AD's English Literature

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1.      ‘The Testament of Beauty’ , is generally considered Robert Seymour Bridges’s masterpiece. In 1918 Bridges published a complete edition of the poetry of his friend from Oxford, Gerard Manley Hopkins, thus bringing it out of obscurity. 2.    English poet Geoffrey Chaucer writes ‘The Canterbury Tales’, a collection of stories told by pilgrims en route to Canterbury Cathedral. A literary classic, the work’s genius lies in the interaction between the tales and the framing story. 3.    English philosopher and statesman Thomas More pens Utopia 1516 satirizing British life in a story of a mythical, perfect society. More’s moral beliefs later cost him his life; after failing to support King Henry VIII’s break from Rome, More is executed.

E very man in a sense is the product of his age and since Shakespeare was a man, he must have represented his age. This is not to say that he did not exceed his age for that would be to strip him of his native genius, the indelible mark of which is impressed forever in the history of world literature. It is just to point out that such a remarkable man represented in his person and works a very remarkable age, Elizabethan England .

Franz  K afka’s work, like all the best literature, is multidimensional, can mean different things to different people. As such his Metamorphosis  ( Die Verwandlung 1915 ), a novella, is so rich that we can find many deeper meanings. Aabye Kierkegaard's existentialism and surrealism- the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind shape the Kafka's Metamorphosis to put forth the loneliness, frustration, and oppressive guilt of an individual threatened by anonymous forces beyond his comprehension or control.