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John Wycliff

Father of English prose


Reform the church to away with the corruption and rottenness; translate
Bible
into
standard English; maintain church must not interfere in temporal matters; fixes a
national standard for English prose to replace various dialects.

William Langland
poet
The Vision of Piers Plowman
(takes form of
allorgory
but gives realistic picture of
14th century)

Sir Thomas Malory
poet
Le Morte d'Arthur/The Death of Arthur



Goeffrey Chaucer
the father of English poetry

born in rising family, join army then prisoned.
smooth in political life.1st imitated
French poetry and translated French poem, influenced by Italian,famous for his
tales by
links

The Book of Duchess, Troilus and Cryseyde, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of
Fame, The Canterbury Tales

Renaissance
Edmund Spenser
“the poet’s poet”

born poor, became part of noble family, secretary of influential political members,
queen son-in- law, boss burn down, he die in poor
The Shepheard's Calender
(poem in 12parts, Virgil's verse dialogues, different
descriptions of the English countryside, theme of love, poetry, religion);
The Faerie
Queene
(allegorical romance, 7 deadly sins)

Christopher Marlowe
The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance

have been cooperate with all
tragedies
, works are remarkable
for their imagination, burning passion, sensuous richness, variety of pace and
response to varying emotions.
his verse is known for its stateliness and its poetic
beauty.
Perfect blank-verse

Tamburlaine the Great
(1587,Tamburlaine represent the Renaissance desire for
infinite power and authority);
The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
(1592, reflect the
desire for infinite knowledge and express his atheism and patriotism, conforms with
the orthodox teachings of the church)

William Shakespeare
Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best
representatives of the English humanism.

rich,help father of his shop, 18 married. left native town,a rising actor, disappear,
write plays
2 narrative poems: Venus and Adonis(1593),The Rape of Lucrece(1594)
1st period of experimentation about history plays and comedies(imitation of
exciting plays, by the spirit of youthfulness and rich imagination):
King Henry
VI(3parts, Richard III(1593),Two Gentlemen of Verona(1594), Love's Labour
Lost(1594))
2nd period show more careful and artistic work, better plot and a marked increase
in the knowledge of human nature:
Midsummer Night's Dream(1595); Romeo and
Juliet(1596); The Merchant of Venice(1597); two parts of Henry IV( As You Like
It(1598), Julius Caesar(1599)); Henry V(1599)
3rd period of gloom and depression:
Hamlet(1601), Othello(1604),King
Lear(1605),Macbeth(1605)

4th period of restored serenity, a calm after storm:
The Winter's Tale(1610), The
Tempest(1611)


17th century
Francis Bacon
The first important essayist
and the founder of modern science in England

chief
figure
in
1700-1750,
father
is
Lord,
be
a
Lord
but
corruption
and
dismissed.
pursuit
of
literary
and
scientific
works;
stress
the
importance
of
experience,
or
experiment,
which
is
oppoed
to
common
belief
in
Middle
Ages,58essays.
his essays are famous for their
brevity, compactness and powerfulness

Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Riches

John Donne
Catholic family. write religious sermons and poems; love lyrics with both
positive(purify love as sth holy) and nagetive attitude(cynical tone to satirize
women's inconstancy
反复无常
).Representetive of Metaphysical
poet
s
Songs and Sonnets

George Herbert
poet
follows John Donne
The Temple

Ben Jonson
also a
dramastist
,representitve of Cavaliers

Robert Herrick
poet