英美文学选读William WordsworthPPT课件
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W o r d s w o r t h’s C o n t r i b u t i o n:1)British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge2)In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey (1774-1843) as England's poet laureate.3)He is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.4)He defines the poet as “ a man speaking to men” and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.”5)He started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self.6. He changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.7. His deliberate simplicity and refusal to decorate the truth of experience produced a kind of pure and profound poetry.Works:An Evening WalkLyrical BalladsThe PreludeThe ExcursionHis short poems can be classified into two groups:poems about naturepoems about human lifeFamous Poems:Ode on Intimations of ImmortalityTintern AbbeyI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ( Daffodils)To the CuckooLucy PoemsI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden daffodils.Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.和风吹拂舞翩跹Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the Milky Way,They stretch'd in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay;Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dancemargin of a bay:湖弯的边缘随风偃仰舞兴浓The waves beside them danced, but theyOutdid the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed-and gazed-but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought.Outdid :胜过jocund :cheerfulshow: spectacle 景象For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.Vacant:vacant mood, 茫然的心情that inward eye /Which is the bliss of solitude:华兹华斯认为在孤寂中回想曾经见过的自然美景是极大的快乐。
英美文学选读要点总结精心整理[英国』Chapter1 The Renaissance period(14世纪至十七世纪中叶)文艺复兴1. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。
2. the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the measure of all things.人文主义作为文艺复兴的起源是因为古希腊罗马文明的基础是以“人”为中心,人是万物之灵。
3. Renaissance humanists found in then classics a justification to exalt human nature and came to see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy.人文主义者们却从古代文化遗产中找到充足的论据,来赞美人性,并开始注意到人类是崇高的生命,人可以不断发展完善自己,而且世界是属于他们的,供他们怀疑,探索以及享受。
4. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.托马斯.摩尔,克利斯朵夫.马洛和威廉.莎士比亚是英国人文主义的代表。
5. Wyatt introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.怀亚特将彼特拉克的十四行诗引进英国。