Renaissance literature/kloc-from the middle of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century, mainly in the era of Queen Elizabeth, Britain began the Renaissance movement. Scholars have translated Italian and French academic and literary masterpieces and written them themselves, among which Utopia by Thomas Moore (1477 ~ 1535) is the most valuable. Poetry and drama are the most prominent features of English Renaissance literature. Sidney's sonnets (1554 ~ 1586) and Spencer's The Fairy Queen are both masterpieces in poetry. The use of rhyming poems in scripts has promoted unprecedented achievements in both poetry and drama. Shakespeare developed this poetic drama to its peak, and he was also good at writing sonnets and long narrative poems. Later, Ben Jonson (1572 ~ 1637) was good at writing social satires. From the end of16th century to the beginning of17th century, the Renaissance gradually came to an end, and the so-called chivalrous aristocratic leisure poems prevailed for a while. At the same time, there appeared a metaphysical poet represented by Donne, who was unique in expressing active and restless thoughts and containing philosophy. 17th century literature1From the 1940s to the 1980s, the bourgeois revolution took place in Britain and a constitutional monarchy was established. Milton, the great poet, first took part in this struggle by writing political papers. In his later years, he wrote the long poem Paradise Lost, paradise regained and the poetic drama Samson, which brought English blank poems in the17th century to a new aesthetic height with fiery feelings, magnificent imagination and beautiful language. Since then, Dryden (163 1 ~ 1700) has made great achievements in satire, ode and drama. His literary works On Drama Poetry, The Basis of Tragic Criticism and his comments on some former writers make English literary criticism an independent category. Bunyan (1628 ~ 1688), who represents the lower class, and his satirical fantasy novel Pilgrim's Progress are regarded as the origins of modern English novels. 18th-century literature18th-century society's relative stability and the spread of enlightenment brought about a new grand occasion of English literature and the rise of realistic novels. A number of writers and works have emerged one after another: Defoe and his Robinson Crusoe, Swift and Gulliver's Travels, Richardson and his Pamela, Fielding and his Abandoned History of tom jones, Stern and his Biography of Shandy, Mollet and his Biography of Langdon, Goldsmith and his Reverend wakefield. At the end of this century, Gothic novels, which are characterized by mystery, horror and violence, have had a far-reaching impact on readers because of their entertainment and psychological effects. Periodical literature is another important achievement in this period. A large number of periodicals appeared, and many famous writers, poets and playwrights served as editors and writers. The published prose is short and pithy, with a wide range of topics and vivid humor, which makes English prose form a genre with unique national characteristics. There are also many excellent works in other forms of prose. /kloc-literature in the 0/9th century1at the beginning of the 9th century, following the elegant and implicit lyric poems of poets such as Pope, Gray (1716 ~1771) and Burns,18th century. His early representative poets were Wordsworth and Coleridge's lakeside poets. Their collection of poems, Lyric Ballads, or Roaming in a Foreign Land and Ancient Times and Dreams, created a new style of poetry and laid the theoretical foundation for English romantic poetry with theoretical works. After the 1920s, Byron, Shelley and Keats appeared one after another. In the middle and late period of this century, important poets such as Browning couple, Arnold, Rossetti and Swinburne appeared one after another. They became an important part of English poetry in the19th century with their unique style and artistic conception close to the modern consciousness of the 20th century. From the beginning of 19 century, I wrote prose by going up a storey still higher. Khazri's literary theory "Spirit of the Times", Lamb's prose collection "Essays of Ilya", De Quincy's long self-report "Confessions of an English opium addict", Carlisle's "French Revolution" and Ruskin's aesthetic work "The Stone of Venice" are all famous works. Prose novels are even more grand in the whole19th century. First of all, Scottish writer Scott created a new field of historical novels with his 27 works; At the same time, the female writer J Austin created the world of custom novels with six works. From 1940s to 1960s, in the early Victorian era, a series of novelists with world influence, such as Thackeray, Madame Gaskell, Trollope, Bronte sisters and G Eliot, appeared one after another. From the 1970s to the early 20th century, important novelists headed by Hardy appeared one after another, including George meredith, Maurice, Butler, Stevenson, Wilde, Conrad, Conan Doyle and Kipling, all of whom had their own unique artistic personality and exploration spirit.