英国文学

Part 1. Old and medieval

Beowulf 贝尔武甫(the national epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.

William Langland 威廉。兰格伦

Piers the Plowman耕者皮尔斯

Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利·乔叟1340-1400

长诗：The House of Fame声誉之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克丽西德

小说：Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作

（他是最早有人文主义思想的作家，现实主义文学的奠基人）

his contribution to English poetry: introduced from france the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet), is the first great poet who wrote in the English language. Who making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.

Part 2. The English renaissance

Thomas More托马斯。莫尔

Utopia乌托帮

Philip Sidney菲力普。锡德尼

Astrophel and Stella  Apology for Poetry诗辩

Edmond Spenser埃德蒙。斯宾塞

The Faerie Queene 仙后 The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日历

Francis Bacon培根1561-1626

Advancement of Learning学术的进展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西岛;Essays论文集（Of Studies论学习;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）

The founder of English materialist philosophy

Christopher Marlowe克里斯托夫。马洛

Tamburlaine铁木耳大帝 Dr.Faustus浮士德的悲剧 The Jew of Malta马耳他的犹太人 The Passionate Shepherd多情的牧羊人致情人