問題詳情
There were many reasons why the whole character of the twentieth century should be verydifferent from that of the nineteenth. The great wave of vitality and national expansions, which, duringthe Victorian period, swept both England and America to a high water mark of national prosperity, left inits ebb a highly developed industrial civilization and a clear path for all the currents of scientific andmechanistic thought which were to flood the new century. But literature, which had been nourished by thegeneral vigor of the time, and not at all by the practical interests of the period, declined as the spirit itselfdispersed.
The great age of groups and “movements” began. The eighteenth century poets did not callthemselves classicists, nor the nineteenth century poets call themselves romanticists; their poetic coloringwas simply the quality of their whole response to the whole of life. But the literary history of the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries is full of theories and “isms” which provided artistic creeds forartist groups, and set the individual artist apart from the community in the popular opinion.
【題組】39. What is the character of the literary history of the 19th and the 20th centuries?
(A) It is full of literary anecdotes.
(B) It is full of theories and “isms.”
(C) It is full of “isms” only.
(D) It has neither theories nor “isms.”
(E) It is full of romantic thoughts.
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