英国文学整理(2)

英国文学 刘炳善纲要

2).studied the poems of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio.文艺复兴先驱，但没传播

3).French/first period:The Romaunt of the Rose玫瑰传奇(translated from

French)

Italian/second:Troilus mand Criseyde特洛伊拉斯和克莱西德 English/third:The Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集（英语写作） 4). The Canterbury Tales

①Chaucer’s masterpiece, one of the monumental works in English

Literature 巨作，英国文学里程碑作品之一

②两方面把故事联系起来：the personality of the host & intimate connection between the tales and the Prologue.

③The Wife of Bath ④His Language:

a).full of humor and satire b).vivid and exact.

c).the “heroic couplet”第一个用英雄双行体

d).he is the first great poet who wrote in the English language.

文艺复兴时期(16 c)

1.More 1).prose writer 2).Utopia

More’s masterpiece, 对话形式，分两册，第一册说英国社会状况，第二册说Utopia

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