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181. The long and progressive reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901) came to a climax in the Diamond Jubilee Year (1897).182. Imperialism had its outstanding advocate in Rudyard Kipling, who called England to “take up the White Mans burden” by dominating all “lesser breeds without law.”183. The most prominent writer to defend British imperialism and colonialism was .184. 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).185. Robert Stevenson is the representative of Neo-romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.186. The novels of G. Meredith, T. Hardy, and J. Galsworthy are masterpieces of satirical pretrial and psychological analysis. 187. The works of S. Butler, T. Hardy, and H G. Wells are imbued with pessimism often bordering on despair.188. “The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book Heroes and Hero-worship.189. The important writer who started as a poet and ended as a poet is Thomas Hardy.190. Both Hardy s poems and novels are transition from realism to modernism.191. Thomas Hardy believes that mans fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.192. The writer who figured his hometownthe Wessex country in his works is _.193. The two major “characters” in The return of the Native are Eustacia Vye and the heath itself, which symbolizesthe blind forces of nature against which she rebels.194. Eustacia Vye is the character in _.195. “A Pure Woman (Faithfully Presented)” is the subtitle of the novel _.196. The Forsyte Saga was written by _, one of the most prominent of the 20th century realistic English writers.197. The trilogy of “The Forsyte Saga” includes The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, plus two “Interludes” entitled “Indian Summer of a Forsyte”.198. _s second trilogy entitled “A modern Comedy” contains The white Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and The Swan Song.199. _s third trilogy was entitled “End of the Chapter”, but the narrative is chiefly concerned with a rather distant relative of the Forsyte family.200. The theme of the majority of Galsworthys novels was that (he saw) human existence in terms of the hunters and the hunted with varying emphasis and in a variety of guises.201. The “Forsytism” in John Galsworthys _ refers to the specifically English type of bourgeois morality and social attitudes.202. One of the representatives who expounded the theory of, and was the spokesman for the school of, “art for arts sake” was Oscar Wilde.203. The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by Oscar Wilde.204. The Preface to the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray emphasizes that art and morality are totally separate.205. Oscar Wildes most outstanding success was as a writer of comedies, including_.206. Oscar Wildes important poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the result of his two-year experience in jail.207. Dorian Gray was the main character in _ written by_.208. Man and Superman, written by _, represented courtship as a war of the sexes and man as the victim of woman, who is the incarnation of natures purpose and the will to live.209. Saint Joan was written by George Bernard Shaw. It is a historical play.210. Widowers House was written by George Bernard Shaw.211. The person who influenced D. H. Lawrences life and writing is his mother.212. D. H. Lawrences relation with his mother and the personal problems and conflicts that resulted were presented in his novel Sons and Lovers.213. The theme of Sons and Lovers, written by _, is usually said to concern the effect of mother-love upon the development of a son.214. Mrs. Morel and Paul are the two main characters in the novel of _ by _.215. The relation in Sons and Lovers is mainly between the characters Mrs. Morel and her son Paul.216. The relation between Mrs. Morel and Paul is mother and son.217. Virginia Woolf was a skilled exponent of the “stream of consciousness” technique in her novels, exploring with great subtlety problems of personal identity and personal relationships as well as the significance of time, change,memory for human achievement. 218. Joyce is the founder and one of the most prominent writer of stream of consciousness school of novel writing.219. Symbolism, surrealism, imagism, expressionism, etc, all belong to modernism.220. “Dubliners” is a collection of short stories written by _ in the writing style of stream of consciousness.221. “Dubliners” is a book about mans fate as well as a series of sketches of Dublin life.222. In all the stories in “Dubliners” dealing with childhood, the childe lives not with his parents but with an uncle and aunta symbol of that isolation and lack of proper relation between “consubstantial” (“in the flesh”) parents and children, which is also a major theme in his works.223. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, written by James Joyce, is representatively true not only of the writer but of the relation between the artist and society in modern world.224. “And all thats best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes:” is the famous lines from _ written by_.225. “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is the famous line from _ written by_.226. “As soon as April pierces to the root / the drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot / Through every vein of sap with gentle showers / From whose engendering liquor spring the flower”is the famous lines from _ written by_.227. “Thy firmness makes me my circle just, / And makes me end, where I begun.” is the famous lines from _ written by_.228. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” is the famous lines from _ written by_.229. “To be or not to be, that is a question” is a line from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.230. “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is the beginning line from Sonnet 18 written by .231. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. /And summers lease has all too short a date.” is the lines from Sonnet 18 written by _.232. “When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes” is the beginning line from Sonnet 29 written by _.233. “Sometimes too