【正文】 s? 1. the general function of studies: for delight, for ornament, and for ability.? 2. a few ways to deal with what we studied 。4. Two wedding odes(1) Epithalamium, a wedding song written to celebrate the poet’s love and marriage to his wife Elizabeth Boyle.(2) Prothalamium, a wedding ode, mainly depicted the grand ceremony over the river of Thames, and unfolded the beauty and charm of grassland, flower in London suburb.A famous line: “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.”5. The poet’s fame His achievement in poetic beauty earned him the fame of “the poets’ poet” and cast influence upon such great poets of later generations as Byron, Shelly, Keats and Tennyson.Francis BaconI. Bacon the man1. son of the Lord Keeper during the reign of Elizabeth。(4) the story: (adventures of 12 knights). It’s a vivid narrative of knightly adventures, it also involved moral, religion and political allegories, and all sorts of supernatural beings。(2) Planned in 12 books, but only 6 books and two cantos(詩章) of the 7th were finished。 （3）The dominant theme is love, and the theme of religion is also discussed.3. The Faire Queen(1) Spenser’s masterpiece。（2）The shepherd represents the poet and his friend。2. Educated at Merchant Tailor’s schoolIn this school, a teacher with humanism conveyed the idea of education as follows: “It’s not a mind, nor a body, that we have to educate, but a man, we can not divide him”.3. Studying in Cambridge University, he was under the influence of Platonism (one aspect: the inner beauty is more important than the beauty of appearance.) This may be found in his poetry。2. Fail to finish formal schooling for the reason of financial difficulties, he left for London.II. Shakespeare the dramatistHis plays are poetical dramas, most of which are written in blank verse which was created one of the famous university wits, Christopher Marlow.His career as a dramatist may be divided into three (or four) periods: (to be lectured later)Hamlet●The Monologue： To be: to exist, to live, to passively accept, to suffer。(3) the corruption of churchIV. Chaucer’s achievements in and contribution to English literature1. He is one of the earliest literary talents who embody humanism.2. Father of English poetry(1) the first great poet who wrote in English language。(3) To praise man’s energy, intellect and love of life.2. This work exposed the evil of time(1) the degeneration of the noble。Beneath, “all things are subject unto love.”I. Questions for discussion:1. What is the tone of the setting? How did the author achieve such setting of the tales?2. Summarize the character of the Prioress in this Prologue. 3. To analyze Chaucer’s ways of characterization in this Prologue and the language style of the selected part. II. To illustrate the terms.Heroic couplet: A twoline section of a poem, which rhymes and has five feet each in iambic meter(also termed as iambic pentameter ), and which has a meaning plete within itself.Example: The veins are bathed in li quor of such power As brings about the engen dering of the flower, (抑抑揚(yáng))ATT: For the convenience of the interpretation for the foot, some words are detached.Foot: A group of syllables forming a unit of verse, usually one foot contains at least one stressed word, or contains one stressed word and one or more than one unstressed words.III. Social significance of The Canterbury Tales (also function as a simple analysis)1. The Canterbury is not only a collection of stories strung by loose thread.(1) To affirm men and women’s right to pursue their happiness。2. His early life as a page and his marriage acquainted him with knowledge about upper class。 (refer to the history of literature By Liu Bingshan,)3. to use poundwords to serve as metaphors。Pre