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“Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws poetic truth and poetic beauty.” Who defines poetry such? Matthew Arnold.
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Who called poetry “A speaking picture with the end to teach and delight”? Aristotle.
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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecting in tranquility.” who defines poetry such? Wordsworth.
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Who says, “Poetry is of all human learnings the most ancient and of most fatherly antiquity”? Sidney
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Who denounced poets “as fathers of lies”? Gosson.
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Who is the author of The School of Abuse”? Gosson
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“Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Who makes this observation? Shelley.
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Who put “Poets, pipers, players, and jesters’ in one group and called them “caterpillars of Commonwealth”? Gosson
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“The greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life. – to the question: How to live?” Whose observation is this? Matthew Arnold.
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The Greeks called their poets ‘Vates’ meaning: Creators.
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‘Verse is only an ornament and no cause to poetry.” Who holds this view? Sidney.
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“Poetry is not a formula which a thousand flappers and hobbledehoys ought to be able to master in a week without any training.” Whose view is this? Edmund Gosse.
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“As to the poetical character itself, it has no character, the poet has none, no identity – he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God’s creatures” Whose observation is this? Keats.
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“A great poem is a fountain forever over-flowing with the waters of wisdom and delight – a source of an unforseen and an unconceived delight.” who says this? Shelley.
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Who has written the greatest Epic in English literature? Milton
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“Poetry, in general sense, may be defined to be the expression of imagination: and poetry is connotative with the origin of man.” who holds this view? Shelley.
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Which is the first great epic poem? Iliad by Homer.
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Name the epic written by Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered
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How many Books are there in Homer’s Iliad? 24
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Which epic has 24 books: Odyssey.
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Who is the hero of Odyssey? Odysseus.
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How many books are there in Virgil’s Aeneid? 12.
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Who is the hero of Homer’s Iliad? Achilles.
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What is the central theme of Iliad? Trojan War.
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In which language Virgil’s Aeneid is written? Latin.
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Milton’s Paradise Lost is divided into the same number of books as: Divine Comedy.
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Spenser’s Faerie Queene was planned to be completed in 12 books. But he was able to complete only: 6 Books.
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Who was the hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene? Queen Elizabeth.
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The central theme of Lusiad is: Vasco-da-Gama’s Voyage to India.
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Spenser’s motto in the writing of Faerie Queene was: To fashion a gentleman in virtuous and gentle disciple
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Which book of Paradise Lost begins with an invocation to Light? Book III
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Who is next in command after Satan? Beelzebub.
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“What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support.” In which book of Paradise Lost do these lines appear? Book I
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A mock epic is a parody of real epic.
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A mock epic: Rape of the Lock by Pope
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The Rape of the Lock is written in: Heroic Couplet.
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How many Cantoes are there in the Rape of the Rock: 5
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Heroin of the Rape of the Lock: Belinda.
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Heroic scenes of battles are paroided in the Rape of the Lock by: A game of cards
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A large number of sylphs are given the charge of protecting Belinda’s petticoat in the Rape of the Lock. How many sylphs are given the charge? 50
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Belinda is completely broken hearted about her clipped lock of hair. The poet consoles her in the end by saying: That the clipped lock of her hair would fly up and shine among the stars.
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What are the first 8 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet is called? Octave. And last 6 lines: Sestet
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The last 6 lines of a Miltonic sonnet are divided into two groups of 3 lines each. called: Tercet.
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How many sonnets in all were written by Milton in English? 18
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How many sonnets are written by Milton in Latin? 5
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Sonnets written by Shakespeare: 154
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Who wrote Amoretti? Spenser
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Sir Philip Sidney wrote a sonnet series addressing his beloved: Astrophel and Stella
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What is the title of the series of sonnets written by Elizabeth Barret Browning? Sonnets from Portuguse
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The sonnet series River Duddon Sonnets was written by: Wordsworth
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The Battle of the Frogs and Mice is a Mock Epic Written by: by a Greek poet.
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What is the title of the sonnet series by Samuel Daniel? Delia.
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What is the Sonnet Series written by Jihn Donne? Holy sonnets.
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‘Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!’ This opening line of a sonnet addressed to Milton by: Wordsworth.
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The first collection of songs and sonnets is entitled Tottle’s Miscellany. Who is Tottle? A publisher.
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“Others abide our question- thou art free” This is a opening line of a sonnet written by Matthew Arnold. Whom does he reffer to? Shakespeare.
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“They also serve who only stand and wait.’ This is the concluding line of a sonnet written by Milton. What is the name of the sonnet? On His Blindness.
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Who has written the sonnet If Thou Must Love Me? Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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What is the title of the collection of sonnets written by George Meredith? Modern Love.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets are addressed to: A Dark Lady and Mr. W.H.
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‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments …’ Which sonnet of Shakespeare begins with these lines? True Love.
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Spenser’s Amoretti is: A collection of sonnets addressed to his bride.
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Who has written the famous lyrical poem L’Allegro? Milton.
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John Donne, the renowned lyricist belonged to: The Elizabethan Age.
