英美文学常识【4】
in willam blake's last period,he wrote quite a few prophetic books,and one of them is the book of urizen.
威廉·布莱克(1757年11月28日至1827年8月12日)创造了自己的宗教系统,实现肉体和精神的完整这一人道主义目标。在他的体系,存在四位Zoas:在南方代表传统和理性的乌里森(Urizen)、在东方代表爱意和情感的鲁法(Luvah)、在西方代表本能和力量的塔马斯(Tharmas);在北方代表灵感与想象的尤索纳(Urthona),他们都是从原始的阿尔比恩(Albion)分离出来。布莱克认为,人已经分裂成四个部分,这四个部分就是Zoas之间的斗争,他企望这四个部分在永恒的理想世界中能重新合而为一,而那个时刻便是“最后的审判”,这是他的宗教核心观念。

In their pursuit of a marriage, they are usually categorized into three types according to their different attitudes:
1. those who would marry for material wealth and social position,
2. those who would marry just for beauty and passion
3. those who would marry for true love with a consideration of the partner's personal merit(advantage) as well as his economical and social status.
In another word, Jane Austen tries to say that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marry without it.

1729-37年的时候,henry fielding 写就(turn out)了26部戏剧,成为了当时最著名的剧作家。

milton最著名的散文作品是 论出版自由 (Areopagitica),英文名在希腊语中意为战神山,或称战神阿瑞斯之山(hill of ares),这座山上坐落这当时的雅典法庭,所以象征着公平与正义。

查理狄更斯 的作品 the pickwick paper 匹克威克外传,讲述了匹克威克先生,是一个“名流”,也是一个“学者”,是以他的姓氏命名的一个社团(“匹克威克社”)的创办人。他带着几个“匹克威克派”出去游历,一路碰到了种种滑稽可笑的人和事。一路上,被金格尔再三被捉弄。
这是一个有关于讽刺党派斗争和钻法律漏洞(legal fraud)的故事

Emily Brontë写了呼啸山庄,写了193首(?)诗歌,多数关于自然风光,荒原经常是她描绘的对象。
The Night Is Darkening Round Me
——By Emily Bronte
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.
Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me:
I will not, cannot go.
《夜晚在我周围暗下来》
夜晚在我周围暗下来
狂风冷冷地怒吼,
但有一个蛮横的符咒锁住我,
我不能,不能走。
巨大的树在弯身,
雪压满了它们的枝头;
暴风雪正在迅速降临,
然而我不能走。
我头上乌云密布,
我下面狂洋奔流;
任什么阴郁也不能使我移动,
我不要,也不能走。

drear /drɪə/ ,dreary ,adj.阴郁的,that makes you feel sad; dull and not interesting