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英美文学练习题3

练习3

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1.Beforethecivilwarbrokeout,thevariousclassesin

Englandsoonsplitupinto

twocampsledby__parliment___and_king_____.

2.__ThePilgrimProgress______givesavividandsatirical

descriptionofVanity

FairwhichisthesymbolofLondonatthetimeofRestoration.

3.____JohnBuyan_____wrotehismasterpieceThePilgrim

Progressduringhis

secondimprisonment.

4.JohnDrydenwrotemanyworksonliterarycriticism,and

hasbeenregardedasthe

earliestliterarycriticofrealimportanceinthehistoryof

Englishliterature.ThefamouspieceisAnEssayofDramatic

Poetry.Hehasbeencalled__fatherofehglishprose__.

5.___AllforLove_____isDryden’stragedybasedonthestory

ofAntonyand

CleopatraundertheinfluenceofShakespeare’stragedy

AntonyandCleopatra.6.The__Enlightementmovement______

wasaprogressiveintellectualmovement

throughoutWesternEuropeinthe18thcentury.

7.Themainliterarystreamofthe18thcenturywas

_realism______,whatthewriter

describedweremainlysocialrealities.

8.Generallyspeaking,Englishliteratureofthe18thcentury

maybedividedinto

threeperiods.Thefirstperiodwascharacterizedbytheneo-

classicism,ofwhich__Alexanderpope___wastherepresentative

poet.

9.__RobertBurns_____isundoubtedlythegreatestpoet

Scotlandhasever

produced.HisPoemChieflyintheScottishDialectisofgreat

significance.

10._Jonathanswift______wasthemostremarkablesatiristin

the18thcenturywho

criticizedthenewbourgeois-aristocraticsocietyofhisage

withoutmercy.

11.Theenlightenersbelievedthatreasonshouldbethe