英美文学选读自学资料来自ludongbao如欲下载到本资料的WORD版本,请登录到最后希望大家能顺利通过在4月份的本课程考试。English LiteratureChapter One The Renaissance PeriodI. Shakespeares sonnets1. With a few exceptions, Shakespeare writes his sonnets in the popular English form of three quatrains and a couplet. The couplet usually ties the sonnet to one of the general themes, leaving the quatrains free to develop the poetic intensity.2. The sonnets most common themes concern the destructive effects of tim