WRITERS OF ENGLISH
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LITERATURE
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(from Geoffrey Chaucer to the Post Modern Period 1340 2000)
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AGE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. (1340 -1400)
IMP WRITERS
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1) Geoffrey Chaucer

2) William Langland

3) John Wycliffe

4) John Mondeville

5) John Grower

6) Thomas Hoccleave

7) John Lydgate
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AGE OF REVIVAL (1400-1550)
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1) Earl of Surrey

2) Erasmus

3) Thomas Moore

4) William Tyndale

5) Richard Tottel

6) Thomas Wyat

7) Henry Howard

8) Roger Ascham

9) Thomas Elyot

10) Thomas Malory

11) William Dunbar
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ELIZABETHAN AGE (1558- 1603)
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POETS

1) Edmand Spencer

2) Phillip Sidney

3) Thomas Sackville

4) Michael Drayton
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DRAMATISTS

1) Christopher Marlowe

2) Robert Greene

3) Thomas Nash

4) John Lyly

5) Thomas Lodge

6) George Peele

7) Thomas Kyd

8 William Shakespeare
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ESSAYISTS

1) Francis Bacon

2) Richard Hooker

3) Walter Raleigh

4) Richard Hakluyt

5) Samuel Purchase

6) John Foxe
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JACOBIAN (1603-1625) CAROLINE (1629-1649)
COMMONWEALTH or PURITAN INTERREGNUM (1649-1660)
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DRAMATISTS

1) Ben Johnson

2) George Chapman

3) Beamount & Fletcher

4) John Webster

5) Thomas Middleton

6) Thomas Heywood

7) Thomas Dekker

8) Phillip Messinger

9) John Ford

10 James Shirley

11) John Marston
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METAPHYSICAL POETS

1) John Donne

2) Richard Crashaw

3) Henry Vaughan

4) George Herbert

5) Andrew Marwel

6) Abraham Cowley
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CAVALIER POETS

1) Thomas Carew

2) John Suckling

3) Richard Lovelace

4) Robert Herrick
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OTHER WRITERS

1) John Milton

2) John Banyan

3) Robert Burton

4) Thomas Browne

5) Jeremy Taylor

6) Richard Baxter

7) Izzak Walton

8) Thomas Fuller

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RESTORATION PERIOD (1660-1700)
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PROSE WRITERS

1) John Dryden

2) Samuel Butler

3) John Evelyn

4) Samuel Pepys

5) Jeremy Collier

6) William Dampier

7) John Wilmot

8) Thomas Rymer
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DRAMATISTS ( Comedy of Manners)

1) George Etherege

2) William Wycherley

3) George Farquhar

4) John Vanbrugh

5) Colley Cibber

6) Thomas Ottaway

7) William Congrewe

8) Aphera Behn

9) John Gay
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AUGUSTAN AGE (1700-1745)
AGE OF REASON (JOHNSON AGE 1745-1798)
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PROSE WRITERS

1) Alexander Pope

2) Jonathan Swift

3) Richard Steele

4) Joseph Addison

5) Samuel Johnson
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NOVELISTS

1) Daniel Defoe

2) Samuel Richardson

3) Laurence Sterne

4) Tobis Smolett

5) Charlotte Lennox
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POETS

1) Thomas Gray

2) Oliver Goldsmith

3) William Cowper

4) Robert Burns

5) William Blake

6) James Thompson

7) William Collins

8) George Crabbe

9) James MacPherson

10) Thomas Chatterton

11) Thomas Percy

12) John Stagg
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ROMANTIC AGE (1798-1837)
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POETS
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1) William Wordsworth

2) Samuel Coleridge

3) Robert Southey

4) Lord Byron

5) P B Shelly

6) John Keats

7) John Clare
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PROSE WRITERS

1) William Hazlett

2) Thomas De Quincy

3) Charles Lamb

4) Leigh Hunt
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NOVELISTS

1) Walter Scott

2) Jane Austen

3) Walter Savage Lander

4) Mary Shelley

5) Ann Redcliff

6) Horace Walpole

7) Fanney Browne

8) William Godwin

9) Richard Sheridan
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VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)
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POETS
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1) Alfred Lord Tennyson

