英国文学史个时期作者作品及地位对应表
英国文学作家作品列表
Period Historical Background Life Time Name CN Name Writings CN Writings Notes
Early&Medieval Period(449-1485) 早期中世纪时期（poetry, Romance, Popular ballad）英国中世纪文学史大致
可分为盎格鲁-撒克逊
（The Anglo-Saxon
Period,449-1066）和中
古英语（The Middle
English
Period,1066-1485）两个
时期。
The making of the
England: Jutes, Angles
and Saxons invaded
Albion and combined
into one United
Kingdom-the
700-750 Boewulf 贝奥武甫
英国的民族史诗(the national epic of the
English people) stricking feature:
alliteration, metaphors and
understatements.
England.Their dialects gradually grew into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.Feudal system was established；
Roman Catholic Church controlled over the country. 1343-1400
Geoffrey
Chaucer
杰弗利·乔叟
The Canterbury Tales
（Masterpiece）坎特伯雷故事集
the Father of English poetry英国诗歌之父，
the forerunner of English renaissance英国文
艺复兴先驱，metrical form (格律形式) laid
the foundation of the English verse格律形式
奠定了基础的英语节律，the heroic couplet
英雄双韵体
Renaissance
Period
(Humanism) (late 15th century ~ early 17th century)
文艺复兴
伊丽莎白时代（The Elizabethan Age）的英国戏剧是英国文艺复兴时期所有文学形式中最辉煌的一种，代表了英国乃至整个欧洲文艺复兴时期文学
创
作的最高成就。The Wars of the Roses
(1455-1485) and
Tudor dynasty
which was
established by
Henry VII in 1485.
Reformation:
Protestantism became
the official national
religion.
The Enclosure
movement: compelled
peasants to become the
hired laborers for the
merchants.
1478-1535 Thomas More 托马斯·莫尔Utopia 乌托邦
理想国，空想主义的代名词，开创英国哲理
幻想小说传统的先河
the first to introduce the Sonnet into
English literature首先把十四行诗译成英
语文学
1552-1599
Edmund
Spenser
埃德蒙·斯宾
赛
The Faerie Queen 仙后
the poets’ poet诗人中的诗人
歌颂女王，宣扬人文主义思想
The Spenserian Stanza斯宾塞诗体1564-1593
Christopher
Marlowe
克里斯扥夫·
马洛
Dr Fauctus
Tamburlaine
The Jew of Malta
浮士德博士的悲
剧
帖木耳大帝
马耳他的犹太人
The Renaissance exploration spirit and
extreme individualism spirit文艺复兴探
索精神和极端的个人主义精神,the
greatest playwright before Shakespeare
莎士比亚之前最伟大的剧作家，“University
Wit”大学才子派, the pioneer of English
drama
［poetry (sonnet and blank verse), drama,
essay］Flourishing in the
Elizabethan Age: The
commercial expansion
and the rise of
bourgeoisie.
The war with Spain: in
1588, the Spanish
Armada was defeated.
England had
sovereignty over the
seas.
文艺复兴具有三个主要
特征:古希腊、罗马文化
的复兴；知识的复兴;
人文主义运动的发展。
1564-1616
William
Shakespeare
威廉·莎士比
亚
Four comedies：
1.A midsummer night’s
dream
2.The Merchant of
Venice
3.As You Like it
4.Twelfth night
Four tragedies:
1.Hamlet
2.Othello
3.King Lear
4.The tragedy of Macbeth
The Tempest
四大喜剧：
1.仲夏夜之梦
2.威尼斯商人
3.皆大欢喜
4.第十二夜
四大悲剧：
1.哈姆雷特
2.奥赛罗
3.李尔王
4.麦克白
暴风雨
above all writers in the past and in the
present time，he produced 2 long
narrative poems, 154 sonnets and 38 plays
两首长诗歌，154首十四行诗和38部戏剧，
represents the climax of the Renaissance
代表了文艺复兴时期的高潮，one of the
first founders of realism第一个现实主义
的创始人之一，an encyclopedia of the
Elizabethan Age伊丽莎白时代的百科全
书，the largest command of vocabulary
他有最大的词汇量，Aeschylus and
Shakespeare as “ the two greatest
dramatic geniuses the world has ever
known”埃斯库罗斯和莎士比亚是“两个世
界历来所知最伟大的戏剧天才”
1561-1626 Francis Bacon
弗兰西斯·培
根
Essays
Of Studies
论说文集
论读书
champion of modern science
现代科学拥护者，散文家，题材广泛
17th century
（poetry, comedy, prose）English Revolution
(1649)
The establishment of a
Commonwealth
The monarchy was
1572-1631
John Donne
The
metaphysical
玄学派
约翰·邓恩
The Flea
Death Be Not Proud
The Songs and Sonnets
A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning
跳蚤
死神你别骄傲
歌谣与十四行诗
离别辞：节哀
the founder of Metaphysical poetry
(writing on love, death and religion)形
而上学的诗歌的创始人(写爱情、死亡和宗
教)，The Metaphysical Conceit玄学奇喻
cynicism犬儒主义
