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 satire and______.
20. Laurence 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 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 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 Young 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 all 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.
11. persecution 12. lightheartedness 13. manner
14. A Dictionary of English Language 15. epistolary 16. picaresque 17. labor 18. morality 19. symbolism 20. Heart
18
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 expressed 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) 15. F(Scottish) 16. T 17. T 18. T 19. F(Burns’s)
20. F(Percy,Macpherson and Chatterton;Burns and Blake) Ⅴ.Questions
1. Comment on the English classicists in the 18th century. 2. Comment 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
19
6. 7. 8.
Prometheus Unbound is____masterpiece. A.Wordsworth’s B.Byron’s C.Shelley’s D.Keats’ ____lived the longest life.
A.Wordsworth B.Byron C.Shelley D.Keats 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_____.
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 19. Lamb’s writings are full of______for he is especially fond of old writers.
A.romanticism B.conversations C.inspirations D.archaisms 20. Lamb 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
22
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 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 CBCⅡ.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.
23
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_______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 romantic 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
24
百度搜索“77cn”或“免费范文网”即可找到本站免费阅读全部范文。收藏本站方便下次阅读，免费范文网，提供经典小说综合文库英国文学史习题全集（含答案）(4)在线全文阅读。
相关推荐：