专八英国文学复习

英语专业八级(TEM )英国文学复习资料Chapter One ( 一般掌握)Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval AgesI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famousA.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romance of the RoseC.The Parliament of FowlsD.The House of Fame()2. Generally speaking, Chaucer's works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?A.The period of French influenceB.The period of Italian influenceC.The period of his maturityD.The period of American influence( ) 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?A.He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in the writer's corner of Westminster AbbyB.He was considered as "father of English Poetry"C.He was one of the narrative poets of EnglandD.His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales( ) 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into thefollowing groups except.A.rural dwellersB. church membersC. tradesmanD. nobles()6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written byA.ChaucerB. ShakespeareC. MarloweD. BunyanChapter Three English Literature in the RenaissanceI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. English Renaissance Period was an age ofA.prose and novelB.poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD.ballads and songs()2. "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?" is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?A.Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.B.She is unaware of Romeo's presence.C.She asks him to deny his family for her love.D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one's inner identity (represented by one's name).( ) 3. The Elizabethan literatureA.had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.B.witnessed a decline of degenerationC.expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.D.was not romantic.()4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese historyA.Henry IVB. MacbethC. TamburlaineD. Alchemist( ) 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he.A.is faced by MephistophelesB.wants to gain more moneyC.wants to live an extravagant lifeD.wants to know more about the world()6. Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and.A.criticB. novelistC. an actorD. both b and c( ) 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 8. The difference of Surrey's contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey.A.wrote the first English sonnetB.introduce the couplet into EnglandC.wrote the first English blank verseD.made the sonnet popular()9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama isA.SurreyB. MarloweC. ShakespeareD. Jonson( ) 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe* s play is the praise of.A.capitalismB. feudalismC. individualismD. nationalismII.可出填空题有：1.Rough winds do shake the of May,And has all too short a date.2.Sometimes too hot the shines, and often is his__________ dimmed.3.Shakespeare produced plays and sonnet.4.is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism,^.III.可出简答题有：Analyze Shakespeare's four periods of career concisely.Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth CenturyI.可出选择题有：( ) 1.was a progressive intellectual movement which began inFrance and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.A.The RenaissanceB.The EnlightenmentC.The Religious ReformationD.The Chartist Movement( ) 2. Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lostis NOT correct?A.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.B.He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angelsC.He remains obeyed and admired by all the angelsD.It is he who makes man revolt against God.( ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?A.He was born in a Roman Catholic family.B.He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.ter he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.D.He wrote only religious poems.()4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except.A.he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse formB.he clarified the English proseC.he raised the English literature criticism to a new levelD.he raised English comedy to a higher level( ) 5. Apology for Poetry is.A. a poemB. a romanceC. a criticismD. a sonnetII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.()2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.( ) 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.IV.可出术语有：metaphysical poetsChapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyI.可出选择题有:( ) 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such asA.SwiftB. DefoeC. BlakeD. Burns( ) 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism wereA.Blake and WordsworthB.Bums and ColeridgeC.Blake and BurnsD.Wordsworth and Coleridge()3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?A.He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.B.He was a poet as well as an engraver.C.His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.D.His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.( ) 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was.A.RomanticismB.RealismC.Pre-romanticismD.Critical realism( ) 5.was considered as “father of English Novel".A.SwiftB.FieldingC.ChaucerD.Jane Austin() 6. In 1704,founded the periodicals "the Review".A. SwiftB. BlakeC. MiltonD. DefoeII.可出判断题有：( )1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.( ) 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk balladsof his motherland.( ) 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.( )4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer ofbooks and pamphlets on variety of subjects.( ) 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governedby sense.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.2.People in 18th century believed in and their watchword was“common sense".V.可出术语有：EnlightenmentChapter Six English Literature of the Romantic AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The Roman tic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads^, which was written byA.William WordsworthB.Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Wordsworth and Coleridge( ) 2. Which poet does not belong to the Active Romantic Poet?A. ByronB. ShelleyC. KeatsD. Blake( ) 3. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads" is Coleridge's masterpieceA.Kubla KhanB.The PreludeC.The Rime of Ancient MarinerD.Tintern Abbey( )4. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long auto-biographical poem entitledA. Biographia LiterariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads( ) 5. The following stanza is from a poem written by ____ .When we two partedIn silence and in tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years.Pale grew thy cheek and coldColder than thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this!A.Percy Bysshe ShellyB.William BlakeC.George Gordon ByronD.Robert Browning()6. The Lake Poets include all the following members except the author of the following work.A. The PreludeB. Don JuanC. The Ancient MarinerD. Joan of Arc()7. Scott's chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of.A. warB. historyC. cityD. romanceII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth's attitude toward revolution changed into active.( ) 2. In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry isthe66spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.()3. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798——1832)( ) 4. The most important impetus of the Romantic movement was the French Revolution()5. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality.()6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria^, is written by Wordsworth.III.可出填空题有：1.marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.2.In 1843 Wordsworth was made.IV可出术语有：lake poetsV.可出简答题有：What are the qualities of Romanticism?Chapter Seven English Literature of the Victorian AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The following statements are features of Dickens's novels except.A.The power of exposureplicated and fascinating plotC.Broad humor and penetrating satireD.Tragic mood and feeling of depressionII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens's career, and the two cities are London and Paris.( ) 2. Though the Victorian poets are called The Third Generation of Romanticism, they showed no vigor and power in production of poetry as their previous poets.III.可出填空题有：1.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend appeared after the romantic poetry.2.The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan's masterpiece, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.3 ・ The central characters of The Mill on Floss are Tom and his sister4.is the representative of New Romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.IV.可出术语有：Dramatic monologueV.可出简答题有：The contribution of the setting to the expression of the speaker's situation in"'Crossing the Bar".Chapter Eight English Literature of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyI.可出判断题有:( T ) 1. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism.( T ) 2. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical work.II.可出简答题有：The significance of the theme of Araby.March the works in column A and authors in column B and write the letter of your choice in the bracketsA BA B。

