important work from important ages

AGE OF SHAKESPEARE

🟤 Mother Hubbard's Tale is dedicated to Anne, daughter of John Spencer.

🟤 Bacon fashioned Latin works based on the concept Instauratio Magna or The Great Instauratiou.

🟤 The plot of Lyly’s Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit is borrowed from Boccaccio.

🟤 The Father of English Dramatic Poetry Christopher Marlowe.

🟤 Pope’s edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1725.

🟤 Pericles is based on John Gower's work Confessio Amantis.

🟤 Middleton play praised by Lamb and others is The Changeling.

 

AGE OF MILTON

 

🟤 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh said of Milton: “Almost all men are less humorous than Shakespeare but most men are more humorous than Milton.

🟤 Blake in his The Marriage of Heaven and Hell commented Milton was “the Devil’s party without knowing it”.

🟤 Donne’s last sermon is Death Dwell (1630).

🟤 Milton wrote 23 sonnets in Petrarchan form out of which 5 are written in Latin.

🟤 The volumnous work of Robert Burton which considerably influenced Dr Johnson, Lawrence Stern and Charles Lamb is Anatomy of Meloncholy.

🟤 The monster Leviathan in Hobbe's work Leviathan is The state.

🟤 Swift’s work suggested by  Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress is A Take of a Tub.

🟤 The number of characters in Bishop Hall's 'characters of virtues and vices' is 30.

 

AGE OF DRYDEN 

 

🟤 In his Preface to the Fables, Dryden vigorously attack his adversaries – Milbourne, Blackmore and Collier.

🟤 In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, Corah stands for Titus Oates.

🟤 Dryden is credited for creating the modern prose style through his essays like Essay on Satire and Essay on Epic Poetry.

🟤 Dryden introduced the 'Critical Essay'.

🟤 Rhymed heroic play introduced by Sir William D’avenant was later popularised by Dryden.

🟤 William Congreve's reply to Jeremy Collier's A Short view of the Immortality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) is Amendments of Mr. Collier’s false and Imperfect citations.

🟤 Wycherley's Love in a wood is dedicated to the mistress of Charles II.

🟤 “No theatre in the world has anything so absurd as tragic comedies” – Lisideius says in Dryden’s of Dramatic Poesy.

 

AGE OF POPE 

 

🟤 Pope’s philosophical poem Essay on Man inspired by Horace's Are Poetics is addressed to Bolingbroke.

🟤 Pope’s descriptive poem suggested by Denham's Cooper's Hill is Windsor Forest.

🟤 Goldsmith’s poem anticipating Byron where he portrayed himself as a solitary disillusioned figure is The Deserted Village.

🟤 Name the poems of Goldsmith that were described by Swinburne as “priceless and adorable power of sweet human emotion” The Deserted Village and The Traveller.

🟤 The poem Ode on Solitude was composed by Pope.

🟤 The critic who said, “Pope’s Essay on Criticism is all stolen” is Lady M. W. Montague.

🟤 The Spleen is the pindaric ode written by Lady Winchelsea.

🟤 Mathew Prior's work modelled on Butler’s Hudibras is Alma or The Progress of the Mind.

AGE OF JOHNSON

🟤 Through his periodical 'The Examiner', Swift attacked impostures in the person of John partridge.

🟤 The story of Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto is set in Italy the 12th and 15th centuries.

🟤 Stern’s novel which is regarded as the progenitor of 20th century stream of consciousness novel is Tristram Shandy.

🟤 Smollett's novel, which chronicles the observations of a Welsh family, a group of delightful additions on a tour through England, Scotland and Wales is The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.

🟤 Henry  Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is called 'a comic epic in prose'.

🟤 Dr. Johnson used Goldsmith’s novel The Vicar of Wakefield as a vehicle for moral philosophy in his Rasselas.

🟤 Dr.Johnson said “nothing odd will do long, Tristram Shandy did not last".

🟤 Henry Fielding’s biography of a thief is Jonathan wild the Great, 1704.

 

AGE OF WORDSWORTH

🟤 Rousseau is the author of Emile, a treatise on educational influenced the Romantic movement.

🟤 Wordsworth in his Tables Turned tells the scholar to do away with books of make Nature his teacher.

🟤 Shelley called Keats 'a Greek’ for his preoccupation with Hellenism in poetry.

🟤 Byron’s epic satire written in ottava rima, which is like a picaresque novel cast into verse is Don Juan.

🟤 Porphyro and Madeline are the lovers in Keats The Eve of St.Agnes. 

🟤 Walter Scott wrote the ballad Lenore in Radha Makadiya:

and Wales is The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.

🟤 Henry  Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is called 'a comic epic in prose'.

🟤 Dr. Johnson used Goldsmith’s novel The Vicar of Wakefield as a vehicle for moral philosophy in his Rasselas. 

🟤 Dr.Johnson said “nothing odd will do long, Tristram Shandy did not last”.

🟤 Henry Fielding’s biography of a thief is Jonathan wild the Great, 1704.

 

AGE OF TENNYSON

🟤 Tennyson's last poem written in anticipation of his death is The Dreamer.

🟤 Arnold’s poem The Scholar Gipsy is set in Oxford.

🟤 In the poem Crossing the Bar Tennyson visualizes his own death.

🟤 The theme of The Lotus Eaters is borrowed from Homer’s Odyssey.

🟤 The critic who supported the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers is John Ruskin.

🟤 Mathew Arnold said “Man must begin where nature ends”.

🟤 “ I have no brains above my eyes// I describe what I see”. The writer who said this about himself is Thackeray.

🟤 Dickens' novel dealing with the newAnarchy manufacturing system is Hard Times.

🟤 The mask of Anarchy is a satire by Shelley.

🟤 Keats said “If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”.