英国文学材料

Fill in the following blanks.

1. Caedmon is the first important religious poet in English literature. He was called ___. He wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible.

2. The first important religious poet in English literature who was called the father of English song is ___.

3. Beowulf is an epic of _____ lines, and it tells the events that took place on the continent before they moved to the British Isles.

4. The epic, Beowulf, tells the events that took place on ______ before they moved to the British Isles.

5. After the Norman Conquest, politically, a _____ system and a centralized government was established in England.

6. In 1066, William, the energetic Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons and became the King of England. He is called King William I _____.

7. John Wyclif was a translator of ______.

8. Romance was written for the _____ class, so it had nothing to do with the common people. It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealized the virtues.

9. Henry Ⅷbroke away from the Roman Catholic Church and established _____.

10. _____ broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and established _____.

11. _____ was the first to introduce Italian sonnets into England.

12. John Lily was famous for his prose romance _____, in which he established a kind of redundant, pompous and flowery style.

13. _____ is considered an outstanding literary critic for the essay A Defence of Poesy.

14. In Elizabethan Period, _____ wrote more than 50 excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.

15. Christopher Marlowe used ____ to write his plays and 3 of his important plays are Tamberlaine, the Great, The Jew of Malta and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.

16. Ben Johnson's comedies are a special kind, named _____, and he was made ____ in 1616.

17. ____ is both a dramatist and a good critic. His most successful comedies are V olpone and The Alchemist.

18. _____, ______, Macbeth and Othello are generally regarded as Shakespeare's 4 great tragedies.

19 The Shakespearean sonnet rhymes _____, and the last _____ lines are used as a conclusion to sum up the message of the poem.

20. The 17th century was one of the most tempestuous periods in English history. Conflicts and clashes appeared between the ____ and the ____, which represented the bourgeois class.

21. In 1642, a civil war broke out between ____ and the ____. At last the royalists were defeated by the parliament army led by Oliver Cromwell.

22. The main literary stream of the 18th century was____. What the writers described were mainly social realities.

23. Pope wrote a poem about literary principles in the form of _____, which is