英国文学知识（专八人文知识必备）英国文学知识一、中古英国文学1.Beowulf : the oldest poem in the English language and the most importantspecimen of Anglo-Saxon literature.2.Geoffrey Chaucer: he is acclaimed as the father of English Poetry and father ofEnglish fiction. His masterpiece。

The Canterbury TalesThe Romaunt of the RoseThe Legend of good WomenThe House of Fame二、文艺复兴时期时间：14世纪到17世纪中后期特点：Humanism became the keynote of English Renaissance著名作家：1.Thomas More: Utopia2.Edmund Spenser (a poet):The Faerie QueenThe Shepherd Calendar3.Christopher Marlowe( a poet and dramatist):Edward IIDr. FaustusTamburlaineThe Jew of Malta4.William Shakespeare喜剧：A Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you like itMerchant of VeniceThe Twelfth night悲剧：Romeo and JulietThe Tempest四大悲剧：Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet主要历史剧：Henry IV, Henry V5.Francis BaconEssaysThe advancement of learning6.John DonneThe Elegies and SatiresThe Songs and Sonnets7.John Milton (poet)晚年三首长诗Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes三：新古典主义时期时间：17世纪中后期到18世纪特点：The neoclassicists held that all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic and restrained emotion and accuracy.著名作家：1.John Dryden: All for Love2.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s ProgressThe Holy WarThe life and Death of Mr. Badman3.Alexander Pope An Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManThe Rape of the LockOdyssey4.Daniel Defoe(who is called the father of English and European novels)Robison CrusoeA journal of the Plague yearCaptain Singleton5.Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s TravelA Tale of a TubA Modest proposalThe Drapier’s letters6.Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling7.Samuel Johnson (著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者)A Dictionary of the English LanguageThe Vanity of Human WishesLondon8.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe school for the scandalThe Rivals9.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a country churchyardOde on the spring四：浪漫主义时期时间：18世纪中期到19世纪中期特点：Romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty and is marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom. The Romanticism period is an age of Poetry and poets.主要作家1.William BlakeSongs of ExperienceSongs of InnocencePoetical SketchesThe marriage of heaven and hell 2.William WordsworthLyrical BalladsTo the CuckooMy Heart leaps up3.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan 忽必烈汗三巨头1.George Gordon ByronCainDon JuanChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage2.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West WindOde to the Skylark Prometheus unboundedThe Necessity of Atheism Queen Mab3.John KeatsOde to AutumnOde to a nightingaleOde on a Grecian um 希腊古瓷颂Isabella以下各位不太重要：1.Charles LambTales from ShakespeareEssays of Elia2.Mary ShelleyFrankenstein3.Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc 圣女贞德小说家Jane AustinEmmaSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkPersuasion五、VICTORIA PERIOD时间：维多利亚1837年继位，1901年去世。

