week 3-1 Renaissance and__ Drama

中国大学MOOC英国文学导读期末试卷考试答案1单选(1分)Written in 1837-38, ______ tells the story of an orphan boy who fell into the hands of thieves after getting out of the workhouse, and whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of London. 得分/总分A.A Tale of Two CitiesB.Oliver TwistC.David CopperfieldD.Little Dorrit正确答案：B你没选择任何选项2单选(1分)“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This is the beginning of the novel _____________.得分/总分 A. MiddlemarchB.Sense and SensibilityC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Jane Eyre正确答案：C你没选择任何选项3单选(1分)________ is about a young Swiss student who discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates a monster who vows revenge on his creator after being rejected from society.得分/总分A.The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB.PamelaC.Vanity FairD.Frankenstein正确答案：D你没选择任何选项4单选(1分)In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ________________.得分/总分A.terza rimaB.quatrainC.heroic coupletD.Spenserian stanza正确答案：B你没选择任何选项5单选(1分)Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ___________.得分/总分A.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression on an individual’s feeling s and experiencesD.the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models 正确答案：C你没选择任何选项6单选(1分)Romantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT _________ as their poetic materials.得分/总分A.the commonplaceB.the abstractC.the simpleD.the natural正确答案：B你没选择任何选项7单选(1分)________ believes that man’s fate is predetermined tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature,” both inside and outside.得分/总分A.Charles DickensB.George Bernard ShawC.T. S. EliotD.Thomas Hardy正确答案：D你没选择任何选项8单选(1分)G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.得分/总分A.inequality between men and womenB.economic exploitation of womenC.slum landlordismD.political corruption正确答案：B你没选择任何选项9单选(1分)We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms EXCEPT __________.得分/总分A.wildB.tamedC.proudD.swift正确答案：B你没选择任何选项10单选(1分)_________ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history famous for the protagonist’s lines such as “I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal-as we are!”得分/总分A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.MiddlemarchD.Wuthering Heights正确答案：A你没选择任何选项11单选(1分)___________ by Wordsworth describe the rare elusive beauty of a young country girl living a simple life in a remote village far from the civilized world.得分/总分A.“Lucy poems”B.“My heart leaps up”C.“I wandered lonely as a cloud”D.“Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”正确答案：A你没选择任何选项12单选(1分)William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ________.得分/总分A. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech正确答案：D你没选择任何选项13单选(1分)Gothic novels are mostly stories of _________, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.得分/总分A.mystery and horrorB.love and marriageC.sea adventuresD.saints and martyrs正确答案：A你没选择任何选项14单选(1分)You may have met the term “Yahoo” on the Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in _______. 得分/总分A.Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesB.Samuel Richardson’s PamelaC.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressD.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels正确答案：D你没选择任何选项15单选(1分)_________ is said to be written in a dream after the poet took opium and fell asleep.得分/总分A.“Christabel”B.“Ode to Nightingale”C.“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”D.“Kubla Khan”正确答案：D你没选择任何选项16单选(1分)In Paradise Lost, Raphael warned Adam ______.得分/总分A.not to speak to SerpentB.not to speak to EveC.not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledgeD.not to follow Satan正确答案：C你没选择任何选项17单选(1分)______ marks the appearance of modern novels.得分/总分A.PamelaB.Gulliver’s TravelsC.Robinson CrusoeD.Tom Jones正确答案：C你没选择任何选项18单选(1分)“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the most famous line of the poem ______.得分/总分A.“Ode on a Grecian Urn”B.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”C.“Ode to the West Wind”D.“Kubla Khan”正确答案：A你没选择任何选项19单选(1分)“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” This is the beginning of _______.得分/总分A.David CopperfieldB.Oliver TwistC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities正确答案：D你没选择任何选项20单选(1分)Tess of the D’Urbervilles is considered to be a representative work of ______ which accepts the theory of “survival of the fittest” and believes in pessimistic determinism. 得分/总分A. romanticismB.realismC.naturalismD.modernism正确答案：C你没选择任何选项21判断(1分)Friday is a character from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项22判断(1分)An Essay of Criticism is written by Alexander Pope.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：A你没选择任何选项23判断(1分)Vanity Fair is known as a novel "without heroes" and the heroines are Becky Sharp and Dorothea Brook. 得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项24判断(1分)Antonio and Bassanio are characters from Don Juan. 得分/总分A.B.正确答案：A你没选择任何选项25判断(1分)In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet is so eager to marry her daughters to single young men with large fortunes because she does not have a male heir and the family property will be inherited byan outsider.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项26判断(1分)Shylock is the merchant of Venice in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：A你没选择任何选项27判断(1分)Mrs. Dalloway details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in London.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：A你没选择任何选项28判断(1分)Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems which praise the beauty of nature and the innocence of the child. 得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项29判断(1分)“A Red, Red Rose” is one of Burns’ most popular songs in Scottish dialect which praises the natural beauty of roses. 得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项30判断(1分)Byron makes a great contribution to English literature byintroducing a new style of character, “Byronic Hero”.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：B你没选择任何选项31填空(2分)_______ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Christopher Marlowe 或Marlowe32填空(2分)_____ was the last English novelist who embodied many of the dreams of a declining British Empire and the first English writer who was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Rudyard Kipling 或Kipling 或Joseph Rudyard Kipling33填空(2分)In the Victorian period, the ________ (literary genre) became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：novel34填空(2分)Renaissance in British literary history is the age of ________ and the age of drama.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：sonnet 或sonnets35填空(2分)________ has been regarded as the greatest dramatist in the early 20th century in British literary history and his plays are important problem plays.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：G. B. Shaw 或George Bernard Shaw 或Bernard Shaw 或Shaw36填空(2分)__________ is called the Father of the English Novel because he used third-person narration which contributes to the progress of novel writing.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Henry Fielding 或Fielding37填空(2分)R obert Browning’s reputation mainly rests on his development and his masterly creation of the “___________ monologue,” a poetic form used by a lot of poets.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：dramatic38填空(2分)According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about common people and poems about ______.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：nature39填空(2分)__________, which is 433 lines long written by T. S. Eliot, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of the manifesto of modernist poetry in the 20th century.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：The Waste Land 或Waste Land40填空(2分)English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of __________.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Lyrical Ballads 或The Lyrical Ballads41填空(2分)Alexander Pope is called the advocator of ________, a great verse satirist, and the high priest of the Age of Reason.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Neoclassicism 或neoclassicism42填空(2分)________ foot is foot in which an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Iambic 或iambic43填空(2分)The two key figures who made the __________ novel known to the world are Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：stream-of-consciousness 或stream of consciousness44填空(2分)George Eliot’s most famous novels is ______, w hich is about the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate in a provincial town in 19th century. 得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Middlemarch45填空(2分)Alfred Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the __________ in 1850, appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Poet Laureate 或poet laureate。

