[英语学习]第四讲 英国文学简史.ppt

[英语学习]第四讲 英国文学简史.pptChaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343-1400), one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.
Geoffrey Chaucer---(father of English poetry)
Life
Page of nobleman familywent to France on paigntwo times to Italy on diplomatic missionController of Customs House. of Kent  dismissed from his officeClerk of the King’s works  buried in Westminster Abbey ”poet’s corner”
2. Character
shy, silent, observant, knowledgable…
2. Literary Career: three periods
(1) French period(1360~1372)
---write poems in the manner of the French poets(tanslated from French)
----translate many famous French works,
Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰恋史》,
The legend of Good Women《贤妇传奇》,
The Parliament of Fowls《百鸟会议》,
The House of Fame《声誉之宫》
(2) Italian period(1372~1386 )
---admire bourgeois humanism,fond of io
--- create narrative poem Troilus and Criseyde《特罗伊勒斯和克莱西德》,reflecting his truthfulness to real life. (own creativity with borrowed themes)
(3) master period(1386~1400)
---compose The Canterbury Tales, 1387-1400 《坎特伯雷故事集》,his masterpiece. He has his own choice of subject, his own grasp of character and his own diction and plot.
Troilus and Criseyde
It is the plete poem of Chaucer about 8000 lines
The story is taken from a poem by io
The love story of Troilus (Page 20)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER “THE CANTERBURY TALES”
“As Newton numbered the stars, and as Linneus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes of men…”
W. Blake
“THE CANTERBURY TALES”
They give a wonderful picture of society in the fourteenth century. Chaucer includes all types of people in his books: the Knight, The Miller, the Pardoner and so on.
Canterbury is the seat of the origins of English Christianity, the site where St. Augustine, the monk sent by Gregory the Great to Christianize the English. Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and his church.
More Pictures of Canterbury Cathedral