Essential facts about English Literature
1_ The English language is split into three large time periods, each represented by a main author or work: Old English (Beowulf), Middle English (Geoffrey Chaucer), and Modern English (William Shakespeare).
2_ The oldest surviving English text is Caedmon’s Hymn of Creation.
3_ When King Henry VIII had England’s monasteries burned down in 1535, many of the oldest texts written in English also went up in flames.
4_ The first novel wasn’t written in English (critics usually give that honor to Cervantes’ Don Quixote), but the first extremely successful novel was: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
5_ Works written in English have won twenty-six Nobel Prizes in Literature, more than any other language. Of those twenty-six, nine were won by authors from the United Kingdom.
6_ Bede- the father of English learning. The first Historian.
7_ Caedmon- the first English poet.
8_ Cynewulf- first writer to sign his works.
9_ Alfred- first prose writer in English.
10_ Chaucer- father of English literature
11_ Dryden- father of English criticism
2_ The oldest surviving English text is Caedmon’s Hymn of Creation.
3_ When King Henry VIII had England’s monasteries burned down in 1535, many of the oldest texts written in English also went up in flames.
4_ The first novel wasn’t written in English (critics usually give that honor to Cervantes’ Don Quixote), but the first extremely successful novel was: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
5_ Works written in English have won twenty-six Nobel Prizes in Literature, more than any other language. Of those twenty-six, nine were won by authors from the United Kingdom.
6_ Bede- the father of English learning. The first Historian.
7_ Caedmon- the first English poet.
8_ Cynewulf- first writer to sign his works.
9_ Alfred- first prose writer in English.
10_ Chaucer- father of English literature
11_ Dryden- father of English criticism
12-Repetition of same vowel sound ?
Assonance
13)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Keats
14)Wuthering heights written by ?
Hardy
15-The poem "Byzantium" is written about ?
Imaginary city
16-)Carl sadburg born at ?
Illinois
17-)T.S Eliot was ?
Irish poet
18-Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ezra Pound
19-Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ben johnson
20Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
England
21-) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?
Two
22-Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
I chose "diphthongs" but later I came to know right option was other,don't remember right now.
23-)Semantics meaning ?
I chose "to relate" but I came to know that it's "Study of meanings"
(Linguistics chor k short stories opt ki theen and I suffered in test)
24-)Word language consists of two_____ words
Latin
25-Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Golding
26-"Everyman in his humour" written by ?
Ben johnson
27-) Caretaker written by ?
Pinter
28-)Waiting for Godot's originol language ?
French
29- Stream of consciousness ?
Virginia woolf
30- "Sejanus" is satirical tragedy by ?
Ben johnson
31-)Winding Stair is poem by ?
W.B.Yeats
32- Synaethesia
Unification of senses
33-) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
H.G Wells
34-The egoist written by ?
George Meredith
35-) Hardy's own classification of novels?
Three
Assonance
13)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Keats
14)Wuthering heights written by ?
Hardy
15-The poem "Byzantium" is written about ?
Imaginary city
16-)Carl sadburg born at ?
Illinois
17-)T.S Eliot was ?
Irish poet
18-Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ezra Pound
19-Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ben johnson
20Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
England
21-) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?
Two
22-Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
I chose "diphthongs" but later I came to know right option was other,don't remember right now.
23-)Semantics meaning ?
I chose "to relate" but I came to know that it's "Study of meanings"
(Linguistics chor k short stories opt ki theen and I suffered in test)
24-)Word language consists of two_____ words
Latin
25-Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Golding
26-"Everyman in his humour" written by ?
Ben johnson
27-) Caretaker written by ?
Pinter
28-)Waiting for Godot's originol language ?
French
29- Stream of consciousness ?
Virginia woolf
30- "Sejanus" is satirical tragedy by ?
Ben johnson
31-)Winding Stair is poem by ?
W.B.Yeats
32- Synaethesia
Unification of senses
33-) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
H.G Wells
34-The egoist written by ?
George Meredith
35-) Hardy's own classification of novels?
Three
Important points.........
1. Morning star of Reformation - John Wycliff
2. The child of Renaissance - Spenser
3. 20th century Dryden - T.S. Eliot
4. Mulkraj Anand of America - Arthur Miller
5. The Poet of Terror - Robert Frost
6. The voice of humanist Puritanism - Addison
7. Poet’s Poet - Spenser
8. Critic’s Critic - Hazlitt
9. Bard of Avon - Shakespeare
10. Sweet swan of Avon - Shakespeare
11. The Chaucer of Scotland - William Dunber
12. The Seneca of America - Emerson
13. The Wisest fool - Mohammed Bin Tuqlak
14. The Boon from heaven - Mother Teresa
15. The Archangel slightly damaged - Coleridge
16. England’s first historian - Bede
17. Lady of the Christ College - Milton
18. Master of the Grand style - Milton
19. Poet of the Devil’s Party - Milton
20. The morning star of the drama - Marlow
21. Young Juvenill - Thomas Nash
22. Fore runner of humarist - Thomas Decker
23. Master of heroic couplets - John Dryden &
Pope
24. Originator of the form of the novel -
Richardson
25. The last inheritor of Addison & Steele -
Oliver Goldsmith
26. Pre-cursors of Romantic Movement -
Thomas Gray & Francis Thomas
27. Lake Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Southey
28. Chameleon Poet - John Keats
29. Egotistical Sublime - William Wordsworth
30. Representative Poet - Tennyson
1. Father of English History - Saint Bede
( 672/673 – 735 )
2. Father of English Literature , Poetry ,
Language & Short Story - Geoffrey Chaucer
(1343? – 1400)
3. Father of English Drama - William
Shakespeare
(1564 – 1616)
4. Father of English Criticism - John Dryden
(1631 – 1700)
5. Father of English Novel - Daniel Defoe(1659 –
1731)
6. Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel -
James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
7. Father of English Tragedy - Christopher
Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
8. Father of English One Act Play - Samuel
Johnson (1709 – 1784)
9. Father of English Romanticism - Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge (1772 – 1834) William Wordsworth
(1770 – 1850)
10. Father of English Grammar - Lindley Murray
(1745 – 1826)
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11. Father of English Essay - Francis Bacon(1561 – 1626)
12. Father of English Mystery Plays - Edger Allen
Poe (1809 – 1849)
13. Father of Epic Poetry - Homer
14. Father of English Press - William Caxton
15. Father of Modern theatre - Henrik Ibsen
Famous Fathers
*******************
Father of Psychology---Sigmund Freud
Father of cloning---Ian Wilmut
Father of Printing---Guttenberg
Father of History---Herodotus
Father of Economics---Adam Smith
Father of Philosophy---Socrates
Father of sociology---Augustus Comte
Father of English Poetry---Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of Biology---Aristotle
Father of Essay---Montaigne
Father of Medicine---Hippocrates
Father of Homeopathy---Samuel Haniman
Father of Socialism---Robert Owen
Father of Scientific Socialism---Karl Marx
Bacon- father of English esaay.
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