Geoffrey Chaucer decided to write in the language of the people-Middle English-and thus changed the history of literature.

Utopia,Ascham's most famous and controversial work,is often considered the highlight of Ascham's attack on the evil of early capitalism in England.

John Donne's vigorous,conversational,and wittily "conceited" style is characterized by the use of realistic,homely imagery,a concentration of thought,and a precision of diction.

Gulliver's Travels is a romantic novel narrated by Lemuel Gulliver,who travels the world and encounters a series of strange and fantastical people,cultures,and creatures.

William Wordsworth wrote essays,and the most notable one is A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England,written in 1810.

John James Osborne became an overnight sensation when his third play,Look Back in Anger,was performed at the Royal Court Theatre,London.

In his fifty-eight years of life as minister and physician,Charles Dickens bore the responsibility of meeting his congregation's medical and spiritual needs.

Phillis Wheatley is credited with formulating the idea of America as a melting pot where "individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men".

Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving tells about the miraculous life of a colonial Dutch American villager named Rip.

In 1899,Theodore Dreiser began writing Jennie Gerhardt,a novel with the major themes and social attitudes that characterize Dreiser's subsequent writings.

Some comments on Thomas Malory's writing style are as follows:
His account differs from his models in its emphasis on the (  ) of the knights rather than (  ) and on the (  ) of loyalty that finally destroy the fellowship.(conflicts,brotherhood,love)

Edmund Spenser's writing features in his sonnets can be seen in the following words:
In Sonnet 54,Edmund Spenser uses the theatre to describe his situation as a (  ); the speaker of the poem is the (  ) who plays various roles,and his loved one is the unmoved (  ) down in the pit.(actor,spectator,lover)

One can read Francis Bacon's views on learming from his "Of Study":
Francis Bacon's famous aphorisms such as "reading makes (  ) ; conference (  ); and writing (  ) " may impress many Chinese students.(a ready man,an exact man,a full man)

Here are some descriptions about Crusoe in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:
For twenty-eight years,Crusoe has kept a journal documenting his (  ) ,goat (  ) ,hunting,grain- (  ) ,and religious reflections.(raising,planting,gardening)

The following comments are about Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:
It has consistently appeared near the top of (  ) of "most-loved books" among literary (  ) in English (  ),becoming one of the most popular literature.(scholars,novels,lists)

Some depictions about moths can be read in Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth":
Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant (  ) of dark autumn nights and ivy (  ); the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the (  ) of the curtain never fails to rouse in us.(blossom,shadow,sense)

The plots below can be found in William Bradford's Of Plmouth Plantation:
After 66 (  ) at sea,the Mayflower,with 102 (  ) and a (  ) of about 30,reached America,dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod,Massachusetts,on November 21,1620.(passengers,crew,days)

Some writing features can be found in "The Wild Honey Suckle" by Philip Freneau:
It has a (  ),a sense of awe and loss that is rare,and it combines native (  ) subject with the poet's (  ) of transience of all human experiences.(matter,philosophy,serenity)

Here is a sentence from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature:
Standing on the bare (  ),my head bathed by the blithe infinite (  ),all mean egotism vanishes,and uplifted into (  ).(air,space,ground)

What Willy does can be read in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman:
With his career fading,Willy escapes into persistent (  ),and relives his (  ),trying to discover the reasons for his (  ).(failure,hallucinations,past)