,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Chapter1 Old and Medieval English Literature,The Outline(,大纲要求的重点作家,),Geoffrey Chaucer:,The Canterbury Tales,William Shakespeare,John Milton:Paradise lost;on his blindness,Lake poets:William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Robert Southey,Jonathan Swift:Battle of the Books,Gullivers Travels,George Gordon Byron,Charles Dickens,：,David Copperfield,；,Oliver Twist,Robert Browning:My Last Duchess,James Joyce:Ulysses,D.H.Lawrence:,The White Peacock,;Sons and Lovers,T.S.Eliot:The Waste Land,Emily Bronte:Wuthering Heights,请识记以上作家的重要作品,不仅限于上面的例子。,British Literature:An Introduction,Basic Terms,Poetry and Prose,Rhyme and Rhythm,Examples of Rhythm,Metrical Pattern:,1.iambic pentameter,That time|of year|thou mayst|in me|behold,2.trochaic tetrameter,Tell me|not in|mournful|numbers,3.anapestic trimeter,And the sound|of a voice|that is still,4.dactylic hexameter,This is the|forest pri|meval,the|murmuring|pine and the|hemlocks,Examples of Rhyme,When I consider how my light is spent A,Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,B,And that one talent which is death to hide B,Lodgd with me useless,though my soul more bent A,To serve therewith my Maker,and present A,My true account,lest he returning chide,B,Doth God exact day-labour,light denied?“B,I fondly ask.But Patience,to prevent A,That murmur,soon replies:God doth not need C,Either mans work or his own gifts:who best D,Bear his mild yoke,they serve him best.His state E,Is kingly;thousands at his bidding speed C,And post oer land and ocean without rest:D,They also serve who only stand and wait.“E,Rhyming Scheme(,押韵格式,):ABBA ABBA CDE CDE,Chapter1 Old and Medieval English Literature,the Britons,the early inhabitants in the island,a tribe of Celts(Britainthe land of the Britons),Three conquests,Influence on the country,Geoffrey Chaucer(,熟悉,),Chaucers achievement:,1.he presented a comprehensive realistic picture of his age and created a whole gallery of vivid characters in his works,especially in The Canterbury Tales.,2.He is regarded as the“father of English poetry,3.He developed his characterization to a higher level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions.,4.he greatly contributed to the maturing of English poetry.Today,Chaucers reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom,humor and humanity.He introduced Heroic Couplet into English poetry.,Heroic Couplet,Heroic Couplet,:Heroic couplet is a rhymed,couplet(rhyme),of,iambic pentamete,r,(rhythm).,It,is Chaucer who used it for the first time in English in his work,The Legend of Good Woman,and applied with perfect ease in,The Canterbury Tales.,The Canterbury Tales(1387-1400),Structure:General prologue+Tales,Characters:31(a narrator+30 pilgrims),Contents:General prologue+20completed tales+4uncompleted ones,famous for the story told by the knight,the nun,the Both woman,Squire,Clerk,Physician,doctor,shipman,and so on.,Major categories:the courtly,bourgeois,religious,