Literature Quest notes

  Jonathan Swift ●       He was born on 30 November 1667 at Dublin, Ireland ●       Died on 19 October 1745, Ireland ●       He was an Anglo Irish Satirist, Essayist and Political Pamphleter ( Whig) ●       Writer of Augustan Age. ●       Nick Name- Dean Swift ( became Dean of St.Patrick Cathedral) ●       Pen Name- Issac Bickersraff, M.B.Drapier, Lamuel Gulliver, Simon Wagstaff ●       Member of Scriblerrus Group ●       His epitaph written by himself - “Here is laid the body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Scared Theology”. Works of Swift - A TALE OF A TUB- ●       1st major work written by Swift. ●       Published- 1704 ●       It is a prose Parody, satire on religion ●   ...

  FRANCIS BACON ●       Born on 22 Jan 1561 at York House, London ●       Died on 9 April, 1626 ●       Father's Name- Nicholas Bacon ●       He belongs to Renaissance period, Jacobean age prose writer. ●       Known as Father of English Essay ●       Influenced by Michael De Montaigne ( French Writer) ●       Montaigne- Father Of Essay ●       Education- Trinity College Cambridge ( Without Degree) ●       Associated with Gray's Inn ( To practice as a   Barrister) ●       At Cambridge he first met Queen Elizabeth ●       “The Young Lord Keeper”. ●       Pope- ‘The wisest, the brightest, the meanest of mankind”.   ( Essay on man Epistle 4) ●  ...

Selected and Most Important MCQs On English Literature Q1. Addison's tragedy 'Cato’ has been called- The Last Of The Elizabethan Tragedy The Tomb Of The Heroic Plays The Grave Of English Tragedy The Burial Of Classical Tragedy Q2. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact “ In which play do these lines occur? As you Like It Much Ado About Nothing A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth Night Q3. “This rough magic, here I abjure,,,I will break my staff Who speaks these words Dr. Faustus Nick Bottom Prospero Miranda Q4. Who knows the world may end tonight ? These lines are taken from Rabbi Ben Ezra Pippa Passes The last Ride Together Ulysses Q5. What was the name of the Periodical brought out by Daniel Defoe? The Review The Idler The Morning News The Tatler Q6. Whose Essays have appeared under the title Midnight On The Desert? Daniel Defoe John Ruskin J.B. Pristeley E. V...

  OLIVER GOLDSMITH BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS   ●       Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo Irish Novelist, Dramatist and Poet. ●       He was born on 10 November 1728 in Ireland ●       Died in 4 April 1774. (London) ●       Attend Trinity College Dublin Ireland. ●       He was popularly known for his Novel the vicar of wakefield ●       In 1756 he moved to London       Famous works ●       The Vicar Of Wakefield ●       The Deserted Village ●       She Stoops to Conquer ●       The Traveller ●       Good Natured Man ●       Citizens of the World ●       The Hermit ●       Elegy on the Death of a Mad ...