I. Complete the following statements with a proper word or phrases.

1. Romanticism as literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half of the ______century.

2.________ and ________represented the spirit of what is usually called Pre-Romanticism.

3. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s ____________in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, romanticism began to bloom and found a form place in the history of English literature.

4. The Romanticism was generally influenced by the Industrial Revolution and __________.

5. As the victim of the “_________”, the peasants became landless and had to find new ways of living.

6._________ saw a great event in Europe. That was the French Revolution.

7. ______, _______and _________were the watchwords of the French Revolution.

8. Under the banner of patriotism and fighting for “_________”, the British government supported and joined the “____________’.

9. People would not like a government that failed to secure people “_____, ______and the pursuit of happiness.

10. The 18th century was distinctively an age of______. The age of Wordsworth---like the Age of Shakespeare---- was decidedly an age of_______.

11. _______is the highest form of literary expression.

12. The best that we can say is that there was some really noble poetry written in nominally ________form.

13. The constant sight of nature in the woodrous beauty of __________awoke love and reverence in Wordsworth.

14. Later, Wordsworth became more and more _________and more in his politics.

15. Many of Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads were devoted to the position of ______and _______peasants.

16. In his poems Wordsworth aimed ______and _____of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.

17. Byron’s first volume of poems,__________ (1807), an immature little work, was mercilessly ridiculed in the__________.

18. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is written in the manner of_____, for whom Byron always professed admiration.

19. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a _______narrated by a melancholy, passionate, well-read, and very eloquent tourist.

20. Byron chose for his poem the _______stanza.

21.________, Byron’s greatest works, was written in the prime of his creative power, in the years 1818-1823.

22. At Oxford, he read the skeptical French philosophers, and deemed it his duty to publish his religious views in a pamphlet entitled____________, for which he was expelled.

23. An acquaintance with William Godwin, led Shelley to write_______, a crude poem attacking dogmatic religion, government, industrial tyranny and war.

24. In_______, Keats published a little volume of verse, most of it crude and immature enough.

25. The long narrative poem the story of Endymion, the Latmian shepherd beloved by the moon-goddess,_______ , was published in 1818.

26. Early in the spring of_____Keats died in______.

27. It was______________, in his early youth, that Walter Scott heard the traditions of that border war whose spirit he afterward infused so thoroughly into his poetry.

28. The ballad literature and Percy’s _______had an especial fascination for him.

29. In June, 1814, ________appeared, and not only at once established its author as a novelist of extraordinary power in the delineation of character and the description of natural scenery.

30. The historical novels of Walter Scott cover a period, ranging from ________up to, and including the_____ century.

31. Walter Scott is the creator and a great master of the _______novel. His novels give a panorama of ______society from its early stages to its downfall.

32. Despite his ________inclinations, Scott was greatly interested in the fate of the people, of the _________peasants in particular, portraying the decay of their mode of life by the onslaught of industrial________.

33. We may say that Walter Scott’s ______novel proved the path for the development of_____ novel of the 19th century.

34. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: Scott and_______.

35. Among Austen’s novels. There is no choosing between them for one who enjoys her quiet ______and her simple delicate analysis of character.

36. In all Austen’s novels the love-making of her young people, though serious and________, is subduced by_______ to the ordinary plane of emotion on which most of us live.

37.______ was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction.

38. Austen’s style is_____ and_______.

39. It may be noted that the first decades of the 18th and 19th centuries alike witnessed new birth in the ______as a form in literature.

40.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.

41. 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.

42._____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the matter taken from Biblical story.

43.___________, a lyrical drama, is Shelley’s masterpiece. The story was taken from Greek mythology.

44.__________ is Shelley’s well-known political lyric which calls upon the working class to fight against their rulers and exploiters.

45. Shelley wrote an elegy_______ lamenting the early death of his fellow poet_____.