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英国文学史习题全集(含答案)_(2)
英国文学史习题全集(含答案)_(2)

Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

I.Choose the right answer.

1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.

A. aabbccbbc

B. abbacdccd

C. abacdeec

D. ababcdcdd

2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in

the later democratic revolutionary struggles.

A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

B. Comus

C. Of Reformation in England

D. Areopagitica

3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the

later sacred verses.

A. John Milton

B. John Bunyan

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.

A. Holy Sonnets

B. Witchcraft by a Picture

C. The Sun Rising

D. Death, Be Not Proud

5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.

A. The Altar

B. To His Coy Mistress

C. To Daffodils

D. Gather Y e Rose Buds While Y e May

6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. Andre Marvell

D. Henry V aughan

7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?

A. Richard Crashaw

B. Henry Vaughan

C. Andrew Marvell

D. Robert Burton

8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.

A. The Anatomy of Melancholy

B. Religio Mecici

C. Holy Dying

D. Urn-Burial

9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the

simple and kind people.

A. The Compleat Angler

B. Holy Living

C. To His Coy Mistress

D. To Daffadils

10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?

A. John Suckling

B. Richard Lovelace

C. Robert Herrick

D. John Dryden

11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th

century.

A. John Dryden

B. Richard Steele

C. Joseph Addison

D. Alexander Pope

Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD

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II.Fill in the blanks.

1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most

important place.

2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing

produced during the _____ Age.

3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of V anity Fair which is the symbol of

London at the time of Restoration.

4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which

general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.

5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration

period.

6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.

7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.

8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreci ation of

Shakespeare.

9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with

the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.

10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John

Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.

11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.

12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.

13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.

14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by

_____in content and fantasticality in form.

15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th

century.

16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.

17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.

18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private

citizens by letters and _____.

Key to the blanks:

1.(John Bunyan)

2.(Puritan)

3.(The Pi lgrim’s Progress)

4.(John Bunyan’s)

5.(John Dryden)

6.(Dryden)

7.(John Dryden)

8.(John Dryden)

9.(All for Love) 10.(John Dryden)

11.(epics)

12.(Paradise Lost)

13.(mysticism)

14.(the Bible)

15.(Dryden)

16.(man)

17.(symbolism)

18.(diaries)

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III.Say true or false.

1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land

ownership.

2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke

out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.

3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the

Protector of the English Commonwealth.

4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,

and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.

5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the

country.

6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.

7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English

literature, William Shakespeare.

8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great

poet whole name is William Milton.

9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.

10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the

greatest one.

11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as

Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.

12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His

Deceased Wife.

13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.

14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to

advocate submission to the Almighty.

15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his

angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.

16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.

17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of

subjects more or less connected with religion.

Key to True/False statements:

1. F (ownership: monopolies)

2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)

3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)

4. F (Donne: Milton)

5. F (James I: Charles I)

6. F (flourish: decline)

7.T (William Shakespeare)

8. F (William: John)

9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)

11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)

12.F (first: second)

13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)

14.F (Satan: God)

15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)

16.T

17.T

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IV. Questions

1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on the image of Satan.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on Samson.

Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)

A

1. ( ) Tome Jones

2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield

3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe

4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels

5. ( ) Pamela

6. ( ) The School for Scandal

B

a.Friday

b.King of Brodingnag

c.Sophia

d.Mr. B

e.William Thornhill

f.Charles Surface

The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )

Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.

1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his

moralizing spirit.

A. The Funeral

B. The Lying Lover

C. The Christian Hero

D. The Tender Husband

2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?

A. The Tatler

B. The Spectator

C. The Theatre

D. The English

3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.

A. A Letter from Italy

B. Rosamond

C. The Campaign

D. Cato

4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?

A. Isaac Bickerstaff

B. Mr. Roger

C. Captain Sentry

D. Andrew Freeport

5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors

all through the 18th century.

A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living

B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic

C. Samuel Pepys’s diaries

D. Addison’s Spectator essays

6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Essay on Man

D. The Dunciad

8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.

A. didactic

B. satirical

C. philosophical

D. dramatic

9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.

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A. The Enclosure Movement

B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____

readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers

described in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. sentimentalism

13.The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period

spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which

made him well-known as a satirist.

A. A Tale of Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment

of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.

A. Essays on Criticism

B. A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This

sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

17._____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which

contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

18.Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of

Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.

A. Tom Jones

B. Joseph Andrews

C. Jonathan Wild

D. Amelia

19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience

as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.

A. Roderick Random

B. Humphry Clinker

C. Peregrine Pickle

D. A Sentimental Journey

20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is

derived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.

A. The Rivals

B. The School for Scandal

C. The Beggar’s Opera

D. The London Merchant

21.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.

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A. The Review

B. The Tatler

C. The Rambler

D. The Bee

22.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.

A. The Traveller

B. The Deserted Village

C. The Vicar of Wakefield

D. The School for Scandal

23.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.

A. The School for Scandal

B. She Stoops to Conquer

C. The Good-natured Man

D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

24.The sentence of “The plowman homewar d plods his weary way, /And leaves the

world to darkness and to me” is written by ____.

A. William Cowper

B. George Crabbe

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Blake

25.______ is not written by William Blake.

A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

B. Songs of Experience

C. Auld Lang Syne

D. Poetical Sketches

26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from

William Blake’s _____.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

27.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,

______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.

A. the Whigs and the Tories

B. the senate and the House of Representatives

C. The upper House and lower House

D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

28.____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Y oung

and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.

A. Pre-romanticism

B. Romanticism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Naturalism

29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the

foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?

A. Clarissa Harlowe

B. Pamela

C. Sir Charles Grandison

D. Tomes Jones

31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer

B. The Rivals

C. The School for Scandal

D. The Conscious Lovers

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB

16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.

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1.The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form of ______ style.

2.Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.

3.The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ______.

4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.

5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _____

novel.

6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays have

become the striking features of the English _____.

7.Essay on Criticism is a ______poem.

8.The Dunciad is ______a poem.

9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.

10.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by ____.

11.Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.

12.Burns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and _____.

13.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of _____,

giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire of English high society.

14.Sameul Johnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’ reliance on the

patronage of noblemen for support.

15.Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in English

literature.

16.Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor is

better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.

17.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.

18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.

19.The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satir e and ______.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,urence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the

“knowledge of _____.”

Key to the blanks:

1.conversational

2.middle

3.social reform

4.Character sketch

5.epistolary

6.familiar essay

7.didactic

8.satirical

9.power of reason

10.human intelligence 11.persecution

12.lightheartedness

13.manner

14.A Dictionary of English Language

15.epistolary

16.picaresque

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,bor

18.morality

19.symbolism

20.Heart

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for

each issue.

2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler

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and The Spectator.

3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which

treated in a serious manner.

4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.

5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.

6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.

7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as

Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.

8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the

novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.

9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the

sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.

10.In the poems of Edward Y oung and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine

expression.

11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in

which the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.

12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of

Roderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.

13.The two most important of al l Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface and

comments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.

14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to

sentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.

15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on

a variety of subjects.

16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and

Charles Surface.

17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert

Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.

18.Racial discrimination is expres sed in Blake’s “The Little Black”.

19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.

20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,

Macpherson and Chatterton.

Key to the True/False statements:

1. F (one time a day)

2.T

3. F (light and pleasant manner)

4.T

5.F(Pope’s )

6. F (The Tatler)

7. F (prose) 8. F (nobles; common people)

9. F (18th )

10.T

11.F ( The Battle of the Books)

12.T

13.T

14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)

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15.F ( Scottish)

16.T

17.T

18.T 19.F (Burns’s)

20.F ( Percy, Macpherson and

Chatterton; Burns and Blake)

Ⅴ. Questions

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on the English classicists in the 18th century.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on The Spectator.

