A. Charles Dickens
B. W. M. Thackeray
C. Graham Greene
D. D. H. Lawrence
Related Mcqs:
- Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheard’s Calendar was published ?
A. Edward
B. Jonathan
C. Immanuel
D. Immerito - According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?
A. Genteel
B. Symbolist
C. Impressionist
D. Decadent - Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Earl of Surrey
D. Milton - Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ?
A. P.B. Shelley
B. Charles Lamb
C. Hazlitt
D. Coleridge - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - The Archangel Michael might best be described as ?
A. Jealous and envious
B. Bombastic
C. Firm and militant
D. Kind and caring - When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________?
A. The New Testament
B. Homer’s epic poems
C. The Hebrew Bible
D. The Koran - Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism?
A. Formalist Criticism
B. Deconstructionism
C. Structuralism
D. Mimetic Criticism - What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and David Collings argue about “Queer Romanticism” ?
A. Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.
B. Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.
C. The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.
D. The “Queer Gothic” is understudied. - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?
A. FR Leavis
B. Harold Bloom
C. William Empson
D. Mariella Frostrup
