Part I The Middle AgeChapter 1 the Anglo -Saxon period (449-1066)1. Beowulf （贝奥武甫） : England’ s national epic .（第一部民族史诗）2. artistic feature: ① using alliteration② using metaphor and understatementChapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca1343-1400)1.Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English poetry and one of the most greatest narrative（叙事）poets of England.2.首创双韵体 . tonico -syllabic verse. 运用 London dialect.3. writing style: wisdom, humor, humanity.4.代表作： The Canterbury Tales-----In this book, Chaucer created a strikingly brilliant and picturesque panorama of his time and his country. In this poem Chaucer’ s realism, trenchant irony and freedom of views reached such a high level of power that it had no equal in all the English literature up to the 16th century. But Chaucer was not entirely devoid of medieval prejudices. [ 乔叟为他那个时代和国家勾勒出一幅生机勃勃而又充满诗情画意的社会百态图。在他的这部现实主义诗歌中，他将自己的讽刺艺术和宽广视野展现的淋漓尽致，使该作品在16 世纪前的英国独树一帜。但是没能脱离中世纪的偏见。Part II The Renaissance（文艺复兴）1.时期： during the 16th century（1550---1642）2.国家： Greek and Roman. Also England in drama.3.定义： The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical arts and science after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism.4.类型： drama and canto （诗章） .5.key work: ① humanism --- admire human beauty and human achievement.② Thomas More --- Utopia in 1516.③ Francis Bacon--- the great English scientist and philosopher.④ Christopher Marlowe--- the greatest of the pioneers of English drama⑤ Edmund Spenser( 埃德蒙 ·斯宾塞 )----The Faerie Queene（仙后）Chapter 5 William Shakespeare (1564 -1616)1. He is the greatest of English authors, the world’ s pre-eminent dramat...
