英语专业八级 英国文学知识总结

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 15

th

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

, Henry

Ⅴ

Long narrative poems:

Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

Ben Johnson

–

V

olpone

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