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JohnMasefield’spoemSeaFeverisaworkofartthatbriheEnglishlahroughitsuseofrhythm，imageryandmanyplexfiguresofspeech...

ProperNames

Lilliput利立浦特（小人国）

Blefuscu伯莱福斯居岛（Lilliput小人国对岸的岛国）

Notes

1.DanielDefoe（1659-1731）:Hewasarader，writer，journalist，aeer，whogainedfameforhisnovelRobinsonCrusoe.Defoeisnopropohenovel，ashehelpedtopopularisetheforminBritainandalongwithotherssuchasRi，whthefouheEnglishnovel.Asaprolifidversatilewriter，hewrotemorethan500books，pamphletsandjournalsonvarioustopics，suchaspolitics，dreligion.

2.Piarrative::ItemergediurySpain.“Picaro”

isSpanishfue”

，andatypicalstorystheescapadesofaninsoutrascalwholivesbyhiswitsandshowslittleifaionofcharacterthroughthelongsuofhisadventures.Picaresquefiisrealistier，episodistructure（thatis，posedofasequesheldtelybecausetheyhappeheoneperson），airiaim.

3.JonathanSwift（1667-1745）:HewasanIrishsatirist，essayist，politicalpamphleteer（firstfs，theories），poetandeDeanofSt.Patrick’sCathedral，Dublin.HeisrememberedforworkssuchasGulliver’sTravels，AModestProposal，AJournaltoStella，Drapier’sLetters，TheBattleoftheBainstAbolishingity，aub.SwiftisprobablytheforemostprosesatiristintheEnglishlanguage，andislesswell-knownforhispoetry.

4.Lilliputaheyaretwofialislandnationsthatappearipartofthe1726novelGulliver’sTravelsbyJonathanSwift.ThetwoislandsareneighboursihIndianO，separatedbyaeleighthundredyardswide.BothareiinypeoplewhoareaboutoheheightofordinaryhumahecapitalofLilliputisMildendo.

5.JohnEdwardMasefield（1878-1967）:TheBritishpoetwasborninHerefordshire.HestudiedatKing’sSWarwickbefasamertseaman.IedhisshipinNewYorkdworkedthereiorybeftoLondontowritephisexperiesea.Masefieldoiishpoetlaureatein1930.

ForFun

WorkstoRead

1.TreasureIsland（1883）:ItisauretishauthorRobertLouisStevensataleof“piratesaraditionallysideredaireasureIslandisaaleknownforitsatmosphere，charadadalsoasawryentaryoyofmorality，unusualfor’sliteraturethenandnow.

2.Kim（1901）:ItisapiovelbyRudyardKiplioryunfoldsagainstthebackdropame，thepolitifliRussiaandBritairalAsia.ItissetaftertheSedAfghanWarwhidedin1881，probablyintheperiodof1893-1898.Theableforitsdetailedportraitofthepeople，culture，andvariedreligionsofIndia.“ThebookpresentsavividpictureofIndia，itsteemingpopulatiions，aions，andthelifeofthebazaarsandtheroad.”

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1.AKnight’sTale（2001）:ThisisanAmeriedy-adventurefilmwritteed，andproducedbyBriahefilmfollowsthestoryofWilliamThatcher，apeasantmasqueradingasaknight，alongwithhispanionsintheworldofmedievaljousting.osesasaknightaours，winningacdagfriendshipswithsuchhisturesasEdward，theBlaceofWalesandGeoffreyChaucer.Thefilmwasaboxofficesucering$117，487，473withabudgetofjustover$41million.

2.Aliderland（2010）:ThisisanAmeriputer-animatedliveatasyadventurefilmdirectedbyTimBurtonaDisures.Despiteitsshorttheatricalreleasewindowandmixedreviews，thefilmgrossedover$1.02billionworldwide.AsofOctober2011，itistheni-grossingfilmofalltime.