A. W. B. Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Seamus Heaney
D. none of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
A. Ulster
B. the Protectorate
C. the Pale
D. West Britain - In what year did Ireland acquire national independence ?
A. 1847
B. 1893
C. 1906
D. 1922 - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes - Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
A. charity
B. patronage
C. censorship
D. subscription - Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
A. snide indifference
B. biblical reverence
C. condemning censure
D. satirical derision - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above. - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above - Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
