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History of English Literature: A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers : Critical Estimates of Romantic criticism (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson) UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK   William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Wordsworth was primarily a poet and not a critic. He has left behind him no comprehensive treatise on Criticism . The bulk of his literary criticism is small yet "the core of his literary criticism is as inspired as his poetry".   "He knew about poetry in the real sense, and he has not said even a single word about poetry", says Chapman, "which is not valuable, and worth thinking over".  Also read the other set of A to Z (Objective Questions)   Wordsworth's criticism is of far-reaching historical significance. When Wordsworth started, it was the Neo-classical criticism, which held the day-Wordsworth is the first critic ...

Difficulty Level:  Graduation      Time: 2hr Each Question: Word Limit: 30      1. Describe the ‘garden scene’ in She Stoops to Conquer ?                                                                                           Ans- The ‘garden scene’ is one of the tricks of Tony played upon his mother to get rid of Miss Neville. In fact, when Hastings’s plan to elope with Neville having been disclosed, Mrs. Hardcastle gets too much stern with Miss Neville and deludes to keep her under aunt Pedigree’s cu...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1. ‘Inversion’ is the change in the word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like . Another term for inversion is (A) Hypallage (B) Hubris (C) Haiku (D) Hyperbaton Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) 2. The phrase ‘the willing suspension of disbelief’ occurs in (A) Biographia Literaria (B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads (C) In Defence of Poetry (D) Poetics 3. The religious movement Methodism in the 18th century England was founded by (A) John Tillotson (B) Bishop Butler (C) Bernard Mandeville (D) John Welsey ** John Wesley, considered the founder of Methodism, and his brother Charles, the sons of an Anglican rector. John preached, and Charles wrote hymns. Together they brought about a spiritual revolution, which some historians believe diverted England from political revolution in the late 18th cent...

Even much before Shakespeare was born, the book trade of London was monopolized by a Stationer’s Company that existed since 1404. Its incorporation was made by a Royal Charter of 1557 which provided for an elected Master, two Wardens and a Court of Assistants. Read More about William Shakespeare It secured the monopoly of English printing except for the book‘s published by the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge. All the publishers and book-sellers of London as also most of her printers (93 as per the charter of 1557) formed the freemen of the company. The exercise of monopoly powers over publication and printing of books was deemed necessary to fight the political and religious views antagonistic to the regime of Mary Tudor. Read More about History of English Literature (Essay) The system once introduced continued and practical procedure was laid down for licensing. The printers who were the freemen of the company entered their copy in the stationer’s register fo...

“Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses...

Theme and image: The Death of Salesman: Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) was a thumping success; won the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and is considered a milestone in America drama. Undoubtedly, the play consisted of themes and images that had a mass appeal. The play got a variety of interpretation. The reaction of scholars and drama critics was a mixed one. They have explained painstakingly why it is or is not a great play or a genuine tragedy. Regarding its essential theme, different explanations have been forwarded; some regard it as communist propaganda denouncing capitalism in all its muck and sooty filth, which others view it as a sympathetic stud , of the problems of big   business . some have interpreted it in exclusively Freudian terms have attributed to its author , rigid psychological theories .A catholic view of the play recognize it as warning of the meaningless   and futility of life in a society where religi...