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1、1 高英 II 3 课文后练习 答案 I Write short notes on Carlyle and Lamb Suggested Reference Books SRB 1 The Oxford Companion to English Literature 2 any standard book on the history of English literature 3 Encyclopaedia Britannica See Additional Background Material for Teachers Reference points 6 and 7 1 Carlyle
2、 Thomas Carlyle 1795 1881 English essayist and historian born at Ecclefechan a village of the Scotch lowlands After graduating from the University of Edinburgh he rejected the ministry for which he had been intended and determined to he a writer of hooks In 1826 he married Jane Welsh a well informed
3、 and ambitious woman who did much to further his career They moved to Jane s farm at Craigenputtoeh where they lived for 6 years 1828 1834 During this time he produced Sartor Resartus 1833 1834 a book in which he first developed his char acteristic style and thought This book is a veiled sardonic at
4、tack upon the shams and pretences of society upon hollow rank hollow officialism hollow custom out of which life and usefulness have departed In 1837 he published The French Revolution a poetic rendering and not a factual account of the great event in history Besides these two masterpieces he wrote
5、Chartism 1840 On Heroes hero Worship and the Heroic in History I841 Past and Present 1843 and others Carlylese a peculiar style of his own was a compound of biblical phrases col loquialisms Teutonic twists and his own coinings arranged in unexpected sequences One of the most important social critics
6、 of his day Carlyle influenced many men of the younger generation among them were Mathew Arnold and Ruskin 2 Lamb Charles Lamb 1775 1834 English essayist was born in London and brought up within the precincts of the ancient law courts his father being a servant to an advocate of the inner Temple He
7、went to school at Christ s Hospital where he had for a classmate Coleridge his life long friend At seventeen he became a clerk in the India House and here he worked for 33 years until he was re tired on a pension His devotion to his sister Mary upon whom rested an hereditary taint of insanity has do
8、ne al most as much as the sweetness and gentle humor of his writings to endear his name They collaborated on several books for children publishing in 1867 their famous Tales from Shakespeare His dramatic essays Specimens of English Dramatic Poets 1808 established his reputation as a critic and did m
9、uch in reviving the popularity of Eliza be then drama The Essays of Ella published at intervals in London Magazine were gathered together and republished in two series the first in 1823 the second ten years later They established Lamb in the title which he still holds that of the most delightful of
10、English essayists II Questions on content 1 What according to the writer makes good conversation What spoils it A good conversation does not really start from anywhere and no one has any idea where it will go A good conversation is not for making a point Argument may often be a part of it but the pu
11、rpose of the argument is not to convince When people become serious and talk as if they have something very important to say when they argue to convince or to win their point the conversation is spoilt 2 Why does the writer like bar conversation so much The writer likes bar conversation very much be
12、cause he has spent a lot of time in pubs and is used to this kind of conversation Bar friends are companions not intimates 密友 挚友 They are 2 friends but not intimate enough to be curious about each other s private life and thoughts 3 Does a good conversation need a focal subject to talk about No Conv
13、ersation does not need a focus But when a focal焦点的 subject appears in the natural flow of conversation the conversation becomes vivid lively and more interesting 4 Why did the people talk about Australia Why did the conversation turn to Norman England The people talked about Australia because the sp
14、eaker who introduced the subject mentioned incidentally that it was an Australian who had given her such a definition of the King s English When the people talked about the resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for English as it should be spoken the conve
15、rsation moved to Norman England because at that time a language barrier existed between the Saxon peasants and the Norman conquerors 5 How does the use of words show class distinction The Saxon peasants and their Norman conquerors used different words for the same thing For examples see paragraph 9
16、6 Can you guess the writer s views on bilingual education para 11 The writer seems to be in favor of bilingual education He is against any form of cultural barrier or the cultural humiliation of any section or group of people 7 Why was the term Queen s English used in 1593 and the King s English in 16027 The term the Queen s English was used in 1953 by Nash because at that time the reigning monarch was a queen Elizabeth I The term the King s English is the more common form because the ruling mon
