英国⽂学史及作品选读习题集（5）
5 English Literature in the Romantic Period
Ⅰ. Essay questions.
1. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage the middle-class people had in the cond half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards the motivations.
入不敷出意思2. What are the general features of English Romanticism
3. Tell the story of Pride and Prejudice and make a comment on it.
4. Make a comment on Wordsworth concerning his contribution to poetry.
5. Irony abounds in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Plea illustrate it with reference to some examples.
6. Make a general comment on Walter Scott.’
Ⅱ. Define the following terms.
1. Romanticism
2. Ode
3. Byronic hero
4. Ottava rima
5. Terza rima
6. Irony
7. Lyric
8. Motif
9. Theme
10. Symbol
11. Imagery
12. Foil
13. Synaesthesia
14. Character
15. Flat character
16. Round character
17. Negative capacity
Ⅲ Fill in the blanks.
1. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when ______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died.
2. In the Preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of __________, Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition.
3. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists, _________ and ______.
敢的成语4. _____, ________, and_________ are referred to as the “Lake Poets” becau they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.
5. In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled__________.
6. Scott’s historical novels depicted Scotland, England, and the Continent covering a period ranging from _______ up to, and including, _______.
7. _______ mourned for _______’s premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, w riting “He is made one with Nature.”
8. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by contains four cantos in the_______ stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcc, in which the first eight lines are in iambic pentameter while the ninth in iambic hexameter,
9. _______ is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creative
power. He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abus of the prent state of society.”
辛弃疾号10. The great novelist in the Romantic period_______ marked the transition from Romanticism to the period of Realism which followed it.
11. The plot of Shelley’s lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound is borrowed from _______, a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
12. In “To Autumn”, Keats writes,” Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Cli bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; / …” The figure of speech ud in the lines is _______.
13. “Ode to a Nightingale” express the contrast be tween _______ and _______.
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14. The unifying principle in Don Juan is the basic ironic theme of _______, ., what things em to be and what they actually are.
15. Byron employed _______ from Italian mock-heroic poetry. His first experiment was made in Beppo. It was perfected in Don Juan in which the convention flows with ea and naturalness.
was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” after his death. 17. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially to his_______.
18. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English _______against the neoclassical _______, which prevailed from the days of pope to tho of Johnson.
19. _______ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works.
20. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between _______and
21. Among the Romantic figures, _______has a fundamental conviction of the health of the social system, of its ability to reform itlf, and of the assurance of social well-being and the likelihood of a reasonable personal happiness.
22. Scott is considered “the father of _______” which open(s) up to fiction the rich and lively realm of history.
23. Two prevailing themes of Pride and Prejudice are _______ and _______.
24. _______ was compod in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium.
25. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in_______,
26. _______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
27. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”, “My Heart Leaps up” and “Tintern Abbey” are all masterpieces on _______.
28. The main idea running through the dramatic poem Prometheus Unbound
is that of _______.
29. _______, with a triumphant prai of the imagination, highly exalts the role of poetry, thinking that poetry alone could free man and offer the mind a wider view of its powers. He holds that poetry “is a more direct reprentation of the actions and passions of our internal being”.
30. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. The major Romantic poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,
Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as _______.
31. _______ and _______ gave great impetus to the ri of the Romantic
32. _______ is a great critic of the romantic period on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry. He is also a mar of the familiar essays.
33. With _______, the essay is no longer chiefly a mode of intellectual inquiry and moral address. Rather, the essay becomes a medium for a delightful literary treatment of life’s small pleasures and reassurances.
Ⅳ. Choo the best answer
1. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______.
儿童多动症的表现A. Kohn Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT _______.
A. Normal contemporary speech patterns
B. Humble and rustic life as subject matter
C. Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D. Intenly subjective feeling toward individual experience
3. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice “_______.
A. Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
B. Vividly describes a building of poor quality
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C. Is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
D. Symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious
4. _______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
D. Wordsworth
5. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind” is taken from _______.
A. The Solitary Reaper
B. Ode to the West Wind
C. To Autumn
D. Song to the Man of England
6. _______is NOT among the reprentative essayists in the romantic times.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Hazlitt
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Walter Scott
7. In_______, _______t forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.
A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A Defence of Poetry”; Shelley
D. “Lectures on the English Poets”; Hazlitt
8. _______is NOT a lyric written by Wordsworth.
A. My Heart Leaps Up
人体油画大全B. Intimations of Immortality
C. Love’s Philosophy
D. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
9. All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Don Juan
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