英国文学史及选读 Chapter1

英国文学史及选读 Chapter1

英国文学史及选读 Chapter1

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The Anglo-Saxon Period

I. Fill in the blanks.

1.After the fall of the Roman Empire and athe withdrawl of Roman troops from Albion， the aboriginal __ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquerered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of ____， _____ ， and _____ who came from the continent and settled in the island， naming its central part a， or England.

2.For nearly ______ years prior to the coming of the English， British had been a Roman province. In _____， the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders.

3.The literature of early period falls naturally into teo divisions， and ____. The former represents the poetry which ____the Anglso-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of _____ ， the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil； the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of ______ .

4._____can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _____---one of the national heros of the English people.

5.The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ______ approximately at the beginning of the_____century， when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the _____ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes， e.g. with the ______ who lived on the other side of the straits.

6.Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention______ who lived in the latter half of the ______ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphase of the Blible.

7.____ is the first known religious poets of England. He is known as the father of English song.

8.The didactic poem “The Christ” was produced by ________.

II. Choose the best answer for each blank.

9.The most important work of _______ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles， which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.