乔叟与英国文艺复兴

本文针对乔叟在英国文学史上的地位和英国文艺复兴的起点问题,根据意大利文艺复兴对英国文学的影响、乔叟作品的人本主义思想、14世纪末英国文学现状和资本主义发展状况,认为英国文艺复兴在14世纪末期已经开始,国内外战争只是延缓了英国文艺复兴的进程。

Geoffrey Chaucer and the English Renaissance

This paper is directed at Geoffrey Chaucer's position in the history of English literature and the beginning of the English renaissance. Based on the influence of the Italian renaissance on English literature, Chaucer's humanist thoughts, the flourishing condition of the English literature and the development of English capitalism in the late 14th century, the author points out that the English renaissance started in the late 14th century and that the interior and exterior wars only delayed the progress of ...