英美文学考试题英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English LiteratureReference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they had upon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satirically portrayed? How?3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet: 1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness? 2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love? What is peculiar of this love poem?3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences 1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of thecentury?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words.Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically,economically and ideologically? 3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110)1. What is the theme of the poem?2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences. Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English Literature Reference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they hadupon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satiricallyportrayed? How? 3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet:1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness?2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love?What is peculiar of this love poem? 3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of the century?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words. Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically, economically and ideologically?3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110) 1. What is the theme of the poem? 2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences.Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)。

Chapter 3Directions: Please fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.1.The _________________ refers to the cultural movement from the 14th to the 17th century.It is considered the bridge between the ______________ Ages and modern history. (Renaissance; Middle)2.The Ren aissance began in Florence, Italy. It means the ______________ or revival of the European culture through the rediscovery of classical Greek culture. (rebirth)3.In essence, the Renaissance is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of the old ___________ ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie (middle class), and to recover the purity of the early ___________ from the corruption of Roman Catholic church. (feudalist; church)4.___________ is the essence of Renaissance. Its philosophical foundation is the belief that “Man is the measure of all things”. It praised human nature and emphasized the dignity of human beings and the present life. Humanists believed that man had the right to enjoy life and had the ability to perfect himself and perform wonders. (Humanism)5.___________and drama were the most outstanding literary forms of the Renaissance. (Poetry)6.In England, the sixteenth century marked the beginning of the English Renaissance. The major figures were ______________, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas More, Francis Bacon and a number of humanist scholars. (William Shakespeare)7.Thomas More’s best-known work is _____________. It is a picture of an ideal non-Christian state where everybody lives a simple life, shares the goods in common, possesses a good knowledge of Latin, fights no war and enjoys full freedom in religious belief. (Utopia)8.Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. A chief member of the group known as the ___________________, Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day, who greatly influenced William Shakespeare. (University Wits)9.___________________ was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queen,an epic poem celebrating Elizabeth I. (Edmund Spenser)10.William Shakespeare produced a whole series of historical plays, _________________ and comedies: such as Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night. (tragedies)11.Ben Jonson’s comment on __________________________’s achievement is: “He was not of an age, but for all time!” (William Shakespeare)12.William Shakespeare’s great tragedies include ________________, Othello, King Lear, and ________________. (Hamlet; Macbeth)13.In “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, “thee” means “____________”. (you)14.In “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”, “thy” means “____________”. (your)15.“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this and this gives life to thee” istaken from William Shakespear e’s ____________________. (Sonnet 18)16.The rhyme scheme in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18is________________________________. (a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g)17. A typical Shakespearean sonnet has ____________ lines of iambic pentameter and ends in a rhymed ____________. (14; couplet)18.“To be, or not to be: that is the question”is taken from William Shakespeare’s tragedy ____________. (Hamlet)19.“Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”is taken from Francis Bacon’s __________________. (Essays)20.“Some books ar e to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ________________________’s Essays. (Francis Bacon)1，_________________指的是从第十四到第十七世纪的文化运动。

