北京师范大学2003年英美文学
(25 points)
1. The period of Old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066, during which Old English poets produced the national epic poem of the Anglo-Saxons - _____, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.
2. Dr. Faustus is the greatest of _______’s plays, the pioneer of English drama.
3. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of _____.
4. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote ______, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men”.
5. While the neoclassical period witnessed the flourish of English poetry by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, the mid-century was predominated by a newly rising literary form – the modern English novel, which gives a realistic presentation of life the common English people. Among the pioneers were ______, _______.
6. The ______ period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets who started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature. _______ and _____ collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798.
7. “Ode on an Grecian Urn” by John Keats shows the contrast between the ________ of art and the _______ of human passion.
8. During the Victorian period new scientific discoveries increased people’s religious doubts and anxieties. In his long poem ______, Tennyson recorded his own experience of religious uncertainties before the falling faith in god.
9. _____’s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates. His best colored works are his later ones, such as ________.
10. Oscar Wilde was the representative of the _____ movement, which appeared on the literary scene of England in the late Victorian period.
11. The first three decades of last century were golden years of the modernist novel. With the notion that multiple levels of consciousness existed simultaneously in the human mind, writers concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness. They had created unprecedented _______ novels such as Ulysses by _____ and Mrs. Dalloway by ______.
12. In his famous essay, “Tradition and Individual Talent”, _______ put great emphasis on the importance of ______ both in creative writing and in criticism.
13. Like Ibsen, _______was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play _____ was put on and turned out a success.
14. _____ which contains stories like “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was a great success and won ________ a measure of international fame on both sides of the Atlantic.
15. Emerson’s leading role has made the _______ of which he was spokesman central. It was one of many movements in the air at a point when sect and schisms, religious and philosophical tendencies, stirred New England life and spread abroad to the nation.
16. _____ had long been a highly controversial figure in American Renaissance, whose poetic theories are best expressed in The Philosophy of Composition and The Poetic Principle.
17. Greatly influenced by Hawthorne’s black vision regarding the evil of human beings, _____ produced the first American prose epic - ______ which appears to be a whaling tale or sea adventure.
18. The three dominant figures of the Age of Realism are William Dean Howells, ______, and ______, who differed in their understanding of the “truth”. While ______ and Howells shared the same concern in presenting the truth of the American society, ______ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on “the inner world” of man. |