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Part Five Romanticism in England

Ⅰ。 Choose the right answer。

1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______。

A。 realism B。 Renaissance C. Enlightenment D。 feudalism

2. The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry B. novels C。 prose D. periodicals

3. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”。

A。 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”

C。 “Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud\"4. Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem。

A. Frost at Midnight B。 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” C。 Christabel D. Biographia Literaria

5. Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B。 Hours of Idleness C。 Lara D. Don Juan

6. Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A。 Wordsworth's B. Byron's C。 Shelley’s D。 Keats’

7. ____ lived the longest life。

A。 Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats

8. Keats’ first poem is ____.

A. O Solitude B。 On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer C。 Poems D. Endymion

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9. Keats' best ode is ____。

A. “On a Grecian Urn\" B。 “To Autumn” C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale”

10. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.

A. The Spirit of the Age B。 Table Talk

C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D。 On the English Poets

11. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in

England.

A. “Tintern Abbey” B。 Lyrical Ballads C。 Frost at Night D。 “The Daffodils”

12. The Prelude has also been called _____.

A. The Last Brazil B。 The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age

13. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______。

A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils” C。 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude”

14. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece。

A. The Prelude B。 Endymion C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria

15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism B. familiar essay

C。 rules of neo—romanticism D. ways of modernism

16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

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A. Keats B。 Walter Scott C。 Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt

17. The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice B。 the writer’s own personalities C。 love and marriage D。 Both A and C

18. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age。

A. Jane Austen B。 Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D。 Waler Scott 19. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers。

A。 romanticism B. conversations C。 inspirations D. archaisms

20. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city B。 the countryside C。 nature D。 imagination

21. _____ is based on Boccaccio's Decameron。

A. Endymion B。 Isabella D。 Hyperion D. Lamia

22. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare， Milton

and Wordsworth in the history English literature.

A。 Keats B。 Wordsworth C。 Coleridge D。 William

23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age

from _____.

A。 Dun Juan B。 The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D。 Isabella

24. Some critics think that some of Byron's poems show his _____。

A。 individual heroism and pessimism B。 love of nature and optimism C。 love of old writers D。 hatred for the imperialism

25. One of Coleridge's best “conventional” poems is _____.

A。 Kubla Khan B。 Frost at Night

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C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria

26. Coleridge's best literary criticism is _________.

A。 Kubla Khan B。 Frost at Night C. Christabel D。 Biographia Literaria

27. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece。

A. Zastrozzi B。 The Necessity of Atheism C。 Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound

28. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A. John Woodvil B。 Essays of Elia

C. Mr H D。 Tales from Shakespeare

29. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy B。 A Defence of Poetry C. The Necessity of Atheism D。 The Triumph of Life

30. ______ is Shelley's first book written in ____。

A。 Zastrozzi； Eton B. The Necessity of Atheism； Italy C. Queen Mab; Greece D。 Prometheus Unbound； Italy

31. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____。

A. 17…1821 B。 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D。 1768…1819

32. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A。 the first B。 the second C。 the third D。 the forth

33. The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age。

A. novel B。 poem C. periodical D. newspaper

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Key to the multiple choices：

1—5 CADAD 6—10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB 16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA 31-33 CBC

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1. In a sense, in English Romantic Age， “____” equaled “_____”. 2. William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution。 3. Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____。 4. Wordsworth's The Prelude is an ____ poem. 5. Writing The Prelude is a process of ____。

6. Byron's Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem。

7. Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____. 8. The theme of Keats’ Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new. 9. Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.

10. ______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.

11. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ in

England。

12. The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simple

peasants， a passionate love of nature and the _____and ____of the language.

13. The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home。

14. _____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause of

the French Revolution.

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15. All his life， Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______. 16. Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century。 17. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______。 18. The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.

19. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor

Coleridge published their joint work _______.

20. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer _______

died.

21. Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that women

took， for the first time， an important place in English literature.

22. The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age。 23. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists： _____ and _____. 24. ____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age。 25. Among Wordsworth’s longer poems， the best-known one is _______.

26. ______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which

followed it。

27. In 1817， _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.

28. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trend in

literature.

29. In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,

the _____ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.

30. Wordsworth's poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.

31. Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley's important poem, is written in the form of a _____.

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32. _____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His political

lyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry。

33. After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave up medicine for

poetry。

34. ____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.” 35. The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.

36. The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and the story is

derived from Greek mythology。 In this work, the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new。

37. Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____， which were translated into

English by Florio and had an extensive influence upon English literature.

38. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece。 The Rime

of the Ancient Mariner.

39. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843， ____ was made poet laureate。 40. In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14 books.

41. In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume called

Hours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his first important poem， a biting satire called____.

42. In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help that country in

its struggle for liberty against Turks。 Not long, he died of fever there。

43. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems： One is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ____.

