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1、EnglishandAmericanLiteratureEnglishLiteratureOld&Medieval（中世纪）EnglishLiterature(449-1485)¡Beowulf(thefirstlongpoeminEnglish)(themostimportantworkofOldEnglishliterature)¡TheRomances(KingArthurandHisKnightsofRoundTable,SirGawainandtheGreenKnight)¡Chaucer(1

2、343-1400)TheCanterburyTalesthefatherofEnglishpoetryTheRenaissancePeriod(1485-1660)¡Humanism:itistheessenceoftheRenaissance.(wasaliteraryandphilosophicsystemofthoughtwhichattemptedtoplacethetheaffairsofmankindatthecenterofitsconcerns)¡FrancisBacon(1561-16

3、26)TheAdvancementofLearning(1605)¡WilliamShakespeare(1564?-1616)MerchantofVenice,AMidsummerNight’sDream,MuchAdoAboutNothing（无事生非）RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,KingLear,andMacbeth¡JohnMilton(1608-1674)ParadiseLost,ParadiseRegained,TheNeoclassical（新古典主义）Period(166

4、0-1798）¡JohnBunyan(1628-1688)ThePilgrim’sProgress（天路历程）(themostsuccessfulreligiousallegory寓言)¡AlexanderPopeAnEssayonCriticism（论批评）¡DanielDefoe(1660-1731)RobinsonCrusoe(1719)(mostfamousofhiswork,hismasterpiece)¡TheNeoclassicalPeriod(1660and1798）¡JonathanS

5、wift(1667-1745)Gulliver’sTravels(hisgreatestsatiricwork)AModestProposal（一个小小的建议）¡HenryFielding(1707-1754)FatheroftheEnglishNovelTomJones¡SamuelJohnson(1709-1784):ADictionaryoftheEnglishLanguage¡RichardBrinsleySheridan(1751-1816)TheSchoolforScandal(hismas

6、terpiece)theonlyimportantEnglishdramatist（剧作家）ofthe18thcenturyTheRomanticPeriod(1798-1832)(ThefirstGenerationofRomantics)¡WilliamWordsworth(1770-1850)withSamuelTaylorColeridge,helpedtolaunchtheRomanticAgeinEnglishliteraturewiththe1798jointpublicationLyri

7、calBallads.WordsworthwasBritain'sPoetLaureate（桂冠诗人）from1843untilhisdeathin1850.IWanderedLonelyasaCloudHisWorksdividedintotwogroups:Poemsaboutnatureandpoemsabouthumanlife¡SamuelTaylorColeridge(1772-1834)TheRimeoftheAncientMariner（古舟子咏）(ColeridgeandWordswo

8、rthwerecalledtheLakePoet)TheRomanticPeriod(1798-1832)(TheYoungergenerationofRomantics)¡GeorgeGordonByron(1788-1824)（拜伦）DonJuan（唐璜）－hismasterpiece¡PercyByssheShelley(1792-1822)OdetotheWestWind¡JohnKeats(1795-1821)OdetoaNigh