英语文学导论2

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The Metaphysical poetry features _______.
_______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.
Which of the following does NOT describe metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne's works?
Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British ______ also grew very rapidly.
The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate ______.
Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought ______ to its last perfection.
In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _______.
The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______?
_____ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
The mid-18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form— _____, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.
In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a（n） ______ the old classical works. The tendency is known as neoclassicism.
In the last few decades of the 18th century, the neoclassical emphasis upon reason, intellect, wit and form was rebelled against and challenged by the ______ , and was gradually replaced by ______.
Fielding has been regarded as ______ for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the ______.
Unlike Defoe in Robinson Crusoe, Fielding did not tell the story in his works through the mouth of the principal character but adopted “______ ,” in which the author becomes the ______.
In the following writings by Henry Fielding, which one brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”?
Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?
The most powerful and the most permanent of William Blake’s works are his Songs of Innocence and ______.
Gray's masterpiece, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.
In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Gray reflected on on ______, ______ and ______ with a touch of his personal melancholy.
The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ toward the existing social & political conditions that came with industrialization and the growing importance of bourgeoisie.
______ and ______ collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798 and marking the beginning of the Romantic period of English literature.
The Romantic period is an age of ______.
Where their predecessors saw man as a social animal, the Romantics saw him essentially as an______ in the ______ state & emphasized the special qualities of each individual's mind.
Wordsworth thinks that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.
_______ is regarded as a worshipper of nature.
William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey chose to live ______ so as to escape from the “madding crowd”, while Byron and Shelly rejected the entire English society by ______.
On the whole, Byron’s poetry is one of experience. His heroes are more or less ______.
Don Juan is Byron's masterpiece, a great satirical epic of the early 19th century. It is a poem based on a traditional ______ of a great lover & seducer of women.
As a leading Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the "Byronic hero," a proud & mysterious ______.
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line from ______.
In Keats’ works, ______ shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion.
The _______ are generally regarded as Keats's most important & mature works.
Walter Scott’s chief contribution to literature lies in his writing of _______.
Choose the work that was not written by Jane Austen ______.
In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a ______ tone and sarcastic humor.
English literature of the Revolution Period witnessed a conflict between the two antagonistic camps.
The Revolution Period is also called Puritan Age. In this period literary works show much romantic ardour.
Cavalier Poets mostly wrote about the flitting joys of life and expressed the spirit of pessimism.
In Milton’s life and literary career the two dominant historical movements: Renaissance and Reformation combine and receive their most intense and intelligent expression.
Many critics have noted that in Paradise Lost the picture of God surrounded by his angels resembles the court of an absolute monarch, while Satan and his followers bear close resemblance to a parliament.
Samson’s miserable blind servitude among his enemies, his agonising longing for sight and freedom, and the last terrible triumph are all allusions to Satan’s story.
Since its first appearance, The Pilgrim's Progress has been the most widely read book and one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing that have appeared in English.
In The Pilgrim's Progress, the figures and places which the hero meets with on his journey stand for the various experiences that every Christian must go through in his quest for salvation.
John Milton is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.
Restoration literature is characterized by a cliquish culture centering on the court and deeply influenced by Elizabeth literature.
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