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1、英美文学复习资料EnglishLiteraryHistory1.WilliamShakespeareisoneofthemostremarkableplaywrightsandpoets.HisgreatesttragediesareHamlet,Othello,KingLear,andMacbeth.TheMerchantofVeniceisthemostimportantplayamongthecomedies.2.JohnDonneistheleadingfigureofthe“Metaphysicalschool.”3.Theneoclassicalperiod,thatisth

2、eeighteenth-centuryEnglandisalsoknownastheAgeofenlightenmentortheAgeofReason.EnlightenmentMovementbroughtaboutinrevivingtheinterestinoldclassicalworksisknownasneoclassicism.4.BeowulfisregardedasthenationalepicoftheAnglo-Saxons.5.Romanceisapopularliteraryforminthemedievalperiod.6.GeoffreyChaucerha

3、sbeencalledthefatherofEnglishpoetry.HismasterpieceisTheCanterburyTales.7.HumanismistheessenceoftheRenaissance.8.EdmundSpenserisknownas“thepoets’poet”.MasterpiecetheFaerieQueeneisagreatpoemofitsage.9.ChristopherMarloweisthemostgiftedofthe“UniversityWits”.HismasterpiecesareTamburlaine,Dr.Faustus,th

4、eJewofMaltaandEdwardII.Marlowe’sgreatestachievementliesinthatheperfectedtheblankverseandmadeittheprincipalmediumofEnglishdramaandthecreationoftheRenaissanceheroforEnglishdrama.10.FrancisBaconisawell-knownRenaissancephilosopher,scientistandessayist.11.Themid-centurywaspredominatedbyanewlyrisinglit

5、eraryform–themodernEnglishnovel.12.JohnBunyanwasadevoutChristian,andafirmnon-conformistoftheAnglicanChurch.HismasterpieceisthePilgrim’sProgress.(最成功的宗教寓言诗)13.AlexanderPope’sbestsatiricworkisTheDunciad(愚人志).14.DanielDefoe’sworksarethefirstliterarywritingsdevotedtothestudyofproblemsofthelower-class

6、people.15.JonathanSwiftwasamastersatirist.His“AModestProposal”isgenerallytakenasaperfectmodel.16.HenryFieldingisregardedas“fatheroftheEnglishNovel”.Hewasthefirsttosetout,bothintheoryandpractice,towritespecificallya“comicepicinprose”,thefirsttogivethemodernnovelitsstructureandstyle.17.SamuelJohnso

7、n,asalexicographer,distinguishedhimselfastheauthorofthefirstEnglishdictionarybyanEnglishman–ADictionaryoftheEnglishLanguage.18.RichardBrinsleySheridanistheonlyimportantEnglishdramatistoftheeighteenthcentury.Hisplays,es