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.

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

Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first play "（）"(1892) was put on by the independent theater society.

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

（）was regarded as father of the American short stories.

"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.

From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature （） flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.

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

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

（）is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".