The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century )The renaissance period(14th –mid17th c)The neoclassical period(mid17th -18th c)The romantic period(mid18th -mid19th c)The Victorian period(1836-1901)Modern period(20th - )注：【后面的Matp指主要作品】一．The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century)1.The Venerable Bede(A.D673-735) “father of English history”《the essiesiastical history of the English people》《the anglo-sarxon chronic》epic——Beowulf2.mid11th-mid14th 亚瑟王和圆桌骑士《Sir Gawain and the Green Knight，高文爵士和绿衣骑士》3.Geoffy Chaucer（杰弗利·乔叟，1343-1400）“the father of English poetry” ；“the first one who used London dialect ” in《The Canterbury Tales，坎特伯雷故事集》（1387-1400,a prologue\24 tales,描写14th 英国现状）二．The renaissance period (14th –mid17th c)1.Sonnet:contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in various patterns 14行5音步抑扬格诗行（ababcdcdefefgg）e.g: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.2.Thomas More(托马斯·莫尔1478-1535) Matp:《Utopia,乌托邦》（in Latin）3.Francis Bacon(培根1561-1626) “杰出essayist in English history”《the essays》4.Edmund Spenser(埃德蒙·斯宾赛,1552-1599) “the poet’s poet”；Matp:《The Faerie Queen,仙后》（1579）；create “Spencerian Stanza ,斯宾塞诗体”。

