英国文学导论

# 英国文学导论 1. Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry 1.1 Genaral Introduction WHY: old/relic of time vs. Literature: record of human history:     the sweetest love     the most heartbroken betrayal     the most ferocious war     the hardest struggle     the joyful laughter and the miserable cry     the most precious friendship     the most fierce hatred and revenge Literature : make us wise/lessons to be learn/talk with a wise man/delightment purpose of this course : know understand appreciate (1. know which book to start with, which to swallow and which to take a taste/the important writer and their important work; 2. how the literary works reflect society. to understand the British society and culture behind the literary works 3. learn to form our own literary taste)1.2 Literiness 1.3 Periods of British Literature 1.4 Renaissance 1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm of English Poetry 1.6 Elizabethan Peotry 1.7 William Shakespeare and His Snnet 18 1.8 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75 2. Elizabethan Drama