Literary Criticism 3

LITERARY CRITICISM 

1) Who said: Tragedy attempts as far as possible, to remain within one revolution of the sun" ?

A) Socrates 

B) Plato

C) Aristotle 

2) Who said: "Study the great originals of Greek/ Dream of them by night and ponder them by day" ?

A) Homer

B) Horace

C) Alexander Pope 

3) Who said : "By observation of these comic laws which I, your master, first did teach the age" ?

A) Ben Jonson 

B) Samuel Johnson 

C) Mathew Arnold 

4) Who said that " Even good Homer nods at time" ? 

A) William Hazlitt 

B) Philip Sidney 

C) Horace 

5) Who Considers Coleridge, "head and shoulders above other English critic ?

A) John Dryden 

B) Herbert Read

C) Ben Jonson 

6) To Whom Dr. Johnson had been unjust in his Lives? 

A) John Dryden 

B) John Milton 

C) Wordsworth 

7) In Addison's An Account of the Greatest English Poets which author was not even mentioned?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) John Keats 

8) Who is of the view that "Poetry divorced from morality is valueless" ?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) William Wordsworth 

9) Who said : "One may be a poet without versifying and versifier without poetry" ?

A) John Keats 

B) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

C) Lord Byron 

10) Who calls the poet 'the right popular Philosopher' ?

A) Socrates 

B) Plato 

C) Plutarch 

11) Who is generally known as "The great gainsay of English Criticism most inconsistent of professional of non - conformists" ?

A) Philip Sidney 

B) Mathew Arnold 

C) William Hazlitt 

12) Who defined as poetry: 'the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of the reason in the like of milton' ?

A) T. S. Eliot 

B) D. H. Lawrence 

C) W. H. Auden 

13) Whose aim was "to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them" ?

A) John Donne 

B) John Dryden 

C) Samuel Johnson 

14) Who introduced the term "esemplastic imagination" ?

A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

B) John Keats 

C) John Dryden 

15) New Criticism Applied to ?

A) Anglo - American Criticism 

B) Indian - English Criticism 

C) Anglo - African Criticism 

16) Who among the following is the Pioneer of New Criticism ?

A) T. S. Eliot 

B) I. A. Richards 

C) F. R. Leavis 

17) In which magazine did he work first as an editor ?

A) Criterian

B) literary Views

C) Egoist 

18) what is the form of adopted in the Essay of Dramatic poesy?

A) Four

B) Six

C) Three 

19) Thomas Rhymer's critical work Tragedies of the Last Age came out in the year ?

A) 1678

B) 1679

C) 1670

20) Walter Pater's Marlus, the epicurean appeared in the year?

A) 1886

B) 1885

C) 1884

21) Who according to Arnold is the unique poet of the Augustan age ?

A) Thomas Kyd 

B) Thomas Gray 

C) Philip Sidney 

22) Who laid emphasis on 'the inner life' and 'inner experience' in The Sublime and the Beautiful?

A) Edmund Burke

B) Philip Sidney 

C) William Empson 

23) A critic observed about Coleridge that he, with his authority due to his great reading probably did much more than Wordsworth to bring attention to the profundity of the philosophic attention to the problems into which the study of poetry may take us. Name the critical?

A) T. S. Eliot 

B) Coleridge 

C) Mathew Arnold 

24) Who made the comment that fancy is "the artistrary to bringing together of things that lie remote and forming them into a unity"

A) Coleridge 

B) Wordsworth 

C) William Hazlitt 

25) Who wrote The modern Painters and the Seven Lamps of Architecture? 

A) T. S. Eliot 

B) John Keats 

C) John Ruskin 

26) Who said: "Not only Sculpture,  but all other fine arts, must be for the people, they must be didactic..." ?

A) John Ruskin 

B) John Milton 

C) John Keats 

27) 'Beauty is the symbol of symbols, Beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing', who made this comment?

A) Edmund Burke 

B) Oscar wilde 

C) Edger Allan Poe 

28) To whom Wordsworth wrote "Every great poet is a teacher, I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as nothing" ?

A) John Dryden

B) Beamount 

C) Shakespeare 

29) A fuction of Criticism is not merely 'judges in literature' but 'a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world and thus to establish a current of fresh and new ideas. Who expressed this opinion?

A) Coleridge 

B) Arnold 

C) T. S. Eliot 

30) Who said about Coleridge's Biographia and literaria (1817) that it is 'among the few which constitute the very Bible Criticism' ?

A) Dr. Arbuthnot 

B) George Saintsbury 

C) John Milton