Endgame and Waiting for godot are related to
1. Epic Theater of 1920
2. Theater of absurd
3. Commercial Theater
4. Greek Theater

The correct answer is 2.

Chronicle Plays were dramatic works based on the historical materials in
1. Shakespeare Plays
2. the English Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed and others
3. the William Faulkner's novels
4. Greek Theater Production (1965)

Chronicle Plays were dramatic works based on the historical materials in
1. Shakespeare Plays
2. the English Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed and others
3. the William Faulkner's novels
4. Greek Theater Production (1965)

The Correct answer is 2.

The Romantic poets Early Romantics William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827) was Burns's contemporary but had none of his success. He grew up poor in London, went to art school, was apprenticed to an engraver at 14, and lived by engraving. His fine teenage Poetical Sketches were printed but not published. He engraved his later poems by his own laborious method, hand-colouring each copy of the little books in which he published them. Eventually, his art gained him a few admirers, notably the painter Samuel Palmer (1805-81). Blake had begun his Songs of Experience with ‘Hark to the voice of the Bard!’ - but the age did not hearken to this truly ‘heaven-taught’ genius. Self-educated and Further reading misunderstood, he opposed the ruling intellectual orthodoxies, political, social, sexual and ecclesiastical, with a marked contempt for Deist materialists, censorious priests and the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds. A revolutionary who [p. 219] briefly shared Milton’s hope that paradise might be restored by politics, he came to regard the political radicals, his allies, as blind rational materialists: ‘Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;/Mock on, mock on, ’tis all in vain./You throw the sand against the wind,/And the wind throws it back again.’ For Blake, human reality was political, spiritual and divine. A material ideal of advancement showed ‘Single vision, and Newton’s sleep’ (Isaac Newton’s prophetic writings were then unknown). A religious visionary driven by Deism to unorthodox extremes, Blake was also, unlike most mystics, a satirical ironist and a master of savage aphorisms, as in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794) contain what have become his most celebrated poems, such as ‘The Sick Rose’, ‘The Tyger’ and ‘London’, which begins: I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

Contents The Romantic poets Early Romantics William Blake Subjectivity Romanticism and Revolution William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott Younger Romantics Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Romantic prose Belles litres Charles Lamb William Hazlitt Thomas De Quincey Fiction Thomas Love Peacock Mary Shelley Maria Edgeworth Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen Towards Victoria

The Romantic poets First Romantics William Blake (1757-1827); William Wordsworth (17701850); Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Younger Romantics George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824); Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822); John Keats (1795-1821).

As it is heard that there is always some mcq's about the write name or the years of book publication so i am giving some Names of English literature books and their writers

No Book name Year Writer’s name
1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes
2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy
3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce
4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust
5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky
6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville
7 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert
8 Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot
9 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann
10 The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu
11 Emma 1816 Jane Austen
12 Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens
13 Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy
14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain
15 Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding
16 Great Expectations 1860-61 Charles Dickens
17 Absalom, Absalom! 1936 William Faulkner
18 The Ambassadors 1903 Henry James
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20 The Great Gatsby 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
21 To The Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf
22 Crime and Punishment 1866 Feodor Dostoevsky
23 The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner
24 Vanity Fair 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray
25 Invisible Man 1952 Ralph Ellison
26 Finnegans Wake 1939 James Joyce
27 The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil
28 Gravity's Rainbow 1973 Thomas Pynchon
29 The Portrait of a Lady 1881 Henry James
30 Women in Love 1920 D. H. Lawrence
31 The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal
32 Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne
33 Dead Souls 1842 Nikolai Gogol
34 Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy
35 Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann
36 Le Pere Goriot 1835 Honore de Balzac
37 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 James Joyce
38 Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte
39 The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass
40 Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
41 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen
42 The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne
43 Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev
44 Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad
45 Beloved 1987 Toni Morrison
46 An American Tragedy 1925 Theodore Dreiser
47 Lolita 1955 Vladimir Nabokov
48 The Golden Notebook 1962 Doris Lessing
49 Clarissa 1747-48 Samuel Richardson
50 Dream of the Red Chamber 1791 Cao Xueqin
51 The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka
52 Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Bronte
53 The Red Badge of Courage 1895 Stephen Crane
54 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck
55 Petersburg 1916/1922 Andrey Bely
56 Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinue Achebe
57 The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette
58 The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus
59 My Antonia 1918 Willa Cather
60 The Counterfeiters 1926 Andre Gide
61 The Age of Innocence 1920 Edith Wharton
62 The Good Soldier 1915 Ford Madox Ford
63 The Awakening 1899 Kate Chopin
64 A Passage to India 1924 E. M. Forster
65 Herzog 1964 Saul Bellow
66 Germinal 1855 Emile Zola
67 Call It Sleep 1934 Henry Roth
68 U.S.A. Trilogy 1930-38 John Dos Passos
69 Hunger 1890 Knut Hamsun
70 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin
71 Cities of Salt 1984-89 'Abd al-Rahman Munif
72 The Death of Artemio Cruz 1962 Carlos Fuentes
73 A Farewell to Arms 1929 Ernest Hemingway
74 Brideshead Revisited 1945 Evelyn Waugh
75 The Last Chronicle of Barset 1866-67 Anthony Trollope
76 The Pickwick Papers 1836-67 Charles Dickens
77 Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe
78 The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79 Candide 1759 Voltaire
80 Native Son 1940 Richard Wright
81 Under the Volcano 1947 Malcolm Lowry
82 Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov
83 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston
84 Waverley 1814 Sir Walter Scott
85 Snow Country 1937, 1948 Kawabata Yasunari
86 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell
87 The Betrothed 1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni
88 The Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper
89 Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe
90 Les Miserables 1862 Victor Hugo
91 On the Road 1957 Jack Kerouac
92 Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley
93 The Leopard 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
94 The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger
95 The Woman in White 1860 Wilkie Collins
96 The Good Soldier Svejk 1921-23 Jaroslav Hasek
97 Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker
98 The Three Musketeers 1844 Alexandre Dumas
99 The Hound of Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle
100 Gone with the Wind 1936 Margaret Mitchell

1. To which centuries do Robert Greene and Graham Greene belong?

Ans. Robert Greene belongs to the second half of the sixteenth century (1558-1592).
And Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) belongs to the earlier twentieth century.

2. Can you name the authors of Hudibras and Erewhon?

Ans. Hudibras was written by Samuel Bulter (1612-80) and Erewhon was written by another Samuel Butlar (1835-1902).

3. Name two greatest elegies in English along with the names of the poet?

Ans. Lycidas and In Memoriam are two greatest elegies in English literature. The former was written by John Milton and the later by Alfred Tennyson.

4. Who are the author of Pamela and Pride and Prejudice? Which of these two is epistolary novel?

Ans. Pamela, a novel published under the authorship of Richards and Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen.
Pamela is the epistolary novel.

5. Why are years 1611 and 1832 important?

Ans. The year 1611 is important for the publication of first authorized Bible in the reign of James I and 1832 is important for the passing of Reformation Act heralding extension of democratic rights in England.

6. Can you name the authors of Annus Mirabilis and Frankenstein?

Ans. Dryden wrote Annus Mirabilis (1667) Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein, a terror novel.

7. To which centuries did Dryden and Pope belong?

Ans. Dryden (1631-1700) belonged to the later part of seventeenth century and pope (1688-1744) belonged to the first half of the eighteenth century.

8. Why are the years 1611 and 1798 important?

Ans. The year 1611 is important for the official publication of the Authorized Version of the Bible in the reign of James I (under the supervision of James I).

The year 1798 is notable for the publication of the Lyrical Ballads, the celebration work of the two great romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.

9. Can you name the author of Sonnets from the Portuguese and Modern painters?

Ans. The author of Sonnets from the Portuguese is Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the wife of Robert Browning, and John Ruskin is the author of Modern painters.

10. What is called dark comedy? Which plays of Shakespeare are known as dark comedy?

Ans. Dark comedy is called so as they are preoccupied with darker side of human experience. They contain much discussion of serious moral and intellectual problems.

All well that Ends well, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure etc. are known as dark comedies by Shakespeare.

11. Name the authors of An Essay on Criticism and Essays in Criticism. What are the types of these writings?

Ans. An Essay on criticism (1711).is written in heroic couplet by Alexander Pope. It is a long philosophical treatise in verse.
Essay in criticism (1865 & 1889) is a long critical essay on criticism by Matthew Arnold.


13. Confusing works


Works Authors

Essay on Man - a poem by Pope
Essay on Milton - a prose by Macaulay
Essay on Criticism - a poem by Pope
Essay In Criticism - a prose by Mathew Arnold

Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
Essays of Ancient & Modern - T. S. Eliot

The Rape of the Lock - epic poem by Pope
The Rape of the Lucrecee - a long poem by Shakespeare

The way of the World - A comedy by William Congrave
The Way of All Flesh - a novel by Samuel Butler.

