1 English Renaissance period is generally said to have begun in 1798 and ended 183
2 with Sir Walter Scott's death .
2 William Blake strongly criticized the capitalists' cruel exploitation, saying that the "dark satanic mills left men unemployed ,killed children and forced prostitution."
3 William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell makrs his entry into maturity. The "Marriage" means the reconciliation of the contraries, not the subordination of the one to the other.
4 the most important contribution William Wordsworth had made is that he was not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.
5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge's achievement as a poet can divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational "the Rime of the Ancient Mariner""Kubla Khan""Christabel" belongs to the demonic group.
6 Don Juan ,a great comic epic of the early 19th century ,is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women .
7 "I fall upon the thorn of life, I bleed"---ode to the west wind
8 the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Elizabeth who ruled over England fro 1836 to 1901.
9 Charlotte Bronte's first novel is Professor
10 most of George Eliot's novels are characterized by two features:moral teaching and psychological realism .
11 in George Bernard Shaw's long dramatic career, he wrote 50 plays of a variety of subjects.
12 Shaw held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people
13 Most of Shaw's plays ,termed as problem plays, are concerned with political, economical ,moral or religious problems.
14 in John Galsworthy's The Man of Property,it centers on the Soames-Irene-Bosinney triangle.
15 Lawrence's poem fall roughly into three categories--satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationships and emotions, and poems about nature.
16 James Joyce's first novel is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The main character is Stephen Dedalus.
17 Thomas Hardy divided his own novels into 3series, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles is among the novels of character and environment .
18 Living at the turn of the century ,Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer.
19 The Waves is the climax of Virginia Woolf's experiments in novel form , she is a strong advocator of the feminist movement among the 20th century writers.
20 E.M.Foster is a novelist but also a novel critic, his famous book on novel criticism is entitled Aspects of the novel .
21 Strife斗争was Galsworthy's most important social work,which gives a profound critical portray of bourgeois society .
22 as a realist dramatist, George Bernard Shaw is connected with social,economic ,moral and religious problems in his work . The general mood he expresses in his novel is optimism.
23 The Mill on the Floss written by George Eliot is large autobiographical in its early chapters. Her first novel Adam Bede is a rural tragedy played out among the non-conformists in country scenes remembered from her childhood.