英美文学知识第一节英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学 (约499-1066)Alliteration – Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- national epicCaedmon (开德蒙)Anthem《赞美诗》1. 诗歌Cynewulf(基涅武甫)Dream of the Rood《十字架之梦》Bede (比德)Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum《英吉利人教会史》2. 散文King Alfred(阿尔弗雷德大帝)Wessex – Father of English Prose (“英国散文之父”);Anglo-Saxon Chronicle《盎格鲁-撒克逊编年史》二、中古英语时期的英国文学 (14世纪 – 15世纪)1. Allegory – Romance – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》2. Ballad – The Robin Hood Ballads《罗宾汉民谣集》3. William Langland (威廉•兰格伦)The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman 《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》4. Geoffrey Chaucer (杰弗里•乔叟)Father of English Poetry (“英国诗歌之父”); The Canterbury Tales《坎特布雷故事集》;- octosyllabic & heroic couplet (八音节英雄双韵体)5. Sir Thomas Malory(托马斯•马洛礼)Le Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学 (15世纪末 – 17世纪中期)1. Humanism – classic culture2. Thomas More (托马斯•莫尔)Utopia《乌托邦》; The Painful Life of Edward V; Historie of Richard the Third《理查德三世传》3. Thomas Wyatt (托马斯•怀亚特), Henry Howard (亨利•霍华德) – Sonnet4. Philip Sidney (菲利浦•锡德尼)Arcadia《阿卡迪亚》-第一篇田园生活的传奇,“现代长篇小说的先驱”;The Defence of Poesie / Apology for Poetry《诗辩》-人文主义文学的宣言,开创近代英国的文学批评5. Edmund Spencer (埃德蒙•斯宾塞)poet’ poet – Spencerian stanza – 9行(ababbcbcc)8 iambic pentameter + 1 iambic hexameter; The FaireQueene 《仙后》被誉为英国文艺复兴时期“最杰出的史诗” nationalism, humanism, puritanism 6. Christopher Marlowe(克里斯托弗•马娄)Tamburlaine 《帖木耳大帝》; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》7. William Shakespeare2首长诗, 154首十四行诗, 37部戏剧长诗Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》;The Rape of Lucrece 《露克丽丝受辱记》十四行诗iambic pentameter – 14 (abab cdcd efef gg)3 quatrains + 1 couplet = Shakespearean sonnet悲剧Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth喜剧 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; The Merchant ofVenice ; As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》; TwelfthNight历史剧Henry VI, Henry IV, Richard III(威廉•莎士比亚)戏剧传奇剧Pericles 《泰尔亲王配力克里斯》;Cymbeline 《辛白林》; The Winter’s Tale ;Tempest 《暴风雨》8. Ben Jonson (本•琼森)comedy of manners (风俗喜剧的奠基人);Every Man In His Humor 《人性互异》9. John Donne (约翰•多恩)Metaphysical Poems (“玄学派”诗歌创始人);Songs and Sonnets 《歌曲与十四行诗》10. George Herbert (乔治•赫伯特)the saint of the Metaphysical school(“玄学派诗圣”);The Temple 《神殿》11. Andrew Marwell (安德鲁•马韦尔)诗风结合了玄学派和古典主义的创作特点;To His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》12. Francis Bacon (弗朗西斯•培根)Materialism; Essays 《随笔》(Of Study, OfTruth );The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》;The New Instrument 《新工具》四、资产阶级革命及启蒙时期的英国文学 (17世纪末，18世纪 )1. the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, democracy前30年：neo-classicism (崇尚古典文学的创作及美学原则)40年代到80年代：realism2. 18世纪的英国文学80年代以后：sentimentalism & pre-romanticism (崇尚情感)3. John Milton (约翰•弥尔顿)Defence of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》;Second Defence of the Englishpeople 《为英国人民再辩》;Paradise Lost (blank verse, 旧约); Paradise Regained(新约);Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》(poetical drama, closet73. Tennessee Williams (田纳西·威廉斯)The Glass Menagerie《玻璃动物园》; A Street car Named Desire《欲望号街车》; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》74. Arthur Miller (阿瑟·米勒)All My Sons《都是我的儿子》; The Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》75. Edward Albee (爱德华·阿尔比)The Zoo Story《动物园的故事》; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》76. Sylvia Plath (西尔维亚·普拉斯)自白派; The Colossus and Other Poems《巨人》。