英国文学史概括英国文学史概括第一个时期： Old English， Middle English and Chaucer，古英国，中世纪和乔叟，这个时期的文学作品主要以诗歌为主，需要关注的是乔叟和他的《坎特伯雷故事集》。

第二个时期：文艺复兴时期，这个时期的文学作品以戏剧为主，需要关注的是莎士比亚和他的悲剧，喜剧以及历史剧。

第三个时期：浪漫主义时期，这个时期的文学作品以散文诗为主，雪莱，济慈和威廉布雷克等人都是这个时期的代表诗人。

他们的作品包括夜莺颂等。

第四个时期：维多利亚时期，这个时期是散文诗渐渐退出，小说逐渐兴起的时期，该时期的诗人著名的有罗伯特布朗宁，阿尔弗莱德等。

但更为著名的是狄更斯和勃朗特姐妹的小说，代表作有《雾都孤儿》和《呼啸山庄》等第五个时期：现代主义时期，这个时期的文学作品主要是小说，各个流派粉墨登场，有现实主义的，有荒诞派的，还有意识流。

爱尔兰的文学家叶芝，乔伊斯都是这个时代的代表人物。

乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》是意识流的代表之作。

同属意识流的还有女作家弗吉尼亚伍尔芙，代表作《到灯塔去》。

第六个时期：当代：主要指20世纪80年代之后到现在的这个时期，该时期的文学作品很难入到评论家的法眼，主要特征是内容多为快餐文化，不能称为经典。

但这个时期的电影艺术发展非常迅速，有很多电影剧本都堪称佳作，不难看出，文学史的车轮经过诗歌——戏剧——小说的变迁后，下一站很有可能是电影。

以上纯属原创，转载请标明出处，谢谢英国文学史目录！PrefaceThe Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066IntroductionThe Venerable Bede and Caedmon King Alfred the GreatBeowulfThe Exeter BookThe Medieval Period 1066 -1485 IntroductionMedieval RomanceFolk BalladsJohn Wycliffe and William Langland Drama in the Middle AgesGeoffrey ChaucerThe Elizabethan Age 1485-1625 IntroductionThomas MoreSir Philip SidneyEdmund SpenserChrisher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh Minor PlaywrightsWilliam ShakespeareFrancis BaconKing James BibleThe Seventeenth Century 1625-1700 IntrodutionBen Jonson and the Cavalier Poets John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets John MiltonJohn BunyanJohn DrydenThe Age of Neo-Classici *** 1700-1764 IntroductionAlexander PopeJonathan SwiftRichard Steele and Joseph AddisonSamuel Johnson and James BoswellThe Novel of the Eighteenth CenturyDaniel DefoeSamuel RichardsonHenry FieldingTobias SmollettLaurence SterneOliver Gold *** ithPre-Romantic Period 1764-1798IntroductionHorace WalpoleAnn RadcliffeThomas GrayRobert BurnsWilliam BlakeThe Romantic Age 1798-1837IntroductionWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge……The Victorian Age 1837-1901The Modernist Age 1901-1945The Postmodern Period 1945-Present BibliographyIndex……关于英国文学史刘柄善的那本《英国文学史》上说，维多利亚时期是英国现实主义小说的巅峰时期，代表人物就是狄更斯，而当时英国之所以掀起现实主义风潮，则是因为此前的18世纪到19世纪初期，浪漫主义风靡英国，雪莱，济慈等人的诗歌风花雪月，让人一时忘却了现实，但随着浪漫褪去，人们又重归现实，于是狄更斯等人的现实主义作品，如《雾都孤儿》，《大卫科波菲尔》等书得以广为流传。

