# 英国文学导论
1. Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry
1.1 Genaral Introduction
WHY: old/relic of time vs.
Confucius: A superior man should be a practical utensil. 君子不器
Bacon: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。<u>其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。
Literature: record of human history:
the sweetest love
the most heartbroken betrayal
the most ferocious war
the hardest struggle
the joyful laughter and the miserable cry
the most precious friendship
the most fierce hatred and revenge
Literature: make us wise/lessons to be learn/talk with a wise man/delightment
purpose of this course:
know
understand
appreciate
(1. know which book to start with, which to swallow and which to take a taste/the important writer and their important work;
2. how the literary works reflect society. to understand the British society and culture behind the literary works
3. learn to form our own literary taste)
1.2 Literiness
1.3 Periods of British Literature
1.4 Renaissance
1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm of English Poetry
1.6 Elizabethan Peotry
1.7 William Shakespeare and His Snnet 18
1.8 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75
2. Elizabethan Drama
