As to the language used in poetry, （）“endeavoured to bring his language near to the real language of men.” A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.John Keats正确答案：William Wordsworth

（）was made poet laureate in 1813. But most of his works, according to modern critics, are “the product of literary industry, not of literary creation.” A.William Wordsworth　 B.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Robert SoutheyD.George Gordon Byron正确答案：Robert Southey

（）is the most important representative of the English classical poetry. He was at his best in satire and epigram. A.Jonathan Swift　 B.Samuel RichardsonC.Samuel RichardsonD.Joseph Addison正确答案：Samuel Richardson

Lives of Poets was one of （）’s main works, which consists of some of the best-known pictures of the early English poets. A.Samuel Johnson　B.James BoswellC.Henry Fielding　 D.Ben Jonson正确答案：Samuel Johnson

Another school of poetry prevailing in the 17th century was that of （）, i.e. those verse-writers, often knights and squires, who sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans. A.Metaphysical PoetsB.Cavalier PoetsC.John MiltonD.John Dryden正确答案：Cavalier Poets

John Milton is famous for his （）, which is the result of his lifelong classical and biblical study. A.grand styleB.euphemismC.mighty linesD.lucid style正确答案：grand style

（）refers to poetry written in unrimed iambic pentameter. A.Spenserian stanzaB.Blank verseC.Heroic coupletD.Sonnet正确答案：Blank verse

（）was the first to give the sonnet its English form. And his metrical innovations are very important in English poetry. A.Thomas WyattB.William ShakespeareC.Philip SidneyD.Henry Howard正确答案：Henry Howard

The poem The Waste Land is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of （）. 正确答案：modernism

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s last important work was （）Quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts. 正确答案：Four

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s classic expression of the temper of his age is The Waste （）. 正确答案：Land

The imagist poets approved the use of free verse, direct common speech, creation of new rhythms, absolute freedom in choice of subject matter, and the evocation of　（）in hard, clear poetic works. 正确答案：precise imagery