英国文学启蒙时期

Part 5: The Age of Enlightenment in England

I.Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word:

1.The________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the

18th century.

2.There appear two groups of English enlighteners, one is the Moderate Group, and the

other is __________.

3.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ___________. What the writers

described were mainly social realities.

4.__________ writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the

novels were no longer kings and nobles but the common people.

5.Generally speaking, English literature of the 18th century may be divided into three

periods. 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 “Poet

Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” is of great significance.

7.________ was the most remarkable satirist in the 18th century who criticized the new

bourgeois-aristocratic society of his age without mercy.

8.________ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Y oung

and 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 most

important representative poets are William Blake and Robert Burns.

10.The enlighteners believed that reason should be the only basis of one’s thinking and

action. That is why the 18th century in England has been called _________.

11.In writing plays, the neo-classical writers used __________ instead of blank verse. They

observed 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 of

neo-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 philosophical

view 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 the

classic school in English poetry and prose.

17.“The Tatler” and “_________” were Steele and Addison’s chief contribution to English

literature.

18.In 1711, Addison collaborated with ___________ to create a literary periodical called

“The Spectator”.