英国文学term汇总
1.Grub Street writters:Rrom 18th century writing become an independent job,and many writers become hack writers or Grub Street writers(Ror many of them lived on Grub Street )who took writing as a profession .So long as they were well paid,they could serve any master and would shift their political ground easily.
2.Reason:reason is the analytical and critical faculty of the human mind.In France,reason as a weapen to denounce the feudal class and to enlighten the people.In England,reason was used by thinkers to justify the existing system and it was
a tool for the bourgeoisie to consolidate its rule.
3.Classicism:as a trend first originated in France during the reign of Louis XIV.Poetique was a declaration of classicism which propounded that dramatists should follow the rules set down by Roman writers.They believed that those Roman writers had established the perfect art and rules of art for future generations to follow.
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4.Periodical Essays:started by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele during the early 18th century and were the most characteristic genre of the 18th century.Most of their compositions dealt with light topics.Their aim was to educate the newly risen middle class.
5.Romanticism:time:1798-1832 Publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge ended by the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832.The essence: the glorification of instinct and emotion, a deep veneration of nature, a flaming zeal to remark the world.
6. Lake poets: During the age of romanticism, the poets like Wordsworth lived near the Lake district, a beautiful scenic spot in northwestern England. They had a profound love for nature, which characterizes all his works. The other two lake poets beside Wordsworth are Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
7.Ode: An ode, in ancient literature, is an elaborate lyrical poem composed for a chorus to chant and to dance to; in modern use, it is a rhymed lyric expressing noble feeling, often addressed to a person or celebrating an event.
8.Terza rima: was used by Dante in The Divine Comedy. The first and third lines rhyme second ling is in rhyme with the forth and sixth lines, the rhyme scheme being aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee. This linked chain gives a feeling of onward motion; the verse has a breathless quality which is in keeping with the onward motion; the verse has a breathless quality which is in keeping with the onward motion of the wind’s movement. The metrical pattern of each line is basically iambic pentameter.
9.Historical novel: Walter Scott made his fame by his novels, which are not only characterized by romantic elements, but also are noted for their realistic description of realistic description of historical events. Scott has a deep interest in the role the masses play in the crucial moment of their country and has a profound pride in the nation’s glory.
10.Utilitarianism: which was founded by Jeremy Bentham and continued by John Stuart Mill. According to them the value of any institution, government, and church depends on question of whether it is useful as it is judged by human reason-that is, whether it contributes or not to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
11.The Victorian poets: In the Victorian age, like Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Matthew Arnold. They write highly lyrical poems reflected the spiritual search.
12.The age of Tennyson: Tennyson lived almost through the Victorian age and was the leading poet of his age. The period from 1832 to the death of Tennyson.
13.Dramatic monologue: Robert Browning is noteworthy for dramatic monologue, i.e. a poem in which there is one imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience. He penetrates to depth the psychology of his characters reveals the innermost secret. Tennyson who felt melancholy, Browning was always optimistic.
14.Wessex novel: Thomas Hardy vividly and truthfully described the tragic lives of England. His birthplace, later used as the setting of his novels, he gave the name Wessex. The place is rich in its legend, folk customs and surpristitutions. Hardy was pessimistic in his view of life.
15.Aesthetic movement: Oscar Wilde was the representative of the aesthetic movement which appeared on the literary scene of England in the late Victorian period. The first important figure of the movement was Walter Pater, whose message was express in The Renaissance (1873), in which he suggests that the sole duty of an aesthetic is to develop his aesthetic sensibility. Enjoy all possible varieties “burns always with a hard gemlike flame”.
16.Modernism : Modernism is a rather vague term which is used to apply to the works of a group of poets , novelists, painters, and musicians between 1910 and the early years after the World War II .The term includes various trends or schools ,such as imagism ,expressionism, dadaism ,stream of consciousness , and existentialism. It means a departure from the conventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age.

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