英国文学史概述及作品选读课后答案

7 English Literature in the 20th Century

Ⅰ. Essay questions.

1. Comment on the development of William Butler Yeats’ poetic career and characteristics of his poetry.

2. Make comments on George Bernard Shaw as a playwright. 3. Comment on John Galsworthy.

4. Comment on Virginia Woolf’s literary achievements.

5. Compared with Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and other writers of transitional age in the 20th century, should E. M. Forster be labeled as a traditional writer or a modernist or a writer of transitional age? State you

问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分

The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece_______.

所选答案：

A.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

正确答案：

A.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

反馈：

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

问题 2 得 2 分，满分 2 分

Of the following four novels by Austen_______is the most popular

and dramatic one.

所选答案： 正确答案：

Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice

反馈： Pride and Prejudice

问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分

. All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT .

所选答案：

C.

Romantici

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点

1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释）

3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood

6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet)

7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More—

简明英国文学史

A Brief History of English Literature

Part I Old and Middle English Periods (450-1066)

Chapter 1

Old English Period and Beowulf

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Britons, a branch of Celts, came to the Isles in BC400 to BC300, at the early stage of the Iron Age

Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire defeated the Celts and ruled there from BC55 to AD 407

The Roman Empire declined, the Teutonic or Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes moved to live in the British Isles in about AD450

They drove the Celts to Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the Engli

美国文学史

American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:

1.Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 2. hilip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺

Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 1) \穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)

2) “annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集 (It soon became the most popular book

of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation) 3) The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to Poor Richard

Improved)

4) The Autobiography自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)

5) Founded the Junto, a club for

美国文学史

American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:

1.Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 2. hilip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺

Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 1) \穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)

2) “annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集 (It soon became the most popular book

of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation) 3) The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to Poor Richard

Improved)

4) The Autobiography自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)

5) Founded the Junto, a club for

英国文学

英国文学史及选读

主讲人：王江 (重庆邮电大学外国语学院)

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History and Anthology of English Literature

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The Flea

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