1. The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form of ___ conversational ___ style.
2. Steele’s appeal was made to the __ middle __classes.
3. The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ___ social reform ___.
4. ___ Character sketch __ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.
5. Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _ epistolary ____ novel.
6. Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays have become the striking features of the English ___ familiar essay __. 7. Essay on Criticism is a ___ didactic ___poem. 8. The Dunciad is ____ satirical __a poem.
9. English enlighteners believed in the __ power of reason ___.
10. English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by __ human intelligence __.
11. Blake attacks religious ___ persecution ___in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.
12. Burns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and __
lightheartedness ___.
13. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of __ manner
___, giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire of English high society.
14. Sameul Johnson’s ___ A Dictionary of English Language ___ also marked the
end of English writers’ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support.
15. Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first __ epistolary___novel in
English literature.
16. Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of ___ picaresque__ novel. His
humor is better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.
17. In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human __ labor ___. 18. Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of __ morality ___.
19. The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ___
symbolism ___.
20. Laurence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the
“knowledge of ___ Heart __.”
Key to the blanks: 1. conversational 11. persecution 2. middle 12. lightheartedness 3. social reform 13. manner 4. Character sketch 14. A Dictionary of English Language 5. epistolary 15. epistolary 6. familiar essay 16. picaresque 7. didactic 17. labor 8. satirical 18. morality 9. power of reason 19. symbolism 10. human intelligence 20. Heart
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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 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. 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 _______.
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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
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
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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 CBC Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “__ literature __” equaled “___ poetry __”. 2. William Wordsworth was influenced by the __ French ___ Revolution. 3. Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of __ nature __. 4. Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an __ autobiographical __ poem. 5. Writing The Prelude is a process of __ self-exploration __.
6. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an __ autobiographical __ poem.
7. Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in ___ politics __ and in ____ social
justice ____.
8. The theme of Keats’ Hyperion is the __ conflict __ between the old and the new. 9. Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for __ children ___.
10. ___ Lyrical Ballads ___ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge. 11. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the __
Romantic Movement ___ in England.
12. The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a ___ Sympathy __with the
poor, simple peasants, a passionate love of nature and the ___ simplicity __and __ purity _of the language.
13. The description of the book, ___ The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind ___
has been called a long journey home.
14. ___ Hazlitt __ 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_ liberty ___, __ equality
___ and ____ fraternity __.
16. Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the ___ late 18th __ to ___
mid-19th _ century.
17. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ___ classicism ___. 18. The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ___ enthusiasm ___ and ___ poetry
____.
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19. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge published their joint work ____ Lyrical Ballads ___.
20. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ____
Walter Scott ___ died.
21. Women as __ novelist __ 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 ___ Walter Scott ___was produced in the
Romantic Age.
23. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: __ Water Scott ___
and ___ Jane Austen __.
24. __ Charles Lamb __ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age. 25. Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is ___ The Prelude
____.
26. ___ Scott ___ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism
which followed it.
27. In 1817, ___ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ____ finished his literary criticism,
Biographia Literaria.
28. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century ___ romanticism __ 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 ___ romanticists __ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.
30. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the __ simplicity ___ of his language. 31. Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a
___ fairy tale dream __.
32. __ Shelley ___ 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, __ John Keats ___ gave up
medicine for poetry.
34. __ John Keats __’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 __ Spenserian Stanza ____. 36. The theme of __ Hyperion __ 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 ___ Essais __, 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 ___ Coleridge _ ’s
masterpiece. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
39. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, __ Wordsworth __ was made poet
laureate.
40. In 1805, Wordsworth completed ___ The Prelude ___, containing all together 14
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