2) Robert Browning

3) E B Browning

4) D G Rossetti

5)

Christine Rossetti

6) William Morris

7) A C Swinburne

8) G M Hopkins

9) Edward Fitzgerald
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NOVILSTS
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1) Charles Dickens

2) W M Tackrey

3) George Eliot

4) Charles Reade

5) Anony Trollope

6) Charlotte Bronte

7) Emily Bronte

8) Ann Bronte

9) Bulwer Layton

10) Charles Kingsley

11) Elizabeth Gaskell

12) R D Blackmore

13) George Meredith

14) Thomas Hardy

15) R L Stivanson

16) Lewis Carroll

17) Wikie Collins

18) A C Doyle
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ESSAYISTS

1) T B acaulay

2) Thomas Carlyle

3) John Ruskin

4) Mathew Arnold

5) J H Newman

6) Walter Pater

7) Oscar Wilde
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MODERN AGE (1901-1950)
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NOVILSTS
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1) Joseph Conrad

2) D H Lawrence

3) Virginia Woolf

4) George Orwell

5) H G Wells

6) Aldous Huxley

7) Grahame Greene

8) E M Forster

9) Ford Maddox Ford

10) Arnold Bennett

11) JM Barrie

12) Rudyard Kipling

13) Samuel Butler
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DRAMATISTS

1) George Barnard Shaw

2) A W Pinaro

3) John Galsworthy

4) H G Barker

5) W S Gilbert

6) John Mansfield

7)J M Synge

8) Sean O Casey
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POETS
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1) T S Elliot

2) W H Auden

3) W B Yeats

4) Siegfried Sassoon

5) Wilfred Owen

6) Rupert Broke

7) Robert Graves

8) Dylan Thomas

9) John Masefield

10) Alfred Noyes

11) A E Housman
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POST MODERN AGE (1950-2000)
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NOVELISTS

1) Agatha Christie

2) Jeanette Winterson

3) J R R Tolkien

4) Bram Stoker

5) Christopher Isherwood

6) Bertrand Russell

7) J M Priestly

8) Somerset Maugham

9) Dorris Lessing

10) J K Rowling

11) William Goldings

12) Ian Macwan

13) Lawrence Durrell

14) Graham Swift

15) Martin Amis

16) Iris Murdoch

17) John Fowles

18) Muriel Spark

19) A S Byatt

20) Malcolm Bradbury

21) Angela Carter

22) Patrick Kavanagh

23) J P Doneavey

24) Antony Powell

25) David Storey

26) Joyce Cary

27) Angus Wilson

28) Anthony Burgess

29) Peter Ackroyd

DRAMATISTS
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1) Alan Bennett

2) Noel Coward

3) Christopher Fry

4) Harold Pinter

5) Samuel Beckett

6) Edward Bound

7) Tom Stoppard

8) Terrence Rattigan

9) Arnold Wesker

10) John Osbourne

11) Caryl Churchill

POETS
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1) Seamus Heaney

2) Ted Hughes

3) Phillip Larkin

4) Roy Fuller

5) Thom Gunn

6) J H Prynne

7) Geoffrey Hill
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पुणे विद्यापीठ (सेट)

Pakistan (b) Clear Light of the Day (c) Midnight's Children (d) The Great Indian Novel✅

"Beautiful" - Whose last word was this? (a) Virginia Woolf (b) Keats (c) Charlotte Bronte (d) Barrett Browning✅

Who is England's 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet'? (a) Thomson (b) Crabbe (c) Clare✅ (d) Collins

Who among the following 19th century poets is today hailed as 'the greatest proletarian poet of England'? (a) Crabbe (b) Byron (c) Wilde (d) Clare✅

