Brief Introdu ction 1. Old English Period: William Shakespeare (1564—1616) 2. Restoration, English revolution, the bourgeois Dictatorship (王朝复辟): John Milton (1608—1674) 3. The Rise of Fiction(小说伊始): Daniel Defoe (1660—1731) Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Henry Fielding (1707—1754) 4. Pre-Romanticism: Robert Burns (1759—1796) William Blake (1757—1827) 5. Romanticism (1798—1832): William Wordsworth (1770—1850) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788—1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) John Keats (1795—1821) 6. Critical realism——【Victorian Age (1832—1901)】: Jane Austen (1775—1817)批判现实主义作家，但不属于维多利亚时期 Charles Dickens (1812—1870) William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) Emily Bronte (1818—1848) Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)维多利亚时期向现实主义过度时期 Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) John Galsworthy (1867—1933) George Bernard Shaw(1856—1950)批判现实主义但不属于维多利亚时期 7. Modernism: D. H. Lawrence (1885—1930) William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) James Joyce (1882—1941) Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) William Somerset Maugham (1874—1965) Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888—1965) John Boynton Priestley (1894—1984) Louis MacNeice (1907—1963) Old English Period: William Shakespeare William Shakespeare(1564—1616) ★ Literary Achiev ements: · 37plays, · 2 narrative poems, · 154 sonnets (Sonnets 1-126 addressed to a young man, Sonnets 127-152 addressed to ―Dark Lady‖, Sonnets 153-154 addressed to Cupid, the God of love in Greek mythology) ★ Literary Position: ·―not of an age, but for all time‖, · the greatest giant of English language and poetic form, · one of the founders of realism in world literature, · one of the greatest writers in the world’s literature. ▲ Sonnet: 1. What’s a sonnet? A poem in 14 lines; originated...
