英国文学复习总结

英国文学复习总结（推荐4篇）

英国文学复习总结 篇1

1.Beowulf: national epic of the English people;Denmark story;alliteration, metaphors and understatements（此处可能会有填空，选择等小题）2.Romance（名词解释）

3.“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4.Ballad（名词解释）

5.Character of Robin Hood 6.Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry;The Canterbury Tales(main contents;124 stories planned, only 24 finished;written in Middle English;significance;form: heroic couplet)7.Heroic couplet(名词解释)8.Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10.Sonnet（名词解释）11.Blank verse（名词解释）12.Edmund Spenser

“The Faerie Queene”

13.Francis Bacon “essays” esp.“Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读）

14.William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读）

15.John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。16.John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress

17.Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne;features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images.18.Enlightenment（名词解释）19.Neoclassicism（名词解释）

20.Richard Steele——“The Tatler”

21.Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。

22.Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions

23.Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”;his workmanship(features)and limitations

24.Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象;（我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony也就是反讽手法。

25.The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature.26.Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。

27.Samuel Richardson——“Pamela”(first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison”

28.Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel.29.Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传

30.Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal”

31.Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted Village”(poem)(both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield”(novel), “The Good-Natured Man”(comedy), “She stoops to Conquer”(comedy), “The Citizen of the World”(collection of essays)32.Sentimentalism（名词解释）

33.Thomas Gray——“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”（英国诗歌里非常著名的一首，曾经被誉为“有史以来英国诗歌里最好的一首”）(a representative of sentimentalism and graveyard school of poets墓园派诗人)* Graveyard School / Poets”: A term applied to eighteenth-century poets who wrote meditative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods which range from elegiac pensiveness to profound gloom.The vogue resulted in one of the most widely known English poems, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a country churchyard”.The writing of graveyard poems spread from England to Continental literature in the second part of the century and also influenced some American poets.34.In the latter half of the 18th century, Pre-Romanticism;representative: William Blake and Robert Burns.35.Thomas Percy——“Reliques of Ancient English poetry”许多中古的民谣都是在这个时期重新收集和整理起来的，这个集子是那个时代比较有名的一个民谣集。

36.William Blake比较重要，需要对主要作品有所了解，特别是Songs of Innocence 和 Songs of Experience, 这两本集子的contrast一定要注意，另外Blake的写作特点也要注意，比如语言的简单明了，神秘主义氛围等。37.Robert Burns伟大的苏格兰民族诗人, A Red Red Rose, Scots Wha Hae, Auld Lang Syne等名诗，写作特点: Scottish dialect;a poet of peasant and Scottish people;plain language;influence from Scottish folk songs and ballads;musical quality of his poems.《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题 I.浪漫主义时期

I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.A.the publication of Lyrical Ballads B.the death of Sir Scott C.the birth of William Wordsworth D.the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament 2.The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.A.Novel

B.poetry

C.drama

D.prose 3.Romanticism does not emphasize_____.A.the special qualities of each individual’s mind B.the inner world of the human spirit C.individuality D.the features that men have in common 4._____ is not a Romantic poet.A.William Blake

B.Sir Scott

C.P.B.Shelley

D.Lord Byron 5._____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains.A.Walter Scott

B.Mary Shelley

C.Jane Austen

D.Ann Radcliff 6._____ is not characteristic of William Blake’s writing.A.plain and direct language

B.compression of meaning

C.supernatural quality

D.symbolism

7.Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.A.Byron

B.Coleridge

C.Shelley

D.Keats 8.Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.A.the life of rising bourgeoisie B.aristocratic life C.the life of the royal family D.common life 9.Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.A.Lord Byron’s

B.P.B.Shelley’s

C.John Keats’s

D.Samuel Coleridge’s 10._____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.A.Jane Eyre

B.Sense and Sensibility

C.Pride and Prejudice D.Emma II.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.1.In essence, Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the_____as the very center of all life and all experience.2.For the Romantics, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.3.Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of _____.”

4.According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _____.5.Coleridge’s achievement as poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: _____ and the conversational.6.As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “_____.” 7.“_____” is Shelley’s representative work.8._____ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature work.9.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a famous line in Keats’s “_____.” 10._____is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s work.III.Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.()1.The Romantic period is also a great age of prose.()2.Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending their own literary heritage against the advocates of classical rules.()3.Coleridge has been rewarded as Poet Laureate.()4.Keats is one of the “Lake Poets.”

