Chapter 6 复习题答案

Chapter 6

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1.English Romanticism is generally defined to begin in 1798 with the publication of William

Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge’s _________________, and end in 1832 with ______________’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in Parliament. (Lyrical Ballads, Sir Walter Scott)

2.The Romanticists split into two groups because of the different attitudes toward the

capitalist society. Some romanticists reflected the thinking of those classes which had been ruined by the bourgeoisie. They returned to the feudal past and idealized the life of the Middle Ages to protest against capitalist development. They are considered to be conservative and passive romanticists who are represented by ____________, ____________, and ___________. (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey)

3.Other romanticists expressed the aspiration of the laboring classes. They held out an ideal of

future society free from oppression and exploitation. They were the firm supporters of the French Revolution, who are represented by ____________, ____________, and ____________. They are considered to be radical and active romanticists. (George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, John Keats)

4.Unlike enlighteners who celebrate reason and rationality, romanticists paid great attention

to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. They are characterized with 5 I’s: _________, _________, _________, _________, and _________. (imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, individuality)

5.“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling …recollected in

tranquility”is the poetry principle proclaimed by Wordsworth. It’s taken from _______________, the publishing of which marks the beginning of British Romanticism.

(Lyrical Ballads)

6.______________ is considered “the father of the historical novel”which opens up to

fiction the rich and lively realm of history. He is best known for his work___________. (Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe)

7.The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic

Period is _________. (poetry)

8.Romanticism declined in the mid ________ century. Romantic poetry gave way to

_________ works and romantic prose was superseded by ________ and ________ in the mid to late 19th century. (19th, symbolist, naturalism, realism )

9.Pre-romanticism and Romanticism originated among the conservative groups of men of

letters as a reaction against Enlightenment and found its most expression in the“Gothic novel”. But the more important pre-romanticist writers are the two famous poets, ____________and ___________. (William Blake, Robert Burns)

10.___________________is regarded as the founder and forerunner of pre-romanticism. His

works are reputed for its originality and inventiveness in form and techniques. (William Blake)