenced many men of the younger generation; among them were Mathew Arnold and Ruskin. 2) Lamb: Charles Lamb (1775-1834), English essayist, was born in London and brought up within the precincts of the ancient law courts, his father being a servant to an advocate of the inner Temple. He went to school at Christs Hospital, where he had for a classmate Coleridge, his life-long friend. At seventeen, he became a clerk in the India House and here he worked for 33 years until he was re-tired on a pension. His devotion to his sister Mary, upon whom rested an hereditar