17世纪英国文学.ppt

Literature in the 17th Century
组员：苗中杰
魏亚楠
孙鲁锋
Historical Background
The seventeenth century was an eventful period in the history of England.
1) The economic conflict between the Parliament and the king (the power of monarch).
2) The religious conflict between the Puritans and the Anglican Church.
3) political conflicts. From 1642 to 1688, England was full of political conflicts.
John Milton (弥尔顿 1608—1674)
• John Bunyan（班扬 1628—1688）
• John Donne (邓恩 1572—1631)
John Milton
约翰·
弥尔顿（1608～1674）
John Milton
English poet, critic, a fighter for democracy(民主斗士)
A Puritan（清教）literary representation
His all life to the bourgeois democratic movement
He is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.
John Milton
Major works:
Paradise Lost 失乐园Paradise Regained复乐园
Samson 力士参孙
One of the three major Western Poetry
（失乐园、荷马史诗、神曲）
Motto
“必然”和“偶然”不能接近我，我意志所决定的就是命运。 ——约翰·弥尔顿
多数人都只叹赏美德而不能照其实行。
——约翰·弥尔顿
弥尔顿！你现在活着该有多好。　
——华兹华斯
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
A famous British writer, evangelist(布道家).
He was born in Bedford County（贝德福德郡）in eastern area of English.
The youth had been conscripted into（征入）the revolution of the parliamentary army ,in after，engaged in missionary activity in his hometown.
In 1660，the restoration of the Stuart, the authorities in order to he without permission to preach as an excuse to arrest him in prison two times, respectively to twelve years in prison, and six months.
In prison writing Pilgrim‘s progress (天堂历程), telling the story of Christian and his wife has to find heaven experience, language plain, known as the" English literature 's most famous fables".