一、The Anglo-Saxon period 449-10661、这个时期的文学作品分类： pagan异教徒 Christian基督徒2、代表作： The Song of Beowulf 贝奥武甫 national epic 民族史诗采用了隐喻手法3、Alliteration 押头韵写作手法例子： of man was the mildest and most beloved;To his kin the kindest; keenest for praise.二、The Anglo-Norman period 1066-1350Canto 诗章1、romance 传奇文学2、代表作： Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 高文爵士和绿衣骑士是一首押头韵的长诗三、Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400 杰弗里.乔叟时期1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed 押韵 lines in iambic pentameter五步抑扬格3、代表作：the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事英国文学史的开端大致内容：the pilgrims are people from various parts of England; representatives of various walks of life and social groups.朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人;代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体小说特点：each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner; thus revealing his own views and character.这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事;无形中表明了各自的观点;展示了各自的性格..小说观点：he believes in the right of man to earthly happiness. He is anxious to see man freed from superstitions迷信 and a blind belief in fate盲目地相信命运.他希望人们能从迷信和对命运的盲从中解脱出来..4、Popular Ballads 大众民谣：a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed笔记Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission书上.歌谣是匿名叙事歌曲;一直保存着口头传播的方式代表人物：Bishop Thomas Percy 托马斯.帕希主教代表作：Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 罗宾汉和阿林代尔四、The Renaissance 16世纪文艺复兴时期Greek and Roman 戏剧 drama 诗章 cantoThe term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical Greek and Roman arts and sciences.文艺复兴最初是指经典艺术和科学在英国的复兴..The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama文艺复兴时期的英国戏剧也得到了迅速的发展..1、key work: humanism 人文主义： admire human beauty and human achievement2、代表人物：1、Thomas More 托马斯.莫尔 Utopia 乌托邦2、Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯.培根第一个散文家essayist3、Thomas Wyatt 托马斯.怀亚特引入十四行诗的第一人sonnet十四行诗： form of poetry intricately rhymed间隔押韵 in 14 lines iambic pentameter4、Edmund Spenser 埃德蒙.斯宾塞poet’s poet诗人中的诗人 The Fairy Queen仙后epic poem 史诗5、Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托弗.马洛blank verse无韵体：不押韵的五步抑扬格是十六世纪英国戏剧的主要表现形式..6、William Shakespeare 威廉姆.莎士比亚戏剧 drama四大悲剧：Hamlet哈姆雷五、the period of Revolution and Restoration 17世纪资产阶级革命与王权复辟prose 散文1、文学特点：the Puritans清教徒 believed in simplicity of life、disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry、breaking up of old ideals.清教徒崇尚俭朴的生活、拒绝十四行诗和爱情诗、与旧思想脱离..2、代表人物：1、John Donne 约翰.多恩“metaphysical”poets 玄学派诗人的代表人物sonnet 十四行诗 Death be not proud笔记作品特点：①strike the reader in Donne’s extraordinary frankness and penetrating realism.坦诚的态度和现实描绘② novelty of subject matter and point新颖的题材和视角③ novelty of its form.新颖的形式2、John Milton 约翰.弥尔顿 a great poet 诗人 poem 诗歌 blank verseDefense for the English People为英国人辩护Paradise Lost失乐园“Satan is not a villain”撒旦不是坏人Paradise Regained复乐园、John Bunyan 约翰.拜扬a great prose writer “give us the only great allegory寓言”Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程 prose 散文该书采用的写作手法“written in the old-fashioned旧体形式; medieval form of allegory比喻and dream”六、The Age of Enlightenment 18世纪启蒙运动prose 散文1、Emphasized formality or correctness of style; to write prose like Addison; or verse like Pope. 特;Othello奥赛罗;King Lear李尔王;The Tragedy of Macbeth麦克白强调正确的格式和写作规范;像艾迪生一样创作散文;和蒲柏一样创作诗歌..The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisie against feudalism.启蒙运动实际上是当时先进的资产阶级同落后的封建主义斗争的一种形式..The enlighteners repudiate the false religious doctrines about the viciousness of human nature; and prove that man is born kind and honest; and if he becomes depraved; it is only due to the influence of corrupted social environment.启蒙主义者颠覆了宗教所宣扬的人类本恶的观点；论证了人生诚实而友善;而腐化堕落则是后天腐败的社会环境所致..Contrary to all reasoning; social injustice still held strong; found the power of reason to be insufficient; and therefore appealed to sentiment as a means of achieving happiness and social justice. 无论怎样讲究理性;社会不平等现象仍然普遍存在;理性的力量明显不足..因此呼吁把情感的诉求作为一种谋求幸福和社会公平的手段..2、18th century 文学的三个方面：Classicism古典主义、revival of romantic poetry新兴的浪漫主义诗歌、beginnings of the modern novel刚启萌的现代派小说3、代表人物：1、Daniel Defoe 丹尼尔.笛福 realistic novel 现实主义小说Novel：Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记 Jonathan Wild乔纳森.威尔德Moll Flanders摩尔.弗兰德斯2、Henry Fielding 亨利.菲尔丁 father of modern fiction现代小说之父Joseph Andrews约瑟夫.安德鲁斯受到了理查森的帕美勒的启发作家之间的不同：Richardson ——no humor; minces words; moralizes. 不幽默;咬文嚼字;说教Fielding —— direct; vigorous; hilarious; and coarse to the point of vulgarity;full of animal spirits; tells the story of a vagabond life 语言直接、生动、欢快、粗糙;甚至有点俗;精神焕发;讲述流浪者的故事..The History of Tom Jones; a foundling弃婴汤姆.琼斯的故事 the best novel of him3、Jonathan Swift 乔纳森.斯威夫特Gulliver’s Travels格列佛游记 novel 反讽作品特点：no visible sign of anger; nor raising the voice; the tone is cold; restrained; ironic; varied only by some flashes of fooling when Swift’s sense of the ridiculour gets the better of him.努不动颜;骂不扬声;语调冷酷;锋芒暗藏;讽刺辛辣;仅在讽喻之情难以抑制时才偶露揶揄之态..A Modest Proposal一个温和的建议4、Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔.理查森Pamela帕美勒 The method of psychological analysis 心理分析的方法In the form of letters 书信体小说5、Richard B. Sheridan 理查德.B.