AD's English Literature

  DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Johnson ; Goldsmith ; Burke ; Boswell ; Junius ; Hume ; Robertson ; Gibbon 1735. Johnson's translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia." 1 738. Hurrre's " Treatise of Human Nature." 1738. Johnson's" London." 1742. Hume's "Essays." 1744. Johnson's" Life of Savage." 1749. Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes." 1749. Johnson's "Irene." 1750-52. Johnson's" Rambler." 1752. Hume's "Political Discourses." 1754-61. Hume's "History England." 1755. Johnson's Dictionary. English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language . Standardized spelling of English words is one of the benefits that result. 1756. Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful." 1758-60. Johnson's "Idler." 1758. Robertson's "History of Scotland." ...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK INDIAN WRITERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE a. Macaulay in his Minute on Education (English Education Act 1835) advocated the introduction of the study of English in India. It was the study of English language and literature that opened the Indians the window to western culture and galvanized them with the progressive ideals that prevailed in Europe at the time. It led to the upsurge of nationalism and the Indian Renaissance of the 19th century. Read More A to Z (Objective Questions) b. Henry Derozio published his poems in 1823 and Kashiprosad Ghose published The Shair and the Other Poems in 1830. They were not eminent poets but they are historically important, because they wrote in English much before Macaulay.  c. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was the first Indian writer of a novel in English- Rajmahan’s Wife published in 1864. Read More A to Z (Objective Questions) d. Toru Dutt...

"I depict men as they ought to be, but Euripides portrays them as they are." Sophocles  (496? - 406 BC ) Greek playwright, 340? BC .   Euripides wrote about ninety tragic plays of which eighteen are extant. We should also include Rhesus and one satyric play, which have been transmitted to us. The surviving plays are Alcestis (438 B. C., Medea (431 B. C.), Hippolytus (428 B. C.), Trojan Women (415 B. C.), Helen (412 B. C.), Orestes (408 B. C.), Iphigenia at Aulis (405 B. C.), Bacchae (405 B. C.), Andromache, Children of Heracles, Hecuba, Suppliants, Electra, Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion, Phoenissae, Cyclops, and Rhesus. Euripides’ plays received criticism for their structure. His use of the chorus as independent of the chief action of the drama was unconventional, and some of his works contain brilliant detached episodes that do not form coherent units through which the plots are gradually developed. However, this c...