()5.Jane Austen is a typical Romantic writer.IV.Name the author of each of the following literary work.1.“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 2.Songs of Innocence 3.“Ode to a Nightingale” 4.“A Song: Men of England” 5.The Prelude V.Define the literary terms listed below 1.Romanticism 2.Ode VI.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.1….Be through my lips to unawakened Earth.The trumpet of a prophecy!O, Wind, If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? 2.For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.Keys: I.1.A

2.B 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.B 8.D 9.A

10.A II.1.individual

2.human life

3.nature

4.human life

5.the demonic

6.Byronic hero

7.Ode to the West Wind

8.The odes

9.Ode on a Grecian Urn 10.Pride and Prejudice III.1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.F IV.1.Coleridge

2.Blake

3.Keats

4.Shelley

5.Wordsworth V.1.Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism.There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places.The leading features of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.2.Ode is a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject.Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honour a person or a season or to commemorate an event.VI.1.It is taken from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind.In this poem, Shelley eulogizes the powerful west wind and expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.In these last lines, the poet shows his optimistic spirit for the future.2.It is taken from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is in solitude.He expresses his strong affecting for nature in the poem.II.维多利亚时期

I.Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets 1.The Victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of Queen Victoria in_____.A.1835

B.1836

C.1837

D.1838 2.The critical realists like Charles Dickens in the Victorian period wrote novels_____.A.representing the 18th century realist novel

B.criticizing the society C.defending the mass E.all the above 3._____is not a Victoria novelist.A.Charles DickensB.George Eliot C.William Makepeace ThackerayD.D.H.Lawrence 4._____ is not a work by Charles Dickens.A.Oliver Twist

B.David CopperfieldC.Middlemarch

D.A Tale of Two Cities 5.Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by_____.A.Charlotte Bronte

B.Emily Bront C.Anne Bronte

D.Branwell Bronte 6._____ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.A.The Mill on the Floss C.Jude the ObscureD.The Mayor of Casterbridge 7.“My Last Duchess” is _____.A.a dramatic monologue

B.a short lyricC.a novel

D.an essay 8.Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.A.Homer’s Odessey

B.Joyce’s Ulysses C.Dante

D.Greek Mythology

9.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared.And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.A.romanticism

B.naturalism C.realism

D.critical realism 10.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.A.The Pilgrim’s Progress B.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageC.Gulliver’s TravelsD.The Canterbury Tales II.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook 1.The aestheticists such as Oscar Wilde in the Victorian period advocated the theory of “_____.”

2.In the Victorian period, _____became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.3.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest _____ writers of the Victorian Age.4.Tennyson’s poem “_____” is in memory of his bosom friend Arthur Hallam.5.Robert Browning is famous for his _____.6.George Eliot’s _____ is one of the most mature works in English literature.7.Tennyson’s famous dramatic monologue based on the story in Greek Mythology is “_____.” 8._____ is Dickens’ first child hero.9.Jane Eyre represents those_____-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.10.The most important poet of the Victorian Age was_____.Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.III.Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.()1.The Victorian period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.()2.Tennyson is famous for his aesthetic viewpoint of “art for art’s sake.”()3.Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte’s.()4.Browning’s “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning” were originally one poem in dramatic monologue.()5.Naturalism has played an important part in Thomas Hardy’s work.IV.Name the author of each of the following literary works.1.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 3.In Memoriam 4.The Mill on the Floss 5.The Return of the Native V.Define the literary terms listed below.1.Dramatic Monologue 2.Critical Realism VI.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.1.That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.Mr.Bumble shoot his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good;where—unto Mr.Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him---which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description.The next morning, the public were once more informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.2.Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his.Tess was trying to lead a repressed life, but she little divined the strength of her own vitality.Keys: I.1.B 2.D 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.A

