英语专业八级-英国文学知识总结.doc

1 Old and Medieval Period

1-1 the Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf
Caedmon – Caedmon’s Hymn
Cynewulf – The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene

1-2 the Middle English Period
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Marlory – Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur)
William Langland – Piers the Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury Tales

1-3 the 15th Century
The Robin Hood Ballads

2 The Renaissance Period

2-1 poem
Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard
Sir Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry
Edmund Spencer – The Shephearde’s Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene

2-2 prose
Thomas More – Utopia
Francis Bacon – A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry Ⅶ, The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Wisdom), The New Atlantis
John Lyly—Eupheus

2-3 drama
Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta
William Shakespeare – Comedies:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, The Twelfth Night
Tragedies:
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest
Historical plays:
Henry Ⅳ, HenryⅤ
Long narrative poems:
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece
Ben Johnson – Volpone

3 The Period of Revolution and Restoration
3-1 poets in Revolutionary Period
John Milton – Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes
John Donne – The Sun Rising, The Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, A Hymn to God the Father, Death, Be not Proud, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
George Herbert – The Altar, Easter Wings

3-2 prose writers in Revolutionary Period
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War

3-3 writers in Restoration
Jeremy Collier – A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
John Dryden – The Hind and the Panther, All for Love, Absalom and Achitophel, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

4 The Age of Enlightenment

4-1 writers of Neo-Classicism
Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man
Richard Steele
Joseph Addison – The Tattler, The Spectator
Samuel Johnson – The Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of English Poets

4-2 writers of Realistic Tradition
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jacque, Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub, Predictions for the Year 1708, Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Gulliver’s Travels, The Drapier’s Letters, A Modest Proposal
Henry Fielding – Plays:
The Welsh Opera, Don Quixote in England, Pasqin, The Historical Register for the Year 1736
Novels:
Joseph Andrew, Jonathan Wild and Great, The History of Tom Jones, a Founding, Amelia

4-3 writers of Sentimental Tradition
Samuel Richardson – Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa Harlowe, Sir Richardson’s Grandison
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey
Oliver Goldsmith – The Traveler, The Deserted Village, The Vicar of Wakefield
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Edward Young – From Night Thoughts

4-4 English drama
John Gay – The Beggar’s Opera
Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Rivals, The School for Scandal

5 The Age of Romanticism

5-1 Pre-Romantic poets
James Thomas – The Seasons
William Collins – Ode to Evening
William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Robert Burns – My Heart’s in the Highlands, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne

5-2 Lake poets (or the first generation)
William Wordsworth – Lyrical Ballads (Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Lines Written in Early Spring), An Evening Walk, Lucy Poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Excursion, To the Cuckoo, The Solitary Reaper, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, To a Highland Girl, The Prelude
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christable, Kubla Khan, The Fall of the Bastille
Robert Southey – Joan of Arc, Wat Tyler, The Inchcape Rock, The Battle of Blenheim

5-3 Romantic poets of the second generation
George Gordon Byron – Lyrical poems:
She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, Hebrew Melodies
Long Poems:
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Ode to the West Wind, Ode to a Skylark, A Defense of Poetry, The Necessity Of Atheism
John Keats – When I have a Fear, On Melancholy, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, To Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale

5-4 prose writers of the Romantic Age
Charles Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia, Old China
William Hazlitt – Literary critics:
The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Lectures on the English Poets, Lectures on the English Comic Writers, Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, The Spirit of the Age
Essays:
Table Talk, The Plan Speaker, Sketches and Essays
Thomas De Quincey – The Confession of an English Opium-Eater, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

5-5 English fiction in the Romantic Age
Walter Scott –The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Ivanhoe
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey

6 The Victorian Period

6-1 Critical Realist novelists in Victorian Age
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, American Notes, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend
William Makepeace Thackeray – The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, The Virginians
Charlotte Bronte – Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey, The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall
Mrs. Gaskell – Life of Charlotte Bronte, Mary Barton
George Eliot – Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner
Thomas Hardy – Under the Greenwood Tree, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Growd

6-2 Victorian poetry
Alfred Tennyson – In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Break, Break, Break, Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, Poems by Two Brothers, The Princess
Robert Browning – Men and Women, My Last Duchess, Parting at Morning, Meeting at Night
Matthew Arnold – On Translating Homer, Dover Beach, Essays in Criticism, Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma

7 The Modern Period

7-1 novelists
John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, The Indian Summer of a Forsyte (interlude), In Chancery, Awakening (interlude), To Let
A Modern Comedy: The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, Swan Song
Katherine Mansfield – In a German Pension, Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, Life of Ma Parker

7-2 playwrights
Oscar Wilde – An Ideal Husband, The Important of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorain Gray, A Women of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Bernard Shaw – Widower’s Houses, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Pygmalion
John James Osborne – Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot

7-3 poets
W. B. Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, The Second Coming, The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart’s Desire, The Tower, Down by the Sally Gardens
T. S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, Hollow Man, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, The Sacred Wood, Essays on Style and Order, After Strange Gods

7-4 the psychological fictions
D. H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The White Peapock, The Daughter of the Vicar, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
James Joyce – Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Arady
Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando