The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
John Mill

Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
Maud

The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
Ode on Melancholy

Negative Capability to Keats, means
To empathize

“Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:
Wilde

It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’
A Tales of Two Cities

The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
Dickens

“Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:
The role of the king

Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
Wordsworth

Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
Wordsworth

The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
Keats

Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
Jude the Obscure

Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
Adonis

The moral choice is everything in the works of:
Dickens

Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
Unto this Last

Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
Southey

The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
The Crimean War

The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
The Grecian Urn

Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
Dramatic Lyrics

Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
Southey
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
A tragedy

Earnest Hamingway has written
Old Man and the Sea

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Jonathan Swift

Which of the following is not a dramatist?
Byron

Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
Dr. Faustus

E. M. Foster is a
Novelist

“The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
Charles Dickens

Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
Charlotte Bronte

After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?
Elizabeth-I

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
The Prelude

A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
Elegy

Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?
Merchant of Venice

Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
W. B. Yeats

What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?
Early 18th Century

Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?
Pygmalion

Which one of the following writers is not woman?
Robert Browning


Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
Claudius

Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?
Macduff

Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
King Lear

Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?
Ophelia
Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:
Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?
An "airy fairy"

Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:
The creation of an original philosophy

Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of abstraction:
True

"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed Byron.
True

In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.
True

Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.
True

Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.
False

The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:
Shakespeare

Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:
Human conduct based on conviction

Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:
Worship of God

The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:
Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:
Whimsical Pathos

The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:
Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)
Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?
Tennyson’s "In memoriam"

In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:
The Novel

Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:

"Hail to thee blithe spirit"
"To a sky Lark"

"Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

"Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".
"May Last Duchess"

" Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too
"Ode to Autumn"

"Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"
"Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)

"A hand may first and then a lip be kist;
"Don Juan"

For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"
"My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"
"The Prisoner of Chillon"

Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?
Palmer D.J.

Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
Pygmalion

Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?
Eliot

Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?
Claudius

Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?
Ophelia

After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:
Elizabeth I

Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?
Leavis, F.R.

‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:
Milton

"After Apple Picking" is written by:
Robert Frost

Old Man and the Sea was written by:
Earnest Hemingway

"Intellectual Beauty" is written by:
P.B.Shelley

Who wrote "20th Century Views"?
Abrahams, M. H.

‘Desert Places’ is a:
Poem

The University Wits were:
Playwrights

William Shakespeare was Born in:
1564

Francis Bacon died in:
1626

The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:
The Restoration
Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?
John Bunyan

‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:
Jonathan Swift
The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:
Hard Times

The one remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;
Shelley’s Adonis

Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.
Tess.

She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ode on a Grecian Urn

‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
The Lotos - Eaters

Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
The Mill on the Floss
"In all things, in all natures, in the stars,
This active principle abides,"
Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.

William Wordsworth as he was of the opinion that in this universe ‘nature’ is the point of focus for everything.

“Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”
Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.

Writer – Thomas Hardy
Book – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character – a young man who is traveling the countryside painting scripture on the sides of barns walks

In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
an elegy

The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:
Blake

‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:
Ruskin on moral reforms

Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”, about:
Shelley

For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:
Keats

“Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:
Monologue

A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is:
G. Eliot

“Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.
The above line occur in Byron’s:
Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans

Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:
A Tale of Two Cities

Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:
The prisoner of Chillon

An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning’s Poem:
Pippa Passes

Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:
revelation of character


‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:
Satire

Hemingway wrote:
The Sun also Rises

The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is
Elizabeth

‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:
An Epic

T. S. Eliot wrote:
The Waste Land

G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:
Karl Marx

“The Waste Land’ is:
Blank verse

Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:
Criticism

Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure
Eliot

Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?
French

Eliot shows a bent towards
Romanticism

Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:
V. Woolf

The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:
Tennyson

Browning is known for his:
Dramatic Monologue

Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?
Sons and Lovers

The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:
Romance

‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:
Spenser

‘The Crowns of Wild Olive’ was written by:
Ruskin

David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
Dickens
‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?
Wordsworth

“A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
Wordsworth

Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?
Browning

In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in
English

The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
1825

The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:
1798

Hero and Hero Worship was written by:
Carlyle

Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?
In Memoriam

Hardy’s Nature is:
Indifferent

Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
Dorothy

‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above line appears?
The Last Ride together

