c) 17th
d) 16th
2. Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs is …
a) Walter Scott
b) George Byron
c) John Keats
d) Robert Burns
3. Innocence and Experience, “the two contrary states of the human soul,” are contrasted in such companion pieces as …
a) “The Lamb” and “The Tiger”
b) “The Girl” and “The Boy”
c) “The Lamb” and “The Lion”
d) “The land” and “The Sky”
4. The beginning of the Romantic Movement in English poetry is marked by a book of poems entitled …
a) Songs of Experience
b) Songs of Innocence
c) Don Juan
d) Lyrical Ballads
5. Burns touched with his own genius the traditional folk songs of …
a) Wales
b) Great Britain
c) Ireland
d) Scotland
6. Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated on a book of poems entitled …
a) Lyrical Ballads
b) Natural Ballads
c) Lyrical Poetry
d) Songs of Nature
7. The famous “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is written by…
a) Robert Southey
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Coleridge
8. Byron’s poem narrating travels in Europe is…
a) Don Juan
b) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
c) Manfred
d) The Destruction of Sennacherib
9. A “Frankenstein” is any creation that ultimately destroys its …
a) creator
b) body
c) soul
d) head
10. A poet who wrote about Belarusian hero is…
a) Walter Scott
b) Mary Shelley
c) William Blake
d) John Keats
II. Select the term/name/place name that seems odd
11. Blake – poet – playwright – painter – engraver
12. Prophetic Books - Pilgrim’s Progress - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience
13. John Keats - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Mary Shelley - George Byron
14. Samuel Coleridge – Robert Burns - William Wordsworth - Robert Southey
15. imagination – individual thought – rationalism – the irrational
16. ode – stanza – song – ballad
17. Ozymandias - Don Juan - Lord Byron - Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
III. Complete the following sentences
18. Romanticism is a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from
a) about 1750 to about 1850
b) about 1750 to about 1870
c) about 1790 to about 1870
d) about 1800 to about 1870
19. Much of Blake’s painting was on religious subjects: illustrations for the work of his favorite poet …
a) John Donne
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Bunyan
d) John Milton
20. The young man of stormy emotions who shuns humanity and roams through life weighed down by a sense of guilt for mysterious sins of his past is known as…
a) Childe Harold
b) the romantic
c) the Byronic hero
d) Don Juan
21. Keats’s great creative outpouring came in April and May of 1819, when he composed a group of …
a) nine sonnets
b) five songs
c) nine odes
d) five odes
22. I hae been blythe wi' Comrades dear is written by…
a) George Byron
b) Robert Burns
c) William Blake
d) William Wordsworth
23. Scorn not the Sonnet, Critic, you have frowned is written by
a) Samuel Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) John Keats
24. Between 1808 and 1819 … gave his famous series of lectures on literature and philosophy.
a) William Wordsworth
b) George Byron
c) Samuel Coleridge
d) John Keats
IV. Fill in the correct definition / date / term / place name
25. Blake has been called a ________ because he rejected neoclassical literary style and modes of thought.
26. Poetry, Wordsworth asserted, originates from “________ recollected in tranquility.”
27. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets and point especially to his lyrics, including the familiar short ________ “To a Skylark”, “To the West Wind”, and “The Cloud”.
28. Shelley's was skillful in verse ________, a translation from Plato and critical work.
29. Don Juan, a mock epic in 16 cantos, encompasses a brilliant ________ on contemporary English society.
V. Read the descriptions. Replace one word in each passage which clearly is a mistake. Fill in the correct word/term/place name
30. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought, French poet Jean Jacques Rousseau and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The term ________ is incorrect. It must be ________ .
31. As was to be Blake’s custom, he illustrated the tracts with designs that demand an imaginative reading of the complicated dialogue between word and picture.
The term ________ is incorrect. It must be ________ .
32. Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther set a tone and mood much copied by the sentimentalists in their works and often in their personal lives: a fashionable tendency to frenzy, melancholy, world-weariness, and even self-destruction.
The term ________ is incorrect. It must be ________ .
33. Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to internal nature that is religious in its scope and intensity.
The term ________ is incorrect. It must be ________ .
34. Walter Scott created an enduring interest in Scottish traditions, and throughout the Western world he encouraged the cult of the ancient literature, which strongly characterized romanticism.
The term ________ is incorrect. It must be ________ .
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Викторианские дети и викторианские чудаки (1836 – 1876)
1. Становление критического реализма.
2. Чарльз Диккенс: жизнь и творчество.
3. Творчество Уильяма Теккерея.
4. “Женская литература” викторианской эпохи.
5. Возникновение детской литературы.
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Информационно-методическая часть
VICTORIAN CHILDREN AND VICTORIAN ECCENTRICS
(1836 – 1876)
Britain had emerged from the long war with France (1793–1815) as a great power and as the world's predominant economy. Visiting England in 1847, the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson observed of the English that “the modern world is theirs. They have made and make it day by day.”
This new status as the world's first urban and industrialized society was responsible for the extraordinary wealth, vitality, and self-confidence of the period. Abroad these energies expressed themselves in the growth of the British Empire. At home they were accompanied by rapid social change and fierce intellectual controversy.
The juxtaposition of this new industrial wealth with a new kind of urban poverty is only one of the paradoxes that characterize this long and diverse period. In religion the climax of the Evangelical revival coincided with an unprecedentedly severe set of challenges to faith.
"The modern spirit," Matthew Arnold observed in 1865, "is now awake." In 1859 Charles Darwin had published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Historians, philosophers, and scientists were all beginning to apply the idea of evolution to new areas of study of the human experience. Traditional conceptions of man's nature and place in the world were, as a consequence, under threat.
In politics a widespread commitment to economic and personal freedom was, nonetheless, accompanied by a steady growth in the power of the state. But the fierce political debates led first to the Second Reform Act and then to the battles for the enfranchisement of women and were accompanied by a deepening crisis of belief.
The prudery for which the Victorian Age is notorious in fact went hand in hand with an equally violent immorality, seen, for example, in the writings of the Decadents.
Most fundamentally of all, the rapid change that many writers interpreted as progress inspired in others a fierce nostalgia. Enthusiastic rediscoveries of ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, and, especially, the Middle Ages by writers, artists, architects, and designers made this age of change simultaneously an age of active and determined historicism.
Despite this persistence critics of the 1830s felt that there had been a break in the English literary tradition, which they identified with the death of Byron. The deaths of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott should perhaps have been seen as even more significant, for the new literary era has, with justification, been seen as the age of the novel.
One of the most outstanding novelists of the day was Charles Dickens (1812-1870). In his enormous body of works, he combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined.
Dickens spent most of his childhood in London and Kent, both of which appear frequently in his novels. He started school at the age of nine, but his education was interrupted when his father, an amiable but careless minor civil servant, was imprisoned for debt. The boy was then forced to support himself by working in a shoe-polish factory. A resulting sense of humiliation and abandonment haunted him for life, and he later described this experience, only slightly altered, in his novel David Copperfield.
Though Dickens again attended school, he was mostly self-educated. After learning shorthand, he began working as a reporter in the courts and Parliament, perhaps developing the power of precise description that was to make his creative writing so remarkable. At 21, Dickens published the first of a series of original descriptive sketches of daily life in London, using the pseudonym Boz. The success of this work, Sketches by Boz, permitted Dickens to marry and led to the proposal of a similar publishing venture in collaboration with a popular artist. Dickens transformed this particular project from a set of loosely connected vignettes into a comic narrative, The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837).
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