Some Important Facts
ā¼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as āThought Adventure".
ā¼The phrase āreligion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.
ā¼A character in Virginia Woolfās novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.
ā¼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.
ā¼āChocolate cream hero' appears in Shawās Arms and the Man.
ā¼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shawās Man and Superman.
ā¼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
ā¼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthyās Strife.
ā¼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthyās Justice.
ā¼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.
ā¼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.
ā¼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem ā Ifā
ā¼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.
ā¼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.
ā¼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.
ā¼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.
ā¼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.
ā¼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentenceā.
ā¼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title āBrave New Worldā from Shakespeareās The Tempest.
William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.
ā¼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religionā.
ā¼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.
ā¼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty ā Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.
ā¼Plato said, āArt is twice removed from reality'.
ā¼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.
ā¼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.
ā¼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.
ā¼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'
ā¼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldā.
ā¼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.
ā¼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."
ā¼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.
ā¼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
ā¼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
ā¼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
ā¼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
ā¼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.
ā¼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.
ā¼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.
ā¼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.
ā¼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.
ā¼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.
ā¼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.
ā¼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.
ā¼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.
ā¼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
ā¼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.
ā¼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
ā¼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.
ā¼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.
ā¼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet
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