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1、BritishLiteratureReviewGeoffreyChaucer*GeoffreyChaucer(/'tjoissr/;c.1343-25October1400),knownastheFatherofEnglishliterature,iswidelyconsideredthegreatestEnglishpoetoftheMiddleAgesandwasthefirstpoettobeburiedinPoet'sCornerofWestminsterAbbey.Whileheachievedfamedunnghisli
2、fetimeasanauthor,philosopher,alchemistandastronomer,composingascientifictreatiseontheastrolabeforhistenyear-oldsonLewis,Chauceralsomaintainedanactivecareerinthecivilserviceasabureaucrat,courtieranddiplomat.Amonghismanyworks,whichineludeTheBookoftheDuchess,theHouseofFam
3、e,theLegendofGoodWomenandTroilusandCriseyde,heisbestknowntodayforTheCanterburyTales・Chaucerisacrucialfigureindevelopingthelegitimacyofthevernacular,MiddleEnglish,atatimewhenthedominantliteraryIanguagesinEnglandwereFrenchandLatin.*Narrative,Lyric,andDramaarethethreegene
4、ralliteraryformsintowhichwriting,especiallypoetry,hastraditionallybeengrouped・Anarrativetellsastoryoratale;dramaispresentedonastage,whereactorsembodycharacters;lyrichasbeenlooselydefinedasany:shortpoemotherthannarrativeanddrama,wherepoetsexpresstheirstateofmind.*Heroic
5、couplet:AheroiccoupletisatraditionalformforEnglishpoetry,commonlyusedinepicandnarrativepoetry;itreferstopoemsconstructedfromasequeneeofrhymingpairsoflinesiniambicpentameter.UseoftheheroiccoupletwaspioneeredbyGeoffreyChaucerintheLegendofGoodWomenandtheCanterburyTales.,a
6、ndwasperfectedbyJohnDrydenintheRestorationAge.Modernity:arebeltothemedievalJohnBunyan*JohnBunyan(/'bAnjan/;baptised28November1628一31August1688)wasanEnglishwriterandpreacherbestrememberedastheauthorofthereligiousallegoryThePilgrim'sProgress.InadditiontoThePilgrim'sProgr
7、ess,Bunyanwrotenearlysixtytitles,manyofthemexpandedsermons.*ThePilgrim'sProgressThePilgrim'sProgressfromThisWorldtoThatWhichIstoCome;DeliveredundertheSimilitudeofaDreamisaChristianallegorywrittenbyJohnBunyanandpublishedinFebruary,1678.Itisregardedasoneofthemostsignific
8、antworksofreligiousEnglishliterature,hasbeentranslatedintomorethan200Ianguages,andhasneverbeenoutofprint.Bunyanbeganh