The Prelude - A poem by William Wordsworth
Preludes - A poem by T. S. Eliot

Elizabethan Essays - Prose by T. S. Eliot
Elizabeth and Essex - prose by Lytton Stretchey

Everyman - One of the best known morality plays.
Everyman in His Humour - Satirical comedy by Ben Jonson.

The Book of The Duchesse - A poem by Chaucer
The Book of Martyrs - a story by John Foxe

The Pilgrim’s Progress - by John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s of the Rhine - by Bulwer Lytton

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent – a novel by Sterne
Tristram & Iscult - Matthew Arnold

Lyrical Ballads - Collection poems by Coleridge & Wordsworth
Prefare to Lyrical Bullads - A prose by Wordsworth.

All for love - A blank verse tragedy by Dryden
Love labour lost - A drama by Shakespeare

A portrait of The Artist as a Young man- A novel by Joyce
Portrait of dare - a novel by Francis Bret James
A portrait of A lady - a novel by Henry James

The Duchess of Dadna - a drama by Oscar Wilde
The Duchess of Malfi - tragedy John Webster

A Tale of Two cities - a novel by Dickens
A Tale of Manchester Life - a novel by Mrs. E. Gaskell

The Anatomy of Melancholy - a critique by Robert Burton
The Anatomy of the world - a poem on prince Henry written by
Donne
The Battle of Books - a satire by swift
The Battle of Maldon - Anclo Saxon war poem.

A women killed with kindress - a drama by Heywood
The woman in the Moon - a play by Lily

Ode on The Nativity - a poem by Milton
Ode on Duty - a poem by Wordsworth

14. What is an epic? Name one Indian and one Western epic.

Ans. The greatest and sublime form of poetry is epic. It is a long poem, divided into several books, celebrating the life, heroic deeds and achievements of a national hero whether historical or legendary.
Ramayana by Rwishi Balmiki & Iliad & Odyssey by Homer.

15. Name two important elegies and their authors.
Elegy Written on a country Churchyard T. Gray
Lycidas - Milton elegy on Edward King
Adonais - Shelley elegy on John Keats
In Memoriam - Tennyson elegy on Arther Henry Hallam
Thyrsis - Arnold elegy on Arthur Hugh Clough

16. Name two attempts of writing English epics after ‘Paradise Lost’.

Ans. The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
Tom Jones - Fielding
(The first one is mock heroic poem while the next one is a novel, a comic epic)

17. Who introduced ‘Pindaric Ode’ in English and why is it so called?

Ans. This form of poetry is usually attributed to Cowley, whose Pinderique Odes were published in 1656.

The Pindaric Odes are written on the model of the odes written by Pindar, the great Greek poet. They are choric in character and designed to be sung by a troupe of dancer in churches or Public halls.

18. Who is the first female sovereign of England?

Ans. Mary (1553-8)
Elizabeth (1558-1603)
Anne (1702-14)
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Elizabeth II (1952-

19. Name any famous prose Satire.

Ans. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (a satire on mankind).
Jonson’s Volpone (a satire on cleverness and covetousness).

20. Name any Poet Laureate of England?

Ans. List of Poet Laureate of England :

John Dryden 1668-1689
Thomas Shadwell 1689-1692
Nahum Tate 1692-1715
Nicholas Rowe 1715-1718
Laurence Eusden 1718-1730
Colley Cibber 1730-1757
William Whitehead 1757-1785
Thomas Warton 1785-1790
Henry James Pye 1790-1813
Robert Southey 1813-1843
William Wordsworth 1843-1850
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850-1892
Alfred Austin 1896-1913
Robert Bridges 1913-1930
John Masefield 1930-1967
C. Day Lewis 1968-1972
Sir John Betjeman 1972-1984
Ted Hughes 1984-1998
Andrew Motion 1999- 2009
Carol Ann Duffy 2009- until now.

which of shakespeare,s plays is performed at 9pm on june 23 every year?

I have no idea about that.sorry

1 - Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
Lewis Carrol
2 - How many lines does a sonnet have?
14
3 - Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?
Shakespeare
4 - Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?
Peter Pan
5 - Which is the first Harry Potter book?
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
6 - In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?
14
7 - What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?
Scottish
8 - 'Jane Eyre' was written by which Bronte sister?
Charlot
9 - What is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?
School boys ob a desert Island
10 - In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?
Hobbit
11 - The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?

"I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard"
Ben Johnson
12 - Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?
Agatha Cristie

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