History of English Literature Brief Solution (2013-2019), 2nd Year English Honours, Try.Fulfil, History of English Literature, History of English Literature Bangla.
Written by:
Krishna Mandal.
Organized by: Muhammad Yamin & Try Dot Fulfil.
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History of English Literature Brief Solution - 2013
(a) Beowulf" is considered
as the first English epic.
(b) Canterbury Tales" is the
masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Humanism is a philosophical idea that is
related to the value and agency of human beings.
(d) Thomas Sackville and Thomas
Norton wrote first tragedy " Gorboduc".
(e) "The
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" was published in 1801. (f)" English
Renaissance " is a cultural and artistic movement.
(g) "Oscar Wilde"
popularized the comedy of manners.
(h)
(i) John Donne, Henry Vaughan,
George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and Richard Crashaw are called the metaphysical
poets.
(k) Modern Era" was begun in English Literature
in 20th century.
(l) The name of University Wits
are John Lyly, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas
Nashe and Christopher Marlowe.
History of English Literature Brief Solution - 2014.
A. During the reign of Edward
-lll the outbreak of plague was known as the Black Death.
B. Morality play is a kind of
allegorical drama having personified with abstract qualities.
C. Elizabethan Age is called the
Golden Age of English Literature.
D. Edmund Spenser is called the
Poet's Poet.
E. Richard Lovelace, Sir John
Suckling, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick are called the Cavalier Poets.
F. Liberty, Equality and
fraternity was the slogan of French Revolution.
G. The Oxford Movement is a
movement of High Church members in London.
H. William Holman Hunt, John Everett
Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are called Pre-Raphaelites.
I. Stream of Consciousness is a
narrative technique that relates the continues flow of thoughts and images in
the mental process of a character.
J) Absurd drama is a type of drama
without traditional plot, character setting and dialogue.
K)"Tradition and Individual
Talent " and " The Function of Criticism
L. Protestants are called
puritan. They were anti-Catholic (the beliefs or principles of a group of English
Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries –according
To oxford)
History of English Literature Brief Solution - 2015
A. The year 1066 is important in
the study of English literary history because at this age "Battle of Hastings”
was started.
B. Each pilgrim told two tells in
"The Canterbury Tales".
C." Areopagitica" is a
prose work written by John Milton. Its theme were liberty, religious, political
or civil.
D. The "Globe Theatre” was a
theatre in London that was associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in
1599.
E. The year 1798 was a landmark
in the history of English Literature because in this year a new age was started
by the joint publication of Lyrical Ballads. The name of the new age was
"Romantic Age".
F. Drama of ideas is a new kind
of drama written by George Barnard Shaw. It deals with witty-humorous
incidents. One best example of " Drama of Ideas" is "Arms and
the Man" by GB Shaw.
G. Restoration took place in 1660
and Charles-ll was restored in England Throne.
H. Neo-classical age, Age of
Reason is also called the age of "Augustan Age".
I.???
J. The nationality of William
Butler Yeats is Irish. He was born in Dublin.
K. The "Oxford Movement
" was a movement of High Church members in London.
L. The two cities referred to in
the Novel "A Tale of Two Cities" are London and Paris.
History of English Literature Brief Solution - 2016
A. Geoffrey Chaucer is called the
father of Old English Poetry.
B. Thomas More wrote Utopia in
Latin.
D. Four plays by William
Shakespeare are
Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice.
E. The purpose of Milton behind
writing "Paradise Lost" is "to justify the ways of God to
men".
F. "Pilgrim's Progress"
is an allegorical work written by John Bunyan.
G. Satire is a literary attack on
the follies and vices of an individual or a society with a view to correcting
them through laughter and ridicule.
H. Alexander Pope is famous for
his satirical poetry. His famous satirical poem is "The Rape of the Lock. He
was a critic also.
I. French Revolution took place
in the year of 1789.
J. William Wordsworth defined poetry as “Spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings... recollected in tranquility".
K. Industrialization signifies
the Victorian Age.
History of
English Literature Brief Solution - 2017
a) Caedmon is a poet of Anglo-Saxon Period
b) Waiting for Godot is a play written by
Samuel Backett.
c) John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Carew,
Richard Crashaw.
d) The comedy of humor is a genre of dramatic
comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters.
e) Gulliver’s Travel
f) Wordsworth and Coleridge.
g) William Wordsworth, St Coleridge and Robert Southey.
h) Oliver Cromwell was an English military and
political leader.
i) Liberty, equality and fraternity.
j) Faerie Queen and Shepherd Calendar.
k) Pamela is a novel by English writer Samuel
Richardson, first published in 1740
l) Denial Defoe.
History of
English Literature Brief Solution - 2018.
a. Old English Period began in 450.
b. John Wycliffe is considered the first
translator of bible.
c. Black Death is a deadly epidemic that
occurred in Asia and Europe.
d. Sir Thomas Malory wrote Morte d’Arther.
e. The gunpowder plot is an attempt by a
group of Catholics.
f. Canterbury Tales is the collection of
stories by Geoffrey Chaucer.
g. The Victorian age is known as the age
of decadence.
h. Victorian society wrestled with conflicts
of morality, technology and industry, faith and doubt, imperialism, and rights
of women and ethnic minorities.
i.
j. The French Revolution.
k. TS Eliot, WB Yeats, Auden are the
prominent poets of modern age.
l. The Oxford movement began in 1833.
History of English Literature Brief Solution - 2019.
A. The masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer is
Canterbury Tales.
B. The Year 1798 is a landmark in the
history of English Literature because in this age a new era was begun by
publishing Lyrical Ballads.
C. The name of the first tragedy in
English Literature is Gorboduc
D. Beowulf is considered as the first
English epic.
E. George Peele, John Lyly, Thomas Nashe, Thomas
Lodge, Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe.
F. Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.
G. The glorious revolution took place in
1789.
H. Edmund Spenser is called the Poet's
Poet.
I. Each pilgrim had to tell four tales. Two
on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back.
J. Milton's Areopagitica is the greatest
prose work of John Milton.
K. John Wycliffe is called the father of
English prose.
L. Some modern poets are W.B Yeats, T.S.
Eliot and W.H.Auden.
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