英国文学史复习资料(4)

（18世纪英国最伟大的诗人，其诗多用―英雄双韵体‖/ ― heroic couplets‖。词句工整、精练、富有哲理性。）

One of the first to introduce rationalism to England.

①<An Essay on Criticism>批评论

Artistic features:

ing ―heroic couplets‖

② <The Rape of the Lock>卷发遇劫记

③ <Moral Essays>道德论

2. Samuel Johnson塞缪尔 约翰逊1709~1784

3. Jonathan Swift乔纳森 斯威夫特1667~1745

（十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。）

① <Gulliver‘s Travels>格列佛游记(fictional work)

Four parts: Lilliput 小人国 Brobdingnag 大人国

Flying Island 飞岛 Houyhnhnm 马岛

② <The Battle of Books>书战

③ <A Tale of a Tub>木桶的故事

④ <The Drapper‘s Letters>一个麻布商的书信

4. Daniel Defoe丹尼尔 笛福1660~1731

（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 is the first writer study of the lower-class people,hislanguage is smooth, easy,

colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.

① <Robinson Crusoe>鲁宾逊漂流记

It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan.

Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened

man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.

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 <Moll Flanders>

③ <Colonel Jacque>

④ <Captain singleton>

5. Henry Fielding亨利 菲尔丁1707~1754

（英国小说家，戏剧家，被誉为―英国小说之父‖ 。）

He is called “Father of English novel”. He was the first to write a “Comic epic

in prose”(散文体史诗), and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

① novels: