C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale” 10. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets
11. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in
England.
A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Lyrical Ballads C. Frost at Night D. “The Daffodils” 12. The Prelude has also been called _____.
A. The Last Brazil B. The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age
13. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.
A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils” C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude” 14. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. The Prelude B. Endymion
C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria
15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.
A. models of classicism B. familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticism D. ways of modernism 16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt 17. The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.
A. pride and prejudice B. the writer’s own personalities C. love and marriage D. Both A and C
18. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott 19. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.
A. romanticism B. conversations C. inspirations D. archaisms 20. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.
A. the city B. the countryside C. nature D. imagination 21. _____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
A. Endymion B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia
22. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,
Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.
A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. William
23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic
Age from _____.
A. Dun Juan B. The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D. Isabella 24. Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.
A. individual heroism and pessimism B. love of nature and optimism C. love of old writers D. hatred for the imperialism 25. One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
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C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria 26. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria 27. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism C. Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound 28. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. John Woodvil B. Essays of Elia
C. Mr H D. Tales from Shakespeare
29. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy B. A Defence of Poetry C. The Necessity of Atheism D. The Triumph of Life 30. ______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi; Eton B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy C. Queen Mab; Greece D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy 31. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 1789…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819 32. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth 33. The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.
A. novel B. poem C. periodical D. newspaper
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB 16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA 31-33 CBC Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”. 2. William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution. 3. Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____. 4. Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem. 5. Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.
6. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.
7. Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____. 8. The theme of Keats’ Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new. 9. Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.
10. ______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.
11. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ in
England.
12. The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simple
peasants, a passionate love of nature and the _____and ____of the language. 13. The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home.
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14. _____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause
of the French Revolution.
15. All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______. 16. Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century. 17. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______. 18. The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.
19. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge published their joint work _______.
20. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer
_______ died.
21. 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. 22. The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age. 23. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____. 24. ____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age. 25. Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.
26. ______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which
followed it.
27. In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.
28. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trend
in literature.
29. In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,
the _____ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. 30. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.
31. Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a
_____.
32. _____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His political
lyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry.
33. After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave up medicine for
poetry.
34. ____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.” 35. The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.
36. The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and the story is
derived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new.
37. Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were translated into
English by Florio and had an extensive influence upon English literature.
38. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece. The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
39. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet laureate. 40. In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14 books.
41. In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume called
Hours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh
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Review. Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called____.
42. In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help that
country in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there. 43. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ____.
44. The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It is written in
Spenserian stanza.
45. George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteen cantos. 46. George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.
47. ____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic drama.
48. ____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story. 49. George Gordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.
50. ____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the
pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
51. After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled to leave
England in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in _____.
52. ____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written in
the form of a fairy tale dream.
53. _____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The story was
taken from Greek mythology.
54. The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. It deals with the
infamous ____ which happened on August 16, 1819.
55. Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his fellow-poet
_____.
56. Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.
57. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.
58. The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible)
vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.
59. ____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wasted
two-thirds of his lifetime.
60. To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little time
for his literary work.
61. Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare was
written by ____.
62. William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, in which individual
taste took the place of universal reason as the foundation of literary criticism. 63. After the defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who never
wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution.
64. ____ was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for denouncing the Prince
Regent, future George IV, as a rake and a liar.
65. The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the light
miscellaneous ___.
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66. In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular and
confirmed opium-eater.”
67. Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies and
dreams. The major flow of his style is ____.
68. ____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historical
novel.
Key to the blanks: 1. literature; poetry 2. French 3. nature 4. autobiographical 5. self-exploration 6. autobiographical 7. politics; social justice 8. conflict 9. children 10. Lyrical Ballads 11. Romantic Movement 12. Sympathy; simplicity; purity 13. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind 14. Hazlitt 15. liberty; equality; fraternity 16. late 18th; mid-19th 17. classicism 18. enthusiasm; poetry 19. Lyrical Ballads 20. Walter Scott 21. novelist 22. Walter Scott 23. Water Scott, Jane Austen 24. Charles Lamb 25. The Prelude 26. Scott 27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 28. romanticism 29. romanticists 30. simplicity 31. fairy tale dream 32. Shelley 33. John Keats 34. John Keats
35. Spenserian Stanza 36. Hyperion 37. Essais 38. Coleridge 39. Wordsworth 40. The Prelude 41. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 42. Byron 43. Don Juan 44. four 45. Don Juan 46. Don Juan 47. Manfred 48. Cain 49. Hour of Idleness 50. Shelley 51. Italy 52. Queen Mab 53. Prometheus Unbound 54. Peterloo Massacre 55. John Keats 56. John Keats 57. Scott 58. the familiar essay 59. Charles Lamb 60. literature 61. Charles Lamb 62. Romantic 63. William Hazlitt 64. Leigh Hunt 65. essay 66. Thomas De Quincey 67. discursiveness 68. Walter Scott 27
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