英语诗歌选读.ppt

1 Part I (I) Introduction I. A Short History of British and American Poetry II. What Is Poetry III. How to Read and Evaluate Poetry IV. Poetic Literary Terms V. The Arrangement of the Class 2 I. A short history of British and American poetry i. British poetry: 1. The earliest stage: -- the Anglo-Saxon period -- a verse literature in oral form -- pagan poetry: Beowulf : 3 2. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, under the influence from France: the romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 3. The 14th c.: the first harvest in English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer – the Father of English poetry 4. The 15th c.: ballads, Robin Hood Ballads 4 ? 5. The 16th c.: the Tudor dynasty, the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the period of Renaissance: ? -- Wyatt introducing the Italian to England ? -- Henry Howard creating the English form of the ? -- Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queen , the Spenserian stanza ? -- Christopher Marlowe : making blank verse the principal instrument of English drama ? -- William Shakespeare : 154, the Shakespearean 5 ? 6. The 17th c.: the Stuarts, different political and religious beliefs ? -- the Cavaliers: Robert Herrick , royalistic against the British Revolution ? -- metaphysical poets: John Donne …? -- Puritan poets: John Milton : Paradise Lost ? -- Restoration poet: John Dryden 6 ? 7. The 18th c.: the Age of Enlightenment (Reason) ? -- Pope , Addison , Steele , Johnson …: a revival of classical standards of order, balance and harmony in literature ? -- the middle of the century: sentimentalism, grief and mild protest, Thomas Grey : Elegy written in a Country Churchyard ?-- later years of the century: the forerunner of Romanticism, Burns and Blake 7 ? 8. Early 19th c.: the Romantic Age ? -- Passive Romanticists: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey ? -- Active Romanticists: Byron, shelley and Keats ? 9. The r