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1.In Anglo-Saxon period,”Beowulf” reprented the pagan poetry.
2.Alfred the Great is not only a pro writer but also a king of Wesx.
3.Chaucer was the author of The Canterbury Tales in the fourteenth century.
4.William Langland’s Piers Plowman is written in the form of a dream vision.
yobo5.Renaissance means rebirth or revival. It is an age of poetry and drama.
6.The nine-line ver stanza was originated from Edmund Spenr.
7.The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revid in 16th century.
8.Thomas More wrote Utopia in Latin.
9.Christopher Marlow’s first famous play is Tamburlaine(帖木儿大帝).
10.Shakespeare wrote four tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. In the book
Macbeth, the hero expos the corruption of vicious ambition. His comedies include: The Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, ect. In The Merchant of V enice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock becau his ship had all been lost. The play of Henry IV is Shakespeare’s history play.
badlands11.John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is from this novel. By
making the truth-eking pilgrims suffer at the hands of people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious percution of his time. The pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
12.The literary form of The Faerie Queen is allegorical form
13.Francis Bacon is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in
England. The following are his famous quotation: Knowledge is power; Studies rve for
delight, for ornament and for ability; Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
cheap的反义词14.John Milton wrote Paradi Lost, Paradi Regained, and Samson Agonists.
15.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the Romance.
16.Thomas Gray is the leading figure of The Graveyard School.
17.Daniel Defoe authored Robinson Crusoe.
18.Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub. A Tale of a Tub
is one of Swift’s masterpieces. It is a satire on corruption in religion and learning.
19.Pope’s poem “Essay on Criticism” once said “To err is human; to forgive, divine. A little
learning is a dangerous thing.”
20.Samuel Johnson’s monumental success is The Dictionary of the English Language. Lord
Chesterfield is best remembered as the recipient of Johnson’s famous letter.
21.Richard Sheridan wrote the School for Scandals and he is the dramatist during the
Neoclassical Period and of the 18th century in England.
22.In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called Romanticism came to Europe and
then to England.
英文字母排列顺序23.The famous poem” A Red, Red Ro” was written by Burns.
24.William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Southey are Lake Poets.
25.William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge wrote The Lyrical Ballads that started English
Romanticism. Wordsworth believes the spontaneous overflow of human feelings.
26.George Bryon wrote Don Juan;
27.Percy Shelley wrote Ode to the West; “Prometheus Unbound” was written by Shelley.
28.John Keats wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale. Keats believes beauty is
申宝拉truth; truth is beauty.
29.In the 19th century English literature, a new trend Critical realism appeared and it flourished in
the forties and in the early fifties.瑞思国际
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30.Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak Hou,
Hard Times, Great Expectation, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friends, ect. A Tale of Two Cities took the French revolution as its background..
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31.The Bronte Sisters refer to Charlotte Bronte who wrote Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte who wrote
Wuthering Heights; Anne Bronte who wrote Agnes Grey.
32.Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice; Sen and Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion.
33.George Eliot, the pioneering woman, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that
“started putting all the actions inside.” She wrote a novel named The Mill on the Floss.
34.A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral
critics, exposing all kinds of social evils.deko
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35.William Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. Thackeray’s topics were
mostly dealing with the middle and upper-class life.
36.Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, The mayor of
Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure, ect. Hardy was the last novelist of the great Victorian novelists.
