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第33章伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁33.1复习笔记Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)(伊丽莎白·巴雷特•勃朗宁)1.Life(生平)Elizabeth Barrett was born in1806at Durham,cated at home,Elizabeth had written her first“epic”poem by the age of12.But when she was fifteen,a fall from her horse injured her spine.Despite her ailments,he devoted herself to study Hebrew and Greek.With her enthusiasm for her Christian faith,she became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies for her church.Later she lived in her father’s London house under his tyrannical rule.After her brother’s death,she became an invalid and a recluse in her bedroom for5years.In1844,her Poems attracted Robert Browning’s attention and they exchanged574letters over the next20months. Regardless of her father’s opposition,they eloped in1846and settled in Italy,where her health improved and she bore a son.Her father never spoke to her again.Elizabeth’s Sonnets from the Portuguese,dedicated to her husband and written in secret before her marriage,was published in1850.She died in Florence in1861.伊丽莎白·巴雷特1806年出生在英国达勒姆。
第10章丹尼尔•笛福10.1复习笔记I.Background Knowledge(背景知识)(1)After the“Glorious Revolution”,England became a constitutional monarchy and power passedfrom the King to the Parliament and the cabinet ministers.The power struggle between the liberal Whigs and the conservative Tories at times dominated the literature of the age.(2)The Industrial Revolution started and transformed the socioeconomic texture of Britain,intensifying the contradictions between the rich and the poor.(3)The rapid development of social life including the popularity of public coffee-houses andprivate clubs was typical of all English cities.(4)The Enlightenment started in the18th century,which fought against feudalism,emphasizedreason,and believed in human beings’innate kindness.（1）1688年光荣革命后，英国从此成为君主立宪制国家，权力由国王转向议会和内阁大臣。
两党之间的争权夺势不时主导着18世纪文学。
（2）工业革命兴起，彻底改变了英国的社会经济结构，加剧了贫富矛盾。
吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》（重排版）笔记和考研真题详解-弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙【圣才出品】第39章弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙39.1复习笔记Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)(弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫)1.Life(生平)Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen,the biographer,critic and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.She was educated at home and in frequent contact with her father’s literary and political friends.After his father’s death in1904,she settled with her families in Bloomsbury,where she was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.In1912Virginia married Leonard Woolf,a journalist,essayist and political thinker.Together they founded the Hogarth Press in1917.From childhood she suffered from fits of nervous breakdown.Her husband encouraged her to write novels.Her house in London was bombed by Nazi planes during the Second World War.She fell into a spiritual depression and became ill again.In1941,after completing her last novel,Between the Acts,she drowned herself in a river for fear that she would lose her mind and became a burden to her husband.弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙是莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士之女。
吴伟仁《英国⽂学史及选读》笔记和考研真题详解-第7章浪漫主义时期【圣才出品】第7章浪漫主义时期7.1 复习笔记I. Background Knowledge（背景知识）At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, romanticism appeared in England as a new trend in literature. It rose and grew under the impetus of the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution.Romanticism prevailed in England during the period 1798-1832. The co-authored book Lyrical Ballads published in 1798 by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge marked the beginning of romanticism, while the death of Walter Scott in 1832 declared the ending of it.18世纪末19世纪初，在英国⼯业⾰命和法国⼤⾰命的影响下，浪漫主义成为⼀种新的⽂学思潮应运⽽⽣。
1798年华兹华斯和柯勒律治共同编写的《抒情歌谣集》标志浪漫主义时期的开始，1832年沃尔特·司各特的去世则宣告浪漫主义时期的结束。
