HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIOD:
1. Romantic Period started in 1798 with the publication of Lyrical Ballads.
2. Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Coleridge.
3. The slogan of the French Revolution was “Liberty, Fraternity and Equality”.
4. Romantic Period ended with the first Reformation Act in 1832.
5. Major works of Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Prelude (1850), The Excursion, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, We are Seven, Lucy Gray, The Rainbow, The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper, An Evening Walk (1793) and Descriptive Sketches (1793).
6. Major works of Coleridge (1772 – 1834): Biographia Literaria (1817), Table Talk, The Rime of Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel
7. Churchyard Poets wrote the poetry that suffered from the melancholic strain.
8. The Castle of Indolence was written by James Thomson.
9. Pamela, Clarissa Harloue, and Sir Charles Grandison are the epistolary novels of Richardson.
10. An epistolary novel is written in the form of letters.
11. Robert Burn is known as a Ploughman Poet.
12. Samuel Johnson wrote ‘Rasselas’ in order to pay for his mother’s funeral.
13. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones was a novel dedicated to George Lyttleton.
14. The Circulatory Libraries were popular during the eighteenth century.
15. Thomas Love Peacock in his Nightmare Abbey satirized Coleridge and Shelley.
16. Jane Austen’s subject matter for her novels is human nature.
17. Blake’s the Book of Horizen is about the origin of evil.
18. Dr. Johnson’s dictionary came out in 1755.
19. The first addition of Encyclopedia appeared in 1771.
20. The year 1776 is associated with American Independence.
21. The phrase ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’ is associated with Coleridge.
22. The French Revolution took place in 1789.
23. Coleridge’s ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’ is addressed to Charles Lamb.
24. Coleridge divided the imagination into the primary and the secondary ones.
25. Byron’s Manfred is autobiographical work.
26. Byron satirizes Britain in his Don Juan.
27. Shelley’s Queen Mab is about religious persecution and domestic bondage.
28. Matthew Arnold called Shelley ‘an ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings of vain’.
29. Cockney School of Poetry is a phrase coined on analogy with the ‘Lake School’.
30. Adonais is an elegy on Keats’s death written by Shelley.
31. Hellenism is the characteristic of Keats’s poetry.
32. Shelley said that Keats was Greek.
33. Arnold compared Keats with Shakespeare as respect of compressing vast images into precise expressions.
34. Keats said, ‘My name is writ in water.’
35. The Novels of Walter Scot deal with scenes of Scotland.
36. The phrase ‘Waverly Novels’ is associated with Walter Scott.
37. The post of Poet Laureate went to Robert Southey because of refusal of Walter Scott.
38. The word ‘Elia’ is associated with Charles Lamb.
39. The Reform Bill was passed in 1832.
40. John G, Lockhart is the author of ‘Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.
41. Shelley’s The Defence of Poetry of was written in response to The Four Ages of Poetry of Peacock.
42. Arnold said about Wordsworth as: His Poetry is the reality, his philosophy…….is the illusion.
43. Shelley was expelled from the University College, Oxford because of his Necessity of Atheism.
44. Shelley died by drowning himself.
45. The Oxford Movement which was led by the teachers of Oxford University was essentially a Religious Movement.
46. Darwin’s the Origin of Species by Natural Selection appeared in 1859.
47. The Second Reform Bill which extended the Franchise was in 1867.
48. Cardinal Newman, John Kable and John Henry Newman were associated with the Oxford Movement.
49. George Eliot’s Romola is a Historical Novel.
50. Vanity Fair is a novel without a Hero.
51. Hardy who created ‘Wesses’ is known as ‘Regional Novelist.’
52. The Mystry of Edwin Drood is Dickens’s unfinished novel.
53. “For the men may come and men may go.” These lines occur in the Brooke.
54. Willkie Collins is a Detective Novelist.
55. The Phrase “Stormy Sisterhood” is associated with three sisters Charlotte Bronte, Emile Bronte and Anne Bronte.
56. Mary Evans is the real name of George Eliot.
57. George Eliot was a Moral Novelist.
58. ‘Order of Merits’ was the reward given to Thomas Hardy.
59. Hardy believed in the philosophy of immanent will.
60. Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam was written in the memory of Arthur Hallam.
61. Browning dedicated his Men and Women to his wife.
62. Walter Peter defined Romanticism as “addition of strangeness to beauty”.
63. The term Pathetic Fallacy was coined by John Ruskin.
64. A Grammarian’s Funeral was written by Robert Browning.
65. The author of Prometheus Bound is Elizabeth Browning.
66. The novel ‘No Name’ (1862) was written by Wrilkie Collins.
67. E.M Forster was a critic who introduced the terms: a flat character and a round character.
68. Jane Austen is called an anit-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age.
69. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written in 1797.
70. Austen’s Emma was written in 1816.
71. Lord Byron’s Don Juan was written in 1824.
72. Lord Byron is called National poet of Greece.
73. P.B Shelley wrote Edonias, an elegy, on death of his friend John Keats.
74. The period of twelve years, from 1848-1860, from Victorian Age is called the Age of Pre-Raphaelites.
75. The last two decades (1880-1901) of the Victorian period are called the Age of Aestheticism.
76. Charles Darwin’s ‘the Origin of Species’ was published in 1859.
77. The real name of George Eliot is Mary Ann Evans.
78. God made the country and man made the town. William Cowper
79. My love is like a Red Red Rose. Robert Burns
80. Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor… William Blake
81. Hell is a city much like London. Shelley.
82. Man is born free but he is everywhere in chains. Rousseau
83. The world is too much with us, late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Wordsworth.
84. Language really used by man, should be the language of poetry. Wordsworth
85. O Lady! We receive but what we give, and in our life alone does nature live. Coleridge
86. I woke on morning and found myself great. Lord Byron
87. For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. Charles Lamb
88. A thing of beauty is joy forever. John Keats
89. Beauty is truth and truth beauty. John Keats
90. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so. Coleridge
91. It is strange…… but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Byron
92. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire
93. That the happiness was but the occasional episode in the general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy
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