Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.

Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom.

Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the "（）" movement.

Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the "（）".

"Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

（）stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.

Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas Hardy.

In "The Canterbury Tales", Chaucer employed the （）with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.

"After Apple - Picking" is a well - known poem written by（）

Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared during her lifetime.