II. Literary Features of the Eighteenth Century（⼗⼋世纪⽂学特征）1. The Romantic Period is one of poetical revival. It is a period of poetry. Emotion, imagination and intuition of humankind are what the romanticists emphasize in their works. The general feature of the works of the romanticists is the dissatisfaction with the bourgeois society. They pay more attention to thespiritual and emotional life of man. Nature plays an important role in their works.2. Romantic poets are generally divided into two groups: the elder generation, or the escapist romanticists (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, who also known as Lake Poets), and the younger generation, or the active romanticists (Byran, Shelley and Keats). The elder generation reflected the merry of old England. Frightened by the coming of industrialism and the nightmare towns, they were turning to nature for protection. The younger generation expressed the aspirations of the classes created by capitalism and held out an ideal of a future society free from oppression and exploitation.3. Romantic prose of the time was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey andHunt.4. The only great novelist in this period was Walter Scott, whose historical novelscombined a romance atmosphere with a realistic depiction of historical background and common people’s life. Scott marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism.1. 浪漫主义时期是诗歌复兴时期。
吴伟仁《英国⽂学史及选读》配套题库【章节题库（含名校考研真题）-第三章杰弗⾥第三章杰弗⾥·乔叟填空题1. Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous work ______ contains 20-odd stories unified by a fictitious pilgrimage.（天津外国语2008研）【答案】The Canterbury Tales【解析】乔叟的代表作是《坎特伯雷故事集》，其中涵盖了20个完整的、虚构出来的朝圣之旅的故事。
（乔叟在去世前只完成了全书的总引和20个完整的故事，另有4个故事的残⽚。
）2. ______ is generally considered to be Chaucer’s masterpiece. （国际关系学院2007研）【答案】The Canterbury Tales【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》被公认为是乔叟的代表作。
3. The English great writer Geoffrey Chaucer was born in 1343 and died in 1400. His most important work is ______, a long poem made up of a general introduction and 24 stories. （南开⼤学2007研）【答案】The Canterbury Tales【解析】乔叟的代表作是《坎特伯雷故事集》，是⼀⾸由⼀篇序⾔和24个故事（其中22个诗体和两个散⽂体）组成的长诗。
4. The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Le Morte D’ Arthur concerning with _______ legend.【答案】Arthurian【解析】15世纪左右公认的集⼤成作品为《亚瑟王之死》，是关于亚瑟王的传奇故事。
第二部分章节题库第一章中古时期一、填空题1. ______ is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.【答案】Beowulf【解析】《贝奥武夫》讲述了斯堪的纳维亚的英雄贝奥武夫的英勇事迹。
是迄今为止发现的英国盎格鲁-撒克逊时期最古老、最长的一部较完整的文学作品，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗。
2. Today Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry”but also as “the father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is ______.【答案】The Canterbury Tales【解析】乔叟的代表作是《坎特伯雷故事集》。
3. ______ is the “father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, whose masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is one of the most famous works in all literature.【答案】Geoffrey Chaucer【解析】杰弗里·乔叟于1340年出生于伦敦，他是英语诗歌的创始者。
他逝于1400年，葬于威斯敏斯特教堂，也被称作“诗人角”。
4. In “The Canterbury Tales”, Chaucer employed the writing _____ with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.【答案】heroic couplet【解析】杰弗里·乔叟（1340—1400）英国小说家、诗人，被誉为“英国诗歌之父”，代表作品《坎特伯雷故事集》，大部分采用的是英雄双韵体。
吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》（重排版）笔记和考研真题详解-乔纳森第11章乔纳森?斯威夫特11.1复习笔记Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)(乔纳森·斯威夫特)1.Life(生平)Jonathan Swift was a satirist,essayist,political pamphleteer,poet and cleric.He was born of poor English parents in Dublin.At Dublin University,he detested the curriculum,reading only what appealed to his own nature.After graduation,he worked for a distant relative,Sir William Temple,a statesman and diplomat.He spent ten best years of his life in Moor Park,where he read and studied widely.Well aware of his literary superiority and unbearable of his being looked down upon,Swift left his patron,entered the Church of England,and later settled in a little church in Ireland.Then he gradually developed his satiric talent,gave up his church to enter the strife of party politics.He became a dictator in the literature /doc/b02148420.html,ter he became the Dean of St.Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin,where he stayed with the Irish in their fight for improving their lot.Swift had been afflicted from his earliest youth with a brain disease which caused him intense pain.Finally his disease ended in madness,and after suffering great pain,he died in utter misery in1745.In his will,he bequeathed all his property to the building of a madhouse in Dublin.It is now still there,called“Dr.Swift’s Madhouse”.乔纳森·斯威夫特是一位讽刺作家、散文家、政治宣传者，诗人和圣职人员。
吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》（重排版）笔记和考研真题详解-阿尔弗雷德第31章阿尔弗雷德?丁尼生31.1复习笔记Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892)(阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生)1.Life(生平)Alfred Tennyson,the most important poet of the Victorian Age,was born in1809at Somersby Rectory,Lincolnshire,the fourth son of an Anglican clergyman.In1827he went to Cambridge.He and his brother published Poems by Two Brothers,which attracted the attention of“apostles”,a group of undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Henry Hallam,who later became Tennyson’s closest friend.His Poems in1842won T ennyson first critical success.In1850, with the publication of In Memoriam,which is a tribute to Hallam,he was appointed poet laureate in succession to Wordsworth.Then he finally could afford to marry Emily Sellwood, whom he had loved since1836.He remained in this position until he died at83years old,longer than any other before or after him.In1884,Tennyson was awarded a baronetcy by Queen Victoria,who greatly admired his work and his poetic genius.He was laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.England built a monument in his honor.阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生是维多利亚时期最重要的诗人。
第15章哥尔德史密斯15.1复习笔记Oliver Goldsmith(1730-1774)(奥里弗·哥尔德斯密斯)1.Life(生平)Oliver Goldsmith was born in Ireland,the son of a poor Anglican curate.He was early disfigured by smallpox and grew up with ugly face and ungraceful figure.In his early years,he was apparently stupid and idle.However,in1749,Goldsmith graduated from Trinity College in Dublin with a BA ter he was trained for medicine,but eventually drifted to be a hack writer for Monthly Review.Goldsmith was one of the most versatile authors,who became an accomplished essayist,poet,novelist,and playwright.奥利弗·哥尔德史密斯出生于爱尔兰，是一个贫困的英国国教乡村牧师之子。
他早年因得天花而残疾，面部丑陋，身形笨拙。
小时候他显然十分愚笨无用。
然而，1749年他从都柏林三一学院毕业，获得文学学士学位。
后来他又接受医学教育，但最终转行做了《每月评论》的雇佣写手。
哥尔德史密斯多才多艺，是颇有建树的散文家，诗人，小说家和剧作家。
2.Major Works(主要作品)The Citizen of the World(1762)《世界公民》The Traveller(1764)《旅游人》The Vicar of Wakefield(1766)《威克菲尔德牧师传》The Good-Natured Man(1768)《好心人》The Deserted Village(1770)《荒村》She Stoops to Conquer(1773)《屈身求爱》3.Selected Work(选读作品)◆The Vicar of Wakefield《威克菲尔德牧师传》thick and fast.The vicar loses his fortune and they have to move to a new place under the patronage of a certain squire Thornhill.Thornhill,being an immoral ruffian,seduces Olivia and then deserts her.The vicar himself is thrown into prison for debt to Thornhill.Sophia,the vicar’s second daughter,is forcibly carried off in a carriage by an unknown villain.By this time,Mr. Burchell,one of the vicar’s acquaintances,who appears to be a broken-down gentleman,saves Sophia.He makes it known to the Primrose family that he is squire Thornhill’s uncle.The squire’s villainy is exposed in front of his uncle.All now ends happily.Sir William marries Sophia.Olivia is found out and the squire is made to marry her.The vicar’s fortune is restored to him.故事由好心的乡村牧师普里姆罗斯本人讲述。
吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》（重排版）笔记和考研真题详解-约翰·弥尔顿【圣才出品】第8章约翰·弥尔顿8.1复习笔记John Milton(1608-1674)(约翰·弥尔顿)1.Life(生平)John Milton was born into a pious wealthy Puritan family.He was greatly influenced by his father who loved books and had a private teacher for him.About12years old,Milton was sent to a famous boy’s school in London called St Paul’s;at15,he went to Cambridge University where he was said to be the finest scholar.Abandoning the thought of being a clergyman of the English Church,he retired to his father’s country house at Horton,writing poetry and studying hard. Later he traveled France,Switzerland and Italy where he heard that people’s struggle against the king might lead to war.After he returned to London,he wrote pamphlets opposing the monarchy and advocating people’s liberty.The commonwealth government gave Milton the important office of Secretary for Foreign Tongues.He worked hard and finally became blind.During the Restoration,he was thrown in prison and released by CharlesⅡ.He died on November8,1674surrounded by a few devoted friends.弥尔顿出生在富裕、虔诚的清教徒家庭。
