121. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, hills, vales, lakes, bays and the daffodils are parts of nature, and “daffodils” symbolize the beauty of nature.

122. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled Lucy Poems.

123. The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.

124. Walter Scott’s chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of history.

125. Walter Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism, which followed it.

126. Walt Scott’s historical novels paved the path for the development of the ____ novel of the 19^th century.

127. The central heroes of Scott’s novels are young men of valor with _____ birth, but appeared in the novels as common men, poor, persecuted and faced with innumerable hardship.

128. Rob Roy and Ivanhoe are the historical novels written by _____ in the period of _____.

129. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, written by _____, is a travelogue, narrated by a melancholy, passionate, well-read, and very eloquent tourist.

130. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was written in Spenserian stanza in four cantos; the name of the hero stresses the ancient and noble origin, designating a young knight.

131. Don Juan is the masterpiece of ______, telling the adventures in Don Juan in the leading countries of _____.

132. Queen Mab is a crude poem written by _____, attacking dogmatic religion, government, industrial tyranny, and war. 

133. The Revolt of Islam is a long narrative poem in Spenserian stanza, written by _____, proclaiming a bloodless revolution and the regeneration of man by love.

134. Prometheus Unbound is a lyrical drama written by _____.

135. The two functions in ______’s Ode to the West Wind are ________ and ______.

136. “To a Nightingale” is one of the best odes written by _____.

137. Jane Austen was the first woman writer to touch the theme of the predicament of women.

138. The themes of Jane Austen’s novels are marriage, love, and domestic duty.

139. The six novels written by Jane Austen are _____, ____, _____, _____, _____, and ____.

140. Walt Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and became the founder of historical novels.

141. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of Romanticism.

142. As an essayist and critic, Charles Lamb’s best-known work is his two volumes of the Essays of Elia (together with his sister, Mary Ann Lamb).

143. Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb adapted Shakespeare’s plays into stories for children, titled Tales from Shakespeare, the former reproducing the tragedies, and the latter the comedies.

144. Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Elizabeth.

145. The chief business of Mrs. Bennet’s life was to ___________.

146. The Chartist Movement appeared between the 30’s and the early 50’s of the 19^th century.

147. The critical realism of the 19^th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties.

148. The 19^th realists set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois social reality.

149. One of the greatest English realist in the Victorian Age was ______, who created in his works the pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of common people.

150. William Makepeace Thackeray was another important writer in the 19^th century, whose novels mainly contained a satirical portrayal of _______.

151. The two often-used writing styles in the realistic novels of the 19^th century are humor and satire, and the former was used to portray _____ while the latter to _____.

152. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton described the inhuman conditions of the life of English workers and the birth of Chartist movement.

153. The second half of the 19^th century in England produced such outstanding poets as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles A. Swinburne, of whom Robert Browning was the greatest, whose masterpiece was An Italian in England.

154. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual. He sympathizes with the poor and defends the oppressed people, but feels terrified before the fire of revolution.

155. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are London and Paris.

156. A Tale of Two Cities was his historical novel about the French Revolution.

157. The delightful fairy-tale The rose and the Ring was written by ______.

158. The main female character in Vanity Fair written by _____ is Rebecca Sharp.

159. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was borrowed by ____ from The Pilgrims Progress written by ____.

160. The subtitle of Vanity Fair is _______.

161. The subtitle of Vanity Fair—“A Novel without a Hero” emphasizes the fact that the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals but the society as a whole.

162. The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in John Bunyan’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.

163. The central characters of The Mill on Floss written by ______are Tom and his sister Maggie.

164. The Mill on Floss tells of the love, estrangement, and eventually reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.

165. Adam Bede was rural tragedy written by ______.

166. Silas Marner, last and shortest rustic novel written by ______ was set before the Industrial Revolution.

167. Both Jane Eyre by ____ and Wuthering Heights _____ brought to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion. 

168. Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.

169. “The Song of the Shirt”, one of the best poems written by_____ was on the hard life of the labors under capitalism in English literature.

170. “The Bridge of Signs” by ______was a poem on the miserable fate of the women of the poor.

171. In the “The Idylls of the King”, the poet Alfred Tennyson painted the first English hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends about the knights of the Round Table.   

172. “In Memoriam”, written by Alfred Tennyson in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam, interpenetrates the theme—the question of immortality of the soul.

173. In Alfred Tennyson’s “The Idylls of the King”, King Arthur’s attempt to bring civilization to his realm through the devotion of his knights fails because of sins which the poet felt to be the peculiar danger of his own age.

174. “Break, Break, Break” and “Crossing the Bar” are two famous lyric poems written by___.

175. “Dramatic monologue” was created by Robert Browning.

176. In his An Italian in England, Robert Browning portrayed an Italian revolutionary fighting for the freedom of the country.

177. “The Ring and the Book” written by _______ was often considered his most ambitious work, monumental work and masterpiece.

178. Robert Browning’s style was highly individual and often more intent on meaning than on form.

179. “My Last Duchess” written by ________ is written in the form of dramatic monologue.

180. Two important factors, which had large influence on contemporary English literature, were imperialism and widespread demand for social reform of every kind, which bred a spirit of rebellion and despair.