《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点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 story4. 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 Progress17. 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 contributions23....