英语专业八级英国文学知识总结1 Old and Medieval Period1-1 the Anglo-Saxon PeriodBeowulfCaedmon –Caedmon’s HymnCynewulf – The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene1-2 the Middle English PeriodSir Gawain and the Green KnightThomas Marlory –Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur)William Langland – Piers the PlowmanGeoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury T ales1-3 the 15th CenturyThe Robin Hood Ballads2 The Renaissance Period2-1 poemThomas WyattHenry HowardSir Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry Edmund Spencer –The Shephearde’s Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene 2-2 proseThomas More – UtopiaFrancis Bacon – A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry Ⅶ, The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Wisdom), The New AtlantisJohn Lyly—Eupheus2-3 dramaChristopher Marlowe –Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of MaltaWilliam Shakespeare – Comedies:A Midsummer Night’s Dr eam, As You Like It, Merchant ofVenice, The Twelfth NightTragedies:Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The TempestHistorical plays:Henry Ⅳ, HenryⅤLong narrative poems:Venus and Adonis, The Rape of LucreceBen Johnson – V olpone3 The Period of Revolution and Restoration3-1 poets in Revolutionary PeriodJohn Milton –Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson AgonistesJohn Donne – The Sun Rising, The Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, A Hymn to God the Father, Death, Be not Proud, A Valediction: ForbiddingMourningGeorge Herbert – The Altar, Easter Wings3-2 prose writers in Revolutionary PeriodJohn Bunyan –The Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War3-3 writers in RestorationJeremy Collier – A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English StageJohn Dryden –The Hind and the Panther, All for Love, Absalom and Achitophel, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy4 The Age of Enlightenment4-1 writers of Neo-ClassicismAlexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man Richard SteeleJoseph Addison – The Tattler, The SpectatorSamuel Johnson – The Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of English Poets4-2 writers of Realistic TraditionDaniel Defoe –Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jacque, Moll FlandersJonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub, Predictions for the Year 1708, Vindication ofIsaac Bickerstaff, Gulliver’s Travels, The Drapier’s Letters, A Modest ProposalHenry Fielding – Plays:The Welsh Opera, Don Quixote in England, Pasqin, The HistoricalRegister for the Year 1736Novels:Joseph Andrew, Jonathan Wild and Great, The History of Tom Jones, a Founding, Amelia4-3 writers of Sentimental TraditionSamuel Richardson –Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa Harlowe, SirRichardson’s GrandisonLaurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental JourneyOliver Goldsmith –The Traveler, The Deserted Village, The Vicar of Wakefield Thomas Gray –Elegy Written in a Country Church YardEdward Young – From Night Thoughts4-4 English dramaJohn Gay –The Beggar’s OperaRichard Brinsley Sheridan –The Rivals, The School for Scandal5 The Age of Romanticism5-1 Pre-Romantic poetsJames Thomas – The SeasonsWilliam Collins – Ode to EveningWilliam Blake –Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage ofHeaven and HellRobert Burns –My Heart’s in the Highlands, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne 5-2 Lake poets (or the first generation) William Wordsworth –Lyrical Ballads (Lines Composed a Few Miles aboveTintern Abbey, Lines Written in Early Spring), AnEvening Walk, Lucy Poems, I Wandered Lonely as aCloud, The Excursion, To the Cuckoo, The SolitaryReaper, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, To aHighland Girl, The PreludeSamuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christable, KublaKhan, The Fall of the BastilleRobert Southey –Joan of Arc, Wat Tyler, The Inchcape Rock, The Battle ofBlenheim5-3 Romantic poets of the second generationGeorge Gordon Byron – Lyrical poems:She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, HebrewMelodiesLong Poems:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don JuanPercy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Ode to the West Wind,Ode to a Skylark, A Defense of Poetry, The Necessity OfAtheismJohn Keats –When I have a Fear, On Melancholy, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche,To Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale5-4 prose writers of the Romantic AgeCharles Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia, Old ChinaWilliam Hazlitt – Literary critics:The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Lectures on the EnglishPoets, Lectures on the English Comic Writers, Lectureson the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, TheSpirit of the AgeEssays:Table Talk, The Plan Speaker, Sketches and Essays Thomas De Quincey –The Confession of an English Opium-Eater, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth5-5 English fiction in the Romantic AgeWalter Scott –The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Marmion, The Lady of theLake, Waverley, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian,IvanhoeJane Austen –Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park,Persuasion, Northanger Abbey6 The Victorian Period6-1 Critical Realist novelists in Victorian AgeCharles Dickens – The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The OldCuriosity Shop, American Notes, A Christmas Carol,Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, HardTimes, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, GreatExpectations, Our Mutual FriendWilliam Makepeace Thackeray – The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair, The Newcomes,The VirginiansCharlotte Bronte – Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, VilletteEmily Bronte – Wuthering HeightsAnne Bronte – Agnes Grey, The Tenant of the Wildfell HallMrs. Gaskell – Life of Charlotte Bronte, Mary BartonGeorge Eliot – Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner Thomas Hardy –Under the Greenwood Tree, The Return of the Native, TheMayor of Casterbridge, Tess of D’Urbervilles, Jude theObscure, Far from the Madding Growd6-2 Victorian poetryAlfred Tennyson –In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Break, Break, Break,Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, Poems by Two Brothers, ThePrincessRobert Browning –Men and Women, My Last Duchess, Parting at Morning,Meeting at NightMatthew Arnold –On Translating Homer, Dover Beach, Essays in Criticism,Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma7 The Modern Period7-1 novelistsJohn Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, The Indian Summerof a Forsyte (interlude), In Chancery, Awakening(interlude), To LetA Modern Comedy: The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon,Swan SongKatherine Mansfield – In a German Pension, Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’sNest, Something Childish, Life of Ma Parker7-2 playwrightsOscar Wilde –An Ideal Husband, The Important of Being Earnest, The Picture ofDorain Gray, A Women of No Importance, LadyWindermere’s Fan, The Happy Prince and Other T ales Bernard Shaw –Widower’s Houses, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man andSuperman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Pygmalion John James Osborne – Look Back in AngerSamuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot7-3 poetsW. B. Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, The Second Coming, TheCountess Cathleen, The Land of Heart’s Desire, TheTower, Down by the Sally GardensT. S. Eliot –The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land,Hollow Man, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, SweeneyAmong the Nightingales, Murder in the Cathedral, TheCocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, The Sacred Wood,Essays on Style and Order, After Strange Gods7-4 the psychological fictionsD. H. Lawrence –Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, LadyChatterley’s Lover, The White Peapock, The Daughter ofthe Vicar, The Horse Dealer’s DaughterJames Joyce –Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses,Finnegans Wake, AradyVirginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando。

