English Literature

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1. Jeremy Collier�s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among     others.   (A) John Bunyan  (B) Thomas Rhymer  (C) William Congreve  (D) Henry Fielding 2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by (A) Charles Darwin  (B) Edward Moxon  (C) Joseph Paxton (D) Richard Owen 3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of (A) G.B. Shaw (B) Noel Coward  (C) Tom Stoppard  (D) T.S. Eliot 4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings ? (A) The land of the Lilliputians  (B) The land of the Brobdingnagians  (C) The land of the Laputans  (D) The land of the Houyhnhnms 5. Patrick White�s Voss is a novel about (A) the sea  (B) the capital market  (C) the landscape  (D) the judicial system 6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are (A) Welsh...

I.A. Richards: A Critic Life and Works-    Ivor Armstrong Richards Was born in 1893 and was educated at Clifton and Magdalene College , Cambridge, where in 1912 he was also appointed a professor of English Literature. Later he became one of the Pioneers of New Criticism . His works include- 1 . The Foundations of Aesthetics   (1922), Co-authored with C. K. Ogden and James Wood.   2 . The Principles of Literary Criticism   (London, 1924; New York, 1925)    3 . Science and Poetry   (London,   1926).   4 . Practical Criticism   (1929).   5 . Coleridge on Imagination   (London, 1934; New York, 1935).   6 . Speculative Instruments (London, 1955).   7 . 'So Much Nearer: Essays toward a World English   (New York, 1960, 1968), includes the important essay, "The Future of Poetry."

Ode to Melancholy Stanza I The first stanza tells what not to do: The sufferer should not �go to Lethe,� or forget their sadness (Lethe is the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology); should not commit suicide (nightshade, �the ruby grape of Prosperpine,� is a poison; Prosperpine is the mythological queen of the underworld); and should not become obsessed with objects of death and misery (the beetle, the death-moth, and the owl). For, the speaker says, that will make the anguish of the soul drowsy, and the sufferer should do everything he can to remain aware of and alert to the depths of his suffering. No, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist   Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;   �           Lethe : river in the underworld Hades in which souls about to be reborn bathed to forget the past; hence, river of forgetfulness. �          wolf's-bane : poison. This name is the direct ...