HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

英国文学史及选读

English Literature

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Teaching Outline

Finish “The Features of John Donne’s Poetry” & his influence

1 Review 2 John Milton 3 Paradise Lost

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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;

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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

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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.

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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 )

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The Cavalier Poets

knights and squires/ supported the king/ / short songs/ the flitting joys of the day/ pessimism

Sir John Suckling(1609-1642) Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) Thomas Carew (1598-1639) Robert Herrick (1591-1674).

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2John Milton (1609-1674)

humanist ideals & Puritan morals Renaissance and Reformation/ the Puritan Period (1649 -

1660 ) classic & revolutionary

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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Famous Sonnets

On His Blindness (1655 ) On His Deceased Wife (1658)

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Collection

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