第12章约瑟夫•艾迪12.1复习笔记I.Joseph Addison(1672-1719)(约瑟夫·艾迪生)1.Life(生平)Joseph Addison,the son of a scholarly clergyman,was educated at Charterhouse School and then at Oxford University,both with Steele,his fast friend.Addison was the stronger character, the better student,the more quiet and resourceful.At Oxford,Addison soon became known as a writer of verses.His great interest in and talent for political writing won him patronage from several statesmen to travel on the Continent while studying French and politics of European states.Four years later,he returned and rose to fame by writing a poem celebrating the English Duke of Marlborough.Soon he became a member of Parliament and later was sent to Ireland as Secretary of State.When he died,all England mourned for him and a great funeral was held by night in Westminster Abbey.约瑟夫·艾迪生出身于一个牧师家庭，父亲博学多识。
他在查特豪斯学校和牛津大学接受教育，这两个时期都和挚友斯蒂尔一起度过。
与斯蒂尔相比，艾迪生更刚强、学习更出色、更内敛和足智多谋。
在牛津期间，艾迪生很快就以写诗出名。
他对政治写作极感兴趣也很有天赋，因此赢得了一些政治家的资助，游历欧洲大陆，学习法语并熟悉欧洲国家的政治。
四年后他回国，因一首赞扬马尔堡公爵的诗声名鹊起。
不久他便成了议员，后来又去爱尔兰做国务大臣。
他死后，举国哀悼，夜晚人们在威斯敏斯特教堂举行了盛大的葬礼。
2.Literary Achievements(文学成就)Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator.He collaborated with Steele in publishing The Spectator from1711to1712.The essays published in The Spectator dealt with the customs,manners,morals,literature and other current topics of the time.Steele and Addison preached moderation,reason,self-control,civility, refinement and good taste,all which the newly ruling bourgeoisie needed urgently while establishing its social order.主要文学贡献是他为《闲谈者》和《旁观者》写的文章。
1711—1712年，他和斯蒂尔合办《旁观者》。
《旁观者》发表的文章与风俗、世态、道德、文学及其他时下流行话题有关。
在文章中，斯蒂尔和艾迪生宣传节制、理性、自我约束、文明、文雅和高品位，这些品质都是发展中的资产阶级建立社会秩序亟需的。
3.Writing Style(写作风格)Addison’s familiar and elegant prose remained for over a century the model for most writers. Dr.Johnson regarded his prose as“the model of the middle style;on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling;pure without scrupulosity,and exact without apparent elaboration,always equable,and always easy,without glowing words or printed sentences.”艾迪生平易近人、高雅洗练的散文是一个多世纪以来大部分作家写作的典范。
约翰逊博士称他的散文是“中庸风格的典范，讨论严肃的话题不正式，轻松的时候又不卑躬屈膝，纯粹而无顾虑，精确又无匠气，总是那么平和从容，毫无华丽辞藻和刻板教条。
Ⅱ.Richard Steele(1672-1729)(理查德·斯蒂尔)1.Life(生平)Richard Steele was born in Dublin,in the same year as Addison,and was educated at the same school and university as Addison.At Oxford,Steele dropped his college work,ran away and joined the army.After returning from the wars,he tried his hand at a few plays and a book.In 1709,he started a paper called The Tatler,which contained news,gossip,stories of everyday life, and jokes on all sorts of people.Two years later,he discontinued it and started another paper named The Spectator,combining the daily paper with the familiar essays to offer entertainment and enlightenment.理查德·斯蒂尔生于都柏林，和艾迪生同龄，并和他在同一所学校上学。
在牛津期间，斯蒂尔丢掉学业，参军入伍。
从战场上回来，他试着写了些剧本和一本书。
1709年，斯蒂尔创办了《闲谈者》报，内容包括新闻、小道消息、日常故事和各种人的玩笑。
两年后，《闲谈着》停刊，他又创办了《旁观者》，将日报和亲近人心的随笔结合，旨在娱乐和教化读者。
2.Analysis of Major Character in The Spectator《旁观者》主要人物分析The essays of The Spectator presented the character and doings of Sir Roger,a country gentleman of old-fashioned manners,is simple-minded,kind-hearted,and somewhat pompous. His foibles,which were described with a gentle humor,made a setting for his virtues of simplicity, honesty and piety which pointed an example to the world of fashion.《旁观者》中的随笔展现了罗杰爵士这个人物及其行为。
罗杰爵士是因循守旧的老乡绅，单纯善良，爱摆架子。
文章笔调幽默地描写了他的小缺点，衬托出了他单纯、诚实、虔诚的美德，为上流社会树立了榜样。
12.2考研真题与典型题详解I.Fill in the blanks.1.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the United State.Their collaboration on a series of essays for“The Tatler”and“______”strongly influenced18th century English taste and opinion.（天津外国语2010研）【答案】The Spectator【解析】约瑟夫·艾迪生和理查德·斯蒂尔是英国著名的散文家，两人最重要的贡献是创办两份著名的杂志《闲谈者》与《旁观者》2.______is Alexander Pope’s poem which indicates the poet’s political and philosophical viewpoint.It deals with man’s relation to the universe,to society,to himself and to happiness.【答案】An Essay on Man【解析】《人论》是蒲柏的一首哲理诗，在这首诗中蒲柏表达了他的政治哲学思想。
3.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele developed the form of letter-writing to the verge of the ______novel.【答案】epistolary【解析】约瑟夫·艾迪生和理查德·斯蒂尔经常一起被提起，两人最重要的贡献是创办两份著名的杂志《闲谈者》（The Tatler）与《旁观者》（The Spectator）以及发展了书信体写作形式。
4.______,i.e.the Iliad of Dunces or dullards,is a brilliant satirical poem in4books written by Alexander Pope,provoked by The obald’s criticism of his edition of Shakespeare.【答案】The Dunciad【解析】《群愚史诗》共四册，是亚历山大·蒲柏最优秀的讽刺作品。
