- D.g. Rossetti was the son of an Italian painter.
- The translation of Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister” appeared in 1824.
- In The Doctor’s Dilemma Shaw makes fun of physicians.
- Who wrote “in Defence of Poetry”? Shelley.
- The Playboy of the Western World is a play by: Synge.
- for the best condensation of a novel Arnold Bennet won a prize of: 20 Euro.
- Who wrote: “The year’s at the spring. / And day’s at the morn.” : Robert Browning.
- The Ring at the Book contains how many more lines than Iliad? 2000
- In which poem the line occurs: “” … Do not all charms fly, / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?” Lamia.
- Boswell was born in: 1735
- “Silent Woman” is a play by: Ben Jonson.
- the Duchess of Malfi was published in: 1623
- Pap is a character in: Huckleberry Finn
- A Mad Tea-party takes place in: Alice in Wonderland.
- What was the name of the girl whom Kalidas loved? Kamini
- “Kidnapped” was written by: R.L. Stevenson.
- Mr. Collins is a character in: Pride and Prejudice.
- The Prisoner of Zenda was written by: Anthony Hope
- What is the full name of Carvantes? Miguel de Cervantes.
- The letter referred to in the Scarlet Letter is: A.
- Robert Frost lived sometimes in: England.
- Besides being a poet Chaucer was a: diplomat.
- Bacon’s essays were influenced by: Montaigne.
- Charles Lamb worked as: a Clerk.
- Who wrote “Keep right on to the end of the road.” Sir Harry Lauder.
- Who said: “Two men look out through the same bars: / One sees the mud, and the one the star”?Frederick Langbridge.
- In which poem the line appears, “What a falling off was there”? Hamlet.
- The meaning of “widsith” in old English is: wanderer
- The name of William Golding’s first novel is: Lord of the Flies.
- In his “Progress and Poverty”, Henry George is influenced by: The Marxian System.
- The author of Erewhon is: Samuel bartler
- Which is a Comedy of Manner? The Way of the World.
- Which are pessimists? Gissing, Hardy, Thomson.
- Charles Reade’s drama “Drink” was adapted from the work of Zola.
- James Mill was born in: Scotland.
- The classical theory of rent was advocated by: Ricardo
- Who was not an utilitarian? Rousseau.
- Kipling was born in: 1865.
- The monk Augustine came to England in 597.
- The Battle of Maldon was fought in: 993.
- To whom are the lines written: “When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?” John Ball.
- “The Praise of Folly” was written by: Thomas moore
- Who wrote: “In Praise of Idleness”? Bertrand Russel.
- Which comprises one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable”? A trochee.
- In which work the line occurs, “That with no middle flight intends to soar.” Paradise Lost.
- The trial scene in “The Merchant of Venice” was presided over by: The Duke.
- The real name of Saki is: H.H. Munro.
- Who started “The Tatler”? Steele.
- The poem ‘The Song of the Shirt’ was written by: Thomas Hood.
- Sir Roger was originally the creation of: Steele.
- Who wrote: “Areopagitica”? Milton.
- Mary lamb killed her: mother.
- “The Selfish Giant is a story by: Oscar Wild.
- Three Unities: Unity of Time, Place and Action.
- Which letter is not often pronounced before a consonant? T
- The setting of Walpole’s novel “The Castle of Otranto” is: medieval Italy.
- Who wrote: “Four Quarter”? T.S. Eliot.
- Who wrote: “Look Back in Anger”? John Osborne.
- Who wrote: “the Devils of Loundun”? Aldous Huxley.
- Iris Murdoch was born in: 1919
- In the “Heart of Darkness” Conrad has explored: Congo.
- Virginia Woolf died in: 1941.
- Who wrote “Principles of Human Knowledge”: George Berkeley.
- Who wrote “Liber Amoris”? Hazlett
- Fielding wrote Joseph Andrews in reaction against: Pamela.
- Fielding was a: Realist
- “A Railway Clerk” is a poem by:Nissim Ezekiel.
- Raju is the hero of: the Guide
- The Indian novelist who won the Booker prize in 1997 was: Arundhati Roy.
- Who won the Booker of Bookers? Salman Rushdie.
- Pre-romantic poets: William Mason, Beattie, Bowles.
- Disraeli was influenced by: Burke
- Dickens died in: 1870
- Who is not a novelist besides being a poet: Jayanta Mahapatra.
- The favourite writer of Jawaharlal nehru: Frost.
- Who wrote The Battle of the Books? Swift.
- Which sounds are guttural: k,g,ng.
- Which are redundant? c, q, x.
- In which metre is Shelley’s Ode to West Wind written? Terza Rima.
- Who wrote the line: “‘tis sweet to hear the watch dog’s honest bark, / Bay deep mouthed welcome as we near our home.”? Byron.
- Who wrote, “The cock’s shrill clarion, and the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse than from their lowly bed.”? Gray.
- In which class should we place Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar? pastoral.
- In which book the lines occur: “here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.”? The Gitanjali.
- Contemporaries of Tennyson: Auden, Cowper, Day Lewis.
- Chronology: Faerie Queene – Paradise Lost – Lamia – Prospice.
- Who wrote “Nectar in a Sieve”? Kamala Markandaya.
- “The Good Earth” was written by: Pearl S. Buck.
- The writer of “The Dove Found No Rest” is Dennis Stoll.
- Who wrote: “So Many Hungers”? Bhabani Bhattacharya.
- The main theme of “So many Hunger” is: degradation of Humanity.
- Who said about Shaw: “he studied every known theory of socialism”? Henderson.
- Who is the writer of “the Middleman and Other Stories”? Bharati Mukherjee.
- Example of NOT a “fine writer” according to Prof. Terry Eagleton of St. Catherine College, University of oxford? Darwin
- Early Indian writers: Henry Derozio, toru Dutta, Manmohan Ghosh
- Who declared that he would “sing the song” of his “experience”? Nissim Ezekiel.
- Who said, “I only know how to work on one poem at a time, stitch by stitch”? A.K. Ramanujan.
- Cicero was a Roman: Orator.
- Who is the writer of “Gita Rahasya”? B.G. Tilak
- In Arnold’s ‘The Scholar Gipsy’, the great modern melancholy is spiritualised into a symbol of: mystery and dreams.
- “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” was translated into English by: Fitz Gerald
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