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Which lyric is written by Robert Herrick? A Christmas Carol
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“O my love’s like a red, red rose.” A very popular lyric opens with this line. Who has written the lyric? Robert Burns.
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“… Soul of the age!/The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, / My Shakespeare, arise!” These lines are quoted from a famous lyrical poem written by: Ben Jonson.
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“Go, and catch a falling star.” A very popular song begins with this line. Name the poet.John Donne
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A famous lyric opens with “Drink to me only with thine eyes.” Who is the poet? Ben Johnson
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“Others abide our question – Thou art free./ We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,/ Out-topping knowledge.” These lines are quoted from a lyrical poem by Matthew Arnold. Who does the poet refer to: Shakespeare
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“Just for a handful of silver he left us/ Just for a riband to stick in his coat.” These are the opening of a poem The Lost Leader. Who is this Lost Leader? William Wordsworth.
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“Smiling they live, and call life pleasure:/ To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.” From which poem of Shelley these lines are taken? Stanzas Written in Dejection.
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Who is the author of The Bridge of Sighs? Thomas Hood
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“For though from out of our bourne of Time and Place/ The flood may bear me far,/ I hope to see my pilot face to face/ When I have crost the bar.” These lines are quoted from Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar. Who is the Pilot in these lines? God.
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“The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more” These are the concluding lines of a poem written by Wordsworth. The poem is: The Solitary Reaper.
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“O World! O Life! O Time!/ On whose last steps I climb.” Who has written these popular lines? Shelley.
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“When I have fears that I may cease to be/ Before my pen has gleaned and my teeming brain.” Whose popular lines are these: Keats.
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“What is this life, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” These lines have been quoted from Leisure, a poem by W.H. Davies. What does the poet want to say? That we have become to materialistic.
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“I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree, And a small cabin built there, of clay and wattles made.” these lines are quoted from W.B. Yeat’s poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Where is Innisfree? It is a real island near Ireland.
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Which poem of Spenser is a pastoral? The Shepheard’s Calender
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What is Sidney’s Arcadia? A Pastoral Romance.
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Shelley wrote a Pastoral Elegy on the death of Keats. What is its title? Adonais.
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“We look before and after/ And pine for what is not. / Our sincerest laughter/ With some pain is frought.” From which of Shelley’s poems are these lines quoted? To the SkylarkWhat is the name of the beautiful pastoral forest in As You Like It? The Forest of Arden.
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“She lived unknown, and few could know/ When Lucy ceased to be:/ But she is in her grave, and ah,/The difference to me!” Who was Lucy on whom Wordsworth wrote a group of lyrical poems: She was a real girl whom Wordsworth loved and who died very young.
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Who is the poet who wrote the popular lyrical poem the Solitude of Alexander Selkirk? W. Cowper
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What is the most distinctive feature of an Ode? It is in the form of an address.
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Who is the most important poet who has written Pinderic Ode: Thomas Gray.
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Who is the poet who has written an Ode on himself? Ben Jonson
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Who has written an Ode on the nativity of Christ? Milton.
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Who is the writer of the Ode Alexander’s Feast? Dryden.
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Who celebrated Cromwell’s return from Ireland through an Ode? Marvell
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What are Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode in a Pinderic Ode? they are three stages of movement of the singers of the Pinderic Ode.
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how many times the series of Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode are repeated in Gray’s Pinderic Odes? three times
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“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird.” Which bird is referred to in this Ode? The Nightingale.
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“Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.” In which Ode does this famous line occur? Wordswoth’s Immortality Ode.
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Who has written an Ode to Virgil? Tennyson
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Who has written an Ode to Thomas Moore? Byron.
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Who mourns the death of the Duke of Wellington in the form of an Ode? Tennyson.
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Who has paid a tribute to Napoleon in the form of an Ode? Byron
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“I change, but I can not die.” What it is that changes but cannot die, according to Shelley as stated in one of his odes? The Cloud
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“Fled is that music – do I wake or sleep?” Which ode of Keats ends with this line? To a Nightingale.
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“If winter comes, can the spring be far behind?” Which Ode of Shelley ends with this line? The West Wind.
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Spenser wrote an elegy to mourn the death of Sidney: Astrophel
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Elegy written by Dryden on the death of Cromwell: Heroic Stanzas
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On whose death did Milton write the elegy lycidas? Edward King.
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What king of elegy is Milton’s Lycidas? A Pastoral Elegy.
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In Lycidas Milton Writes: “For we were nursed upon the self-same hill.” What does he mean by ‘the self-same hill.? The same University
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In Lycidas Milton wrote “That two handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smile once, and smite no more.” What does Milton mean to say in these lines? that God will punish the corrupt clergymen.
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“Last came and last did go/ The pilot of the Gililean Lake.” These lines are quoted from Milton’s Lycidas. Who is this Pilot of the Galilean Lake? St. Peter.
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Gray wrote famous Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. On Whose death is this Elegy Written? On the death of the poor country rustics.
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In the Churchyard of which village is the scene of Gray’s Elegy laid? The Churchyard of stoke Poges
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Why did Gray choose the Churchyard of Stoke Poges to lay the scene of his great Elegy? Because Gray’s mother was buried there.
