A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. Earnest Hemingway
D. Lawrence
Related Mcqs:
- Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ ?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Homer
C. Lord Tennison
D. Ernest Hemingway - Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ ?
A. TS Eliot
B. Lord Tennyson
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Shakespeare - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
A. Jonson
B. Bacon
C. Wordsworth
D. none of above - Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?
A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem. - Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” ?
A. Fortinbras
B. Marcellus
C. Chorus
D. Horatio - Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’ ?
A. How do I love thee
B. Ode to a Grecian urn
C. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
D. Let me not to the marriage of true minds - “Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?
A. Rancher
B. Male partner in a marriage
C. Cowboy
D. Man of ordinary status - “Milton, thou should’st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.” Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats - Who wrote “Take up the White Man’s burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-” in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?
A. Charles Baudelaire
B. William Butler Yeats
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Napoleon III - Pope’s comment that “Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man” in his “Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT______________?
A. his use of the heroic couplet.
B. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.
C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.
D. a radical questioning of revealed religion