Part Five Romanticism in England

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism

B. Renaissance

C. Enlightenment

D. feudalism

2.The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry

B. novels

C. prose

D. periodicals

3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution”

D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.

A. Frost at Midnight

B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

B. Hours of Idleness

C. Lara

D. Don Juan

6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth’s

B. Byron’s

C. Shelley’s

D. Keats’

7.____ lived the longest life.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

8.Keats’ first poem is ____.

A. O Solitude

B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

C. Poems

D. Endymion

9.Keats’ best ode is ____.

A. “On a Grecian Urn”

B. “To Autumn”

C. “To Psyche”

D. “To a Nightingale”

10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.

A. The Spirit of the Age

B. Table Talk

C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays

D. On the English Poets

11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in

England.

A. “Tintern Abbey”

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Frost at Night

D. “The Daffodils”

12.The Prelude has also been called _____.

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A. The Last Brazil

B. The First Impression

C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind

D. The Spirit of the Age

13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.

A. “The Solitary Reaper”

B. “The Daffodils”

C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

D. “O Solitude”

14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.

A. The Prelude

B. Endymion

C. Don Juan

D. Biographia Literaria

15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism

B. familiar essay

C. rules of neo-romanticism

D. ways of modernism

16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

A. Keats

B. Walter Scott

C. Charles Lamb

D. William Hazlitt

17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice

B. the writer’s own personalities

C. love and marriage

D. Both A and C

18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A.Jane Austen

B. Charles Lamb

C. William Hazlitt

D. Waler Scott

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,mb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.

A. romanticism

B. conversations

C. inspirations

D. archaisms

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,mb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city

B. the countryside

C. nature

D. imagination

21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.

A. Endymion

B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia

22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,

Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.

A. Keats

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. William

23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic

Age from _____.

A. Dun Juan

B. The Prelude

C. Kubla Khan

D. Isabella

24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism

B. love of nature and optimism

C. love of old writers

D. hatred for the imperialism

25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.

A. Zastrozzi

B. The Necessity of Atheism

C. Queen Mab

D. Prometheus Unbound

28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A. John Woodvil

B.Essays of Elia

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C. Mr H

D. Tales from Shakespeare

29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy

B. A Defence of Poetry

C. The Necessity of Atheism

D. The Triumph of Life

30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.

A. Zastrozzi; Eton

B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy

C. Queen Mab; Greece

D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy

31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)

32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. the forth

33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.

A. novel

B. poem

C. periodical

D. newspaper

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB

16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA

31-33 CBC

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.

2.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.

3.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.

4.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.

5.Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.

6.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.

7.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____.

8.The theme of Keats’Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new.

9.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.

10.______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.

11.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ in

England.

12.The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simple

peasants, a passionate love of nature and the _____and ____of the language.

13.The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home.

14._____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause

of the French Revolution.

15.All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______.

16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century.

17.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______.

18.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.

19.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor

Coleridge published their joint work _______.

20.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer 23

_______ died.

21.Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that

women took, for the first time, an important place in English literature.

22.The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age.

23.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____.

24.____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.

25.Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.

26.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which

followed it.

27.In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.

28.At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trend

in literature.

29.In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,

the _____ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.

30.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.

31.Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a

_____.

32._____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His political

lyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of European ro mantic poetry.

33.After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave up medicine for

poetry.

34.____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.”

35.The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.

36.The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and the story is

derived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new.

37.Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were translated into

English by Florio and had an extensive influence upon English literature.

38.The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece. The

Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

39.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet laureate.

40.In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14 books.

41.In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume called

Hours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called____.

42.In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help that

country in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there.

43.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe

Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ____.

44.The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It is written in

Spenserian stanza.

45.George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteen cantos.

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46.George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.

47.____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic drama.

48.____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story.

49.George Gordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.

50.____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the

pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

51.After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled to leave

England in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in _____.

52.____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written in

the form of a fairy tale dream.

