※ I feel quite move.
※ “there's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.”
writing makes Miss Potter happy and gives her inspiration.
※ 大人會老,但是小孩會長大
※ Chipendale 現在建築( Modern architecture) 用語
※ Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest
Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. Not only is he seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, but he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon.
※ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. (荒謬劇本)
※ cake and ale (4 pm~ ) ginger ale (soft drink)
※ 戀愛沒有假期
※做 學問 (科學) 的人→observe, record, analyze
※ attend + church / school / funeral / class
It is arguably one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels: a history of English literature in satiric form.
The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history.
※ Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own
※ Beatrice Portinari was a Florentine woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante, and is also commonly identified with the Beatrice who appears as one of his guides in the Divine Comedy in the last book, Paradiso, and in the last four cantos of Purgatorio.
※ Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
for example, Odyssey
Foreshadowing is a literary device by which an author hints what is to come. It is used to avoid disappointment. It is also sometimes used to arouse the reader
for example, the epic novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
※ Lake District is a mountainous region in North West England.
A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets
※ Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare
※ William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads
- Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
- " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work.
Scott's novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature.
※ Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos.
※ Lyric poetry is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle between three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic and epic.
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.
for example, The Canterbury Tales
※ Peter Pan (lost boy) is mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up. Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang
※ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.
The novella is the third most-translated book in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France.
※ Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel.
foe example, Utopia
Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia.
for example, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver
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