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Who was the important King of England instrumental to the revival of letters during the Anglo-Saxon period? King Alfred. What was the name of the folk tale brought by the Angles? Beowulf Who was called “The Poet's Poet”? Edmund Spenser The lectures of Plato have been preserved in the form of _____________. Dialogues The century in which Aristotle write his “Poetics” is ________B.C. 4 th Century Who wrote the treatise of literary criticism, “On the Sublime”? Longinus The author of “Golden Bough” is ___________. Sir James George Frazer { The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion; by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)} Which play of Shakespeare observes the unity of time strictly? Winter's Tale. Lycidas was occasioned by the death of ________________. Edward King “The tragic pleasure”, says Aristotl...

VHSC- 2013 Solved PSC Question Paper Which of the following is not a character in Chaucer's  “Canterbury Tales”? (A) The Scholar             (B) The Sailor (C) The Doctor              (D) The Princess Answer: D Author of the poem “Ode to St. Cecilia's Day” (A) Keats                       (B) Shelley (C) Dryden                    (D) Pope Answer: C         Read the poem here  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where To lie in cold obstruction and to rot, This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod” - Who is the author of the text from which these  lines are taken? (A) Collins                ...

In the last scene of Hamlet ________________ bids flights of angels to sing Hamlet to his rest.   Horatio   The critic who has commented that Shakespeare uses images of physical corruption to suggest the rottenness in Denmark is _________________ The first regular comedy by Ralph Roister Doister was written by _____________ Nicholas Udall “ It expresses Shakespeare’s highest and serenest view of life.” This is a comment made by the critic Dowden on Shakespeare’s ____________- The Tempest The Elizabethan Revenge tragedy was inspired by the plays of ____________ Seneca the Younger. The mysterious woman present in the sonnets of Shakespeare is known as  ____________ Dark Lady. Prothalamion and Epithalamion are called ________ odes. Irregular Odes ‘ The Fairie Queene” and ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ are examples of _________ Allegory ____________ is a tragedy on the Greek model written by Mil...