1.选择题（作家作品主要人物）
The middle age
1.Beowulf  the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons
2.Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里•乔叟 (father of English poetry)
The literature is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of love and adventure (chivalry and courtly love)
The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集： it refers to a narrative(叙事技巧) which was composed for the purpose of introducing and connecting a series of tales: The Thousand and One Nights There are all together 24 tales with the knight’s tale at the beginning, the Parson’s tale at the end, and the Clerk’s tale and other tales in between 作品：① <The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集：
     first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(双韵体) by middle English
      ②<Troilus and Criseyde>特罗勒斯与克丽西德
      ③ <The House of Fame>声誉之堂
      ④<The book of the Duchess>公爵夫人之书
      ⑤<The Parliament of Fowls>百鸟议会
The Renaissance
1.William Shakespeare威廉•莎士比亚
Historical plays: Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry V ；Richard II；Henry VIII
②Four Comedies: <As You Like It>皆大欢喜; <Twelfth Night>第十二夜; <A Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦; <Merchant Of Venice>威尼斯商人
③Four Tragedies: <Hamlet>哈姆莱特; <Othello>奥赛罗; <King Lear>李尔王; <Macbeth>麦克白
④Shakespeare Sonnet :154 <The Sonnets>
Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg

The Period of Revolution and Restortion
John Donne
the Metaphysical poet(17世纪玄学派诗人)  He was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets
作品：
Songs and Sonnets 《歌与十四行诗》
sonnet: Death Be not Pround
The Flea 《跳蚤》
The Good-Morrow 《早安》
Break of Day《破晓》
Epithalamions, or marriage songs 《颂歌》
n Elegies 《挽歌》
On His Mistress
To His Mistress Going to bed  Divine poems 《圣歌》
Holy Sonnets 《神圣十四行诗》
特点1. conceits or imagery奇思妙喻   2. syllogism三段论

The Age of Enlightment
1.    Daniel Defoe丹尼尔•笛福
小说家，新闻记者，小册子作者；十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。He started The Review, a political and literary magazine in prison. 1704年，他创办《评论》杂志，这是英国第一份定期出版的社会和政治刊物。
The Father of the English fiction”（英国小说之父）
He is the first writer study of the lower-class people, his language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.
作品：
① The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记
It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England.
② Captain Singleton 《辛格顿船长》
③ Moll Flanders 《摩尔•弗兰德斯》
④ A Journal of the Plague Year 《大疫年日记》
⑤ Roxana 《罗克萨娜》

2.    Jonathan Swift乔纳森•斯威夫特
 十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist
 作品：
A Tale of a Tub 《一只桶的故事》
The battle of the Books 《书籍之战》
The Drapier’s Letter 《布商来信》
A Modest Proposal 《一个温和的建议》
Gulliver‘s Travels 《格列佛游记》
 A Modest Proposal 《一个温和的建议》
Gulliver‘s Travels 《格列佛游记》
Four parts:
Lilliput 小人国  Brobdingnag 大人国
Flying Island 飞岛  Houyhnhnm 马岛

 The Romantic Period
William Wordsworth威廉•华兹华斯
与Samuel Taylor Coleridge柯尔律治、Robert Southey骚塞同被称为Lake Poets“湖畔派”诗人
l with Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.《抒情歌谣集》，the Prelude is considered as the declaration of Romanticism英国浪漫主义的宣言.
作品：
① <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

<I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud>
Theme: 1. Nature embodies human beings in their diverse circumstance. It is nature that gives him “strength and knowledge full of peace”
        2. It is bliss to recall the beauty of nature in poet mind while he is insolitude.
Comment: The poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights. In the poem on the beauty of nature, the reader is presented a vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils(水仙) and poet’s philosophical ideas and mystical thoughts.