Chapter 6 Literature
1. The old English: the epic Beowulf : folk legend of Anglo-Saxons盎格鲁-撒克逊人的民间传说
Middle English: Geoffrey Chaucer, the first court poet The Canterbury Tales杰弗里乔叟，第一个宫廷诗人坎特伯雷故事集
2. Renaissance 文艺复兴
莎士比亚代表作：Romeo and Juliet（罗密欧和朱丽叶）Hamlet（哈姆雷特）Othello（奥赛罗）King Lear（李尔王）Macbeth（麦克白）
Alexander Pope：An Essay on Criticism（批评论）, the greatest English poet of the classical school
3. Jonathan Swift → Gulliver’s Travels 格列佛游记
Daniel Defoe → Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊漂流记
4. William Wordsworth, passive Romanticism → Lake poets
Second generation of Romanticism → George Gordon Byron
5. It was in the Victorian Era that the novel became the leading form of literature
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