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1、Unit OneEnglish Literature and American LiteratureSection OneEnglish Literature1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture, new discovery in geography and astrology and the religious reformation and
2、the economic expansion.2. The Pilgrims Progress (天路历程)is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.3. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, Alexander Pope (蒲柏)was the first to introduce rationalism to England.4. Generally speaking, the Renaissance refers to
3、 the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is humanism.5. In “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18), “this” refers to poetry.6. About Renaissance, a) humanism is the essence; b) Attitudes and fe
4、elings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation; c) The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real stream of the English Renaissance.7. It is Geoffrey Chaucer (杰弗里乔叟)alone who, for the first time in English Literat
5、ure, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.8. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares sonnets.9. The reasons for that Edmun
6、d Spenser (斯宾塞)is famous for “the poets poet” are Spensers idealism, his love of beauty and his exquisite melody.10. Marlowe (马洛)gave new vigor to blank verse with his “mighty lines”.11. In Shellys “To a Skylark”, (雪莱,云雀颂)the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant
7、song which suggests to the poet both celestial rapture and human limitation.12. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? and if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it As hard for you to leave, as it is now for me t
8、o leave you.” The above quoted passage is most probably taken from Jane Eyre.13. The sentences “and now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in Wuthering Heights by Emil
9、y Bronte.14. The most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson(琼森).15. Descriptions about the Neoclassical Period: a) The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period; b) Henry Fielding (菲尔丁)is one of the representatives of the
10、Neoclassical period; c) The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical period.16. “O prince, O chief of my throned powers, / That led th embattled separation to war / Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds / Fearless, endangered Heavens perpetual king. In the third line of the above
11、passage quoted from Miltons Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct refers to Satans conduct.17. Comments on William Blake(布莱克): a) Childhood is central to Blakes concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; b) Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity; c) Symboli
12、sm in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.18. It is generally regarded that Keats (济慈)most important and mature poems are in the form of ode.19. Daniel Defoes (笛福鲁宾逊漂流记)novels mainly focus on the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security.20. In the Shepherds Calendar, Edmund Spe
13、nser tried to express his laments over the loss of Rosalind.21. In Beowulf, (贝尔武甫)Beowulf fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.22. In Spensers masterpiece The Faerie Queen, (仙后)he speaks of 12 virtues of the private gentleman.23. Francis Bacon is best known for his essays w
14、hich greatly influenced the development of this literary form.24. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is allegorical poem.25. The characteristics of Spensers poetry are a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination.26. Most of Thomas Hardys novels are set in Wessex(威塞克斯), a f
15、ictional primitive region.27. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shellys poem Ode to the West Wind as swift, proud and wild.28. “Blindness”, “Partiality”, “Prejudice” and “Absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely the characteristics of Elizabeth.29. The modern English novel
16、came into being in the middle of the 18th century.30. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, a) it is the most popular of Jane Austens novel; b) it is originally drafted as “First Impressions; c) In it, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.31. Chronologically the
17、Victorian Period refers to 1836-1901.32. Dickens first child hero is Oliver Twist.33. R. B. Sheridanh (谢里丹)was the only important English dramatist of the 18th century. His plays especially The Rivals (情敌)and The School for Scandal are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces o
18、f Shakespeare and those of Bernald Shaw.34. Middlemarch (弥德玛契)is considered to the George Eliots (艾略特)greatest novel, owing to a) it vividly depicts English country life; b) it provides a panoramic view of life; c) it reveals womens true feelings.35. As the most gifted of the “University Wits”, Marl
19、owe composed six plays within his short life, and among which there are Tamburlaine(帖木儿大帝), Dr. Faustus (浮士德)and The Jew of Malta.36. The Romantic Period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical
20、literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution.37. The author of the writing The Return of the Native (还乡)is Thomas Hardy.38. The Major figures of modernist movement are Eliot, Joyce and Dickens.39. “At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused t
21、hat I did not know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar, she said; she would love to go.” The passage is taken from James Joyces Dubliners.40. Tess of the DUrbervilles, one of Thomas Hardys best known novels, portrays
22、 man as having no control over his own fate.41. The author of the writing Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (恰尔德哈罗德游记)is Byron.42. Pilgrimage(游记), Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway are stream-of-consciousness novels.43. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling brings Henry Feilding the name of the “Prose Homer”. Of al
23、l the 18th century novelists, he was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.44. In the Robert Brownings works, The Ring and the Book established his position as one of the greate
24、st English poets.45. The major concern of D. H. Lawrences fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.46. George Bernard Shaw is considered to be the best-
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