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1、OldEnglishLiterature古英语文学（450-1066年）Beowulf（贝奥武甫）---ThefirstEnglishnationalepic中世纪英语文学（1066-1500）GeoffreyChaucer(乔叟，c.1343–1400)wasanEnglishpoet.HeisrememberedforhisTheCanterburyTales《坎特伯雷故事集》,calledthefatherofEnglishliterature“英国文学之父”WilliamLangland(朗格兰，1330?-1400?),theautho
2、rofthe14th-centuryEnglishlongnarrativepoemPiersPlowman《农夫皮尔斯》.文艺复兴（16-17世纪）WilliamShakespeare(莎士比亚，1564-1616),Englishpoetandplaywright,hissurvivingworksconsistof38plays,154sonnets,twolongnarrativepoemsVenusandAdonis《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》TheRapeofLucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》Shakespeare’sgreatestwork
3、s:greatesttragediesareKingLear《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》,Othello《奥赛罗》,RomeoandJuliet《罗密欧与朱丽叶》greatcomedies:AMidsummerNight’sDream《仲夏夜之梦》,AsYouLikeIt《皆大欢喜》,TheMerchantofVenice《威尼斯商人》,TwelfthNight《第十二夜》greathistoricalplays:RichardIII《理查三世》,HenryIV《亨利四世》,HenryV《亨利五世》,HenryV
4、II《亨利八世》JohnMilton(弥尔顿,1608-1674)wasanEnglishpoetandcivilservantfortheCommonwealthofEngland.HeisbestknownforhisepicpoemParadiseLost《失乐园》,ParadiseRegained《复乐园》Samson《力士参孙》.18世纪文学和新古典主义AlexanderPope(浦柏,1688-1744)isgenerallyregardedasthegreatestEnglishpoetoftheeighteenthcentury,
5、bestknownforhissatiricalepigram讽刺隽语andheroiccouplet英雄双韵体.HismajorworksincludemockepicsatiricalpoemAnEssayonMan《人论》andAnEssayonCriticism《论批评》DanielDefoe(笛福，1660—1731)wasanEnglishwriterwhogainedenduringfameforhisnovelRobinsonCrusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》,spokesmanformiddle-classpeopleHenryFie
6、lding(菲尔丁,1707---1754)，anEnglishnovelistknownforhisnovel:TheHistoryofTomJones.JonathanSwift(斯威夫特,1667-1745),wasanAnglo-Irishnovelist,satirist.HeisrememberedfornovelsuchasGulliver’sTravels《格列佛游记》.RichardSheridan(谢立丹，1751—1816),Irishplaywright,knownforhissatiricalplaySchoolofSc
7、andal(造谣学校).HewasarepresntativewriterofComediesofManners.LaurenceSterne(斯特恩,1713—1768),anEnglishnovelist.HeisbestknownforhisnovelTristramShandy（《商第传》）.OliverGoldsmith（哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）Englishnovelist,knownforhisnovelVicarofWakefield(《威克菲尔德牧师传记》)ThomasGray(托马斯•格雷1716—1771)，anE
8、nglishpoet,authorofElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard（《墓畔哀歌》）,writerof