专八考试英国文学复习资料（整理）专八考试英国文学复习资料（按时间顺序）整理一The Anglo-Saxon period(449-1066)1代表作：The Song of Beowulf贝奥武夫（民族史诗national epic）采用了隐喻手法2写作手法：押头韵例子：to his kin the kindest ,kennest for praise二The Anglo-Norman period(1066-1350)1 Canto 诗章romance传奇文学（romance was a prevaliling form of literature in the medieval period）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Geffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)杰弗里.乔叟时期1 he is the father of English poetry 他是英国诗歌之父2 heroic couplet 英雄体对句Pentameter 五步抑扬格3代表作：the Canterbury tales 坎特伯雷故事集（英国文学史的开端）、小说特点：each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner ,thus revealing his own views and charactors.小说观点：he believes in the right of man to earthly happiness.he is anxious to see man freed from superstitons and a blind belief in fate.4大众民谣popular ballads:a story hold in 4-lines stanzas with second and foruth line rhymed.ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission.代表人物：Bishot Thomas Percy 托马斯.帕西主教Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 罗宾汉和阿林戴尔四Renaissance(16世纪)文艺复兴时期DramaCanto1 key words:humanism人文主义：admire the bueaty and huamn achievement2 代表人物：1）Thomas More 托马斯.莫尔Utopia 乌托邦2）Francis Bacon 佛朗西斯.培根，他是第一个散文家，“the trumpeter of a new age”(his essaies invlve bueaty,love and studies)3)Thomas Wyatt 托马斯.怀亚特，他是引入十四行诗的第一人（另外写十四行诗的还有Henry Howard ,Sidney,Spenser）4)John Lyly 约翰.黎里Eupheus夸饰文体5)Edmund Spenser 埃蒙德.斯宾塞被称作诗人中的诗人poet’s poet，代表作有the fairy queen仙后，The Shepherd’s Calendar 牧羊人日志。

