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505). The phrase, ‘rich disorganisation’, which refers to ‘The Waste Land’ was used by?

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‘rich disorganisation’, which refers to ‘The Waste Land’ by F.R Leavis

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509). “Is Pope a poet?” ‘. “If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?” Whose answer is this?

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“If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found” said By Dr JOHNSON in life of poets

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512). “A Grammarian’s Funeral” was written by:

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A Grammarian’s Funeral” by Robert Browning

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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”?

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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”?Voltair

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Robert Browning marry Elizabeth Barrett?

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1852- Browning marry Elizabeth Barrett

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The ‘pre-Raphaelites’aimed at:
A). Replacing the academic style.
B). Return to the truthfulness and simplicity
C). Drawing from the Italian paintings before the time of Raphael.
D). All these three.

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‘pre-Raphaelites’aimed at:
A). Replacing the academic style.
B). Return to the truthfulness and simplicity
C). Drawing from the Italian paintings before the time of Raphael.

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‘Structure of Novel’ written by

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Edwin Muir

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which Novel of Jane Austen comes character of Mr. Knightley?

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character of Mr. Knightley? in emma of jane austen

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which Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities we come under charcter

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“Miss Pross

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the author of ‘Catalina’

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the author of ‘Catalina’ is. Somerset Naugham

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Thomas Hardy’s novel “Under the Green Wood Tree” other name is

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The Mellstock Quire

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“Gone with the Wind

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“Gone with the Wind”by Margaret Mitchell

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“The unity of a work of art is achieved not through the unity of character, nor unity of action, but through unity of the authors moral position.”

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“The unity of a work of art is achieved not through the unity of character, nor unity of action, but through unity of the authors moral position.”Flaubert

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John Steinbeck receive Nobel Prize

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John Steinbeck receive Nobel Prize in 1962

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Who described Francis Bacon as “the wisest, brightest, meanest of Mankind

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Who described Francis Bacon as “the wisest, brightest, meanest of Mankind” pope says this

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Irish National Literary Society was founded by

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Irish National Literary Society was founded by W.B Yeats

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“a loose sally of the mind; at irregular indigested piece not a regular or orderly composition.”

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“a loose sally of the mind; at irregular indigested piece not a regular or orderly composition.” Dr JOhnson

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The novelist who wholeheartedly embraced Darwin’s theory

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The novelist who wholeheartedly embraced Darwin’s theory is SAMUEL BUTLER

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“If Music be the food of love, play on”

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“If Music be the food of love, play on” duke orsino 12th night

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the terms, a ‘flat character’ and a ‘round character is introduced by

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the terms, a ‘flat character’ and a ‘round character is introduced by E.M Forster

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author of ‘Time Must Have a Stop”?

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author of ‘Time Must Have a Stop”?Aldous Huxley

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two great poets of Victorian era

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two great poets of Victorian era is Tennyson & Browning

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“I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion”?

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“I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion” G.B. Shaw

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‘Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride and fear, Note to shed a tear I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.“

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‘Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride and fear, Note to shed a tear I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.“ Ode to Skylark by Shelley

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only prose work of Edmunt Spenser

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only prose work of Edmunt Spenser is View of the State of Ireland

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26
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Marlowe die in

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29 years

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Morose and Cutbeard character is from The Silent Women play by

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ben johnson

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as dictator of English letters

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as dictator of English letters is Samuel Johnson

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‘As I Lay Dying’written by

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‘As I Lay Dying’written by William Faulkner

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‘Walden and Civil Disobedience’

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‘Walden and Civil Disobedience’ byThoreau

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“A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed. One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.”

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“A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed. One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.”by Shelley (ode to west wind)

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“And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses four”

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“And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses four”poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci (keats)

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‘Isaac Bashevis Singer’ win the Nobel Prize

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‘Isaac Bashevis Singer’ win the Nobel Prize 1978

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“Storm in Chandigarh”

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Storm in Chandigarh”? by Nayantara Sehgal

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‘Gitanjali’ in English published

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‘Gitanjali’ in English published in 1912

36
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‘Tagore receive Nobel Prize’ in

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1913

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“Stiff in opinion always in the wrong Was everything by starts and nothing long” Who is the writer of this Heroic Couplet?