The Prelude was written in”
None of these

The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:
Ruskin

Oscar Wilde believed in:
Aestheticism

‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?
Wordsworth

When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?
1798

The correct date of French Revolution:
1789

Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:
Fate

"Prophets of Nature ……………………. What we have loved Other will love …………….”
In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
One Summer Evening

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear?
Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
Fortinbras is a character of the play:
Hamlet

Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
Dr. Johnson

The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:
Hamartia

The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare
Dramatic monologue

Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:
Oedipus

Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:
Bernard Shaw’s

Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
Backett

Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?
None of these

Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:
Wordsworth

Which is called the Victorian Age:
19th Century

A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
A Sonnet

‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”
T. S. Eliot

‘End Game’ is written by:
Beckett

My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an example of:
Metaphor

Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
Alliteration

‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”
Oxymoron

Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
The importance of being Earnest

Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?
Adam Bede

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
A Poem

‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:
Pygmalion
Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
Coleridge

“The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
Hyperion

The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:
Keats

Adonis is modeled on:
Bion’s lament for Adonis

Hardy is a:
Pessimist

Who is one of the lake poets:
Coleridge

Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:
The Prelude

Who usually caricatures his characters?
Dickens

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:
T. S. Eliot

‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:
Byron

‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
Ode to Melancholy

‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:
Blake

The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
Octave

The Revolt of Islam is a:
Lyrical Drama

The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called
Alliteration

‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:
My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.

‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:
Oscar Wilde

Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?
Charles Lamb and his sister

‘East Coker’ is written by:
T. S. Eliot

In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
Adonis
OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
Lyly and Marlowe

Shakespeare has written
Comedies, Tragedies & Historical Plays

Jane Austen’s other writings are:
Sense and Sensibility, Emma & Persuasion

Texts like Waiting for Godot are:
Ageless

“We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
Shakespeare

The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:
Twelfth Night

Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
European

‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
Lord Chesterfield

Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:
George Bernard Shaw

‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
Pope

‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:
Coleridge


‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
Marlow

Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:
Wordsworth

The word renaissance means:
Rebirth

‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
Francis Bacon

Spenser was:
a poet

All is well that ends well is a:
Comedy

The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:
Much ado about nothing

‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:
Milton

‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from
Of Money
Hellenism of Keats connotes:
his love of Greek culture and art

The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:
Ode to Grecian Urn

In his poetry Tennyson is:
The representative poet of Victorian Age

Thomas Hardy is:
A fatalist

Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:
The Mill on the Floss

Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:
The Crown of wild olive

Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:
Wordsworth

‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
Carlyle

The French Revolution took place in:
None of these


‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:
T. S. Eliot

“David Copperfield” was written by:
Dickens

Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:
Arnold

‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
Shelley

‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
Tennyson

‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
Oscar Wilde

The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
Mill

Ruskin is famous for:
A social reformer
Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:
The Mill on the Floss

‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:
Wordsworth

‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:
Browning
Frost is:
Poet of Country life

Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their old age”
Santiago

Santiago is an illustration of:
Hemingway’s philosophy of life

The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:
Friendship and benevolence

Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered
he hated their king

Yeats was
Victorian poet & a modern poet

‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:
The Second Coming



T. S. Eliot was
Classicist

Shakespeare other than dramas also wrote
Poems

Shakespeare was born in:
1564

Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:
Four

Shakespeare died in:
1616

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
1602

Hamlet was killed by:
Learteus

The kind Claudius was killed by:
Hamlet

Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
Love and marriage

Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
Mr. Darcy

Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
None of these

Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
Miss Elizabeth
Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
1812

Which English romantic poet admired Pope:
Byron

The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:
Shelley

‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:
1794

‘The Excursion’ was written by:
(Wordsworth)

The Last Ride Together was written by:
Browning


‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
Dickens

‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by
George Eliot

‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:
Browning

‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by
Tennyson

‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:
Oscar Wilde

‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:
Charles Lamb

‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:
Ruskin

Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?
Keats

‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
Browning

‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
Oscar Wilde

Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
None of these

The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:
J. S. Mill

Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?
Return of the Native
It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:
Frost

Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls & Death in the Afternoon

All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s
Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

“I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:
Miranda in the ‘Tempest’