7.A

8.B 9.D 10.A II.1.art for art’s sake

2.the novel

3.critical realist

4.Break, Break, Break

5.dramatic monologue

6.Middlemarch

7.Ulysses

8.Oliver Twist

9.middle

10.Tennyson III.1.T 2.F 3.F 4.F 5.T IV.1.Charles Dickens

2.Anne Bronte

3.Alfred Tennyson

4.George Eliot

5.Thomas Hardy V.1.Dramatic Monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem.The occasion is usually a crucial one In the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subjects of the poem.An example of a dramatic monologue is “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.2.Critical Realism is a literary movement in the 19th century.It sticks to the principal of faithful representation of the 18th century realistic novel and carries its duty forward to the criticism of the society and the defense of the mass.The representative figures are Dickens, the Bronte’s, etc.VI.1.It is taken from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.This part describes how Oliver is punished for asking for more to eat and how he is therefore sold at three pound ten to a notorious chimney-sweeper.It reveals that the pitiable state of the orphan boy and the cruelty and hypocrisy of the workhouse board.2.It is taken from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.This part describes how Tess forgets about her past misfortune in the beautiful, pastoral dairy farm and unconsciously gives herself up to the attraction of Angel Clare.III.现代时期

I.Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets 1.Modernism takes_____as its theoretical base.A.the irrational philosophy

B.the theory of psycho-analysis

C.both A and B

D.neither A nor B 2.Modernism rose out of_____.A.skepticism

B.disillusion of capitalism

C.irrational philosophy

D.al the above 3.Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_____.A.romanticism

B.Realism

C.post-modernism

D.all the above 4._____is not a movement in the modern period.A.“the Angry Young Men”

B.“the Beat Generation”

C.“the Lost Generation”

D.“the Theater of the Absurd” 5._____ is not a representative figure in applying the technique of “the stream of consciousness” in his/her writing.A.D.H.Lawrence

B.James Joyce

C.Virginia Woolf

D.Dorothy Richardson 6.Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.It is written by_____.A.George Bernard Shaw

B.Samuel Beckett

C.John Galsworthy

D.Eugene O’ Neill 7.The Waste Land is_____’s most important single poem.A.Ezra Pound

B.William Butler Yeats

C.Alfred Tennyson

D.T.S.Eliot 8._____ is not D.H.Lawrence’s work.A.Finnegans Wake

B.Sons and Lovers

C.Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D.The Rain Bow 9._____ is not James Joyce’s novel.A.Ulysses

B.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C.Dubliners

D.Finnegans Wake 10.“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” is written by_____.A.W.H.Auden

B.D.H.Lawrence

C.W.B.Yeats

D.T.S.Eliot

II.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook 1.The French_____, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.2.Modernism rejects_____, which is the theoretical base of realism.3.In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and Jungian_____played a particularly important role.4.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and, thus, can be termed as_____.5._____is famous for his frank discussion of “sex” in his works.6.John Galsworthy’s trilogy is named_____.7._____, an American Poet, took English Citizenship in 1927, and became a devout member of Anglican Church.8._____is Eliot’s most important poetry, revealing the spiritual decadency and meaninglessness of life of the 20th century.9.Most of Joyce’s works are concerning the life of his hometown_____.10.Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story in his collection_____.III.Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.()1.The rise of modern poetry was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Romantic poetry.()2.Writers like E.M.Forster and D.H.Lawrence are still conventional writers, as in their works, old traditions are still there.()3.John Galsworthy has been awarded Nobel Prize for literature.()4.John Galsworthy is a conventional writer, inheriting the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens.()5.James Joyce is a prolific writer, creating a great number of famous works.IV.Name the author of each of the following literary works.1.Modernism 2.Angry Young Men V.Define the literary terms listed below.1.Pygmalion 2.“Sailing to Byzantium” 3.Woman in Love 4.Ulysses 5.The Man of Property VI.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.1.I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray，I hear it in the deep heart’s core.2.Now she began to combat in his restless fretting.He still kept up his connexion with Miriam, could neither break free nor go the whole length of engagement.And this indecision seemed to bleed him of his energy.Moreover.His mother suspected him of an unrecognized leaning towards Clara, and, since the latter was a married woman, she wished he would fall in love with one of the girls in a better station of life.But he was stupid, and would refuse to love or even to admire a girl much, just because she was his social superior.Keys: I.1.C 2.D 3.B 4.C 5.A

6.B 7.D 8.A

9.C 10.D II.1.Symbolism

2.rationalism

3.psycho-analysis

4.problem plays 5.D.H.Lawrence 6.The Forsyte Saga

7.T.S.Eliot

8.The Waste Land 9.Dublin

10.Dubliners III.1.F 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.F IV.1.Modernism is a movement in the 20th century.It takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base and in many aspects is a reaction against realism.2.Angry Young Men is a phrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s, who described various forms of social alienation and whose political views were radical and anarchic.V.1.Bernard Shaw

