Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?

   A. \Air and Angels\
   B. \Satire 3\
   C. \The Apparition\
   D. \The Indifferent\

2. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?

   A. the Petrarchan sonnet
   B. the classical satire
   C. the country-house poem
   D. the epigram

3. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Ben Jonson
   D. George Herbert

4. John Donne’s “The Anniversaries” is a______________?

   A. An elegy in two parts
   B. An epic in three parts
   C. A ballad in four parts
   D. None of these

5. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?

   A. Othello
   B. Volpone
   C. King Lear
   D. Antony and Cleopatra

6. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?

   A. Cavalcanti
   B. Castiglione
   C. Pirandello
   D. Boccaccio

7. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

8. They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage ?

   A. Moral/Philosophical
   B. Formalism/New Criticism
   C. Historical/Biographical
   D. Psychological

9. Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?

   A. “Tintern Abbey”
   B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
   C. “El Cid”
   D. “The Wasteland”

10. Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?”

    A. Wilfred Owen
    B. Siegfried Sassoon
    C. Rupert Brooke
    D. Rudyard Kipling