41. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in their poetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”

　　A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. George Gordon Byron

　　C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. William Wordsworth

　　42. ________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.

　　A. William Wordworth B. Samuel Johnson

　　C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Wordworth and Coleridge

　　43. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________

　　A. Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes his mother called him “you lame brat.”

　　B. Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughout the world.

　　C. The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and his role in the development of English literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.

　　D. Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translated into Chinese and well received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.

　　44. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.

　　A. Biographia literaria B. The Prelude

　　C. Lucy Poems D. The Lyrical Ballads

　　45. ________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems on nature, on love, and on politics.

　　A. William Wordsworth B. John Keats

　　C. George Gordon Byron D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　46. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ________

　　A. Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.

　　B. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal fagging system, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.

　　C. George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew.”

　　D. Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.

　　47. ________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better life than the sordid reality under capitalism. His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

　　A. Percy Bysshe Shelley B. George Gordon Byron

　　C. William Wordsworth D. John Keats

　　48. Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________

　　A. Ode to the West Wind B. Ode to a Nightingale

　　C. To Autumn D. Ode on Melancholy

　　E. Ode on a Grecian Urn

　　49. Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________

　　A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility

　　C. Northanger Abbey C. Emma

　　E. Mansfield Park F. Persuasion

　　50. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.

　　A. romanticism B. naturalism

　　C. realism D. critical realism

　　51. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. The critical realists, most of who were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.

　　A. novel B. drama

　　C. poetry D. essay

　　52. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation and showed the misery of the common people.

　　A. William Makepeace Thackeray B. Charles Dickens

　　C. Charlotte Bronte D. Emily Bronte

　　53. Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________

　　A. Charles Dickens B. Charlotte Bronte

　　C. Emily Bronte D. Thomas Hardy

　　54. ________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He signed them “Boz”, which was his nickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.

　　A. Elizabeth Gaskell B. William M. Thackeray

　　C. Charles Dickens D. Jane Austen

　　55. ________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield

　　C. Pickwick Papers D. Oliver Twist

　　56. The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield

　　C. Pickwick Papers D. Oliver Twist

　　57. In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the age were ________.

　　A. Alfred Tennyson B. Robert Browning

　　C. Mrs. Browning D. Robert Burns

　　E. William Blake

　　58. The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.

　　A. Enlightenment B. Renaissance

　　C. Chartist D. Romanticist

　　59. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality? ________

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield

　　C. Great Expectation D. Dombey and Son

　　60. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities B. Great Expectation

　　C. Hard Times D. David Copperfield