英美文学常识【7】

Emma gives the throught over the self-deceptive vanity.

小说艾玛当中 主人公艾玛为了自己的虚荣心，以说媒的方式想要扩大影响力，不过却错误的领会了他人的心意酿下大错。（埃尔顿求婚）

The [[Four Quartets]], based on the Christian dogmas(教条) of incarnation and resurrection(revivification), is concerned with the quest for the immortal element, the stillness within time or history. Man, disillusioned and hopeless in his early poetry, now finds reconciliation in God.

quartets 四重奏

Moby-dick is difficult to read because much of the talk in the novel is sailor's talk and much of the language is purposely old-fashioned and Elizabethan. 

during the reign of Elizabeth 1558–1603，Willam Shakespears ，Marlowe

古屋青苔 mosses from the old manse  by Hawthorne