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“Stiff in opinion always in the wrong Was everything by starts and nothing long” Who is the writer of this Heroic Couplet?John Dryden (Absalom and achitophel

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originator of the ‘Picaresque Novel’

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Thomas Nash (the unfortunate traveler)

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‘The Seven Types of Ambiguity’ (most influencial literary critism)

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William Empsom - ‘The Seven Types of Ambiguity’ (most influencial literary critism)

40
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‘Castle of Indolence’

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‘Castle of Indolence’ written by james thomson

41
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‘Finnegon’s Wake

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‘Finnegon’s Wake’by James Joyce

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‘Sejanus’ & ‘Catline’ by

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‘Sejanus’ & ‘Catline’ by Johnson

43
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John Lyly (1554-1606) remembered today

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John Lyly (1554-1606) remembered today as The developer of Euphuism

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G.B. Shaw play we meet Eliza Dolittle

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G.B. Shaw play we meet Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion

45
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Lord Byron die in

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1824

46
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Canto

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Canto is A recitable section of along poem

47
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Keats “Beauty is truth and truth beauty” and “What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth”, is suggestive of:

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Keats “Beauty is truth and truth beauty” and “What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth”, is suggestive of is “I feel, therefore, I am”( keats)

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9). Look Back in Anger was year preformed in year

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1956- look back in anger performed

49
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movement poets ( larkin amis jeggins wain with gun enright to conqest)

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Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

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25). Who is not regarded as the Georgian Poet?

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hopkins not a georgian poet

51
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“France standing on the topo f nature seeming born again.” These lines are from..

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the prelude wordsworth

52
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The Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by

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The Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by G.B Shaw

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45 The Term ‘Negative Capability’ is associated with

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The Term ‘Negative Capability’ is associated with

john Keats

54
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Light breaks where no sunshines’ is written by

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Light breaks where no sunshines’ is written by

Dylan Thomas

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61). The above opinion of Victor Hugo is indicative on
A). The low status of women in the 18th Century
B). The immorality prevalent in the 18th Century
C). The coffee house culture of the 18th Century

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all these

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The ‘Coffee house’ culture flourished in..

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The ‘Coffee house’ culture flourished in…

The early 18th Century

57
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“Books were seldom judged on their merits, the praise or blame being generally awarded according to the political principles of their authors”. About which period is John Dennis talking?

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“Books were seldom judged on their merits, the praise or blame being generally awarded according to the political principles of their authors”. About which period is John Dennis talking
18th C

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“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience”?

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“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience”?
T.S. Eliot

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‘Big Brother’ is found in…

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‘Big Brother’ is found in… 1984 orwell

60
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‘Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps’

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E.C. Bentlay-‘Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps’

61
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’ ‘An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome’

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‘An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome’- austen

62
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‘A Bend in the River’

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‘A Bend in the River’-1979 (nine not straight)

63
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Mulk Raj Anands Novel ‘untouchable’ published

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Mulk Raj Anands Novel ‘untouchable’ published 1935

64
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Sir Walter Scott Novel ‘Waverley’ published anonymously

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Sir Walter Scott Novel ‘Waverley’ published anonymously-1814

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poem written by Alfred Tennyson ,’The old order Changeth Yielding place to new, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world’

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poem written by Alfred Tennyson ,’The old order Changeth Yielding place to new, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world’-monte de author

66
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What is the name of Eppie’s mother in George Eliot’s Novel ‘Silas Mamer’

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What is the name of Eppie’s mother in George Eliot’s Novel ‘Silas Mamer’-molly

67
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Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Noble Prize in the year:

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1907- Rudyard kipling Noble prize.

68
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Oliver Goldsmith died in 1774

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1774

69
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  1. “Are changed , changed utterly a terrible beauty is born.” Easter 1916
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W.B Yeats

70
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  1. “Words of the dead are modified in the guts of the living” is by W.H Auden in
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W.H Auden in “In memory poem”

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