Important titles taken from.!!
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[ ] Arms and Men (Shaw) - Virgil's Aeneid
[ ] Captain Courageous (Kipling) - Mary Ambree
[ ] Where Angles Fear to Tread ( E M Foster) - An Essay on Criticism
[ ] Passage to India - Leaves of Grass
[ ] Cakes and Ale,or The Skelton in the Cupboard(Maugham) - Twelfth night
[ ] Appointment in Samaria ( John Hora) - A Merchant in Bagdad(Maugham)
[ ] Antic Hay ( Huxley)s- EdwardII (Marlowe)
[ ] Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)- The Tables Turned ( Wordsworth)
[ ] After Many a Summer (Huxley)- Tennyson's Tithonus
[ ] Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley)- Henry IV. Part 1
[ ] The Less Deceived (Larkin)- The Tempest
[ ] Darkness visible ( Golding)- The Paradise Lost
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[ ] Arms and Men (Shaw) - Virgil's Aeneid
[ ] Captain Courageous (Kipling) - Mary Ambree
[ ] Where Angles Fear to Tread ( E M Foster) - An Essay on Criticism
[ ] Passage to India - Leaves of Grass
[ ] Cakes and Ale,or The Skelton in the Cupboard(Maugham) - Twelfth night
[ ] Appointment in Samaria ( John Hora) - A Merchant in Bagdad(Maugham)
[ ] Antic Hay ( Huxley)s- EdwardII (Marlowe)
[ ] Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)- The Tables Turned ( Wordsworth)
[ ] After Many a Summer (Huxley)- Tennyson's Tithonus
[ ] Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley)- Henry IV. Part 1
[ ] The Less Deceived (Larkin)- The Tempest
[ ] Darkness visible ( Golding)- The Paradise Lost
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Some facts.!!
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◼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".
◼The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.
◼A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.
◼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.
◼‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
◼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.
◼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
◼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.
◼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.
◼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.
◼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.
◼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”
◼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.
◼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.
◼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.
◼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.
◼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.
◼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.
◼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.
◼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.
◼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.
◼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.
◼Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.
◼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.
◼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.
◼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.
◼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'
◼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.
◼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.
◼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."
◼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.
◼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
◼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
◼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.
◼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.
◼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.
◼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.
◼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.
◼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.
◼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.
◼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.
◼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.
◼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
◼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.
◼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
◼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.
◼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.
◼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet
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◼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".
◼The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.
◼A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.
◼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.
◼‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
◼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.
◼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
◼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.
◼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.
◼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.
◼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.
◼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”
◼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.
◼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.
◼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.
◼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.
◼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.
◼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.
◼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.
◼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.
◼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.
◼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.
◼Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.
◼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.
◼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.
◼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.
◼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'
◼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.
◼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.
◼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."
◼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.
◼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
◼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
◼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.
◼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.
◼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.
◼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.
◼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.
◼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.
◼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.
◼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.
◼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.
◼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
◼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.
◼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
◼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.
◼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.
◼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet
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