英国文学第五六章
Part Five
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."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two
lines are found in_____.
A.Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B.Ode to the West Wind by Shelly
C.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D.Ulysses by Joyce
4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
C. Christabel
D. Biographia Literaria
5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Hours of Idleness
C. Lara
D. Don Juan
6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A. Wordsworth’s
B. Byron’s
C. Shelley’s
D. Keats’
7.____ lived the longest life.
A. Wordsworth
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
8._____defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,which originates in
emotion recollected in tranquility.”
A.William Blake
B.William Wordsworth
C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.John Keats
9.Keats’best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn”
B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche”
D. “To a Nightingale”
10.For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the
dominant subject matter.
A.love
B.man
C.nature
D.death
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.Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups:poems about nature and poems
about________.
A.love
B.human life
C.freedom
D.social activities
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.“Don Juan” is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ______of the early 19th century.
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B.tragedy
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D.novel
18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A.Jane Austen
B. Charles Lamb
C. William Hazlitt
D. Waler Scott
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2c5885106.html,mb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.
A. romanticism
B. conversations
C. inspirations
D. archaisms
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2c5885106.html,mb is a romanticist of ______.
A. the city
B. the countryside
C. nature
D. imagination
21.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first
B. the second
C. the third
D. the forth
22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and
Wordsworth in the history English literature.
A. Keats
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. William
23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from
_____.
A. Dun Juan
B. The Prelude
C. Kubla Khan
D. Isabella
24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.
A. individual heroism and pessimism
B. love of nature and optimism
C. love of old writers
D. hatred for the imperialism
25.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi; Eton
B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy
C. Queen Mab; Greece
D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy
26.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A. Zastrozzi
B. The Necessity of Atheism
C. Queen Mab
D. Prometheus Unbound
27._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. John Woodvil
B.Essays of Elia
C. Mr H
D. Tales from Shakespeare
28.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
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.
2.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.
3.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.
4.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.
5.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____.
6.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.
7.______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.
8.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ in England.
9.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.
10.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century.
11.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______.
12.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.
13.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published their joint work _______.
14.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer _______ died.
15.The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age.
16.____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.
17.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.
18.At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trend in literature.
19.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.
20.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.
21._____ 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.
22.____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.”
23.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece..
24.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.
25.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage, the other is ____.
26.George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______. .
27.____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the pamphlet The
Necessity of Atheism.
28.____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written in the form of a
fairy tale dream.
29._____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The story was taken from
Greek mythology.
30.Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.
31.Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.
32.The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible) vehicle for
expressing the writer’s own personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.
33.____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wasted two-thirds of his
lifetime.
34.To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little time for his
literary work.
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century.
2.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .
3.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent and rebellious
attitude.
4.Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.
5.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.
6.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature.
7.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.
8.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
9.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s masterpiece.
10.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.
11.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second generation.
12.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.
13.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology.
14.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the
English language.
15.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.
16.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive movements of
his age.
17.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.
18.Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2c5885106.html,mb’s essays are intensely personal.
20.Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range of subject
matter.
21.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.
Part Six English Critical Realism
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.
A. Jane Austen
B. Thackeray
C. Dickens
D. Charlotte
2.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. The Book of Snobs
C. The Pickwick Papers
D. The Song of Lower Class
3.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.
A. First Impression
B. A Book Without a Hero
C. The Newcomes
D. Persuasion
4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.
A. First Impression
B. A Book Without a Hero
C. The Newcomes
D. Persuasion
5.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it
flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. romanticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
6.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .
A. novel
B. drama
C. poetry
D. sonnet
7.______’s V anity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.
A. George Eliot
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. W. M. Thackeray
D. John Buyan
8.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Chartist
D. Romanticist
9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the _____ for
its rights.
A. soldiers
B. peasants
C. bourgeoisie
D. proletariat
10._____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical
plot of his maturer works.
A. David Copperfield
B. Dombey and Son
C. Little Dorrit
D. The Chimes
11.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
12._____ has been call ed “the supreme epic of English life”.
A. Nicholas Nickleby
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Hard Times
D. The Pickwick Papers
13.The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent, and
his granddaughter, Nell.
A. Pickwick Papers
B. The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Great Expectations
D. Hard Times
14.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?
A. Oliver Twist
B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations
D. A Tale of Two Cities
15.D ickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.
A. Paris
B. New York
C. London
D. Portsmoth
16._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.
A. Great Expectations
B. David Copperfield
C. Bleak House
D. The Pickwick Papers
17.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.
A. Dombey and Son
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Bleak House
18.In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.
A. David Copperfield
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Bleak House
D. A Tale of Two Cities
19._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the
early life of the hero is largely based on the au thor’s early life.
A. The Curiosity Shop
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectations
20.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.
A. The Old Curiosity Shop
B. The Pickwick Paper
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Little Dorrit
21.Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?
A. The Virginians
B. The Books of Snobs
C. The Newcomes
D. V anity Fair
22.The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _____.
A. The First Impression
B. A Novel Without a Hero
C. The Spirit of the Age
D. The Daffodils
23.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Canterbury Tales
24.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Agnes Grey
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Emma
25.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.
A. optimism
B. excitement
C. irritation
D. pessimism
26.______is Dickens’ best of social satires.
A. American Notes
B. Martin Chuzzlewit
C. Dombey and Son
D. David Copperfield
27.Tennyson’s In Memoriam is a collection of ____ short poems.
A. 130
B. 131
C. 132
D. 133
28.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the
______.
A. Enlightenment Movement
B. Industrial Revolution
C. Chartist Movement
D. Romantic Movement
29._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.
A. Earnest Jones
B. Emily Brontё
C. Charlotte Brontё
D. Charles Dickens
30.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.
