A TO Z Literary Principles from History of English Literature: Note 96
A Set of 26 Objective
Questions & Answers
UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION
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1. The Jacobean age:
Jacobean age started in 1603 which is the year of Elizabeth‘s death. It was
called so because it was the age of James1.
2. Metaphysical poets:
Crashaw, George Herbert, Vaughan and Marvell.
3. Cavalier poets: Richard
Lovelace, Herrick and Sir John Suckling are cavalier poets. They are called so
because they were opposed to the puritans and were loyal to the king. They
dealt with the theme of love.
4. Milton’s first poem: Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
written in 1629.
5. Prose pamphlets of Milton:
Areopagitica (1644), a noble and
impassioned plea for the liberty of the press. He composed two tracts on
divorce—The Doctrine and Discipline of
Divorce.
6. Plato censured poetry
because he believed it distorts reality.
7. Tennyson’s Tithonus is a dramatic monologue. Tithonus Originally written in 1833 as
Tithon and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860.
8. The character Giovanni
features in one of the following texts: John Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. The play
was first published in 1633, in a quarto. Ford dedicated the play to John
Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Baron of Turvey. Giovanni is the central
character who shows incest towards his sister Annabella.
9. Tintern Abbey features the phrase, ‘ the still, sad music of
humanity’
10. Molly
Bloom is a character in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Molly Bloom, whose given name is Marion, is the wife of the main character
Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.
11. Milton wrote Lycidas (1637). It is an elegy written
on the occasion of the death of Milton’s Cambridge friend Edward King, by
drowning on a voyage to Ireland.
12.Milton’s Samson Agonistes adapts the form of
Greek tragedy to the needs of Christian theme.
13.The two descriptive
poems by Milton which may be regarded as complementary to each other: L’ Alegro and II Penseroso which deal with the respective experiences of the gay
and thoughtful man.
14.The authors of Religio Medici and Religio
Laici : Sir Thomas Browne wrote Religio
Medici (1642), a prose work of Browne’s Confession
of faith.
John
Dryden wrote Religio Laici (1682), a
poem supporting the English Church.
15. Two historical books by
Thomas Fuller: The History of the Holywar
(1639), dealing with the crusades and The
Church History of Britain (1655).
16.novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential: Bleak house 1853, Hard Times 1854, A Tale of two
Cities 1859, Great Expectations -1860
17. Abraham Cowley wrote Davide is (1656), a rather dreary epic on
King David, in heroic couplet.
18.Sir Thomas Browne wrote Urn Burial in 1658. Urn means a
repository for the dead.
19.Some of Shakespeare’s sonnets were addressed to Dark Lady.
20.
The
famous letter to Lord Chesterfield
which sounded the death knell of literary patronage was written by Samuel
Johnson.
21.Peripeteia is seen in tragedy when there is a reversal of
fortune as when the protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about
the opposite of the expected result.
22.
A Tale of a Tub was written by Swift.
23. A
woman playwright who was popular in the Restoration Age was Aphra Behn.
24.
The Principles of
Literary Criticism
was published in 1924.
25.
A
modern play which employs the classical convention of the Chorus is Murder in the Cathedral.
26. The
central function of criticism, according to Arnold is To promote discrimination
in the reader and civilized standards.
Ref: 1. History of English Literature- Albert
2. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
3. UGC NET OLD QUESTION PAPERS
4. Baugh, A.C and Cable T (2001). A History of the
English Language. 5th ed. London: Routledge
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