英国文学上郭群英简单作者及作品总结 
Anglo-saxon period
Poetry:
- Unknown scribe------------The song of Beowulf (pagan poetry)
- Caedmon --------------paraphrase (religious poetry) / the Hymn of Praise
- Caedmon is known as the father of English song
- Cynewulf -------------The Christ (religious poetry)/Juliana / the Fates of the Apostles ./Elene
Prose:
- Venerable Bede ------------The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Venerable Bede is regarded as the father of English learning
- Alfred the Great --------The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
- Aelfric-------------______________
Anglo-norman period
- The matters of Britain --- (mainly about the king Arthur and his knight the round table)
- such as: sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The matters of France------(mainly about the Charlemagne )
- Such as: Chanson de Roland
- The matters of Rome ------- (mainly about Alexander the Great and Trojan War)
- William Langland-------Piers the plowman
- Geoffery Chaucer------the Canterbury tales / Troilus and Criseyde / The Romaunt of the Rose /The House of Fame
- Geoffery Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry and the father of English fiction
- Thomas malory(he is the only important prose writer in the fifteen century) -------Morte d’ Arthur
- Unknown author --------- the geste of Robin Hood (it is a famous ballad singing the goods of Robin Hood )
- Layamon -- --------brut (not in the book )
- Geoffery of Monmouth ---------the history of the king of Britain (not in the book)
English poetry in the Renaissance period
- Thomas Wyattt----(he was the first to introduce the sonnet its English literature)
- Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey(he was the first to give the sonnet its English form) ------translations of book2 and book 4 of virgil’s Aeneid
- [Surrey . English prosody ( )has gained a magnificient instrument -----blank verse]
- Sir Philip Sidney ----------Arcadia, /Astrophel and Stella ,/Apology(defense) of poetry
- (he is known both as a poet and a critic of poetry )
- Edmund Spenser ------------Faerie Queene / the Shepherd ‘s Calendar/ Amoretti /Epithalamion
- Edmund Spenser is acclaimed as “the poets’ poet”
English prose in the Renaissance period
- Thomas More --------- Utopia (it is written in the form of a conversation between More and a returned sailor)
- (More distinguished himself as a learned scholar, a master of Latin . a witty talker, a lover of music. An honest statesman , a man of noble character )
- John Lyly ----------Euphues ,
- Francis Bacon ----------Essays / the advancement of learning /the new Atlantis /the new instrument(the novum organum)/of studies /of travel/ of wisdom
- Francis Bacon is the first English essayist.
- English drama in the Renaissance period
- John Lyly -------Alexander and campaspe /king midas
- George Peele------the old wives’ tale
- Thomas Kyd -----the Spanish tragedy
- Christopher Marlowe --------Tamburlaine /the tragical history of doctor Faustus/ The jew of Malta/
- The passionate shepherd to his love
- Christopher Marlowe made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
- * before Shakespeare ,a group of university graduates known as “University Wits”
- They are ;John Lyly , Robert Greene ,George Peele , Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd.*
- Shakespeare -main comedies: Merchant of Venice
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- As you like it
- The winter’s tale
- The twelfth Night
- (The heroines of Shakespeare ‘s great comedies ,Portia, Rosaland, Viola, Beatrice are the daughters of renaissance ,whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time)
- Main tragedy:Hamlet
- Othello
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Historical plays: Henry 4
- Henry 5
- Henry 6
- Richard 2
- Richard 3
- Fictional plays: Romeo and Juliet
- Poetical works:Venus and Adonis
- Lucrece
- Ben Johnson------------Everyone in his humour/volpone/the Alchemist /the silent woman
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