英国文学期末复习题目
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement.
1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. Paradise Lost
C. The Song of Beowulf
D. The Fairy Queen
2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Renaissance
C. medieval period
D. Anglo-Saxon period
3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____.
A. Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Milton
D. W. Wordsworth
5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Shakespeare
D. John Gower
6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.
A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry
B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country
C. he wrote in blank verse
D. he was the first to write sonnet
7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.
A. Chaucer
B. John Donne
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Earl of Surrey
8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse.
A. Chaucer
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Earl of Surrey
9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？
A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology
C. The Glorious revolution
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion
10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.
B. England’s domestic rest
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.
A. 14th...mid-17th
B. 14th...mid-18th
C. 16th...mid-18th
D. 16th...mid-17th
12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______.
A. science
B. philosophy
C. arts
D. humanism
13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.
A. Edmund Spenser
B. John Donne
C. William Blake
D. Thomas Gray
14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Edmund Spenser
D. John Donne
15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A. Christian
B. knightly
C. pilgrims
D. primitive
16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.
A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe
C. John Donne, Edmund Spenser
D. John Milton, Thomas More
17. Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?
A. Dr. Faustus
B. The Jew of Malta
C. Tamburlaine
D. The School for Scandal
18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.
A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
B. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet
C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othel lo and Macbeth
19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. histories
D. sonnets
20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?
A. Lover
B. Time
C. Summer
D. Poetry
21. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18？
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation
22. “Bassani Antonio，I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself；But life itself，my wife，and all the world，Are not with me esteem’d above thy life；I would lose all，ay，sacrifice them all，Here to the devil，to deliver you. Portia：Your wife would give you little thanks for that，ff she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate
A. dramatic irony
B. personification
C. allegory
D. symbolism
23. “The Fairy Queen” is the masterpiece written by____.
A. John Milton
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Alexander Pope
24. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write?
A. Advancement of Learning
B. Novum Organum
C. De Augmentis
D. Areopagitica
25. The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance is _______, one of whose drama is “Doctor Faustus”.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Oscar Wilde
D. R. Brinsley Sheridan
26. “Euphues” was written by ________, the style of the novel was called “Euphuism”.
A. John Bunyan
B. John Lyly
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
27. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for “The School for Scandal”.
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. Thomas Gray
C. R. Brinsley Sheridan
D. G.eorge Bernard Shaw
28. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was ______, who was a critic, poet, and playwright.
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. John Dryden
C. John Milton
D. T. G. Coleridge
29. The representative of the “Metaphysical” poetry is ______, whose poems are famous for his use of fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.
A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. William Blake
D. Robert Burns
30. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne’s poetry?
A. reason and sentiment
B. conceits and wits
C. the euphuism
D. writing in the rhymed couplet
31. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. Paradise Lost
D. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
32. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.
A. Renaissance
B. Classicism
C. Enlightenment
D. Romanticism
33. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its s tructure and style?
A. Thomas Gray
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Johathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
34. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A. Best writer of the English novel
B. The father of English novel
C. The most gifted writer of the English novel
D. conventional writer of English novel
35. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.
A. Laurence Sterne
B. John Dryden
C. Charles Dickens
D. Alexander Pope
36. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____.
A. rhymed stanzas
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. sonnets
37. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out____，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a “ ______ in prose,” the first to giv e the modern novel its structure and style. (Refer to 19)
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
38. Besides Sheridan, another great playwright in the 18th century is ______.
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. Thomas Gray
C. T. G. Smollet
D. Laurence Sterne
39. She Stoops to Conquer was written by _____.
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. R. Brinsley Sheridan
C. John Dryden
D. George Bernard Shaw
40. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.
A. prose
B. short story
C. novel
D. tragicomedy
41. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are _____.
A. horses that are endowed with reason
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C. giants that are superior in wisdom
D. hairy，wild，low and despicable creatures，who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways
42. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on
a lonely island reflects ____.
A. man’s desire to return to nature
B. the author’s criticism of the colonization
C. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality
43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.
A. love and marriage
B. sea adventures
C. mystery and horror
D. saints and martyrs
44. “The father of English novel” is __________.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift
D. John Donne
45. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Thomas Gray
D. Robert Burns
46. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.
A. The Songs of Innocence
B. Reliques of Ancient English poetry
C. Songs and Sonnets
D. Kubla Khan
47. The Rights of Man, a pamphlet, was written by ______, in which he advocated that politics was the business of the whole mass of common people and not only of a government oligarchy.
A. John Milton
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Robert Burns
D. Thomas Paine
48. William Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
49. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”？
A. “I fall upon the tho rns of life！I bleed！”
B. “They are both gone up to the church to pray.”
C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
D. “Beauty is truth，truth beauty.”
50. “If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind.” is an epigrammatic line by___.
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. P. B. Shelley
51. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the______ of art and the____ of human passion.
