‘On Translating Homer’ is written by________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

2. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

3. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?

   A. human reverence for the classics
   B. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks
   C. pride for the vernacular language
   D. a and c only

4. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?

   A. Macpherson
   B. Merlin
   C. Decameron
   D. Ossian

5. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?

   A. Macpherson
   B. Merlin
   C. Decameron
   D. Ossian

6. ‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?

   A. Huxley
   B. Carlyle
   C. Ruskin
   D. Mill

7. The poem “Wind” is written by________________?

   A. Shelley
   B. John Ashbery
   C. Sylvia Plath
   D. Ted Hughes

8. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by________________?

   A. P.B. Shelley
   B. John Keats
   C. John Milton
   D. William Blake

9. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by________________?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Milton
   C. Coleridge
   D. Keats

10. ‘The Excursion’ was written by________________?

    A. Coleridge
    B. Blake
    C. Shelley
    D. None of these

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