2.W.B.Yeats

3.D.H.Lawrence

4.James Joyce

5.John Galsworthy VI.1.It is taken from Yeats’s “The lake Isle of Innisfree.” In this poem, Yeats expresses his longing to escape from the city life and to live a secluded life by describing the peaceful, tranquil scene of the lake Isle of Innisfree, a legendary place for hermitage.2.It is taken from D.H.Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.Paul has love affairs with two girls, Miriam and Clara.But he is so dependent on his mother’s love and help that he fails to achieve a fulfilling relationship with either girl.English Literature

(Book II)

Romanticis

1.Romanticism（名词解释）要对浪漫主义兴起的时间，根源，主要特点，主要代表作家都有所了解。

2.William Wordsworth要知道他的 “Lyrical Ballads”前言是英国浪漫主义时期开始的标志，也是宣言。Lake Poets（名词解释）。他诗歌的主要两类题材：nature and common people’s lives。

写过的著名作品：I wandered lonely as a cloud;To the cuckoo;Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey;The solitary reaper;We are seven 等等。

3.Samuel Taylor Coleridge两首名诗：The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;Kubla Khan主要写作supernatural题材。4.George Gordon Byron，Byronic Heroes(名词解释);著名作品：Child Harold’s Pilgrimage要知道大致内容，另外此诗用Spenserian Stanza写成；Don Juan要知道大致内容。

5.Percy Bysshe Shelley著名作品：Queen Mab;The Revolt of Islam;Prometheus Unbound（lyrical drama，要知道大致内容及此剧与古希腊的“被束缚的普罗米修斯”不同之处及其意义。）其它名作: Ode to the West Wind;To a skylark等等。

6.John Keats著名作品：Ode to Autumn;Ode to a Nightingale;Ode on a Grecian Urn”。注意Keats与Byron和Shelley的不同，Keats的诗歌没有两人那么强的革命性，他的诗歌主要是为了缔造一个唯美的世界，为了追求美而写作的。7.Charles Lamb：The Essays of Elia(humorous, archaisms, quotations from other writers)8.Walter Scott: founder and great master of the historical novel;his death marks the ending of Romantic Period in English literature;famous novels: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe;features of his novels.English Critical Realism 9.Critical Realism批判现实主义，要知道它兴起的时间，历史背景，主要代表人物及主要特点。

10.Charles Dickens主要作品: The Pickwick Papers(first novel);Oliver Twist;Dombey and Son;David Copperfield;A Tales of Two Cities等等，对这些主要作品除了第一部以外剩下的要对情节，主要人物形象，主题及其意义有所了解，另外要知道狄更斯的小说的特色。

11.William Makepeace Thackeray主要作品即Vanity Fair要知道这个题目出自John Bunyan的The Pilgrim’s Progress，另外小说的副标题 “A novel without a hero”的意思，小说的情节，主题，人物形象都要了解。

12.Jane Austen主要作品：Pride and Prejudice其它5部小说知道名字即可，对于《傲慢与偏见》简单看一下它的情节和主要人物。Austen的写作特点：thin plot, mostly everyday life of simple country society;good at writing young girls;modest satire;witty dialogues。

13.Charlotte Bronte主要作品Jane Eyre，要知道其情节和意义，另外简爱的人物形象也比较重要。

14.Emily Bronte主要作品Wuthering Heights，情节，人物形象及意义。勃朗特姐妹的小说虽然写作在批判现实主义时期，但其作品有明显的浪漫主义特色，比如包含的一些supernatural elements，特别体现在呼啸山庄中。15.George Eliot主要作品: Adam Bede, The Mill on Floss.Prose-writers and poets of the mid and later 19th century

16.Alfred Tennyson主要作品: In Memoriam, The Idylls of the Kings；有名的短诗Break, Break, Break;Crossing the bar等，此人政治态度保守，作品追求形式上的完美，富于音乐性和色彩。

17.Robert Browning introduced dramatic monologue to poetry.His famous poems: “Home-thoughts from abroad” etc.Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnets from the Portuguese”.18.Aestheticism唯美主义（名词解释）Oscar Wilde主要作品，写作特点及其意义简要了解。

Twentieth Century English Literature

19.John Galsworthy: 主要作品 “The Forsyte Saga”注意这是两个trilogy构成的，可不是一本小说，其中比较重要的是 “The Man of Property”就是书上介绍的那一部，要知道此部小说主人公的名字，以及这个主人公的性格，和小说主题。