A. glory，ugliness
B. permanence, transience
C. transience，sordidness
D. glory，permanence
52. One of the great essay writers of the early 19th century is ______.
A. Jane Austen
B. Charles Lamb
C. Walter Scott
D. George Eliot
53. Tales form Shakespeare was written by _____.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Hazlitt
C. Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
54. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
55. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more”. What did Oliver ask for more?
A. More time to play
B. More food to eat
C. More books to read
D. More money to spend
56. In ____ ’s hands, “dramatic monologue” reaches its maturity and perfection.
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. William Shakespeare
D. George Eliot
57. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.
A. explorer
B. peasant
C. worker
D. governess
58. The three trilogies of _____ ’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.
A. John Galswortry
B. Arnold Bennett
C. James Joyce
D. H. G. Wells
59. The Victorian Age was largely an age of________ eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. poetry
B. drama
C. novel
D. prose
60. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT_________.
A. the Trojan War
B. Homer’s Odyssey
C. adventures over the sea
D. religious quest
61. The work ____ written by Alfred Tennyson was about the question of higher education of women.
A. Crossing the Bar
B. The Princess
C. Break, Break, Break
D. Ulysses
62. The bard of imperialism was ____, who glorified the colonial expansion of Great Britain in his works.
A. R. L. Stevenson
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. H. G. Wells
D. Daniel Defoe
63. The Dynasts was a gigantic epic drama written by ______.
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Oscar Wilde
D. John Galsworthy
64. The major concern of____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his character sand in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. J. Galsworthy’s
C. W. Thackeray’s
D. T. Hardy’s
65. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of_______, who never pays any attention to human feelings.
A. property
B. justice
C. morality
D. humor
66. _____is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare，and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A. Richard Sheridan
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Oscar Wilde
D. George Bernard Shaw
67. “Art for art’s sake” was put forth by ______.
A. aestheticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. neo-romanticism
68. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.
A. Dubliners
B. Jude the Obscure
C. A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Ulysses
II. Fill in the blanks with correct information
1. Angles, ___, and ___ were the Teutonic tribes came from the northern continent.
3. The long poem _________ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.
4. Grendel, a monster half-human, appeared in the story of ______.
6. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon Period falls into two kinds—___ and ___.
7. The 3182-line The Song of Beowulf can be divided into two parts with a(n) _____ between the two and the whole song is essentially ___ in spirit and matter.
8. The songs and poems in the Anglo-Saxon period were written in the style of ______ as could be seen from The Song of Beowulf.
10. The greatest influence made by the Normans in England is on ___ and ____.
11. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was _____, in which the central character was _____.
12. Sir Gawain and Green Knight employs the form of ____________.
13. The story of Sir Gawain and Green Knight is the culmination of the ___________.
15. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors; among them is the famous _______________ and The House of Fame.
16. The one who propose the story-telling in The Canterbury Tales is the _____________.
17. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the “________” and is one of the greatest narrative poets of England.
18. “The father of English poetry” is ______.
20. The pilgrims described in The Canterbury Tales met at _____ in Southwark, a suburb of London.
22. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is written in the style of ______ instead of alliteration in the Anglo-Saxon period.
23. A ballad is written in _________stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymes.
24. Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century and one of the famous ballads is ___.
26. The Canterbury Tales opens with a _________ where are told of a group of vivid sketches of
a company of pilgrims that gathered at _________ in Southwark, a subur
b of London.
29. One of the striking features of Renaissance is the keen interest in the life and activities of human. So the arose _____— which was the keynote of the Renaissance.
31. The story of Utopia was written by in two books, in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings in the first book and put forward his ideal future happy society—_____ in the second book.
32. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama is _________
33. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama is _______.
34. The difference of Earl of Surrey’s contribution to English poetry from that of Thomas Wyatt lies in that Surrey wrote the first English _________ while Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
35. English Renaissance period was an age of _________and _________.
38. The title “poet’s poet” is given to Edmund Spencer.
39. _________ wrote The Faerie Queene.
41. The greatest epic poem of the 16th century was _____ written by ______.
45. William Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and an actor.
49. The Renaissance, which began in the _________century in Italy, was a great cultural and ideological movement that swept the whole of Europe. All in all, the chief characteristic of the Renaissance literature is the expression of secular values with men instead of God as the center of the universe.
50. Francis Bacon was praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.
51. William Shakespeare produced _________ plays, two _____, and 154 sonnets.
52. Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines Iambic pentameter. It mainly has two types and the Shakespearean has three quatrains plus _________—often rhymed as _________.
53 Shakespeare’s main tragedies were written during the second period of gloom and depression which dated from 1601 to 1608. His main tragedies are: “_________”, “_________”, “_________”, and “_________”. All of these plays show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the time, between justice and injustice.
55. John Milton wrote his masterpieces _________, _________, and _________ after blindness.
56. Paradise Lost presents the author’s views in the form of _____ and _____ and the poetic style of ____ and presents the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for _____.
