1、Romantic prose was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hume. Lamb was the best essayist, whose familiar essays are very famous.3. What are the major features of Dickens novels?Dickens novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. His novels
2、tell much of the unhappy experiences of his own childhood. They reflect the protest of the people against capitalist exploitation, and criticize the vices of capitalist society. The success of Dickens novels also lies in his character-portrayal. Not only are the major characters in his novels very c
3、arefully delineated and given distinctive individual characteristics but also his minor figures create in the readers mind strong impressions of their personalities. Some of Dickens characters are really such “typical characters under typical circumstances” that they become proverbial or are represe
4、ntative of a whole group of similar persons. Dickens is a great humorist and satirist. His novels are full of humor and satire Dickens is not especially known for the construction of plot in his novels. There is in his novels often more than one minor thread of story beside the major one, and these
5、threads are generally very loosely woven together. He seems to love a complicated and involved plot. In almost every one of Dickens novels there is a happy ending, which points to the authors optimism which is an admirable thing for a critical realist because that means his still has his hopes after
6、 seeing the gloomy world all around him and one hand, and as a petty-bourgeois intellectual, could not overstep the limits of his class on the other hand. Another feature in Dickens novels is his adroit use of language. On the whole Dickens has a richness of expressions and generally succeeds in usi
7、ng the right words and phrases at the right moments for the right characters to attain the right effects. 12. What arethe characteristics of Dickens novels?（同第三题）2. What are the chief characteristics of the 18thcentury literature in England?The main literary stream of the 18th century was realism. W
8、hat the writers described in their works were social realities. The main characters were usually common men. Most of the writers concentrated their attention on daily life;The 18th century was an age of prose. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Addison, Steele, Swift, Fielding were produced
9、;Novel writing made a big advance on this century. The main characters in the novels were no longer kings and nobles but the common people;In this age satire was much used in writing. Since there was fierce strife of the political parties in society, nearly every writer of the century was employed a
10、nd rewarded by Whigs or Tories for satirizing their enemies. English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as Pope, Swift and Fielding.14. What arethe chief characteristics of the 18th同第二题4. What are the major features of Shakespeares dramatic works?Shakespeare is a realist.
11、 He is one of the founders of realism in English literature. His plays are mirrors of his age. He described the decaying of the feudal society and the rising of the bourgeois spirit. His comedies reflect lives of the young men and women who just freed themselves from the fetters of feudalism and who
12、 were striving for individual emancipation. His comedies lay emphasis on emancipation of women. In his tragedies Shakespeare depicted the life and death struggle between the humaniststhe newly emerging forces and the corrupted king and his feudal followers the dark power of the town, and also the co
13、ntradictions between the rich and poor.The stories of Shakespeares plays often took place in other countries or in the past instead of in England or in his own age. Yet the thought and the feelings of his characters and their attitudes toward life belong to the age of Shakespeare. In fact, his chara
14、cters are representatives of the people of his time.Shakespeares main characters are depicted in typical situation. They are typical characters. Their fundamental traits are reveled in their conflicts with their surroundings, in their relations with their fellow men. Each of his characters is a repr
15、esentative of a group of men.Shakespeares dramatic form fits the content of his plays very well. His plays are not controlled by the roles of the classical unities of time, plays and action.Shakespeare was a great master of English language. The language of each of his characters fits his position i
16、n society and revels the peculiarities of his character.Blank verse is the principle form of his dramas.One very striking phenomenon in connection with Shakespeare character-portrayal is his emphasis on the psychological make-up of his major characters. 6. What are the major features of Dickens nove
17、ls? （同第三题）5. How much do you know about MiltonsParadise Lost?Paradise Lost is the greatest English epic, consisting of 12 books and done in blank words. The stories were taken from the Old Testament: The Creation; the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angles; their defeat and expulsion fro
18、m Heaven; the creation of the earth and of Adam and Eve; the fallen angles in hell plotting against God; Satans temptation of Eve; and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden.The main idea of the poem is the heroic revolt against Gods authority. Adam and Eve embody Miltons belief in powers of man th
19、eir caving for knowledge adds a particular significance to their character. It is this longing for knowledge that opens before mankind a wide road to an intelligent and active life. The picture of God surrounded by his angles resembles the court of an absolute monarchy, while Satan and his followers
20、 bear resemblance to a republican parliament. This alone is sufficient to prove that Miltons revolutionary feelings made him forget religious orthodoxy. Satan is the real hero of the poem, and represents the spirit of rebellion against an unjust authority.13. How much do you know about Miltons（同第五题）
21、7. How much do youknowabout Wordsworth?Wordsworth was the representative of the first generation of Romantic poets, who expressed the deepest aspirations of English Romanticism. He saw nature and men with new eyes. His whole work is an attempt to communicate that new vision.His poetry is distinguish
22、ed by the simplicity and purity of his language. It was his theory that the language spoken by the peasants when purified from its defects was the best of all.His theory and practice in poetical creation started from a dissatisfaction with social reality under capitalism, and hinted at the thought o
23、f “back to nature” and “back to the patriarchal system of the old time”. Nearly all of his good poetry was written during the first decade of his literary career （1798-1807）. His later writings were full of mysticism and many of them unreadable.LYRICAL BALLADSthe joint work of Wordsworth and his fri
24、ends Coleridge, marking the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England; the majority of the poems written by Wordsworth and Coleridges contribution being his masterpiece “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; the poems characterized by a sympathy with the poor, simple peasants, a passionate love of n
25、ature and the simplicity and purity of the language.Wordsworth was at his best in descriptions of mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, children and peasants, and reminiscences of his childhood and youth. He , as a great poet of nature, was the first to find words for the most elementary sensatio
26、ns of man face to face with natural phenomenon.Some of Wordsworths PRINCIPLE POEMS are Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey（1798）, The Prelude（1805-1806）, The Excursion（1814）, and miscellaneous sonnets（written at different periods of his life）.8. What are the major features of Miltons poet
27、ry?Milton is a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century. He is also an outstanding political pamphleteer of the Revolution Period. He dedicated himself to the revolutionary cause.Milton is a great stylist. His poetry has a grand style. His poetry is noted for sublimity of thought and majesty of
28、expression.Milton is a great mater of blank verse. He is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry. He has use it as the main tool in his masterpiece Paradise Lost. His blank verse is rich in every poetic quality and never monotonous.11. What arethe characteristics of Miltons poetry?（同第八题）9. What are the major features of Chaucers writing?Chaucers major contribution to the English poetry is that the introduced from France the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter to E
