英国文学启蒙时期

Part 5: The Age of Enlightenment in EnglandI.Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word:1.The________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the18th century.2.There appear two groups of English enlighteners, one is the Moderate Group, and theother is __________.3.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ___________. What the writersdescribed were mainly social realities.4.__________ writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in thenovels were no longer kings and nobles but the common people.5.Generally speaking, English literature of the 18th century may be divided into threeperiods. The first was characterized by the neo-classicism, of which ________ was the representative poet.6.________ is un doubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His “PoetChiefly in the Scottish Dialect” is of great significance.7.________ was the most remarkable satirist in the 18th century who criticized the newbourgeois-aristocratic society of his age without mercy.8.________ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Y oungand Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.9.In the 18th century, __________ found its expression chiefly in poetry. The mostimportant representative poets are William Blake and Robert Burns.10.The enlighteners believed that reason should be the only basis of one’s thinking andaction. That is why the 18th century in England has been called _________.11.In writing plays, the neo-classical writers used __________ instead of blank verse. Theyobserved the three unities of time, place and action.12.Pope’s “__________” was a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism.13.The literary form of neo-classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre ofneo-classical literature is __________ which consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.14.“__________” is Pope’s poem which indicates the poet’s political and philosophicalview point. It deals with man’s relation to the universe, to s ociety, to himself and to happiness.15.As a poet, Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems,“____________” and “The Songs of Experience”.16.In the middle decades of the 18th century, _____________ became the leader of theclassic school in English poetry and prose.17.“The Tatler” and “_________” were Steele and Addison’s chief contribution to Englishliterature.18.In 1711, Addison collaborated with ___________ to create a literary periodical called“The Spectator”.19.Samuel Johnson compiled the “__________” which became the foundation of all thesubsequent English dictionaries.20.“Lives of the Poets” was one of ___________’s main works, which consists of some ofthe best known pictures of early English poets.21.James Boswell was a member of Johnson's literary club. He has been known for hisbiography of Johnson entitled ___________.22.James Thomson has been regarded as the forerunner of the Romantic Movement. Hischief fame rests upon the poem called “_________”.23.Today Edward Y oung is chiefly remembered for his major work “___________”, whichis a didactic poem of about ten thousand lines of blank verse in nine books.24.Thomas Gray’s high-prais ed poem “___________” shows the poets sympathy for th poorand bring sufferings to the common people.25.___________ wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for hismotherland, such as “My Heart’s in the Highlands”.26.The 18th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups, one beingthe Sentimental Novelists and the other the ____________ Novelists.27.Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece is “___________”28.Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece is “___________”.29.In the first part of “Robinson Crusoe”, the hero saved a savage and named him ______.30.In the first part of “Gulliver’s Travels, the hero Gulliver is cast upon the shore of theisland of _________.31.Henry Fielding’s masterpiece is ___________.32.____________ ranks among the greatest satirists of England, and of the world. “AModest Proposal is one of his satirical works.33.“_________” was Richardson’s first novel. It is also the first epistolary novel in Englishliterature.34.__________ was the most important playwright of the 18th century.35.“__________” is R.B. Sheridan’s masterpiece which has been known as a great comedyof manners.36.“Pamela” is the first ___________ novel in English literature.II.Answer the following questions:1.What are the characteristics of Romanticism?2.What is sentimentalism?3.What are the features of Robert Burns’s poetry?4.Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.5.How much do you know about English enlightenemt?。