57. In Paradise Lost, _________ tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree.
60. _________ is a character in Paradise Lost with a strong desire for freedom.
61. _________Poetry is characterized by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.
62. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the _________.
65. The Pilgrims Progress is the masterpiece of _____, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of ____ and ____, in which the main character is ____.
66. The Revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is _________and an important prose wrier, _________.
68. In The Pilgrims Progress, Christian makes his way to the Holy city with two objects: ____ and ___.
72. John Dryden, critic, poet, and playwright, was the most distinguished literary figure in the Restoration.
73. The Enlightenment was a progressive _________ movement, which first began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in the 18th century.
74. People in the 18th century believed in reason.
76. Jonathan Swift wrote the famous story _________ and the famous pamphlet “A Modest Proposal” on Ireland in the style of satire.
86. Daniel Defoe’s famous navel was ________.
87. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _________.
92. In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where horses were possessed of reason while Yahoos were brute beasts.
88. _________was considered as the “father of English novel”.
89. _________ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
90. The appearance and development of sentimentalism marked the midway in the transition from classicism to its opposite, _________.
95. Among his other contributions to the theory and practice of prosody, _____ made popular the so-called heroic couplets.
97. Thomas Gray wrote the famous poem _________, which was considered “the best known poem in the English language”.
100. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were William Blake and _________.
103. “The poet of the peasants” is a title given to the great est Scottish poet _________.
105. Robert Burns is famous for his poetry written in _________ dialect.
111. The watchwords of the French Revolution are _________, ______, and________.
112. The English Romanticism began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written in collaboration by _________and _________.
113. Romanticism extended from 1798 when _________was published and in 1832 when _________ died.
116. “The Lake Poets” include Wordsworth, _________ , Southey.
120. In the revised version of _________, Wordsworth held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.
10. William Makepeace Thackeray was another important writer in the 19th century, whose novels mainly contained a satirical portrayal of _______.
14. In the novel _________, 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.
15. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by _________ are London and Paris.
18. The main female character in Vanity Fair written by ______ is Rebecca Sharp.
19. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was borrowed by ____ from The Pilgrims Progress written by ____.
20. The subtitle of Vanity Fair is _______.
27. Both Jane Eyre by _____ and Wuthering Heights _____ brought to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion.
28. Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.
38. Robert Browning’s style was highly individual and often more intent on meaning than on form.
44. The end of the 19th century is a period of struggle between realistic trend and anti-realistic trend in art and literature (, the latter reflected the crisis of bourgeois culture at the period of imperialism).
49. The important writer who started as a poet and ended as a poet is _________
51. _________believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
52. The writer who figured his hometown—the Wessex country in his works is _____.
55. “A Pure Woman(Faithfully Presented)” is the subtitle of the novel ______.
III. Give answers to the following questions.
1. How do you understand “To be, or not to be”? Give your evidence to support your ideas.
2. Why did Hamlet delay in revenging for his father’s death? Give evidence to support your idea.
3. What are Chaucer’s contributions to English literature?
4. Analyze Shakespeare’s contributions to English literature.
5. What is the theme o f “Paradise Lost”?
6. What is the image of Satan in Paradise Lost?
7. What are the characteristics of metaphysical poetry?
8. Give an analysis of the significance of Preface to Lyrical Ballads?
9. What does “She” (referring to Lucy) in “She Dwelt Among the Untroden Ways” imply?
10. What does “West Wind” mean in Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind?
11. Give an analysis of Keats and his works.
12. What are Austen’s writing features Jane Austen?
13. Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “Novel without a Hero”? Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “ Novel without a Hero”?
14. What is your opinion on the character Rebecca Sharp?
15. What does the subtitle “A Pure Woman” of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles mean?
16. Give a brief analysis of the character—Tess.
17. What are the major contributions made by the 19th century critical realists?
18. What is Paul’s relation with three women in Sons and Lovers?
英国文学期末复习题目
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement. 1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. A. The Canterbury Tales B. Paradise Lost C. The Song of Beowulf D. The Fairy Queen 2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______. A. Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D. Anglo-Saxon period 3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____. A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C. Confessio Amantis D. The Canterbury Tales 4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth 5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower 6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______. A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country C. he wrote in blank verse D. he was the first to write sonnet 7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry. A. Chaucer B. John Donne C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse. A. Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？ A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology C. The Glorious revolution D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion 10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event? A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries. A. 14th...mid-17th B. 14th...mid-18th C. 16th...mid-18th D. 16th...mid-17th 12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______. A. science B. philosophy C. arts D. humanism 13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems. A. Edmund Spenser B. John Donne C. William Blake D. Thomas Gray 14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”. A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Edmund Spenser D. John Donne 15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A. Christian B. knightly C. pilgrims D. primitive 16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism. A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe
英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结
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