BCS Preliminary Preparation English Literature Part- 01
Literary Periods, Terms and Writers
Geoffrey Chaucer was a-poet and diplomat.
The unfinished work of Geoffrey Chaucer- The House of Fame.
Shakespeare is called – The Bard of Avon.
To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from-Hamlet.
A speech or monologue spoken by a single character in a theatrical play or drama is called-Soliloquy.
The central idea of Under the Greenwood Tree’ is life in nature is simple and free.
Othello gave Desdemona-as a token of love.-a handkerchief
Shakespeare is known mostly for his-plays.
The plays ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Julius Caesar’ Hamlet Troilus and Cressida’ ‘Othello” King Lear’ Macbeth” Antonio and Cleopatra’ and ‘Cymbeline’ are written by-Shakespeare.
The Faerie Queen’ written by Edmund Spenser is- an allegorical epic.
The essays’ Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Marriage and Single Life’ are written by- Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon was assigned with the Attorney General and Lord Chancellor.
Francis Bacon is called the father of English Essay.
The Battle of Books ”A tale of Tub’ and ‘Gulliver Travels’ are written by- Jonathan Swift.
Jonathan Swift is a famous satirist.
Using ‘Dramatic Monologue’ successfully in the poem is done by— Robert Browning.
The poems ‘The Patrioť and ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ are written by- Robert Browning.
Thomas Gray is famous for his-elegies.
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and critic.
The poems ‘The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and No Second Troy’ are written by-W.B. Yeats.
The last poem of W.B. Yeats is— The Second Coming.
The poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by- Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The novel’ Ulysses’ is written by— the Irish writer James Joyce.
James Joyce is famous for his narrative technique- The Stream of Consciousness.
Quotations
‘Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain’— Matthew Arnold
Man is by nature a political animal.- Aristotle
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.’- Alexander Pope
Books, the children of the brain’ – Jonathan Swift
‘Cowards die many times before their deaths.’- William Shakespeare
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair.’ – William Shakespeare
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -William Shakespeare
