1、LiteratureUK.The Old English Period and Middle English Period(450-1500)The Renaissance(1500-1660)The Neo-Classical Period(1660-1785)The Romantic Period(1785-1830)The Victorian Period(1832-1901)The Modern Period(1914-1945)The Postmodern Period(1945-.Beowulf贝奥武甫贝奥武甫 the most famous work in the Old Eng
2、lish Period.It had been passed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the 10th century.The most significant Middle English author.And the first court poet to write in English.The Canterbury Tales(1387-1400)坎特伯雷故事集Chaucer（乔叟）（乔叟）back.The Renaissance(1500-1660)Admira
3、tion of Greek and Latin classic worksSonnet(十四行诗）The highest achievement Drama famous playwrights Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Dr Faustus浮士德博士的悲剧 Wllliam Shakespeare Ben Johnson.37 PlaysComedy:A Midsummer Nights Dream,The Merchant of Venice,As You Like It（皆大欢喜）Historical:Richard,Henry
4、,Antony and CleopatraTragedy:Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,Macbeth,Romeo and Juliet.Hamletback.The Neo-Classical Period English literature of this period was open concerned with the tremendous social upheavals of the time.John MiltonOne of the greatest poets of England,defended the Commonwealth with his p
5、en.Poem:LAllegro;PenserosoPamphlets:AreopagiticaMasterpiece ParadiseLost 失乐园Paradise Regained 复乐园.“A litter learning is a dangerous thing.”He is considered the greatest English poet of the classical school in the first half of the 18th century.An Eassay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock Iliad&Odysse
6、y Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsAlexander Pope.Jonathan Swift He is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language.Gullivers Travels格列弗游记.He was a famous pamphleteer,journalist and novelist.He wrote many books and was viewed as one of the progenitors of the novel in the English langua
7、ge.Robinson Crusoe It is the most famous tale of a shipwreck and solitary survival in literature.Daniel Defoeback.The Romantic Period It is revolt against the prescribed rules of Classicism Writers of Romantic literature are more concerned with imagination and feeling than with reason and intellect.
8、Lake Poet湖畔诗人湖畔诗人 William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Lyrical Ballads.Second GenerationLord Byron （拜伦）Don Juan唐璜Bysshe Shelley（雪莱）Ode to the West Wind&Ode to a Skylark&PrometheusUnboundJohn Keats（济慈）.If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?back.The Victorian Period It was in the Victorian era that the
9、 novel became the leading form of literature in the English language.The Critical Realism of the 19th century flourished in the 1840s and the early 1850s.Charles DickensHe was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian England.Great Expectations远大前程A Tale of Two Cities 双城记
10、David Copperfield大卫科波菲尔.Famous women novelists Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmma.Three Bront sisterCharlotte Jane EyreEmily Wuthering HeightsAnne.George Eliot her profound thinking and complex representation of life won her the name“philosophical writer”.Thomas Ha
11、rdy Tess of the DUrbervilles德伯家的苔丝.RomanticismRobert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandKidnappedThe Strange Case of Doctor JekyllMr.HydeAestheticism Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GraySalomeback.The Modern Period Features:A deliberate departure from traditionCharacterized by the use of innovation form
12、s of expression Express the difficulty in understanding and communicating in real life Disorganized and hard to understandSingle viewpoint.Fiction:Joseph Conrad The Heart of DarknessVirginia Woolf To The LighthouseJames Joyce Ulysses尤利西斯D.H.Lawrence （劳伦斯）Sons and Lovers,RainbowDrama George Bernard S
13、haw WidowersHouses,Mrs.WarrensProfessionPoetry T.S.Eliot(艾略特）The Waste Land 荒原 .时时刻刻Mrs.Dalloway 达洛维夫人达洛维夫人The steam of consciousness 意识流意识流 back.The Postmodern PeriodFiction George Orwell Nineteen Eighty FourDrama Samuel Beckett Absurd theater tragi-comedy Waiting For Godot 等待戈多.希望迟迟不来，苦死了希望迟迟不来，苦死了等的人等的人.Thank YOUBy Tracy Wendy.
