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I. English Literature in the Old English Period (499- 1066)

1, Beowulf, Beowulf (8th century AD): Is it an English Anglian discovered so far? The oldest and longest complete literary work in Saxon period is also the earliest dialect epic in Europe.

2. Alfred the Great Alfred the Great: the father of English prose.

Second, English literature in Middle English

1, the fable is very popular: it is a rhetorical method derived from Greek, which means "to put it another way". It is a kind of image description with duality, and the superficial meaning and the real meaning are two different things.

2. Romance began to rise to a certain height.

3. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight: It reflects the ideal of chivalry and is the essence of medieval feudal aristocratic culture.

4. William Longhran Willian Langlaud: Pierce the Peasant's Illusion, the author of Pierce the Peasant.

5. Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Heroic Couplet) Canterbury Tales. In the history of English literature, he was the first to use ten syllables? Double rhyme? Poet, this poem was later initiated by him and evolved into? Heroic couplets? ,? Heroic couplets? It was widely adopted by later English poets. He's also famous for it? Father of English poetry? The father of English poetry.

6. Sir Thomas Mallory Thomas Malory's Death of King Arthur

Iii. English literature in the Renaissance (Elizabethan era) (14-16th century)

1, Thomas Moore Sir Thomas More: Utopia

2. Thomas Wyatt Thomas? White and henry howard Henry? Howard introduced sonnets to England.

3. Philip? Sidney Phillips Sidney: He wrote In Defense of Poetry, which is the best literary criticism in the Elizabethan era. Acadia describes rural life and is the pioneer of modern novels.

4. Spencer edmund spenser: The Queen of Fairy Tales. The Fairy Queen is an allegorical work, which expresses the moral ideal of humanism and praises the spirit of adventure, the joy of conquest and the love for real life. What is the poetic style created in The Fairy Queen? Spencer Poetry Festival? Spencer's Poetry Festival.

5. william shakespeare:

Narrative poems: Venus and adonis, Venus and adonis, and the rape of Lucretius.

Four tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth.

7. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson: "Everyone in Humor" is a custom comedy.

8. john donne Metaphysical school? The founder of metaphysical poetry

9. George Herbert george herbert, a metaphysical poet, wrote The Call.

10, Francis? Bacon Francis Bacon: one of the founders of modern science and materialistic philosophy, and the author of Essays is a milestone in the history of British development; There are also progress in learning and new instruments.

Fourth, the Enlightenment (18th century)

1, John? Milton: Paradise Lost and Defending the British People.

2. John? Benjamin john bunyan: Religious Legend of Pilgrim's Progress

3. John? John dryden of Dryden, an outstanding representative of English neoclassicism and poet laureate, wrote an essay on drama poetry.

4. alexander pope: an important representative of British neoclassical poetry: heroic couplets (in front? Chaucer? The use of) has reached its peak; Pastoral Poetry is his earliest masterpiece of pastoral poetry.

5. Thomas Gray thomas gray: Elegy written in rural cemetery, the representative of graveyard school in sentimentalism.

6.william? William blake: A Song of Innocence and Experience

7. Robert Burns robert burns: The most outstanding Scottish poet. He wrote The Red Rose and Auld Lang Syne.

8. Richard Steele Richard Steele and Joseph? Addison joseph addison co-founded The Taylor and The Observer.

9.daniel? One of the founders of English realistic novels: the author of Robinson Crusoe, life and strange surprises and adventures; Shortcuts with speakers.

10, jonathan swift, jonathan swift: author of Gulliver's Travels; Moderate suggestions; Gulliver's travels; The Story of a Wooden Bucket tells the story of a wooden bucket.

1 1, Samuel? Richardson samuel richardson: the founder of modern English novels and the author of Pamela: Or, the Return of Virtue; The history of Clarissa or a young lady; The history of Sir Charles Grandi's son, the history of Sir Charles Grandi's son.

12, Henry? Fielding henry fielding: the founder of English realistic novel and the founder of English realistic novel theory. He is the author of The History of tom jones (The Founding of the People's Republic of China), which represents the highest achievement of English realistic novel. Joseph? The adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Fielding and Daniel. Defoe, Samuel? Richardson is also known as the three founders of modern English novels.

13, Lawrence? Stern laurence sterne is an outstanding representative of sentimentalism, and he wrote The Life and Opinions of Gentleman Tristram Shandy, the first novel with stream of consciousness. A sentimental journey through France and Italy