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44. The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos。 It is written in

Spenserian stanza。

45. George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy。 It contains sixteen cantos. 46. George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.

47. ____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic drama。

48. ____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story。 49. George Gordon Byron's first volume of poems is _____.

50. ____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the

pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

51. After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife， he was compelled to leave

England in 1818， and spent all the rest of his life in _____.

52. ____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written in the

form of a fairy tale dream。

53. _____ ， a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece。 The story was taken

from Greek mythology。

. The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. It deals with the

infamous ____ which happened on August 16， 1819。

55. Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his fellow—poet _____. 56. Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____。

57. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.

58. The prose—writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible)

vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality， thus ringing into English literature _____.

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59. ____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wasted two-thirds

of his lifetime。

60. To Charles Lamb， ____ was a side—occupation. His daily drudgery left little time for

his literary work.

61. Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare was

written by ____.

62. William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism， in which individual

taste took the place of universal reason as the foundation of literary criticism.

63. After the defeat of Napoleon， ____ was the only old Romantic who never wavered in

his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution。

. ____ was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for denouncing the Prince Regent,

future George IV， as a rake and a liar.

65. The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the light

miscellaneous ___。

66. In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular and

confirmed opium-eater.”

67. Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies and

dreams. The major flow of his style is ____。

68. ____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historical

novel.

Key to the blanks:

1. literature； poetry

2. French

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3. nature

4. autobiographical 5. self-exploration 6. autobiographical 7. politics; social justice 8. conflict 9. children 10. Lyrical Ballads 11. Romantic Movement 12. Sympathy; simplicity; purity 13. The Prelude， or Growth of a Poet’s Mind

14. Hazlitt

15. liberty； equality; fraternity 16. late 18th； mid-19th 17. classicism 18. enthusiasm; poetry 19. Lyrical Ballads 20. Walter Scott 21. novelist 22. Walter Scott

23. Water Scott, Jane Austen 24. Charles Lamb

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25. The Prelude 26. Scott

27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 28. romanticism 29. romanticists 30. simplicity 31. fairy tale dream 32. Shelley 33. John Keats 34. John Keats 35. Spenserian Stanza 36. Hyperion 37. Essais 38. Coleridge 39. Wordsworth 40. The Prelude

41. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

42. Byron 43. Don Juan 44. four 45. Don Juan 46. Don Juan

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47. Manfred 48. Cain

49. Hour of Idleness 50. Shelley 51. Italy 52. Queen Mab

53. Prometheus Unbound . Peterloo Massacre 55. John Keats 56. John Keats 57. Scott

58. the familiar essay 59. Charles Lamb 60. literature 61. Charles Lamb 62. Romantic 63. William Hazlitt . Leigh Hunt 65. essay

66. Thomas De Quincey 67. discursiveness 68. Walter Scott

Ⅲ. Say true or false。

1. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. 2. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists。

3. After composing the Lucy poems， Wordsworth began his The Prelude .

4. P。B。 Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent

and rebellious attitude。

5. The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba， bcb， cdc, ded， ee. 6. Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.

7. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge's long poem， “Tintern Abbey”。

8. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. 9. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.

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10. Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of a Poet’s Mind。

11. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge's

masterpiece.

12. Hazlitt's life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the

French Revolution.

13. Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.

14. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined

themselves with those forces.

15. Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets。

16. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second

generation。

17. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. 18. The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the country

people of that area in their writings.

19. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.

20. The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology。 21. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets， an intense and original lyrical poet

in the English language。

22. Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood。

23. Byron's literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive

movements of his age。

24. Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.

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25. But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish； many of his lines are

harsh， rugged and not rhythmical;

26. Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty\". 27. Lamb’s essays are intensely personal。

28. Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style， conversational tone and wide range of

subject matter.

29. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.

30. Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad。

Key to True/False statements:

1. F （from late 18th to the

12. T

mid-19th century)

13. F (familiar essay） 2. T 14. T

3. T 15. F ( Passive Romantic poets） 4. T 16. T 5. T

17. T

6. F （city）

18. F (the first generation/ The

7. F （“The Rime of the

Lake Poets)

Ancient Mariner”)

19. T

8. T

20. F （Greek) 9. F （Wordsworth) 21. T 10. F (“The Daffodils”） 22. T 11. F (Wordsworth）

23. T

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24. T

25. F （Byron) 26. F （Keats) 27. T

28. F (Lamb） 29. T

30. F (Coleridge's “The Rime of

the Ancient Mariner”）

Ⅳ。 Terms：

1. Romanticism 2. Lake Poets

Ⅴ。 Questions：

1. Comment on Lyrical Ballads。 2. Comment on Charles Lamb. 3. Comment on those Lake Poets。 4. What are the features of Romanticism. 5. Comment on The Prelude。 6. Comment on Endymion.

7. Comment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.

8. Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic writers.

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