20.George Bernard Shaw主要作品Mrs Warren’s Profession和Major Babara，对他作品的主要人物，情节，主题和意义要了解，他是比较重要的一个作家。

21.T.S.Eliot比较重要，特别是他的The Waste Land要知道包括哪几个部分，大概是什么情节，有什么象征意义，主题是什么，有什么写作特点。另外他著名的文章Tradition and the Individual Talent被认为是manifesto of modernist poetry.22.Modernist fiction put emphasis on the description of the characters’ psychological activities under the influence of Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud’s theories.23.D.H.Lawrence重点作品Sons and Lovers这个作品明显受到弗洛伊德影响，特别是其中体现的Oedipus complex，对其人物，主题要有了解；The Rainbow及其续篇Women in Love要有简单了解，特别是对其主题。Lady Chatterley’s Lover简单了解即可。劳伦斯的思想特点以及局限性要了解。

24.Stream-of-consciousness（名词解释）25.James Joyce其它作品简单了解，但Ulysses非常重要，需要知道题目来源，题目的含义，小说的主人公和情节，以及主题。

英国文学推荐作品 篇2

 《被缚的普罗米修斯》 Keats III.Main Works  On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, 初读查普曼译菏马史诗有感

 Endymion, 安狄米恩

 Lyrics: To Autumn, 秋颂

 Unfinished: Hyperion, 许佩里恩

 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes, and Other Poems.including:

 Ode on a Grecian Urn, 希腊古瓮颂

 Ode on Melancholy, 忧郁颂  Ode to a Nightingale, 夜莺颂

 Isabella, 伊莎贝拉

 The Eve of St.Agnes, 圣亚尼节前夜

Walter Scott  Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border  The Lay of the Last Minstrel  Marmion  Marmion

 Bride of Lammermoor,《拉马摩尔的新娘》  Ivanhoe,《艾凡赫》

 Rob Roy,《罗布·罗伊》

 The Heat of Midlothian,《中洛辛郡的心脏》  The Antiquary,《古董家》

 The Talisman--A Tale of the Crusaders,《护符》  Waverley,《威弗利》 Jane Austen: V.Major Works  Sense and Sensibility, 1811,《理智与情感》  Pride and Prejudice, 1813,《傲慢与偏见》  Mansfield Park, 1814,《曼斯菲尔德花园》  Emma, 1816,《爱玛》

 Northanger Abbey, 1818,《诺桑觉寺》  Persuasion, 1818,《劝导》 III.<狄更斯>Dickens’s Novels

i.Three periods  The Pickwick Papers,1836,《匹克威克外传》  Oliver Twist,1837,《雾都孤儿》

 The Old Curiosity Shop,《老古玩店》  American Notes,(1842),《旅美札记 》  A Christmas Carol,(1843),《圣诞欢歌》

 The Chimes, 《钟声》

 The Cricket on the Hearth,《炉边蟋蟀》  Dombey and Son,(1846-1848),《董贝父子》  David Copperfield,(1849-1850),《大卫·科波菲尔》  Bleak House, ,  《荒凉山庄》

 Hard Times, 《艰难时世》  Little Dorrit,(《小杜利特尔》

 A tale of Two Cities 《双城记》, 1859  Great Expectations《远大前程 / 孤星血泪 / 孤星奇缘》,  Our Mutual Friend《我们共同的朋友》,  The Mystery of Edwin Drood,(1870)萨科雷

III.Major Works  Vanity Fair, 《名利场》,1847

 Pendennis, 《潘登尼斯》,1850

 Henry Esmond,《亨利埃斯蒙德》, 1852  The Newcomes, 《纽科姆一家》, 1853-55 William Makepeace Thackeray <艾略特>George Eliot Major Works  Scenes of Clerical Life,(1856),《教区生活场景》  Adam Bede,(1859),《亚当·比德》

 The Mill on the Floss,(1860),《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》  Silas Marner,(1861),《织工马南》

 Middlemarch,(1871-72),《米德尔马契/米德镇的春天》 <勃朗特>Charlotte Bronte:

 Jane Eyre,《简·爱》

 The Professor,《教师》

 Shirley,《雪莉》  Vilette,《维莱特》

Emily Bronte  Wuthering Heights,《呼啸山庄》 <丁尼生>Lord Tennyson

1,Ulysses(尤利西斯)

