17世纪英国文学作业

The Period of English Revolution

I.Choose the right answer.

1. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the

later democratic revolutionary struggles.

A. L’Allegro

B. Comus

C. Il Penseroso

D. Areropagitica

2. ____’s poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the

later sacred verses.

A. John Milton

B. John Bunyan

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

3. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. John Milton

D. John Bunyan

4. _____ is the leading revolutionary poet in the 17th English literature.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. George Herbert

C. John Milton

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

II. Fill in the blanks.

1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most

important place.

2.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of

London at the time of Restoration.

3._____ is the most excellent representative of English neo-classicism in the 18th

century.

4.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.

5.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.

6.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.

7.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by

_____in content and fantasticality in form.

8.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.

9.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n)_____

1.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the

country.

2.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.

3.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English

literature, William Shakespeare.

4.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.

5.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as

Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.

6.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His

Deceased Wife.

7.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroic couplets.

8.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to

advocate submission to the Almighty.

9.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his

angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.