Romance
.Romance is a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventure of a noble hero.
.Romance was characteristic of the early feudal age, as it reflected he spirit of chivalry.
.The content of romance was usually about love, chivalry, and religion.
Soliloquy:
Soliloquy is a dramatic speech delivered by one character speaking aloud while under the impression of being alone.
The soliloquist thus reveals his inner thoughts and feelings to the audience. It is also known as interior monologue.
Sonnet
A sonnet is a short song in the original meaning of the word. Later it became a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter with various rhyming schemes.
Metaphysical poetry玄学派诗歌
多恩是玄学派诗歌(Metaphysical poetry)的创始人和主要代表人物。作品主要包括爱情诗、宗教诗以及布道文。
The poetry of John Donne and other 17th century poets who wrote in a similar style. Metaphysical poetry is characterized by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by the deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.
•The main themes: love, death, religion
•Representatives: John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell etc.
Conceit
•a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startling different things.
•A conceit may strike the readers weird at first glance, but proves appropriate in the end.
The Enlightenment
The name applied to an intellectual movement which developed in Western Europe during the seventeenth century and reached its height in the eighteenth. The common element was a trust in human reason as adequate to solve the crucial problems and to establish the essential norms in life, together with the belief that the application of reason was rapidly dissipating the remaining feudal traditions. It influenced lots of famous English writers especially those neoclassic writers, such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson etc..
Neo-Classicism
This term mainly applies to the classical tendency which dominated the literature of the early period of the 18th century. It found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers, and tried to control literary creation by some fixed laws and rules drawn from their works. 下载本文