谢尔丹School for Scandal造谣学校;喜剧 comedy6、Oliver Goldsmith’s 奥利佛.哥尔德斯密斯散文作家 essayist The Vicar of Wakefield威克菲尔德的牧师;小说 novelShe Stoops to Conquer委曲求全;欢乐喜剧 rollicking comedyThe Deserted Village荒村;诗歌 poems4、Sentimentalism 感伤主义 no belief 没有信仰The representatives of sentimentalism continued to struggle against feudalism but they vaguely sensed at the same time the contradictions of bourgeois progress that brought with it enslavement and ruin to the people.感伤主义的代表人物在继续反对封建主义的同时又模糊的感觉到资本主义进程中出现的种种矛盾;感觉到资本主义制度对人性的奴役和破坏..代表人物：Thomas Gray 托马斯.格雷 Elegy; Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌七、the Romantic Period 1798-1832浪漫主义散文 prose1、前浪漫主义代表人物：William Blake 威廉.布莱克诗人 poet Robert Burns 罗伯特.彭斯苏格兰诗人 poetPre-Romanticism was greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution前浪漫主义极大地影响了工业革命和法国大革命..2、教育意义Educational：liberty; equality and fraternity 自由;平等;博爱3、开始的标志：beginning with the publication of William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads从威廉.华兹华斯发表的"抒情歌谣"开始4、lake poets湖畔诗人：Coleridge Southey Wordsworth5、代表人物： 1、William Wordsworth 威廉.华兹华斯 poet-laureate 桂冠诗人The Prelude序曲自传性诗歌Autobiographical poetry作品特点：simplicity and purity of the language; fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry简单而纯洁的语言;反传统形式的18世纪诗歌2、Lord Byron 拜伦Childe Harold Pilgrimage查尔德哈罗德游记cantos 诗章成名作 Don Juan唐璜 poem 诗 satiric masterpiece 讽刺的杰作 Hours of Idleness闲散时刻 poem 诗 the first volume of poem 首卷诗3、Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱 Prometheus Unbound解放的普罗米修斯 drama 戏剧 Ode to the West Wind西风颂 poem 诗4、John Keats 济慈 poet 诗人 The Eve of St. Agnes圣阿格良斯之夜 poem On a Greeian Urn希腊古瓮颂 poem To a Nightingale致夜莺poem “Beauty is truth; truth beauty”美学原则5、Walter Scott 沃特.斯科特 He is the creator and a great master of the historical novel. 他是创造者和历史小说大师6、Jane Austen 简.奥斯丁女Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见 Sense and Sensibility理智与情感Emma爱玛写作特点：the love-making of her young people; though serious and sympathetic; is subdued by humor to the ordinary plane of emotion on which most of us live. She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middleclass people. 她是中产阶级小说的发起人..7、Charles Lamb 查尔斯.兰伯 essayist散文家6、十九世纪散文的特点：In the first of these two periods Addison and Steele socialized the essay; so to speak; they brought it into everyday life and made it familiar and delightful to the multitude.在这两个时期的开始;艾迪生和斯蒂尔的社会散文把散文带入日常生活;并使其熟悉和并令人愉快..Early in the nineteenth century it became more definitely a means of intimate self-expression.在十九世纪前期;散文变得对自我的表达越来越肯定八、Critical Realism 批判现实主义 ;Victorian Period 维多利亚时期 humanism 人文主义1、意义：Chartism signified the first great political movement of the proletariat in English history.在英国的历史中;宪章运动是伟大的无产阶级政治运动..2、代表人物：1、Charles Dickens 狄更斯 Hard Times艰难时刻Pickwick Papers匹克威克外传 Oliver Twist雾都孤儿 A Tale of Two Cities双城记描述了法国大革命French Revolution特点：describing the misery and sufferings of common people.描述苦难和苦难的群众..2、Charlotte Bronte 夏洛特.勃郎特女 Shirley雪利 Jane Eyre简.爱Emily Bronte 艾米丽.勃郎特Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄主人公：Mr. Heathcliff特点：brought to the novel an introspection and anintense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.3、Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton; North and South玛丽.巴顿;北方和南方4、William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair名利场— this title was borrowed by Thackeray from The Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan. Thackeray draws a broad panorama of social life in his novel; ruthlessly criticizing money worship; cruelty and unscrupulousness. 在他的小说中描绘了广阔的社会生活;无情抨击了残酷和不择手段的拜金主义人物：Rebecca Sharp — a perfect embodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by and means.唯一的愿望人生就是在名利场中;完美的获取财富和地位的手段.. 特点： novels mainly contain a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society..小说是一个含有讽刺意味的上流社会写照..5、George Eliot 乔治.艾略特女 Adam Bedenovel The mill on the flossMiddlemarch Her preoccupation was always with the serious consideration of the moral position of the individual in the universe; but her psychological insight into the development of character.她最认真考虑的是个人的道德立场;但是她的心洞察了个性的发展.. 特点：the significance of G. Eliot’s work lies in theportrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life 艾略特写作的意义在于琐碎的描绘和英国生活的停滞..3、桂冠诗人poet-laureate：1、Alfred Tennyson 2、Robert Browning My last duchess已故的公爵夫人 Jealousy嫉妒 Stingy小气贡献：Dramatic monologues 戏剧独白 dramatic lyrics 戏剧抒情诗dramatic romances 戏剧传奇九、The transition from 19th to 20th century in English literature 19到20世纪英国文学的过渡期1、Aestheticism 唯美主义“art for art’s sake” 为艺术而艺术2、代表人物..1、Thomas Hardy 悲观主义者Pessimists Tess of the D’Urbervilles 苔丝 Jude the obscure裘德 novel 特点：His career is thus divided sharply between his Victorian novels and his post-Victorian poetry. 他的生涯就是他的小说和他的后维多利亚诗歌之间的尖锐分歧..2、Oscar Wilde “art for art’s sake” 为艺术而艺术3、George Bernard Shaw 剧作家playwright Mrs. Warren’s profession华莱夫人的职业4、D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover查泰莱夫人的情人 The Rainbow彩虹 Sons and lovers儿子与情人3、“stream of consciousness”意识流代表人物：1、Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway A Room of One’s Own Woolf was much c oncerned with the position of women. 非常重视妇女的地位 2、James Joyce Ulysses。

