1. John Donne 多恩--- Metaphysical poetry玄学派诗人
Major works: The Canonization/A Valediction: Forbidding Mouring/Song
2. John Milton 弥尔顿---Paradise Lost失乐园
The epic is written in blank verse.worship
The conflict is between human love and spiritual duty. The freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton’s creed（纲领）.
3. John Bunyan班扬--- The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程
Thackeray’s the Vanity Fair an excerpt from the Pilgrim’s Progress
The Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory寓言
Theme：the Puritan struggle of freedom of worship, the eternal struggle of man to find unity with God.
His language is concrete, living and colloquial.
4. Daniel Defoe笛福---Moll Flanders /Robinson Crusoe
笛福18世纪的小说家
5. Jonathan Swift斯威夫特---A Modest Proposal /Gulliver’s Travels /A Tale of Tub
He is a satirist讽刺家.
“Proper words in proper place ,makes the true definition of a style”
6. Alexander Pope蒲柏---the first one introduce rationalism to England. He is the great poet of the classical in the first half of the 18th century. He is a master of heroic couplets.
Major works：The Rape of the Lock劫发记/An Essay on Man人论
7. Fielding菲尔丁---The father of English novel
First to write a “Comic epic in prose”散文体史诗
Adopted” the third-person narration”
Masterpiece: The Story of Tom Jones ,A Foundling
8. Thomas Gray格雷---Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓畔挽歌
The leader of the sentimental poetry of the day.
9. Robert Burns彭斯 ---His poem written in the Scottish dialect.
<A Red, Red Rose>
(1) How does the narrator in the love song express his love?
To use many figures of speeches: simile, metaphor, repetition.
(2) Why is this poem so touching to the readers?
A: directly passionate
B: artistic recreation; imagery presentation
C: in repetition to stir on echoing effect.
10.William Blake布雷克---poet & engraver雕刻家
Major works: The Song of Innocence & the Song of Experience
<The Chimney Sweeper>扫烟囱的小孩
(1) What is the young child speaks of his “father and mother” whom does he refer to?
The indifference & ruthlessness of the adults.
(2) What is the “little black thing” in the poem?
Sweeper
(3) What is the theme of poem?
To satire the indifference & ruthlessness of the adults, and the society.
11．The Age of Romance(1798-1835)
Background：
A. three revolution (Industrial, American, French).
B. the abolition of slavery in British colonies.
C. the introduction of system of national education.
D. the Factory Acts工厂法案 by which the employment children under nine was forbidden by the law.
E. the Lyrical Ballads----Wordsworth & Coleridge
Characterize by 5 “I”: Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, Inspiration, Individuality
12.The Lake Poets湖畔诗人---- Wordsworth & Coleridge & Southey骚塞
  The Satanic school 撒旦派诗人---- Byron & Shelly & Keats
13.Wordsworth 华兹华斯----“emotion recollected in tranquility”
Lyrical Ballads 抒情民谣：
Theme：Sympathy with the poor, simple peasants, a passionate love of nature and the simplicity and purity of the language.
14. <I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud>
Rhyme scheme: ab ab cc, iambic tetrameter抑扬格四音步
(1) What does the image of cloud suggest to you?
Loneliness, isolation, solitude, aimlessness, aloofness.
Cloud represents the feelings of the speaker essentially.
(2) What has the poet meditated from what he has described? And the theme?
In loneliness or in low spirit, the recollection of the nature beauty brings him “the bliss” and “pleasure” in his heart. Therefore, the idea of going back to nature is advocated and clearly expressed in this poem.
(3) Pay a attention to the tense(时态) used in this poem, what does it indicate?
Past tense(过去时)
The recollection of the past experience will arouse a new sense of the old memories.
15. <The Solitary Reaper>孤独的割麦女
Each ending with a couplet. Written in iambic tetrameter, the rhyme is ab ab cc dd.
The theme: this poem uses rural figures to suggest the timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity & its radiant beauty.
16.Coleridge柯勒律治----The Rime of the Ancient Mariner古舟子咏/ Kubla khan忽必烈汗
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner古舟子咏是《抒情民谣》里唯一一首Coleridge所做。
17.Byron拜伦----Childe Harolds Pilgrimage 恰尔德 哈罗尔德游记 /Don Juan 唐璜/When We Two Parted记我俩分手时
18.Shelly 雪莱----Song to the Men of England & Ode to the West Wind西风颂
<Ode to the West Wind>西风颂
The west wind symbolizes both destroyer of the old and preserver of the new.
The rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ded cc. iambic pentameter抑扬格五音步

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