英国文学史及选读之文学史作品及作者

作家及作品

1.the first epic in the English history：the song of Beowulf

2.Romance(传奇)：Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3. Popular Ballads(民谣)：The Robin Hood Ballad

4. Geoffrey Chaucer(杰弗里·乔索)：The Romaunt of the Rose玫瑰传奇

The Book of the Duchess悼公爵夫人

Troilus and Criseyde特罗伊拉斯和克莱西德

The Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集

5.Thomas More(托马斯?莫尔)：Utopia乌托邦book one

book two

6.William Shakespeare（威廉.莎士比亚）：the great comedies：

A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之梦

The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人

As You Like It皆大欢喜

Twelfth Night第十二夜

The great tragedies：Hamlet哈姆雷特

Othello奥塞罗

King Lear 李尔王

Macbeth 麦克白

Henry VI, Part II, III, I 亨利六世上、中、下

Richard III 里查德三世

The Comedy of Errors 错误的喜剧错中错

Titus Andronicus 克斯泰特斯·安庄尼

The Taming of the Shrew 驯悍妇

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 维洛那二绅士

Love’s Labor’s Lost 爱的徒劳空爱一场

Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧与朱丽叶

Richard II 里查德二世

King John 约翰王

Much Ado about Nothing无事生非

Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II 亨利四世

Henry V 亨利五世

The Merry Wives of Windsor 温莎的风流女人

Julius Caesar《凯撒大帝》

As You Like It《如愿》《皆大欢喜》

Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》

Troilus and Cressida 《特洛埃勒斯与克莱西达》

All’s Well That Ends Well 《终成眷属》

Measure for Measure 《恶有恶报》《一报还一报》

Antony and Cleopatra 《安东尼与克莉奥佩特拉》

Coriolanus 《科利奥兰纳斯》

Timon of Athens 《雅典的泰蒙

Pericles《波里克利斯》

Cymbeline《辛柏林》

The Winter’s Tales《冬天的故事》

The Tempest《暴风雨》

Henry VIII《亨利八世》

7.Francis Bacon：the first English essayist

Of truth 论真理

Of studies 论学习

Love, truth ,friendship ,parents ,children ,beauty ,studies ,riches ,youth ,age ,garden ,death and others 8.John Donne：the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry

Flea 跳骚

Others：George Herbert

Andrew Marvell

Henry V aughan

9.John Milton：Paradise Lost 失乐园

Paradise Regained 复乐园

Samson Agonistes

Lycidas

10.John Bunyan(约翰·班扬)：Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinner罪人受恩记功德无量

Pilgrim?s Progress 天路历程

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 恶人先生的生平和死亡

贝德曼先生的一生

The Holy War 神圣战争

11.Daniel Defoe：father of English novel

Robinson Crusoe

The shortest way with the dissenters

Captain Singleton

Colonel Jacque

Moll Flanders

12.Jonathan Swift： A Tale of a Tub 一个木桶的故事

乔纳森·斯威夫特Battle of Books 书的战争书战

Predictions for the Year 1708 对1708的预言

Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff 比克斯塔夫先生第一个预言的应验

Gulliver’s Travels格林佛游记

The Drapier’s Letters 一个麻布商的书信

A Modest Proposal 一个小小的建议

13.Joseph Addison：writer and a great stylist.

约瑟夫·艾迪生 A Letter from Italy 意大利来鸿

“The Campaign”“出征”, best-known poem in heroic couplet

Rosamond 罗沙蒙

The Spectator 旁观者, a daily paper

Cato 卡托 a tragedy

Addison and Steele : epistolary novel(书信体小说)

14. Henry Fielding ：Joseph Andrews约瑟夫˙安德鲁斯的经历comic epic poem in prose

散文体滑稽史诗亨利·菲尔丁Jonathan Wild the Great 大伟人乔纳森˙魏尔德

Tom Jones 汤姆˙琼斯

Amelia 阿米丽亚

Plays ：The Welsh Opera 威尔斯歌剧

Don Quixote in England 唐·吉诃德在英国

Pasqin 巴斯昆

The Historical Register for the Year 1736 一七三六年历史记事15. Alexander Pope: classical poet in the period of English Enlightenment

亚历山大·薄伯Pastorals 田园组诗

Essay on Criticism 论批评a didactic poem in heroic couplets

The Rape of the Lock 夺发记masterpiece

Translations, in heroic couplet：The Iliad of Homer《荷马的伊里亚特》

The Odyssey of Homer 《河马的奥德赛》

The Works of Shakespeare 《莎士比亚全集》

The Dunciad “愚人志” a satirical poem.

Moral Essays “道德论” a philosophic poem.

