A TO Z Literary Principles from History of English Literature: Note 3 (Key Sentences)

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers

Name of Authors	Life Period	Shining Works
Thomas Hardy	1840-1928	Fess of the D’urbervilles (1891)
Henry James	1843-1916	The Golden Bowl(1904)
Joseph Conrad	1857-1924	Almayer’s Folly (1895)
Herbert George Wells	1866-1946	The History of Mr. Polly(1910)
George Bernard Shaw	1856-1950	Plays : pleasant and unpleasant (1898)
J. M. Synge	1871-1909	The playboy of the Western World (1907)
W. B. Yeats	1865-1939	The Wandering of Oisin (1889)
Bridges	1844-1930	The testament of Beauty(1929)
G M Hopkins	1844-1889	The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875)
Oscar Wilde	1856-1900	The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891)
E M Forster	1879-1970	A passage to India(1924)
James Joyce	1822-1941	Ulysses(1922)
Virginia Woolf	1882-1941	Mrs. Dalloway(1925)
T S Eliot	1888-1965	Murder in the Cathedral(1935)
George Orwell	1903-1950	Animal Farm (1945)
W H Auden	1907-1973	Poems (1930)
Dylan Thomas	1914-1953	Under Milk Wood(1954)

a. There are seven plays is Shaw's Pleasant and unpleasant.

b. Widower’s house, Mrs. Warrens Profession and The Philanderer and three unpleasant plays.

c. G H Hopkins discovered the terms intress and innscape.

d. Brave New World(1932) A novel by Aldous Huxley imagines a world without disease, without pain, without emotion and without spiritual life.

e. Paul Morel is a character from the novel Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence.

f. Louka and Raina are two female characters in shaw’s play Arms and the Man.

g. Philip Larkin is called movement poet.

h. Ramsden is a character from Shaw’s play Man and Superman.

i. John Galsworthy's Strife(1909) deals with the struggle between capital and labour.

j. Walter de la Mare published his Songs of Childhood under the pseudonym of Walter Ramal.

k. D H Lawrence deals with the mother son relationship in his novel Sons and Lovers(1913).

l. Y Y is the pseudonym of an essayist and literary critic named Robert Lynd.

m. A C Bradly published his book Shakespearean Tragedy in 1904.

n. Angry young man came into existence in 1950. Few of the members are John Braine, King Armis, Alan Sillitoe etc.

o. Joyee’s Ulysses in based on Homer’s Odyssey.

p. Tiresias is the central figure in The Waste Land.

q. Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf(1962) is a black comedy by Edward Albee.

r. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, J G Frazer and Rabindranath Tagore all died in the same year – 1941.

s. Waiting for Godot is written by Samuel Becket.

t. Oscar Wilde was a representative of Aesthetic movement.

u. April is the cruelest month is the initial life of Eliot’s The Waste Land.

v. The Waste Land has five section.It was first published in the magazine The Criterion.

w. The Abbey theater was founded in 1904 in Ireland was begun by W B Yeats, Lady Gregory and J M Synge as directors.

x. Galsworthy’s The Inn of Tranquility is a collection of Essays.

y. Poetry make nothing happen ------------------ is a remark by Auden.

z. Though Hopkins belongs to the Victorian Age, he is modern in matters of Technique.

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