53._____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The story was

taken from Greek mythology.

54.The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. It deals with the

infamous ____ which happened on August 16, 1819.

55.Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his fellow-poet

_____.

56.Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.

57.Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.

58.The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible)

vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.

59.____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wasted

two-thirds of his lifetime.

60.To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little time

for his literary work.

61.Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare was

written by ____.

62.William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, in which individual

taste took the place of universal reason as the foundation of literary criticism. 63.After the defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who never

wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution.

64.____ was sentenced to two years’imprisonment for denouncing the Prince

Regent, future George IV, as a rake and a liar.

65.The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the light

miscellaneous ___.

66.In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular and

confirmed opium-eater.”

67.Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies and

dreams. The major flow of his style is ____.

68.____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historical

novel.

Key to the blanks:

1.literature; poetry

2.French

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3.nature

4.autobiographical

5.self-exploration

6.autobiographical

7.politics; social justice

8.conflict

9.children

10.Lyrical Ballads

11.Romantic Movement

12.Sympathy; simplicity; purity

13.The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s

Mind

14.Hazlitt

15.liberty; equality; fraternity

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,te 18th; mid-19th

17.classicism

18.enthusiasm; poetry

19.Lyrical Ballads

20.Walter Scott

21.novelist

22.Walter Scott

23.Water Scott, Jane Austen

24.Charles Lamb

25.The Prelude

26.Scott

27.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

28.romanticism

29.romanticists

30.simplicity

31.fairy tale dream

32.Shelley

33.John Keats

34.John Keats

35.Spenserian Stanza 36.Hyperion

37.Essais

38.Coleridge

39.Wordsworth

40.The Prelude

41.English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

42.Byron

43.Don Juan

44.four

45.Don Juan

46.Don Juan

47.Manfred

48.Cain

49.Hour of Idleness

50.Shelley

51.Italy

52.Queen Mab

53.Prometheus Unbound

54.Peterloo Massacre

55.John Keats

56.John Keats

57.Scott

58.the familiar essay

59.Charles Lamb

60.literature

61.Charles Lamb

62.Romantic

63.William Hazlitt

64.Leigh Hunt

65.essay

66.Thomas De Quincey

67.discursiveness

68.Walter Scott

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century.

2.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.

3.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .

4.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley”because of his independent

and rebellious attitude.

5.The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.

6.Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.

7.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.

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8.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of

nature.

9.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.

10.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”has another name, Growth of a

Poet’s Mind.

11.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s

masterpiece.

12.Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the

French Revolution.

13.Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.

14.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined

themselves with those forces.

15.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.

16.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second

generation.

17.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.

18.The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the

country people of that area in their writings.

19.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.

20.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology.

21.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet

in the English language.

22.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.

23.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive

movements of his age.

24.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.

25.But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his lines

are harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;

26.Byron’s leading princi ple is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,mb’s essays are intensely personal.

28.Keats’essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range

of subject matter.

29.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.

30.Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.

Key to True/False statements:

1. F (from late 18th to the mid-19th

century)

2.T

3.T

4.T

5.T

6. F (city)

7. F (“The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner”)

8.T

9. F (Wordsworth)

10.F (“The Daffodils”)

11.F (Wordsworth)

12.T

13.F (familiar essay)

14.T

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15.F ( Passive Romantic poets)

16.T

17.T

18.F (the first generation/ The Lake

Poets)

19.T

20.F (Greek)

21.T

22.T 23.T

24.T

25.F (Byron)

26.F (Keats)

27.T

28.F (Lamb)

29.T

30.F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of the

Ancient Mariner”)

Ⅳ. T erms:

1.Romanticism

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ke Poets

Ⅴ. Questions:

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on Lyrical Ballads.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on Charles Lamb.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on those Lake Poets.

4.What are the features of Romanticism.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on The Prelude.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on Endymion.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/bb12097940.html,ment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.

8.Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic

writers.

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①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】

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