HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 英国文学史及选读 English Literature College of Foreign Languages China Three Gorges University

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Teaching Outline  Finish “The Features of John Donne’s Poetry” & his influence  1 Review  2 John Milton  3 Paradise Lost

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE The Features of John Donne’s Poetry  1 original images and conceits.  the imagery / the actual life.  It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,  And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be;  This flea is you and I, and this  Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE The Features of John Donne’s Poetry  2 in the dramatic form of an argument  3 use of colloquial speech  4 witty  5 flexibility of rhythm and meter  6 humour  7 reflect life

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Influence  During the 18th -19th centuries / less appreciated  But in the late 19th - early 20th centuries/ T.S. Eliot/praised and imitated / modern poetic practice/ an acknowledged master.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Metaphysical Poetry  the poetry of John Donne and other 17th poets who wrote in a similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas.  the metaphysical conceit( 奇喻 )

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE The Cavalier Poets  knights and squires/ supported the king/ / short songs/ the flitting joys of the day/ pessimism  Sir John Suckling( )  Richard Lovelace ( )  Thomas Carew ( )  Robert Herrick ( ).

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 2John Milton ( )  humanist ideals & Puritan morals Renaissance and Reformation/ the Puritan Period ( )  classic & revolutionary

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 2.1 Life  a Puritan family / educated at Cambridge/ hard- working “From my twelfth year I scarcely ever went to bed before midnight, which was the first cause of injury to my eyes”.  an active participant / a fighter  Latin Secretary  Imprisonment/ blindness

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 2.2Works  1 up to 1641 / humanist and Elizabethan  Lyric: Lycidas (1638)  2 from 1641 to 1654 /the Puritan  The Reason of Church Government (1642)  The Defense of the English People (1650)  The Second Defence of the English People (1654)  3 from 1655 to 1671/ humanist and Puritan

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Long Poems  Narrative (epic):  Paradise Lost (1665/ 1667)  Paradise Regained(1671)  Dramatic: Samson Agonistes (1671)  O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,  Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse  Without all hope of day!

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Famous Sonnets  Italian sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet) / an octave(8 lines) /the rhyme pattern abbaabba / a sestet (6 lines) /various rhyme patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd etc.  Shakespearean sonnet/ three quatrains / a concluding couplet

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Famous Sonnets  On His Blindness (1655 )  On His Deceased Wife (1658)

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