What is foreign literature in your mind?

Introduction to Foreign Literature Foreign literature refers to the literature of all countries in the world except China literature. World literature has a long history and is rich and colorful. As early as thousands of years ago, in the birthplace of human civilization, the first literary treasure house of mankind has been bred. In the following years, outstanding literary masters and many famous masterpieces appeared in many ethnic groups in the East and West. People love and cherish these writers and their works because excellent literary works reflect people's understanding of the objective world, show the spiritual track of human growth and give people aesthetic pleasure handed down from generation to generation. Introduction to Foreign Literature The origin of western literature can be traced back to ancient Greek literature from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century BC. Greek mythology is vivid and well preserved. Homer's epics "Ilion Ji" and "Ode to Ji" are magnificent and precious documents in prehistoric society. Prometheus Bound [kg * 2] is the representative work of this writer in brackets, the same below. The tragic fate of Sophocles (King Oedipus) and euripides (Medea) is a portrayal of the social reality of slave owners in the democratic period. Aristophanes (Akanai) is known as the "father of comedy" in ancient Greece. The achievements of lyric poetry, fable and literary theory are equally remarkable. Ancient Roman literature inherited the tradition of ancient Greek literature. Virgil (Aeneas), Horace (poetic art) and Ovid (metamorphosis) are the most influential poets in ancient Rome. European medieval literature is mainly composed of church literature, knight literature, heroic epic and urban literature. Knight literature reflects the knight class's concept of honor and love. Song of Roland is a representative of medieval heroic epic. Lena Fox's story shows the thoughts and feelings of citizens. Dante is the most outstanding poet in the Middle Ages. Divine Comedy explores the road of national rejuvenation in the form of dream stories. Humanistic literature appeared in Europe from 14 to 16 century. Italian writers Peterak (songji) and Boccaccio (decameron) were its pioneers. The novel Biography of the Giant by French writer rabelais shows the anti-scholasticism. The novel Don Quixote by Cervantes, a Spanish writer, creates a complex image that embodies both chivalrous fantasy and humanistic spirit. English writers Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), Thomas Moore (Utopia) and Spencer (The Fairy Tale Queen) have their own characteristics. Shakespeare has made great achievements in historical plays, comedies and tragedies. The tragedy Hamlet embodies the contradiction between ideal and reality, with vivid plot, broad background and vivid image. /kloc-the highest achievement of European literature in the 0/7th century is classical literature. The tragedies of French writers Gao Naiyi (Sid) and Racine (andromache) have the characteristics of advocating kingship and rationality, which conforms to the norm of "three unifications". Moliere's comedy The Hypocrite lashed Darduff, a religious liar, and reflected the writer's democratic tendency. Milton, an English poet, expressed the revolutionary ideal and heroism of bourgeois Puritans with his long poem Paradise Lost. /kloc-Enlightenment literature in the 0/8th century is an important part of the Enlightenment. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe portrays a real bourgeois, Swift's Gulliver's Travels satirizes English reality with absurd plots, Richardson's Clarissa has an influence on sentimental literature, and Fielding's tom jones occupies a place in the history of modern novel development. The important writers of French enlightenment literature are: novelist Montesquieu (Persian letters), Voltaire (honest man), Diderot (Ramo's nephew), Rousseau (New Arrow) and playwright Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (Figaro's wedding). Lessing is the founder of German national literature. Schiller's drama Plot and Love and Goethe's novel Young Werther reflect the spirit of the times during the "Crazy Run" movement. Goethe's poetic drama Faust shows the enlightenment thinkers' exploration of truth. /kloc-at the end of 0/8/kloc-at the beginning of 0/9, romantic literature swept Europe and America. Jena School and Heidelberg School appeared in Germany. Wordsworth, a lake poet, appeared in England. Byron's Childe Harold's Travels and Shelley's Prometheus Liberated represent the highest achievements of English romantic poetry. Hugo's novels Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables reflect his humanitarian thoughts. French influential romantic writers include chateaubriand, Dumas, Merimee, george sand and Miao Sai. The poems of Pushkin and lermontov opened the prelude to the glory of Russian literature in the19th century. Their representative works yevgeni onegin and Contemporary Heroes created the earliest image of "superfluous man" in Russia. Whitman (Leaves of Grass) and Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) are the most influential romantic poets and novelists in America. Italian manzoni, Polish Mitzi Kevic and Hungarian Petofi are also famous writers in this period.