练习题2Blanks:1.The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) between the House of _Lancaster__ and the House of _York_ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.2.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of _Religous Reformation__ took place in England, started by Henry Ⅷ.3.The introduction of _printing___ to England by William Caxton brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.4.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of feudal relation and the foundation of ___capitalism_______.5.In Elizabethan Period, __Francis Bacon______ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.6.Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabeth Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece _The Faerie Queen_____.7.From the first half of the 16th century, __the English Renaissance_____ began to develop into a flowering of literature and then England became “a nest of singing birds”.8.In the Elizabethan Period, __William Shakesperare______ is the greatest playwright of England.9.__George Herbert_____ is the saint of the metaphysical school.10.In the Elizabethan Period, __Francis Bacon____ wrote many excellent essays, such as Of Studies.11.__Edmund Spenser_____ wrote his masterpiece The Faerie Queene.12.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and __Macbeth___ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.13.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of __Christopher Marlowe_____’s best plays.14.Shakespearean Sonnet is made up of three quatrains with different rhymes, followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme is _abab,cdcd,efef,gg___.15.The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was _Christopher Marlowe______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.16.The intellectual energy of the English Renaissance showed itself in the achievement of __ Francis Bacon ______, who is the first English essayist.17.English Renaissance was an age of ___poetry and drama_____.18.“Denmark is a prison”. The hero summarizes his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence in _Hamlet_____ written byWilliam Shakespeare.19.John Milton wrote his masterpiece _The Paradise Lost____ during his blindness.20.John Donne is a poet of Peculiar _conceit_____, having his own way of reasoning and comparison.21._ John Milton ___ is the greatest writer of the 17th century, and one of the giants of English literature.22.__ John Donne ____ is the founder of the “metaphysical school”.23.Robert Herrick is a poet in English Renaissance who belongs to the school of _cavalier_____.24.__ Edmund Spenser _____ is often referred to as “the poets’poet”.25.Shakespeare’s plays are poetical dramas. A great number of important dialogues and soliloquies in his plays assume the form of __poemtry_____.26.The second period of Shakespeare’s work is mainly a period of “great comedies”and nature historical plays. The general spirit in this period is _optimism_____.27.In the 17th century, __ John Milton _____ towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabeth Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.28.During the civil war and the commonwealth, there were two leaders in England, Cromwell, the man of action, and __ John Milton _____ the man of thought.T/F1.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious(political) movement in a political guise. F2.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry(drama). F3.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took no(great) interest in the political questions of his time. F4.King Lear (macbeth)is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murderer and despot right to his doom. Fing from an old Danish legend, Othello (hamlet)is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art. F6.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity(decline). F7.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was(not) an age of prose. F8.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is writtenin heroic couplet(blank verse). F9.Paradise Lost took its material from Greek mythology. T10.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by fantasticality(mysticism) in content and mysticism(fantasticality) in form. FQuestions:1.Make a brief introduction of Paradise Lost2.Summarize the main story of The Merchant of Venice.3.What features do Shakespeare’s plays possess4.How much do you know about William Shakespeare’s sonnetsExplain the following terms1.sonnet2.Spenserian stanza3.blank verse4.Renaissance。