A. wide spread of critical realism
B. his spirit of democracy and humanism
C.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear language
D.including A, B and C
31.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.
A. London and New York
B. London and Paris
C. Paris and New York
D. Brussels and Washington
32.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.
A. essay
B. poetry
C. novel
D. drama
33.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
A. Rochester
B. Heathcliff
C. Manette
D. Martin
34.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.
A. familiar things
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C. neighbors
D. evils
35.The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.
A. Earnest Jones
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. Mr. Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
36.______ made Dickens famous overnight.
A. Sketches by Boz
B. The Pickwick Papers
C. Oliver Twist
D. The Old Curiosity Shop
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful _______.
2.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of _______.
3.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.
4.Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time—the education of ____ in
private schools.
5.David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, sense of ____
and artistic ______.
6.is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.
7.In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power.
8.____is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the
19th century London.
9.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’s works lies in his ______.
A.social criticism
B.optimism
C.
10.Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women,
particularly________.
11._____initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading
in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England.
2.Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused
the interests of the readers.
3.In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism.
4.The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the
society of the time.
5.Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学，道德学)
and on utilitarianism .
6.Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central theme.
7. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject.
8.The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”
9.Vanity Fair mainly describes the suffering and miseries of working people.
10.The most gifted writer among Bronte sisters is Charlotte.
11.Jane Eyre herself compared her work to a fine engraving make upon a little piece of ivory only tow
Inches square.
大三_英国文学史(绝对标准中文版)
英国文学源远流长，经历了长期、复杂的发展演变过程。在这个过程中，文学本体以外的各种现实的、历史的、政治的、文化的力量对文学发生着影响，文学内部遵循自身规律，历经盎格鲁-撒克逊、文艺复兴、新古典主义、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义等不同历史阶段。下面对英国文学的发展过程作一概述。 一、中世纪文学（约5世纪-1485） 英国最初的文学同其他国家最初的文学一样，不是书面的，而是口头的。故事与传说口头流传，并在讲述中不断得到加工、扩展，最后才有写本。公元5世纪中叶，盎格鲁、撒克逊、朱特三个日耳曼部落开始从丹麦以及现在的荷兰一带地区迁入不列颠。盎格鲁-撒克逊时代给我们留下的古英语文学作品中，最重要的一部是《贝奥武甫》（Beowulf），它被认为是英国的民族史诗。《贝奥武甫》讲述主人公贝尔武甫斩妖除魔、与火龙搏斗的故事，具有神话传奇色彩。这部作品取材于日耳曼民间传说，随盎格鲁-撒克逊人入侵传入今天的英国，现在我们所看到的诗是8世纪初由英格兰诗人写定的，当时，不列颠正处于从中世纪异教社会向以基督教文化为主导的新型社会过渡的时期。因此，《贝奥武甫》也反映了7、8世纪不列颠的生活风貌，呈现出新旧生活方式的混合，兼有氏族时期的英雄主义和封建时期的理想，体现了非基督教日耳曼文化和基督教文化两种不同的传统。 公元1066年，居住在法国北部的诺曼底人在威廉公爵率领下越过英吉利海峡，征服英格兰。诺曼底人占领英格兰后，封建等级制度得以加强和完备，法国文化占据主导地位，法语成为宫廷和上层贵族社会的语言。这一时期风行一时的文学形式是浪漫传奇，流传最广的是关于亚瑟王和圆桌骑士的故事。《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》（Sir Gawain and the Green Knight，1375-1400）以亚瑟王和他的骑士为题材，歌颂勇敢、忠贞、美德，是中古英语传奇最精美的作品之一。传奇文学专门描写高贵的骑士所经历的冒险生活和浪漫爱情，是英国封建社会发展到成熟阶段一种社会理想的体现。 14世纪以后，英国资本主义工商业发展较快，市民阶级兴起，英语逐渐恢复了它的声誉，社会各阶层普遍使用英语，为优秀英语文学作品的产生提供了条件。杰弗利·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer， 1343-1400）的出现标志着以本土文学为主流的英国书面文学历史的开始。《坎特伯雷故事》（The Canterbury Tales）以一群香客从伦敦出发去坎特伯雷朝圣为线索，通过对香客的生动描绘和他们沿途讲述的故事，勾勒出一幅中世纪英国社会千姿百态生活风貌的图画。乔叟首创英雄诗行，即五步抑扬格双韵体，对英诗韵律作出了很大贡献，被誉为"英国诗歌之父".乔叟的文笔精练优美，流畅自然，他的创作实践将英语提升到一个较高的文学水平，推动了英语作为英国统一的民族语言的进程。 二、文艺复兴时期文学（15世纪后期-17世纪初） 相对于欧洲其他国家来说，英国的文艺复兴起始较晚，通常认为是在15世纪末。文艺复兴时期形成的思想体系被称为人文主义，它主张以人为本，反对中世纪以神为中心的世界观，提倡积极进取、享受现世欢乐的生活理想。托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More， 1478-1535）是英国最主要的早期人文主义者，他的《乌托邦》（Utopia）批评了当时的英国和欧洲社会，设计了一个社会平等、财产公有、人们和谐相处的理想国。Utopia现已成为空想主义的代名词，但乌托邦是作者对当时社会状况进行严肃思考的结果。《乌托邦》开创了英国哲理幻想小说传统的先河，这一传统从培根的《新大西岛》（The New Atlantis）、斯威夫特的《格列佛游记》（Gulliver's Travels）、勃特勒的《埃瑞璜》（Erewhon）一直延续到20世纪
罗经国《新编英国文学选读》(第4版)教材-第7章 18世纪(1688～1798)【圣才出品】
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