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Category: Ages, era, period
What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
A. Augustan
B. Metaphysical
C. Romantic
D. Neo-Romantic
When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
A. The closing of theatres
B. The return of the King.
C. King Arthurs’ dead
D. King to exile
who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
A. greek and austrian
B. roman and french
C. roman and greek
D. french and greek
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
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
Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
A. Elizabeth Eisenstein
B. Johannes Gutenberg
C. Henry VIII
D. William Caxton
Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses
Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the bluestockings
B. the coteries of plenty
C. the Pre-Raphaelites
D. the tattlers and spectators
What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley’s poems to the working classes ?
A Song: “Men of England” and England in 1819?
A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
B. the Battle of Waterloo
C. the Peterloo Massacre
D. the storming of the Bastille
Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
A. D.G Rossetti
B. Tennyson
C. Robert Browning
D. George Eliot
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