An Essay on Men “人论” a philosophic poem

16. Samuel Johnson：London《伦敦》

塞缪尔·约翰逊The Vanity of Human Wishes 人类欲望之虚幻

Life of Richard Savage 理查德·沙维之传

Rasselas 阿比西尼王子·拉赛拉斯

Two periodicals: The Rambler 《漫游者》

The Idler《闲散者》

The two most important literary works：The Preface of Shakespeare

《莎士比亚戏剧集序言》

Lives of Poets 《诗人传》

A Dictionary of English Language 《英语辞典》

17.James Boswell：Life of Johnson a classic of English biography

18.Thomas Grey：model of sentimentalist

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 墓园挽歌

Others：Thomas Parnell ：Night-Piece on Death 夜吟死亡

Robert Blair : The Grave 坟墓

Edward Yong ：Night Thoughts 夜思

19. Oliver Goldsmith：Periodical: The Bee

哥尔德·斯密斯Poems: The Traveler 旅游人

The Deserted Village 荒村

Novel: The Vicar of Wakefield 威克菲尔德的牧师

Comedies: The Good-Natured Man 好心人

She Stoops to Conquer 屈身求爱

Collection of essays: The Citizen of the World 世界公民

20. William Blake : Songs of Innocence 天真之歌

威廉·布莱克Songs of Experience 经验之歌

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 天堂与地狱的婚姻

The Tiger

21. Robert Burn s: A Red, Red, Red

Auld Lang Syne 往昔的时光

To a Mouse

22. Richard Brinsley Sheridan：The Rivals 情敌

The School for Scandal 造谣学校

23. William Wordsworth：The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “古舟子咏”; “老水手之行”

华兹华斯The Prelude 序曲

Lyrical Ballads

Lines Written in Early Spring

To the Cucoo

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

My Heart Leaps Up

Intimations of Immortality

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 丁登寺

The solitary reaper

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

24.Samuel T aylor Coleridge：The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 古舟子咏; 老水手之行

Kubla Khan 《忽必烈汗》

Christabel 《克里斯特贝尔》

Biographia Literaria 《文学传记》 a literary criticism

Christabel

25. Robert Southey：Joan of Arc 1793 《圣女贞德》

Wat Tyler 1794《瓦特·泰勒》

The Inchcape Rock《因尺角之石》

The Battle of Blenheim 《布莱尼姆之战》

My Days among the Dead are Passed《我与死者作伴的日子已结束》

Life of Nelson《纳尔逊传》

Thalaba the Destroyer 《撒拉巴》1801

Madoc 《麦道克》1805

The Curse of Kehama 《克哈马的诅咒》1810

Roderick, the Last of the Goths 《罗德里最后的高斯人》1814 26.George Gordon Byron：She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

Don Juan

The Vision of Judgment

Child Harold? Pilgrimage

27.Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind 西风颂

Queen Mab

The Revolt of Islam

Prometheus Unbound 解放了的普罗旺斯

The Masque of Anarchy 暴政的假面舞会

A Defence of Poetry

Ozymandias奥西曼提斯

T a Skylark 致云雀

Adonais 阿多尼斯

28.John Keats：Long poems: Endymion 恩底弥翁his first long poem

Isabella 伊莎贝拉

The Eve of St. Agnes 圣·爱格尼斯节前夕

Lamia 莱米亚

Hyperion 赫坡里昂

Short poems : On a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂

Ode to Autumn 秋颂

Ode on Melancholy 忧郁颂

Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂the best known

Ode on Indolence 懒惰颂

Ode on a Grecian Urn

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 蛐蛐与蟋蟀

Bright Star 闪亮的星星

When I have Fear 当我害怕的时候

29．Walter Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel 最末一个行吟诗人

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 苏格兰边区歌谣集

Marmion 玛密恩

The Lady of the Lake 湖上夫人

Scott’s Historical Novels: Waverley 威弗利first historical novel.

Guy Mannering 盖曼纳合not very good

Old Morality 清教徒

Rob Roy 罗布·罗伊the best of the group

The Heart of Midlothian 弥德洛西恩的心English History: Ivanhoe 艾凡赫Norman Conquest the best of the group

Kenilworth 肯纳尔沃思堡during the Tudor dynasty

The Fortunes of Nigel 尼格尔的家产Stuart rule

Woodstock 皇家猎宫The English Revolution

Peveril of the Peak 贝弗利尔·皮克the Restoration European Countries: Quentin Durward 昆丁·达沃德best-known novel on French

history.

Talisman 惊军英雄记

Count Robert of Paris 巴黎的罗伯特伯爵

St. Ronan’s Wells 圣·罗南之泉the only one, dealing

with his contemporary life (当代生

活小说).

30. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见

Northanger Abbey

Mansfield Park

Emma

Persuasion

Sense and Sensibility

31. Charles Dicken s: Sketches by Boz 特写集the first book

The Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传

Oliver Twist 奥克佛·特维斯特雾都孤儿

Nichols Nickleby 尼古拉斯·尼克尔贝

The Old Curiosity Shop 老古玩店

Barnaby Rudge 巴纳比·拉奇The first novel of social history

American Notes 美国札记

Martin Chuzzlewit 马丁·朱述尔维特

The Chimes 教堂钟声

A Christmas Carol 圣诞颂歌以圣诞为题材具有浓郁宗教色彩

The Cricket on the Hearth 灶上蟋蟀

Dombey and Son 董贝父子

David Copperfield 大卫·科波菲尔his best book

Bleak House 荒凉山庄

Hard Times 艰难时世

Little Dorrit 小杜丽

A Tale of Two Cities 双城记

Great Expectations 远大前程

Our Mutual Friend 我们的共同朋友the worse book;

Edwin Drood (unfinished) 艾德温·德鲁德之迷

32. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fai 名利场r

The Newcomes 纽克姆一家

The History of Pendennis 彭登尼斯

The Book of Snobs 势力人集

The History of Henry Esmond 亨利·埃斯蒙德的历史

The Virginians 弗吉尼亚人

33. George Eliot：Novels: Adam Bede 亚当·比德

The Mill on the Floss 弗洛斯河上的磨房

Silas Marner 织工马南

Middlemarch 米德尔马契

Description of rural life; moral problems; psychological studies of characters

Felix Holt the Radical 费立可斯·霍尔特

Daniel Deronda 丹尼尔·德龙达

Romola 罗慕拉

Scenes of Clerical Life 教区生活场景

Translation: The Essence of Christianity 基督教的本质

Editor : The Westminster Review威斯敏斯特评论

34. Charlotte Bronte: The Professor 教授

Jane Eyre 简爱

Shirley 舍丽

Villette 维莱特

35．Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄

36. Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey 安格斯格雷

The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall

37.Alfred T ennyson：Poems by Two Brothers 两兄弟诗集

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 抒情诗集

Poems (two volumes) 诗集

The Princess 公主

Maud 毛黛

The Idylls of the King 国王叙事集

In Memoriam 悼念

Short Poems：Break, Break, Break 拍吧，拍吧，拍吧”

Crossing the Bar 穿过沙洲

38. Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book 指环和书dramatic monologues

Dramatic Lyrics 戏剧抒情诗

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics 戏剧故事及抒情诗

Men and Women 男男女女

Dramatic Personae 登场人物

Poems: Pippa Passes 皮帕走过了

Bells and Pomegranates 铃铛和石榴树

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 异域乡思

Meeting at Night 深夜幽会

Parting at Morning 清晨离别

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

39. Elizabeth Barrett: The Battle of Marathon 马拉顿之战

The Cry of the Children 孩子们的哭声

Sonnets from the Portuguese 葡萄牙十四行诗

Poems before Congress 在大会之前写成的诗

Casa Guidi Windows 圭迪的窗子

Aurora Leigh 奥罗拉·利

40. Thomas Hard y: Novel: Far From the Madding Crowd远离尘嚣

The Woodlanders 林地居民

The Return of the Native 还乡

The Mayor of Casterbridge 卡斯特桥市长

Tess of the D…Urbervilles 德伯家的苔丝

Jude the Obscure无名的裘德

Under the Greenwood Tree 绿荫下

Poem:The Dynasts, written between 列王

41. David Herbert Lawrence: Rainbow 虹

Lady Chatterley Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人

The White Peacock 白孔雀

Women in Love 恋爱中的女人

Sons and Lovers 儿子和情人

Oedipus Complex 恋母情结

The STREAM CONSCIOUSNESS

42. Virginia Woolf: Jacob′Room 雅各布的房间

Mrs. Dalloway 达洛威夫人

To the Lighthouse 到灯塔去

Orlando 奥兰多

The Waves 海浪

43.James Joyce: Dubliners 都柏林人first work

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 年轻艺术家的肖像first novel

Ulysses 尤莉西斯

Finnegans Wake 芬尼根的守灵夜

43. William Butler Y eats: Sailing to Byzantium 驶向拜占庭

When You are Old 当你老了

44. George Bernard Shaw: Widower Houses 鳏夫的房子

Mrs. Warren′s Profession 华伦夫人的职业

The Devil′s Disciple 魔鬼的门徒

Man and Superman 人和超人

Major Barbara 芭芭拉上校

Heartbreak House 伤心之家

Saint Joan 少女贞德

The Apple Cart 苹果车

45. Oscar Wilde: Salome 莎美乐tragedy

The Importance of Being Earnest 认真的重要性

A Woman of No Importance 无足轻重的女人

An Ideal Husband 理想丈夫

Lady Windermere′s Fan 温德美尔的扇子

The Picture of Dorian Gray 道林格雷的肖像

自考英美文学选读要点总结整理出考点26位作家完整教学内容

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