2，Break,Break,Break(碎了，碎了，碎了)

3，Cross the bar（过沙洲）

（哈代）Thomas Hardy

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Their lives are ruled not only by nature but also by rigid Victorian social conventions.3.masterpieces  A Pair of Blue Eyes,《一双蓝眼睛》,1873  Far from the Madding Crowd,《远离尘嚣》, 1874  The Return of the Native,《还乡记》,1878  The Mayor of Casterbridge, 《卡斯特桥市长》, 1886 The best 2 late novels:  Tess of the D’Urbervilles,《(德伯家的)苔丝》,1891  Jude the Obscure，《无名的裘德》, 1895（王尔德）Oscar Wilde

Major works  The Picture of Dorian Gray

 A House of Pomegranates(The Happy Prince) De Prafundis “惨痛的呼声”

 The Ballad of Reading Gaol “累丁狱之歌”

 Lady Windermere’s Fan,《温德米尔夫人的扇子》  A Woman of No Importance,《一个无足轻重的妇女》  An Ideal Husband, 《理想丈夫》

 The Importance of Being Earnest,《诚实的重要性》

 Salome,《莎乐美》 V.David Herbert Lawrence 2.Major Works  The White Peacock(《白孔雀》

 Sons and Lovers,《儿子与情人》  The Rainbow,《虹》  Women in Love,《恋爱中的女人》

Lady Chatterley’s Lover,《查泰莱夫人的情人》, Virginia Stephen Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫.Major Works  Mrs.Dalloway, 《达罗威夫人》

 To the Lighthouse,《到灯塔去》  Jacob’s Room,《雅各之室》 The Waves,《海浪》, Joyce（乔伊斯）

Major Works  1.Dubliners, 《都柏林人》

英国浪漫主义文学 篇3

英国是最早出现浪漫主义文学的国家之一。英国的浪漫主义作家不满于资本主义城市文明的发展，具有愤世嫉俗、归隐自然的倾向。18世纪中后期的诗人罗伯特·彭斯（1759年－1796年）和威廉·布莱克（1757年－1827年）是浪漫主义文学的先驱，他们在英语诗歌文体和语言上做出了很多可贵的尝试。彭斯从苏格兰民歌中吸取养料，其《苏格兰方言诗集》擅长抒情和讽刺，语言通俗；布莱克的《天真之歌》、《经验之歌》则具有象征意义和神秘色彩，在20世纪大放异彩，影响了整个现代英诗。

然而，英国浪漫主义第一批真正的大师则是被称为「湖畔派」的三位诗人。威廉·华兹华斯（1770年－1850年）是湖畔派诗人中成就最高者，他与「湖畔派」另一诗人萨缪尔·柯勒律治（1772年－1834年）共同出版《抒情歌谣集》，成为英国浪漫主义文学的奠基之作。诗集中收录的诗歌大部分为华兹华斯所做，而柯勒律治的名诗《古舟子咏》和《忽必烈汗》亦收入其中，充满幻觉和奇谲的意象。然而华兹华斯这一时期最重要的作品则是长诗《序曲》。骚塞的诗歌极富古之幽情，与世俗格格不入。湖畔派三位诗人均蛰居于英国西北湖区，缅怀中世纪和宗法式的乡村生活，是浪漫主义文学中温婉清丽的代表。

乔治·拜伦（1788年－1824年）和雪莱（1792年－1822年）两位诗人将英国的浪漫主义文学推向高峰。他们和湖畔派诗人的不同之处在于其作品更具战斗意识和政治倾向。雪莱的代表作《解放了的普罗米修斯》通过神话描写被压迫的人民的苦难和暴君的必然下场，预言革命一定会到来。他的短诗《西风颂》、《致云雀》等音韵铿锵，更有「冬天如果来了，春天还会远吗？」等名句传世。拜伦是19世纪上半期最为著名的浪漫主义诗人，他一生游历各地，其诗作充满异域情调。代表作《唐璜》是对资本主义制度的一场深入骨髓的检阅，发人深省。在欧洲，拜伦成为一种文化现象。人们把孤独、悲壮、崇尚个人式反抗的浪漫主义者形象称为「拜伦式英雄」。拜伦晚年投身于希腊的民族解放运动，并最终因伤寒而死于希腊战场。

