【正文】 ilsof the poet’s age,– on steadfast loveArtistic achievement profound in their moral depth and more plex in their expressed witsa group of talented youngdramatistsChristopher Marlowe(15641593)nOne of the “University wits”nThe greatest tragedy playwright before William ShakespearenHis masterwork: Doctor Faustus(1604)(P7576)Doctor Faustus(1604)Doctor Faustus’s contract with Lucifer, a twenty four year long life in an exchange for some magic power:playing tricks upon the Pope(The bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church on earth.)。 scientific truths ．The essence of the Renaissance spirit:the idea that people were wonderful creatures that could reason and create.“Man is the measure of all things”．The chief character: the expression of secular values with man instead of God as the centre of the emphasizes the dignity of man, affirms the value of man, which often implies a lessening in the power of advocates the full expression of individualism and the fulfillment of one’s affirms the delight of earthly achievement, as well as man’s desire for happiness and of Sonnet 18In this sonnet, Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he nice summer39。s life and Renaissance Periodage: 15001660．“Renaissance”“rebirth”．a(chǎn) reawakening／ learning →Greece amp。thought writers amp。 plex amp。第一篇：英美文學(xué)主觀題Neoclassicismage: 16601798．It mainly applies to the classical tendency which dominated the literature of the 17th century and 18th was, at least , the result of a reaction against the fires of passion which had blazed in the late Renaissance, especially in the metaphysical Neoclassicism esteemed objectivity, harmony, rationality, dignity, proportion, and moderation, stressed artistic systems and technical correlation of stylistic ponents, admired conciseness, elegance, good taste and wit, bined pleasure with instruction and matched content to style.．Its representatives are: John Dryden, Alexander Pope, age: 17981870．Romanticism stresses individual and creative function of places individual at the very center of all life and all experience and at the center of art.．Its characteristics are:Romanticism is a rebellion against the objectivity of romantics, the feelings, intuitions and emotions are more important than reason and mon do not think of the world as a ticking watch made by GodThey emphasize individualism, placing the individual against the group,against affirm the inner life of the self, and want each person to be free to develop and express his own inner thoughtsThey cherish strong interest in the past, especially the are interested in variety and attracted by the wild, the irregular, the indefinite, remote, the mysterious, and the strange.．Characteristics of romantic writers and their works:ImaginationWorship of nature Symbolism and myth Simplicity and humanity Spontaneity．Characterist