“None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus

“Lyrical ballads” were published by:
Both Coleridge and Wordsworth

The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:
Pope

There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
Thomas Carlyle

Famous romantic poets were
Six

‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
Merchant of Venice

A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:
Keats

Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?
Charlotte

In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
Confused

Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
In 1906

To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:
a) Pope

Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?
Wordsworth

Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:
Emma, Sense and Sensibility & Persuasion

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.
Five

Father of antiquities were:
Socrates, Aristotle & Plato
Restoration period was known as the age of :
satire

Who is famous for representing London in his novels.
Dickens

Great Expectations was published in:
1860-1

Jane Eyre was written by:
C. Bronte

Who was a known aesthete?
Huxley

"In Memoriam" is :
an elegy

Tennyson was:
a Victorian

Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
Ruskin

A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:
( fatalism

"The Recluse" was written by:
Worsdworth

Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
Wordsworth

"The Frankenstein" is a novel by:
Mrs. Shelley

An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :
Coleridge

Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:
Coleridge

Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:
Shelley

"The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
Ruskin

Mr. Rochester is the major character of:
Jane Eyre

In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

"The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:
Emile Bronte
Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?
Aristotle


In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this?
Bradley

A poet is a man speaking to men says?
Wordsworth

Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare in:
The Winter’s Tale

“Gyre” is a favorite symbol with
Yeats

Who is labeled as misanthropist?
Swift

‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is written by:
T. S. Eliot

‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the words of?
Beckett

‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These lines are from:
Birches

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:
W. B. Yeats

Which of the plays has an epilogue?
Devils’ Disciple

‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.’ Whose words are these?
Huggins

Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:
1923

Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?
Swift’s

The Waste Land was published by Eliot in:
1922

Feminine Ending is:
a metrical device

‘Persona’ is
the actor in a play

A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a:
Comedy

‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:
Dr. Johnson
‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:
Blake

‘The Prelude’ was composed by:
Wordsworth

Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?
Lyrical Ballads

Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?
Keats

Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?
Wordsworth

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?
Shelley

“The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Lord Byron was born in:
1788

Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:
The Princess

Pauline was written by:
Browning

Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?
Browning

‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:
Lamb

Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:
Shakespeare

Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in the works of:
Dickens

Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?
Thackeray

Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female emancipation”?
Charlotte Bronte

The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:
Victorian era

Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?
Return of the Native

“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:
Sonnet
B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:
Ibsen

Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
Shaw

Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?
The Rape of Lucrece

Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?
Milton

The Rape of the Lock is a:
Parody

The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:
Pope

Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the thought”?
Coleridge

What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?
Travel-books

Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?
Johnson

Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?
Goldsmith

‘Cervantes’ is a character in:
Don Quixote

Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:
Fielding

Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:
Pride and Prejudice

The Prelude is written in:
Blank Verse

In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?
Wordsworth

Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?
Coleridge


Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?
Tennyson

The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:
Lake district

Childe Harold was written by:
Byron

Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:
Keats
The Nurse’s Song was written by:
Blake

William Wordsworth was born in:
1770

Byron’s first published collection was called:
Hours of Idleness

The Essay of Elia was written by:
Charles Lamb

Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:
The Triumph of life

Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by:
Wordsworth and Coleridge

On liberty was written by:
Mill

“Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies … yet remain free …” This was said by:
Ruskin

Macaulay lived from
1800 - 1859

Macaulay represented:
Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment

Stones of Venice was written by:
Ruskin

Browning is famous for his:
Dramatic Monologues

In Memoriam was written in:
1849 , byTennyson




“Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together”. Who said this?
Browning

Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:
1850

Dickens was from a:
Lower middle class origin

George Eliot’s real name was:
Marian Evans

George Eliot was an:
Atheist

Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
Tale of rustic life

The Professor was the first novel by:
Charlotte Bronte
______________ is called the first romantic critic.
Longinus

_______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
Dryden

‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:
Carlyle

The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
Restoration Period

‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:
William James

______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
Spenserian Stanza

A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:
Refrain

Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:
Comedy of Ideas

‘Verslibre’ is called as:
Free Verse

Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
Parallelism

‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
Earnest Jones

‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech from.
Hamlet

‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
W. H. Auden

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:
Husband and wife
The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:
Keats

‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:
Huxley

The poem “Wind” is written by:
Ted Hughes

‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:
Keats

‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:
Philip Sidney

‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:
The Jew of Malta
Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:
1843

Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?
Keats

The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadow fly; are composed by:
Shelley

‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:
Ruskin

The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:
Ernest De Selin Court

‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:
Walter Scott

__________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:
Scepticism

‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:
Coleridge

‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:
Jane Austen

‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line said by:
Tennyson


Adonais is an elegy on the death of:
John Keats

‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:
Arnold

‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:
1837

‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:
Carlyle

Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:
Novelists

‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:
Darwin

Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:
Walter Pater

“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a statement by:
Shelley

‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:
Comedy

George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:
Contemporary writers

In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:
Bradley

“How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
Laertes

Aspect of the Novel is written by:
E.M. Forster

Lotos Eaters is a poem by:
Tennyson

‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
T.S. Eliot

William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
1949

G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
1925

‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
W.B. Yeats

‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
T.S. Eliot

‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
D.H. Lawrence

The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
Titus Andronicus

‘If music be the food of love, play on,
give me excess of it, that Surfeiting
The appetite may sicken and die?
is a speech from
Twelfth Night

An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of another is called:
Pastoral Elegy

The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:
Imagists

A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:
Hyperbole

Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called:
Heroic Couplet

An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:
Harangue

‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:
Synaesthesia

Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:
Realistic

When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of:
Discovery

Ode to West Wind was written by
Shelley

Keats was born in
1795

Dream Children was written by
Charles Lamb

'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by
Oscar Wild

Ruskin belonged to (which age)
Victorian Age

Wordsworth lived from
1770-1850

'Heroes and hero worship' was written by
Thomas Carlyle

' Fair seed time had my soul' is from
The Prelude

Great Expectation was written by
Dickens

Lotus eaters is written by
Tennyson

Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are
Essayists

'My Last Duchess' was written by
Browning

Emily Bronte is the writer of
Wuthering heights

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by
Wordsworth

'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from
Ode on a Grecian Urn

'Waverley' was written by
Scott

'We are Seven' is written by
None of these (William Wordsworth)

'Past and Present' is written by
Carlyle

'Modern Painters' is written by
Ruskin

Byron is the writer of
Don Juan
Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
Beckett

To the Light House” is written by:
None of these (Virginia Woolf)

I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
Hamlet

“Ullyses” is written by:
James Joyce

Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
Pride and Prejudice


“Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
None of these (Tennyson)

“Thought Fox” is written by:
Ted Hughes

“Major Barbra” is written by:
Shaw

Lilliput is a character from:
Gulliver’s Travels

“Fire and Ice” is written by:
Frost

Swift belong to:
Augustan age

The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
King Lear

“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
Keats

“I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
Eliot

“Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
The Second coming

“Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
None of these (Mending Wall)

‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
The Wasteland

“A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
Hemmingway

“A passage to India” is written by:
Forester
. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age
Romantic

S.T. Coleridge was born in
1772

Wordsworth settled in
Lake District

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:
Byron

Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
Shelley

Hyperion is a/an __________ poem
Epic

Romanticism expressed a restlessness of
Soul

Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by
Jane Austen

Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet
Lyric

Keats is prominently a man of:
Sensations

As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:
Utilitarianism

Charles Dickens was born in
1812

Charles Dickens is known for being
Idealist

Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
C. Bronte

Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious
Pantheism

The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:
Architect

The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:
Oscar Wilde

Ruskin was born in:
1819

__________ is a novel by Miss Burney
Evelina
In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.
Satire

Joseph Andrews was written by
Fielding

Shakespeare was born in
1564

‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by
W. Knight

Kubla Khan was written by
Coleridge

G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:
Novelist

W. B. Yeats was born in
1865

Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of
Classicism

The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an
Elegy

Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in
French

The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
Romantic

Maud and In memoriam were written by
Tennyson

Tennyson was born in
1809

. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments
Hyperbole

Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into
Pre-Raphaelitism

_________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte
Idealism

The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of
Yeats

T. S. Eliot was born in
1888

Jane Eyre was written by
Bronte

Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogene are the characters created by
Shakespeare

__________________
Those who wait they get. (Own Creation)