英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物还包括约翰·济慈（1795年－1821年）。他的创作生涯只有5年，却写出了著名的抒情诗《夜莺颂》和《希腊古瓮颂》，沉醉于古代世界田园牧歌的美景之中。瓦尔特·司各特（1771年－1823年）以创作小说为主，其代表作《艾凡赫》以12世纪的英国为背景，塑造绿林英雄罗宾汉的形象，他是欧洲历史小说的创始人。

浪漫主义在英国文学里则在后来发展出了不同的形式，主要是与诗人华兹华斯和柯勒律治类似，他们两人共同撰写的《抒情歌谣集》（Lyrical Ballads）一书企图抛弃奥古斯丁风格的诗词风格，改以较为直接的述事方式和来自民间传统的题材取代之。两位诗人的作品也与因为法国大革命而产生的乌托邦社会思想有所关系。威廉·布莱克则成为了在英国最强调浪漫感觉的诗人和画家，他还主张：“我必须要另外建构一套风格，否则便会被其他人的思想所奴役。”布莱克的作品也受到许多中世纪书籍的影响。威廉·特纳（J.M.W.Turner）、约翰·康斯特勃都被视为是浪漫主义的画家，而拜伦、雪莱、玛丽·雪莱、济慈等人也被视为是浪漫主义在英国的代表人物。历史学家汤玛斯·卡莱以及英国的前拉斐尔派则代表了浪漫主义后期转型为维多利亚时代文化的阶段。1865年出生的威廉·巴特勒·叶芝还将他的这个时代称为是“最后的浪漫主义时期。”

浪漫主义思潮发展得最完备，最规范，最有成就的当推英国。英国的浪漫主义运动与其他国家相比，具有下列一些特色；首先，英国的浪漫主义没有形成大规模的文学运动，它是由少数作家自由活动的形式出现的。其次，英国的浪漫主义源远流长，犹如小河流水，潺潺不断，历时达一百五十年之久。早在十八世纪末，从威廉·布莱克(1757--1827)和农民诗人罗伯特·朋斯(1759--1796)等人的诗篇中，就吐露出浪漫主义的苗头，以十九世纪二十年代拜伦、雪莱的诗作为高潮，直到十九世纪末维多利亚女王(在位1837--1901)执政的时代，依然还可以从丁尼生、罗伯特·勃朗宁和他的夫人伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁等人的诗歌中，看到浪漫主义的余声。再次，英国的浪漫主义明显地分为对立的两大派别。消极浪漫主义先于积极浪漫主义登上文艺舞台，主要代麦是华兹华斯、柯勒律治，骚塞，与之相对立的，就是以拜伦，雪莱、济慈为代表的积极浪漫主义者。

爱德华·杨

Edward Young.(1683–1765)Poet, Playwright.Active 1719-1765 in England, Britain, Europe.爱德华·杨,英国诗人，剧作家兼文艺评论家。主要作品如下：

BusirisYoung, Edward 1721

The Universal PassionYoung, Edward 1742-1745

英国文学名著读后感 篇4

完美的结局令人欣慰，雾都孤儿已找到了爱，他的成长是坎坷的，正是因为他有一颗感恩的心，人生道路不再艰难，阳光变得灿烂，生活正因如此才变得快乐。我不像奥利弗一样有着悲惨的经历，但奥利弗却告诉了我一个谁都可以拥有，却谁都很难拥有的道理：哪就是“感恩”。生活是美丽的，花草树木，家人同学，都值得我去珍惜，去感恩，人总是在最困难时候才会发现，原来爱是那么伟大。

总是埋怨每一个人，得到的是什么?没有。生命之所以珍贵，是在于可以用行动去帮助他人，像奥利弗一样，爱身边的每一个人，即使他伤害过你，即使他抛弃过你，但只要心有感恩，伤害变成磨炼，抛弃变成自立。借得大江千斛水，研为翰墨颂师恩。这也是一种态度，乐观向上的态度，在人生道路上有鲜花、有荆棘，只要有感恩的心，一切都有很美，前路再困难，总有阳光和清风。

成长需要感恩，就如同种子一样，没有胚是无法成为健全的鲜花的，你我都是“雾都孤儿”，家人、朋友给我们关爱，我们应该去感恩，哪怕是声“谢谢”，是一个善意的微笑，都如同那一缕清泉，荡涤心灵的污垢，滋润至善的人性。