UGC NET Paper 2 — English
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Who said that "Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Johnson was the Vergil, the pattern of elaborate writing"? 1. Matthew Arnold 2. John Dryden 3. Samuel Joh...
M.H. Abram's The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition- A. describes 18th century English Literature as 'mirror' B. describes 19th century English Literat...
Who, amongst the following, attempted to reconcile discrepancies between various classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle, as well as between philosophy and poetry?
John Dryden's Of Dramatick Poesy: An Essay is written in the form of a dialogue between Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents:
Who among the following observed that "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature" ?
Who among the following used 'untranslatableness' in his famous work?
Which of the following statements are correctly matched with the texts: A. "(T)he poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher" - "...
Which of the following statements are correctly matched with the texts: A. "(T)he poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher" - "...
Who wrote the following about Rousseau? "Like his favorite philosopher, Plato, Rousseau sought to discover and produce the moral man who would make the moral society, and a moral s...
Who wrote the following about Rousseau? "Like his favorite philosopher, Plato, Rousseau sought to discover and produce the moral man who would make the moral society, and a moral s...
Thomas Rymer coined the term 'poetic justice' to imply the following:
Match List I with List II LIST I A) "Negative Capability" B) "Sweetness and light" C) "Esemplastic" D) "Dissociation of Sensibility" LIST II I. Matthew Arnold II. Samuel Taylor Col...