英国文学练习题1.docVIP

Exercises for English literature （1） I. Fill in the blanks.（%） 1. The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the_________poetry and the_________poetry. 2. _________ is regarded as the Father of English Song, the first known religious poet of England. 3. In the second half of the 7th century, the first English poet, _________ by name, began to sing. 4. The history of English literature begins in the__________ century. 5._________, the first English poem, still intact as a whole piece today, is the greatest epic ever left by the ancient Germanic tribes and the most ancient ever since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures It was __________ who decided that literature should be written in the vernacular or Old English. __________ is the first English poet ever to sign his composition _________made the translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate Version into Middle English, the first attempt ever to translate the Holy Scripture into English. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is regarded as the best monument of the Old English Prose. __________ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages. The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Morte d Arthur concerning with _________legend. Critics tend to divide Chaucers literary career into three periods: the___________period, the__________period and the_________period. Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The other two are _________ and____________ _________ was the first most significant poet in English history to write in Middle English. The Canterbury Tales contains the________ and 24 tales, four of which are fragments. _________ is the author of Decameron, which has the similar way of telling stories to that of The Canterbury Tales. The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a__________ When Chaucer died in 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey and founded ______