英国文学练习题II.doc

英国文学练习题（第二册） Exercise 1 I. Fill in the blanks The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their joint work _________. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ____died. 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. The greatest historical novelist ______ was produced in the Romantic Age. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _______. ______ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _______ appeared in England as a new trend in literature. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the ________ of his language. After his second book Endymion appeared in 18181, _____ gave up medicine for poetry. _____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Here lies one whose name is writ in water.” The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is __________’s masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, __________ was made poet laureate. George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is _____________. ___________ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Ode to a Nightingale was written by __________. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist _________. _________ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the historical novel. The publication of _____________ marked the beginning of Romantic Age. The Active Romantic poets include __________________________. The Lake Poets include ______________________________________. II. Error Correction. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their joint work Kubla Khan. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last romantic writer Jane Austen died. The publication of The Lyrical Ballads marked th