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1. Before the civil war broke out， the various classes in England soon split up into

two camps led by __parliment___ and _king_____.

2. __ The Pilgrim Progress ______ gives a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair

which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration。

3. ____John Buyan_____ wrote his masterpiece The Pilgrim Progress during his second

imprisonment。

4. John Dryden wrote many works on literary criticism， and has been regarded as the

earliest literary critic of real importance in the history of English literature. The famous piece is An Essay of Dramatic Poetry。 He has been called __father of ehglish prose__。

5. ___All for Love_____ is Dryden’s tragedy based on the story of Antony and Cleopatra

under the influence of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra。

6. The __Enlightement movement______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout

Western Europe in the 18th century。

7. The main literary stream of the 18 century was _realism______， what the writer

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described were mainly social realities。

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

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periods. The first period was characterized by the neo—classicism， of which __Alexander pope___ was the representative poet。

9. __ Robert Burns _____ is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced。

His Poem Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is of great significance.

10. _Jonathan swift ______ was the most remarkable satirist in the 18 century who

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criticized the new bourgeois-aristocratic society of his age without mercy.

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

and action. That is why the 18 century in England has been called __the age of reason______。

12. Alexander Pope’s __An Essay on criticism____ was a comprehensive study theories of

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literary criticism。

13. The literary form of neo—classicism is of the strict symmetry。 The prevailing genre

of neo-classical literature is _heroic couplet_______ which consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.

14. ___ An Essay on man_________ is Alexander Pope’s poem which indicates the poet's

political and philosophical viewpoint. It deals with man’s relation to the universe， to society， to himself and to happiness.

15. __ An Essay on criticism _________was a manifesto of English neo—classicism in which

Alexander Pope put forward his aesthetic theories。 It was a comprehensive study of theories of literary criticism.

16. As a poet， William Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems，

__songs of innocence________ and The Songs of Experience.

17. Samuel Johnson compiled _a dictionary of the ehglish language_______ which became

the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries。

18. Lives of the Poets was one of __samuel johnson_______’s main works， which consists

of some of the best—known pictures of the early English poets。

19. Thomas Gray’s highly-praised poem __Elegy written _in a _country churchyard____

shows the poet’s sympathy for the poor, and condemns the great ones who despise the

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poor and bring sufferings to the common people.

20. In the last twenty years of the 18 century， England produced two well-known romantic

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poets. They are William Blake and __robert burns______。

21. __ robert burns _____ wrote some patriotic poems， in which he expressed his deep

love for his motherland， such as My Heart’s in the Highland。

22. Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece is ___Robinson Crusoe______. 23. Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece is __Gulliver’s Travels______.

24. In the first part of Robinson Crusoe， the hero saved a savage and named him

__Friday____。

25. The writer of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is _Henry Fielding______。 26. Henry Fielding’s masterpiece is __Tom Jones___， which gives us a vivid and truthful

panoramic picture of the 18th century England。

27. __Jonathan swift_______ ranks among the greatest satirists of England, and of the

world。 A Modest Proposal is one of his satirical works.

28. In _songs of experience________, we find particularly Blake’s hate of the church

and the clergy. In the poem A Little Boy Lost, he attacks religious persecution.

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1. With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship， CharlesⅡ（cromwell) became

the Protector of the English Commonwealth. F

2. The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama （poetry）。 F 3. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing

produced during the Romantic（puritan） Age. F

4. Gulliver's Travel（the pilgrim's progress） gives a vivid and satirical picture of

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Vanity Fir which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration。 F

5. In his An Essay of Dramatic Poetry， John Bunyan（john dryden) showed his famous

appreciation of Shakespeare. F

6. Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is Venus and Adonis（all for love), a

tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra。 F

7. The main literary achievement of the 17 century lies in the poetry of John Milton,

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in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of Samuel Johnson（john dryden). F

8. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe

in the 17(18)th century。 F

9. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18 century. The main characters in the novels

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were no longer common people（the kings and nobles）， but the kings and nobles(common people）。 F

10. In the 18 century English literature， the representative writer of

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pre-romanticism(neo—classicism） is Alexander Pope。 F

11. The enlighteners intended to reform social life according to a more reasonable

principle, though this principle could never go beyond the limit of feuda（capital)l interests. F

12. Alexander Pope translated the entire Illiad and half of the Odyssey in blank verse

（herotic couplet）。 F

13. A Tale of a Tub （the battle of book)is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary

world of the time, in which the reader is told the story of the Bee and Spider. F

14. In the last part of Gulliver’s Travels, the satire is of the bitterest。 Gulliver

was now in a country where the Yahoos（horses） were possessed of reason, and were

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the governing class。 F

15. Henry Fielding(johnthan swift） is a master satirist, and his irony is deadly. But

his satire is masked by an outward gravity, and apparent calmness conceals his bitter irony. This makes his satire all the more powerful, as shown in his A Modest Proposal。 F

16. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English（scotish）

dialect on a variety of subjects. F

17. Towards the end of 18 century, there were two best pre—romantic poets in English

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literature。 They were William Blake and Thomas Gray（robert burns）. F

18. In the first part of Robinson Crusoe(gulliver's travels）， the hero is cast upon the

shore of the island of Lilliput。 F

19. The Play（novel） Tom Jones is Henry Fielding’s masterpiece。 F

20. My Heart’s in the Highland is one of the best known poems written by William

Blake(robert burns） in which he poured his unshakable love for his homeland。 F

Questions：

1. Make an introduction of The Pilgrim’s Progress. 2. Summarize the story of Gulliver’s Travels。 3. What are the features of Robert Burns’s poetry? 4. How much do you know about the Neoclassicism？