Part three  the period of the English bourgeois revolution
Chaper 1 the English revolution and the Reatoration
1 the weakening of the tie between monarchy and bourgeoise
2 the clashes between the king and parliament
3 the outburst of the English revolution:
4 the split with the revolution camp
5 the bourgeois dictatorship and the restoration
6 the religious cloak of the English revolution:
  Also called the puritan revolution.
  Puritanism is the religious doctrine
7 literature of the revolution period
Chapter 2 John Milton约翰•弥尔顿1608~1674
（诗人、政论家;失明后写 《失乐园》、《复乐园》、《力士参孙》。）
Epics: <steeleParadise Lost>失乐园: written in blank verse
  In the poem god is no better than a despot. God is cruel and unjust. Adam and Eve embody Milton's belife in the powers of man.
  The desription of hell, Satan is the real hero of the poem. Satan is the spirit questioning the authority of God.
 <Paradise Regained>复乐园
Dramatic poem: < Samson Agonistes>力士参孙:
  A poetical drama.
<Areopagitica>论出版自由 : as a declaration of people's freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revulotion struggles.
<The Defence of the English People>为英国人民声辩: as the spokesman of the revolution.
④ <On His Blindness>我的失明   
This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba cde cde, typical of Italian sonnet.
Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve him best sho can endure the suffering best.
Milton:
  1 he was a political in both his life and his art. He was a militant pamphleteer of the English Revolution, and the greatest English revolutionary poet in 17th century
  2 wrote the greatest epic in English literature. He and Shakespeare have always been regarded as two patterns of English verse
  3 he first used blank verse in non-dramatic works. In paradise lost, he acquires an absolute mastery of the blank verse.
  4 he is a great stylist, grand style.
  5 his sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.
Chapter 3 John Bunyan约翰•班扬1628~1688
（代表作《天路历程》，宗教寓言，被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”，是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。）
Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)
Religionary  Allegory:<The Pilgrim’s Progress>天路历程
Chapter 4 metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets
Besides Milton and Bunyan, other poets and writers whose works express quite different ideas and sentiments. They are called metapysicals by Samuel Johnson
1 John Donne
the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).
Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought）
Artistic features:
1. conceits or imagery奇思妙喻
2. syllogism三段论
    Meditations 沉思录
The Flea 虱子
Songs And Sonnets
Holy Sonnets
Valediction:<Forbidding Mourning>
2 George Herbert
The saint of the metaphysical school
Sing the glory of God
Altar
3 Andrew Marvell
A puritan
To his coy mistress
4 Henry Vaughan and Richard Crashaw:
Two religios poets
Capter 5 some prose-writers
Robert Burton:
Masterpiece: the Anatomy of Melancholy
Thomas Browme:
Religio Medici
Jeremy Taylor:
Holy Living
Holy Dying
Izaak Walton:
The Compleat Angker
Chapter 6 Restoration literature
1 restoration comedy:
  The restoration comedy is notorious for its licentiousness, being full of love intrigue, and seduction and promiscurity
Jhon Dryden
All For Love
Absalom and Achitophel
English literature of the Restoration period was modelled on the literature of France where classicism was then prevailing. According to classicism, drama and prose should all be controlled by some fixed rules.
Part 4  the 18th century
A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion(抑制情感) and accuracy
The Age of Enlightenment/Reason: the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason(rationality), equality&science(the 18th century)
小说崛起：In the mid-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel rised(realistic novel现实主义小说)
Gothic novel(哥特式小说)：mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of century)
Chapter 1 the enlightenment and classicism in English literature
1 the enlightenment and 18th century England
  "Glorious Revolution"
    Industrial Revolution
  the enlightenment in Europe: an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism
  the English Enlighteners
2 classicism:

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