【正文】 obscure 含糊不清 6 約翰 彌爾頓 John Milton 16081674 A Catholic family 天主教 Latin blind . Paradise Lost失樂(lè)園 masterpiece. a story taken from ―the old Testament‖ ,a long epic divided into 12 books ,taken from the theme is ―fall of man‖ The main idea:to beg for mercy and worship his power were more shamefull and disgracefull than this downfall. Samson Agonists the most powerfull dramatic poem on the Greek model. Three group: A the early poetic works B the middle prose pamphlets C the last great poems The freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton‘s creed. Paradise Regained 第二章 新古典主義時(shí)期 the Neoclassical Period 16601798(18th century) 人社會(huì)動(dòng)物 industrial revolution 工業(yè)革命 the Restoration Gothic Novel: 1 content: magic, supernaturall elements, ghosts, monsters. 2setting: old castle, graveyard, dard forest 3atomsphere:horrible The enlightenment movement（ the age of reason ） ： 啟蒙運(yùn)動(dòng) It was a progressive intellectuall 進(jìn)步知道份子 movement which flourished in France and swept the whole western Europe at the time. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. 當(dāng)代哲學(xué)和藝術(shù)思想 The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science,理性平等科學(xué) and they also advocated universal 1 約翰 班楊 John Bunyan 16281688 18 年坐牢， Christianity 基督教 the pilgrim‘s progress‖the vanity fair‖ is the most successful religious allegory 宗教寓言in the English language. Metaphor 暗喻 life as a journey search for spiritual salvation Style: Moded after the Bible, language:e asy to read,colloquial, concrete and concise form: allegorian form,reallystic,true to life. 2 亞歷山大 蒲 柏 Alexander Pope 16881744 The first to introduce rationalism 理性主義 to England. an essay an criticism《論批評(píng)》 didactic/sermon poem written in heroic couplets. 句子理解： On fruit trees,where leaves are plentiful,fruit will be few. Similarly,in a piece of writing,where too many fine words are used ,good sense will be much reduced. The theme of this poem:Pope advises the critics not to stresss too much the artificeial use of Conceit or the external beauty of language but to pay special attention to True Wit which is best set in a plain style. the rape of the lock奪發(fā)記 satirized the foolish,meaningless life of the lords and the ladies. His best satiric work is the Dunciad群愚史詩(shī) 3 丹尼爾 笛福 Daniel defoe 16601731 butcher‘s family 賣肉家庭 English middle –class the trueborn Englishman Robinson Crusoemasterpiece, Robinson is the empire builder,the pioneer colonist. The theme: A man‘s strugglees against nature B glorifyication of the bourgeois men who has the courage and will to face hardship and determineation to improve his livelihood. C glorifyication of labor(Robinson lives on his own hands) 笛福的創(chuàng)作特點(diǎn)： Defoe was a very good had a gift for anizing minute details in such a vivid way that his stories could be both credible 可信 and fascinating 神奇 .his sentences are sometimes short,crisp 短小干脆 and plain,and sometimes long and rambling,which leave on the reader an impression of casual language is smooth,easy,colloquial 口語(yǔ) and mostly vernacular方言 .there is nothing artificeial in his language: it is mon English at its best. 4 喬納森 斯威夫特 Jonathan Swift 16671745 a tale of a tub the battle of the books Gulliver‘s travelsthe greatest satiric work a modest proposala greatest and bitterest satire. Lilliput yahoos bitter satire 5 亨利 菲爾丁 Henry Fielding 17071754 Born of an old aristocratic family. 老貴族家庭 ―father of the English novel‖ “ the thirdperson narration‖第三人稱敘述 the history of TomJones ,a foundling ―prose homer‖散文荷馬 ‖ ic epic in prose‖散文體喜劇史詩(shī) : 1 the descryiption in a grand style of classic epic.‖classic epic‖has: A a great hero Bcalls on Muses C give a list of names of gods D pare small fights to great wars. 2 use verifyied language to narrate a small fight 3 different figure of speech .esp,irony 諷刺 ,hyperbole 夸張 the history of Amelia 費(fèi)爾丁的語(yǔ)言特色： Fielding‘s language is easy, unlaboured and familiar,自然流暢通俗易懂 but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic邏輯性 and rhythm,韻律性 and his structure carefully planed towards an inevitable ending. His works are also noted for lively,dramatic dialogues 戲劇性對(duì)話 and other theatrical devices such as suspendse,懸念coincidence 巧合 and 6 塞繆爾 約翰遜 Sumuel Johnson 17091784 A bookseller‘s family He is a poet,dramatist,prose romancer,biographer,essayist,critic,lexicographyer and publicist. Lexicographer 詞典編纂者 –a dictionary of the English language 英文大詞典 to the right honorable the Earl of Chesterfield 致切斯特菲爾德勛爵的信， 七 年 Johnson was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the late 18th century. Johnson‘s style is typically neoclassical,but it is at the opposite extreme from Swift‘s simplicity 簡(jiǎn)單 or Addison‘s neatenss 整潔 .his language is characteristically general籠統(tǒng) ,often Latinate 拉丁語(yǔ) and frequently his sentences are long and well structured,interwoven 混雜 交織 with parallet 排比對(duì)仗 words and ,no matter how plex his sentences are,the thought is always clearly expressed。and though he tends to use ―learned words.‖書面化的文字 they are always accurately 準(zhǔn)確 his works gives the reader the impression that he is talking with a very learned 7 理查德 比 謝立丹 Richard Brinsley sheridan 17511816 The only dramatist 戲劇家 of the 18th century. The leading figure among a host of Morality 道德 is the constant theme in his plays. the school for scandal造謠學(xué)校 edy 主角： ‖surface‖ ―sneerwell‖ ―Backbite‖ ―Candour‖ the Rivals情敵 the heroine Lydia es from an upperclass family..Lydia is a sentimental girl. 8 托馬斯 格雷 Thomas Gray 17161771 Sentimental poetry 傷感主義詩(shī)歌 the Graveyard School Elegy Written in a Country Church