书籍介绍
This is an attempt to write a history of English literature admittedly with an innovative approach. The traditional as well as the more modern views in the West on literary movements， schools， traditions and influences in the field of English literature and on individual English authors and their major and minor works are here given due respect and serious consideration， but with the reservation sometimes to differ and occasionally to introduce new and totally contrary judgments from the viewpoint of historical materialism i.e.， the writers and their writings are to be given their proper places in each case in accordance with the roles， healthful or otherwise， that they play in the progress of history， social and literary. Of course，whether or how far have I succeeded in these pages in living up to the theory advanced above awaits judgment from my readers. This history is written primarily for Chinese readers， in particular for Chinese college students majoring in English language and literature， with the aim to give them a historical survey of English literature from its earliest beginnings down to the 20th century. As many college students in China today are being introduced for the first time to English literature in any systematic way， biographical sketches of the major writers and rather detailed resumes of their major works are generally provided in this history， before I enter into any serious discussions on the authors and their writings. A companion-book providing students with selections from representative works of representative English authors， arranged chronologically and accompanied with introductory remarks and notes， is expected to appear at the same time as this history. It is hoped that the two books together， this history and “Selected Readings in English Literature”， will give the students a rudimentary knowledge of English literature in its historical development. In view of the vastly different levels of proficiency in the English language among English majors in Chinese colleges and universities today， a shorter history than this， written in simpler language， seems also necessary for the present. Such a book is now being prepared.
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- "...he found it impossible to attain to any of the ideals , whether truth and justice or love and happiness, in the workaday world he lived in."
- "…Shakespeare, living in an age when many feudal and bourgeois practices were considered the rightful things to do, and being himself an up and rising man of the world under the patronage of the great, a well known actor and playwright, a shareholder of some playhouse and an owner of a big house and "
- "…above all, Shakespeare learned from the long dramatic tradition of the English people the portraiture of living human beings in the English environment of his time and the dramatization of the important social problems and contradictions of the day, freely and fully, without being in any way restri"
- "The influence of Shakespeare’s drama and poetry upon English literature is hard to measure but there can be no question that it has been very great, as Shakespeare’s plays have been so widely read and so carefully studied that all English writers of any importance cannot escape from Shakespearean in"
- "古英语宗教诗歌的题材不外下列几类：圣徒传记、圣经故事和基督教的讽喻。另一方面，古英语宗教诗人虽然处理的是基督教题材，却又赋予这些基督教诗篇以日耳曼民族严肃、认真、坚韧不拔的史诗精神和流亡异地、孤独寂寞、思乡怀旧的抒情诗气氛"
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