John Clare (1793-1864) was a poet of (a) the English urban life (b) the English country side✅ (c) the human predicament (d) God's glory

Which of the following is a sonnet by Keats? (a) Sleep and Poetry (b) When I have fears that I may cease to be ✅(c) The Curse of Kehama (d) Pleasures of Hope

Retreat to what Vaughan longs for in his poem The Retreat? (a) angel infancy ✅(b) morbid youth (c) heavenly home (d) blissful paradise

Who is the 'busy old fool' in Donne's poem The Sun Rising? (a) Moon (b) child (c) old man (d) Sun✅

"I caught this morning morning's minion" - In this line from Hopkin's The Windover who is the 'morning's minion'? (a) sun (b) falcon✅ (c) breeze (d) dew


Whick English poet is associated with 'Terrible Sonnets'?

(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) Donne
(c) Hopkins ✅
(d) Dylan Thomas

In which poem does Pope present essayist Addison as Atticus?

(a) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ✅
(b) Mac Flecknoe
(c) Dunciard
(d) An Essay on Man

In Lycidas, what does "Camus, reverend Sire,"(line 103) represent?

(a) pagan spirituality
(b) Christian Enlightenment
(c) Cambridge University✅
(d) Roman God

Intermixing gods and saints, nymphs and angels, which Miltom poem blends the pagan and the christian?

(a) Paradise Lost
(b) Paradise Regained
(c) Lycidas✅
(d) The Passion

A post-Tennyson poet laureate, little remembered today, won the postion for political rather than poetical reasons. The so-called poet is

(a) Nahum Tate✅
(b) John Masefield
(c) Robert Bridges
(d) Alfred

Which stamp-vendor won doctorate from Oxford and rose to be the poet-laureate of England?

(a) Southey
(b) Bridges
(c) Betjeman
(d) Wordsworth✅

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe is a Varronian satire while Orwell's Animal Farm is a (a) Juvanalian Satire✅ (b) Horatian Satire (c) Menippean Satire (d) none of these
Who is believed to be the pioneer of the so called New Criticism?

A. John Crowe Ransom✅
B. F. R. Leavis
C. I. A. Richards
D. T. S. Eliot

1. Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory was published in?
✅A. 1940
B. 1938
C. 1942
D. 1941

2. All about H Hatter(1948) was written by
✅A. G.V Desani
B. C. P. Snow
C. Milan Kundera
D. J. P. Donleavy

3. In which novel does Graham Greene satirizes spy novels?
A. The Power and The Glory
B. The Quiet American
✅C. Our Man in Havana
D. Brighton Rock

4. Passage to India was composed by
A. E.M. Foster
✅B. Walt Whitman
C. Nirad C. Chaudhari
D. Macaulay

5. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas(1971) was a novel by
A. Amitav Ghosh
B. Khushwant Singh
✅C. Arun Joshi
D. Vikram Chandra

6. Who is regarded as the first woman poet in Australia?
✅A. Ada Cambridge
B. Judith Wright
C. Rosemary Dobson
D. Amanda Stuart

7. Which novel by an Indian administrator exposes the moribund culture of Babudom?
A. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
B. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
C. The Last Labyrinth
✅D. English August : An Indian Story


8. A Dance in the Forests(1960), a celebration of Nigerian Independence, was written by
A. Chinua Achebe
✅B. Wole Soyinka
C. Ngugi wa Thiango
D. Flora Nwapa

9. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel was written by
✅A. Patrick White
B. Judith Wright
C. A.D. Hope
D. Kenneth Slessor

10. Mandela's Ego is a novel by
✅A. Lewis Nkosi
B. Nadine Gordimer
C. Leon Damas
D. Christopher O Kigbo

NET SET English
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Who was the editor of the journal 'Scrutiny'?
a. Dr.Johnson
b. T.S.Eliot
c.Joseph Addision
d.FR.Leavis✅

The Old Man And Sea in Marathi Translation

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