SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

✅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.

✅ There are five principal sources of sublimity 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 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.