判断题-英国文学1.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state andenabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada. T 2.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in apolitical guise. F3.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by theCatholic churches. F4.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17,Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T5.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T6.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T7.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T 8.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of le tters between Moreand Hythloday, a voyage. F9.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But theupper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T10.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took agreat interest in the political questions of his time. T11.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity. F12.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an ageof prose. F13.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. F14.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. F15.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced agreat poet whole name is William Milton. F16.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama. F17.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one. F18.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroiccouplets. F19.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers,such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.F20.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters inthe novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. F21.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into twogroups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist. F22.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the Englishdialect on a variety of subjects. F23.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best kn own poems written byRobert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland. T24.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music. F25.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,Macpherson and Chatterton. F26.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. F27.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists. T28.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude . T29.P.B. She lley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of hi s independentand rebellious attitude. T30.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”. F31.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements ofnature. T32.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads. F33.Wordsworth’s“I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth ofa Poet’s Mind. F34.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’smasterpiece. F35.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and evencombined themselves with those forces. T36.37.Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude theObscure. F38.James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the“stream of consciousness” school. T56. With the establis hment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth’sattitude toward revolution changed into active. ( F )57．In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”. ( F )58. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period(1798---1832) ( F )59. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality. ( F ) 6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written byWordsworth. ( F )60. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens’s career,and the two cities are London and Paris. ( F )61. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School ofModernism. ( T )62. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical work. ( T )63. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work TheCanterbury tales. T64. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categoriesaccording to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and romances. T 65. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting amon gthe fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from theGarden of Eden. T66. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, / And the ro cks melt wi’ the sun: / I willluve thee still, my dear, / While the sands of life shall run.” The above lines are taken from the famous poem “Scots Wha Hae”. F67. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms. T68. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1789 whenWordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads. F69. Odes are generally regarded as Keats’ most important and mature works. T70. Wuthering Heights is written by Ann Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, buta powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. F71.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the strugglebetween Protestant and Catholicism. T72.The Bible was notably translated into English by the Protestants. T73.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English language and literature. T74.Rationalism is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized thecapacities of human mind and the achievements of human nature. F75.Sonnets contain Italian sonnets and Shakespeare sonnets. T76.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its novel.F77.In the 16th century, London became the centre of English drama. T78.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no actress and women’s parts werealways taken by boys. T79.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English neo-classicism. F80.The Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair whichis the symbol of London at the time of Restoration. T81.John Milton’s masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrativein which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world. F82.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress. F83.English enlighteners believed in the emmotion. F84.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with byhuman intelligence. T85.Sameul Johnson’s A Dictionary of English Language also marked the end ofEnglish writers’ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support. T86.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor. T87.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, literature equaled poetry. T88.William Wordsworth was influenced by the American Independence War. F89.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T90.Lyrical Ballads a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Southey. F91.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of theRomantic Movement in England. T92.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with classcism. T93.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writerRobert Soughey died. F94.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: Walter Scottand Jane Austen. T95.In 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge finished his literary criticism, BiographiaLiteraria. T96.Wordsworth’s poetry is distingu ished by the simplicity of his language. T97.The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. T98.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, Wordsworth was made poet laureate.T99.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is ChildeHarold’s Pilgrimage, the other is Don Juan. T100.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful optimism. T101.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of exciteme nt and irritation. T102.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of optimism. F。

