《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点
1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题
2. Romance (名词解释
3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur' s story 4. Ballad(名词解释
5. Character of Robin Hood
6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance;
form: heroic couplet
7. Heroic couplet (名词解释 8. Renaissance(名词解释 9.Thomas More—— Utopia
10. Sonnet(名词解释 11. Blank verse(名词解释 12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies” (推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本
文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警
句,非常值 得一读
14. William
Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情
节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的是 Hamlet 这是肯定的。他的 sonnet 也很重要,最重要属 sonnet18。
(其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读
15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要,特别是 Paradise Lost 和 Samson
Agonistes。对于 Paradise Lost 需要知道它是 blank verse写成的,故事情节来自 Old
Testament,另外要知道此书 theme 和 Satan 的 形象。
16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim' s Progress
17. Founder of the Metaphysical school —— John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images.
18. Enlightenment(名词解释
19. Neoclassicism(名词解释
20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler”
21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator” 这个比上面那个要重要, 注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一
样,它虚构了一系列的人物,以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文,这一部分要仔
细读。 22. Steel' s and Addison' s styles and their contributions
23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features and limitations
24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver' s Travels” 此书非常重要,要知道具体内容,就是 Gulliver 游历过的四个 地方的英文名称,和每个部分具体的讽刺对象 ; (我们主要讲了三个地方 “A Modest Proposal” 比 较重要,要注意作者用的 irony 也就是反讽手法。
25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature.
26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是 Robinson Crusoe比较重要,剧情要清 楚, Robinson
Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形, 以及殖民主义的萌芽。 另外注意
Defoe 的 style 和 feature ,另外 Defoe 是 forerunner of English realistic novel。
27. Samuel Richardson ——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel, “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison”
28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones” 第一个和第三个比较重要,需要 仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家,另外 Fielding 也被称为 father of the English novel.
29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy” 项狄传
30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal”
31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem, “The Deserted Village” (poem (both two poems were written by heroic couplet, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel, “The
Good-Natured Man” (comedy, “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy, “The Citizen
of the
World” (collection of essays
32. Sentimentalism(名词解释
33. Thomas Gray——“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (英国诗歌里非常著名的一首,曾经被 誉为 “ 有史以来英国诗歌里最好的一首 ” (a
representative of sentimentalism and graveyard school of poets 墓园派诗人
* Graveyard School / Poets”: A term applied to eighteenth -century poets who wrote meditative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods
which range from elegiac pensiveness to profound gloom. The vogue resulted in one of
the most widely known English poems, Thomas Gray' s “Elegy written in a country churchyard”. The writing of graveyard poems spread from England to Continental literature in the second part of the century and also influenced some American poets. 34. In the latter half of the 18th century, Pre-Romanticism; representative: William Blake and Robert Burns.
35. Thomas Percy ——“Reliques of Ancient English poetry” 许多中古的民谣都是在这个时期重新收集
和整理起来的,这个集子是那个时代比较有名的一个民谣集。
36. William Blake 比较重要,需要对主要作品有所了解,特别是 Songs of Innocence 和 Songs of Experience, 这两本集子的 contrast 一定要注意,另外 Blake
的写作特点也要注意,比如语言的简单 明了,神秘主义氛围等。
37. Robert Burns伟大的苏格兰民族诗人 , A Red Red Rose, Scots Wha Hae, Auld Lang Syne等名诗,写 作特点 : Scottish dialect; a poet of peasant and Scottish people;
plain language; influence from Scottish folk songs and ballads; musical quality of his poems.
《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题
I. 浪漫主义时期
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.
1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.
A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads
B. the death of Sir Scott
C. the birth of William Wordsworth
D. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____. A. Novel B. poetry C. drama D. prose
3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.
A. the special qualities of each individual' s mind
B. the inner world of the human spirit
C. individuality
D. the features that men have in common
4._____ is not a Romantic poet.
A. William Blake B. Sir Scott C. P. B. Shelley D. Lord Byron
5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains. A. Walter Scott B. Mary Shelley
C. Jane Austen D. Ann Radcliff
6. _____ is not characteristic of William Blake' s writing.
A. plain and direct language B. compression of meaning
C. supernatural quality D. symbolism
7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.
A. Byron B. Coleridge C. Shelley D. Keats
8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest. A. the life of rising bourgeoisie
B. aristocratic life
C. the life of the royal family
D. common life
9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.
A. Lord Byron' s B. P. B. Shelley' s
C. John Keats' s D. Samuel Coleridge' s
10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.
A. Jane Eyre B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Pride and Prejudice D. Emma
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. 1. In essence, Romanticism designates a literary and
philosophical theory which tends to see the_____as the very center of all life and all experience.
2. For the Romantics, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
3. Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of _____.”
4. According to the subjects, Wordsworth' s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _____.
5. Coleridge' s achievement as poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: _____ and the conversational.
6. As a leading Romanticist, Byron' s chief contribution is his creation of the “_____.”
7. “_____” is Shelley' s representative work.
8. _____ are generally regarded as Keats' s most important and mature work.
9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a famous line in Keats' s “_____.”
10. _____is the most delightful of Jane Austen' s work.
英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结概要
