英语写作艺术类素材精选

1955:Rock and roll

With his speedy, spiced-up version of rhythm and blues, Chuck Berry combined all the essential ingredients of rock roll and delivered them to the mainstream audience. Juiced up with double-string guitar licks and a witty lyricism that appealed to postwar youth, his sassy and energetic Maybelline skyrocketed to number five on the Billboard charts. Elvis Presley burst upon the scene shortly thereafter - adding the moves, charisma, and sensuality that caused nationwide hysteria. Rock roll was born.

1387:Tales from the trail

Geoffrey Chaucer begins work on The Canterbury Tales--the story of a storytelling contest amongst a group of pilgrims traveling to a shrine in Canterbury. Chaucers exploration of the young Middle English language profoundly influenced the development of English literature; his tales, ranging from the terrifyingly bleak to the raucous and bawdy, exhibited a keen perception of the human condition.

1795:Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen expanded the novels range in subject matter as the first to write about average people in everyday situations. Although not the first novelist , her writing exhibited a shrewd mastery of the form. Austens works have had mass appeal, proving that daily life for women at the close of the eighteenth century was every bit an adventure and a battlefield.