福师 《高级英语(二)》第一课期末考试学习资料32

福师《高级英语（二）》第一课

1. What was the author's own experience as a writer?

? poems in childhood

?Made-to-order stuff

?narcissistic stories

?Meticulous description

?Joy of mere words

2. What are his views about the writers’ motives for writing?

?Sheer egoism

?Aest hetic enthusiasm

?Historical impulse

?Political purpose

3. What are his theories about the relationship between political stands and aesthetic achievements.

What he proposes is to make political writing into an art, that is, to combine political substance with aesthetic form

He is for a simple style, a continuous perfection of the style.

His advice is to never write lifeless books or essays full of purple sentences and passages without meaning, to avoid decorative adjectives and humbug to which the young people tend to give their attention.