介绍戏剧英语作文Drama has been a significant part of human culture for centuries, offering a unique blend of storytelling, performance, and artistic expression. In English literature, drama has played a vital role, with many classic plays shaping the language and influencing the world of theater.### The Origin of English DramaEnglish drama can be traced back to the medieval period, where religious plays were performed during festivals. These plays often depicted biblical stories and were performed by members of the church and local community.### The Renaissance and the Birth of Modern DramaThe Renaissance period saw a surge in the development of drama. Playwrights like William Shakespeare emerged, creating timeless works such as "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and "Romeo and Juliet." These plays explored themes of love, power, and human nature, and are still studied and performed today.### The Importance of Language in DramaLanguage is the cornerstone of drama. It is through the dialogue and monologues that characters are developed and the story unfolds. English drama, in particular, showcases the richness of the language, with its use of metaphor, simile, and iambic pentameter.### The Role of CharactersCharacters in English drama are often complex and multi-dimensional. They are crafted to represent various aspects of society, and their interactions drive the plot forward. From the tragic hero to the comic relief, each character contributes to the overall narrative.### The Power of PerformancePerformance is the lifeblood of drama. Actors bring the words on the page to life, using their voices, body language, and facial expressions to convey emotions and tell the story. The power of performance lies in its ability to engage audiences and evoke a range of emotions.### The Evolution of English DramaOver time, English drama has evolved to include various genres such as comedy, tragedy, and historical plays. Modern playwrights continue to push boundaries, exploring new themes and styles, and incorporating elements from other cultures and art forms.### ConclusionEnglish drama is a rich and diverse art form that continues to captivate audiences around the world. It offers a window into the human experience, allowing us to explore complex emotions, ideas, and stories through the power of language and performance. Whether it's the timeless works of Shakespeare or the innovative plays of contemporary playwrights, English drama remains a vital and vibrant part of our cultural heritage.。

The RenaissanceHistorical background:The breaking up of feudal relations and the establishing of the foundations of capitalism；The enclosure；the war of the Roses；the strengthening of the absolute monarchy；the rise of the bourgeoisie; the defeat of the Spanish Armada。

New social and economic conditions brought about great changes in the development of science and art。

So with the strengthening of new bourgeois national state，this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as the Renaissance。

Renaissance：A rebith，revival of classical (Greek and Roman ）arts, literature and sciences between 14th and mid 17th centuries in Europe, the greatest age of human accomplishments.Two striking features of the Renaissance1) A thirsting curiosity for the classical literature；2) The keen interest in the activities of humanity( People ceased tolook upon themselves as living only for God and a future world and turned to admiration for human beauty and human achievement);Renaissance marks the transition from medieval to modern world，from feudal to capitalist，from religious to secular society. In this period the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to abolish oldfeudal ideas in medieval Europe （the church—centered culture which were characterized by God-centeredness, otherworldliness and asceticism。