专八人文常识辅导材料（英国文学）British Literature: A Concise HistoryI. Review (P.162) 补充091. Ode to the West Wind was written by _____. (2009) A. William Blake.B. William Wordsworth.C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. Percy B. Shelley.2. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by __. (2009) A. Thomas Hardy.B. John Galsworthy.C.D.H. Lawrence. D. James Joyce.3. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2008)A. William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. Alfred Tennyson4. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______. (2008) A. George Eliot B. Iris Jean Murdoch C. Dons Lessing D. Muriel Spark5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007)A. Oliver TwistB. MiddlemarchC. Jane EyreD. Wuthering Heights6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ____ poet and1playwright. (2007)A. AmericanB. CanadianC. IrishD. Australian7. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? (2006)A. T.S. EliotB. D. H. LawrenceC. Theodore DreiserD. James Joyce8. _____is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines. (2006) A. Free verse B. Sonnet C. Ode D. Epigram 9. Thenovel Emma is written by____. (2005) A. Mary Shelly B. Charlotte BronteC. Elizabeth GaskellD. Jane Austen10. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet? (2005)A. William WordsworthB. George EliotC. George ByronD. Percy Shelly II. Historical Periods (P. 10)1. Old and Medieval Times: 5th-15ththth2. The Period of Renaissance: late 15-early 17th3. The Period of Revolution and Restoration: 17th4. The Neo-classical Period: 18 (Enlightenment)5. The Romantic Period: at the turn of the 18th and 19thth6. The Victorian Period: 19th7. The Modern Period: 202III. Key Figures 1. Geoffrey Chaucer2. William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe3. John Milton, John Dryden4. Richard Sheridan, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe5. William Wordsworth, George Byron, P.B Shelly, John Keats, Jane Austen6. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde7. G.B. Shaw, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, William Yeats, T.S. EliotIV. Sample1. It is________alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. Charles Dickens2. _______ is called “the poets’ poet” whose masterpiece is _________.3A. Edmund Spencer, The Faerie QueeneB. William Wordsworth, The PreludeC. George Byron, Don JuanD. John Milton, Paradise Lost3. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of . A. elegy B. ode C. epic D. sonnet4. ________ embodies both Puritanism and Humanism in mid-17th century England.A. John BunyanB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. John Donne5. Who is NOT the major figure of modernist movement?A. T.S. EliotB. James JoyceC. William YeatsD. George Eliot6. Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A. Oscar WildeB. Richard SheridanC. Christopher MarloweD. George Bernard Shaw7. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?4A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SouthyC. William WordsworthD. William Yeats8. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. the country of HouyhnhnmsD. Laputa9. Which of the following works is NOT written by G.B. Shaw?A. PygmalionB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Heartbreak HouseD. The Old Curiosity Shop10. “The Vanity Fair” is a well-known part in ______. A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War11. Which of the following writing is NOT a work byCharles Dickens?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Hard TimesC. Oliver TwistD. Sons and Lovers12. Who is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”? A. John Keats B. William Blake5。

3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。

the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。

"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。

gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。

the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。

lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。

第一阶段:中古英国文学(8世纪——14世纪1. Which of the following does not belong to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. The Vision of Piers PlowmanC. Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose2. “_____” brings the readers into a world that be longs to the Celtic legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round T able.A. The Vision of Piers PlowmanB. The House of FameC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight3. Which of the following is the translation work of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. Troilus and CriseydeC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. The House of Fame4. In the 14th century, the most important writer is _____.A. LanglandB. WyclifC. GowerD. Chaucer5. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” rep resented the _____ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental6. When we speak of the old English prose, we might think of _____, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning.A. William ShakespeareB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. Venerable Bede7. _____ is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.A. Alfred the GreatB. Venerable BedeC. Adam BedeD. king Arthur8. _____ is the culmination of the Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Story of BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury T ales9. William Langland’s “_____” is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kublai KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur10. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the _____.A. FrenchB. LatinC. RomanceD. Science11. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury T ales written?A. FourteenthB. FifteenthC. SixteenthD. Seventeenth12. William Langland wrote for _____.A. the royal familyB. the courtC. the monksD. the common people13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on _____.A. immediate social issuesB. the real life as well as people’s feelings and desiresC. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knightsD. the imagination of the future world14. King Alfred’s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in _____ form.A. poeticB. dramaticC. proseD. none of the above【答案及题解】1. B The Vision of Piers Plowman 是作家威廉·兰格伦的作品。