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The Waste Land, Eliot's most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. The Hollow Men, which b...
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With great efforts, Shaw wrote five novels in all. The best known is Cashel Byron's Profession. Shaw's career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers' Houses was put on by the In...
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Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism The French symbolism, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory...
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Hardy's novels are all victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates. Among Hardy's major ...
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I. Alfred Tennyson BD(1809-1892) 诗人 他的诗表达了社会快速变化时，人们的doubt, faith, grief and joy. 父亲是个教职人员，富有学识。小时候 Tennyson就展示了自己的诗歌天赋。和哥哥一起出版了Poems by Two ...
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Charlotte's works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women. The success of the novel Jane Eyre is due to its introduction of the first governess heroine to the Eng...
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Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. In his early novels, Dickens attacks one or more specific social evils in each: for example, the dehumanizing workhou...
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Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from 1836 to 1906. Robert browning created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic ...
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Austen's main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationship. The sentence "three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on" can best reflect the wr...
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In 1813 Shelley published his first long serious work, Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem, which emphasizes how the "Spirits of Nature" pulses in all people and makes absurdity of selfishness and prid...
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The poets Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Colerigde became known as the "Lake Poets" According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems ...
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The Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. His Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of ...
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English Romanticism, is generally said to have begun in 1789 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott's death and the passa...
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Fielding has been regarded by some as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. Of all the 18th century noveliists Fielding was the f...
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In 1726, Swift wrote and published his greatest satiric work, Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift defined a good style as "proper words in proper place" In the third voyage to the Flying Island of G...
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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is unversally considered his masterpiece. Robinson here is a real hero: a typical eighteenth-century middle-cla...
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主要目的是介绍书中不重要的文学人物 John Bunyan（约翰·班杨） BD（1628-1688） 出生于一个修补匠的家里，所以没咋受过教育，19岁和一个信基督的女子结婚，然后宣传布道，因为没受到国教准许而被关进牢里。在牢...
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1. Neoclassical period is the one in English literature between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyri...
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The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. The Renaissance, which means rebirth or revival...
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主要是选择题的重点，希望能帮助到大家。 The period of Old English literature extends from about 450-1066, the year of Norman Conquest of England. Gnerally Speaking, the Old English poetry that has s...
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出生富裕，一直好好读书，读完自己就回家专研6年多语言、神学、音乐之类的科目。 1652年失明了，就自己口述，托人代写，写下了后续伟大的作品，Paradise lost\gained, Samson Agonistes。这三部是主要的考点。 Mi...
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William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known. With his 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems, he has established his giant position in world lit...
