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Which poem was quoted in full in Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads to cite the
worst example of then prevailing poetic diction, stating that only five lines of the poem
were worth keeping ?

A) Thomas Gray's Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

8) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel

C) Pope’s Essay on Man

D) Milton’s Lycidas

“English and my disciplines (linguistics, anthropology) give me my “outer” forms - linguistic,
metrical, logical and other such ways of shaping experience, and my first thirty years in
India, my frequent visits and field trips, my personal and professional preoccupations
with Kannada, Tamil, the classics and Folklore give me my substance, my “inner” forms,
images and symbols.”

Who among the following Indian English poets has remarked thus about his poetry ?

A) Nissim Ezekiel B) Gieve Patel

C) R. Parthasarathy 0) A. |<. Ramanujan

Which of the following statements is/are not true about the dramatic monologue, Ulysses

written by Tennyson ?

1. The poem is composed in Blank Verse.

2. It is one of the several poems, that Tennyson composed in response to the death of

his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.

3. Tennyson based his two-sided view of Ulysses on Book XI of Homer’s Odyssey
and Canto XXVI of Dante's Inferno.

4. Ulysses outlines his plans to abandon his dreary kingdom of Troy to his son
Telemachus.
A) 1 and 2 B) 2and3 C) 1 only 0) 4 only

Given below are a few statements about William Shakespeare and his legacy.

1. Henry Vill was the play in progress while the Globe theatre burned down in 1613.

2. Shakespeare left an amount of 28 shillings and 8 pence in his will, each for his

actor friends Richard Burbage, John Heminges and Henry Condell.

3. The Astor Place Riot in Manhattan, US, in which more than 20 lost their lives
and hundreds left wounded was an outgrowth of rivalry between two celebrated

Shakespearean actors, Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready.

4. F.S. Boas in his 1896 book, Shakespeare and his Predecessors, used the term
‘problem plays’ including the four plays of Shakespeare - ۸/۷۰ Well that Ends Well,
Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida and Hamlet.

Which of the above given statements is/are true ?
A) 1 and 2 only 8) 1 and3 only ©) 1, 3 8116 4 01४ ൧) Allare true

“Blake was endowed with a capacity for considerable understanding of human nature,
with a remarkable and original sense of language and the music of language, and a gift of
hallucinated vision.” Who among these poets made this observation on William Blake ?
A) D. G. Rossetti 8) 7. 5. Eliot ©) W. 8. Yeats 0) A.C. Swinburne

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