UGC NET English Literature

UGC NET English Literature Trustworthy guide to English literature NET

04/07/2018

Titles Taken
[ ] Arms and Men (Shaw) - Virgil's Aeneid
[ ] Captain Courageous (Kipling) - Mary Ambree
[ ] Where Angles Fear to Tread ( E M Foster) - An Essay on Criticism
[ ] Passage to India - Leaves of Grass
[ ] Cakes and Ale,or The Skelton in the Cupboard(Maugham) - Twelfth night
[ ] Appointment in Samaria ( John Hora) - A Merchant in Bagdad(Maugham)
[ ] Antic Hay ( Huxley)s- EdwardII (Marlowe)
[ ] Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)- The Tables Turned ( Wordsworth)
[ ] After Many a Summer (Huxley)- Tennyson's Tithonus
[ ] Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley)- Henry IV. Part 1
[ ] The Less Deceived (Larkin)- The Tempest
[ ] Darkness visible ( Golding)- The Paradise Lost

01/07/2018

[ ] Auden Group/The Poets of the Thirties/ Pylon poets-- W H Auden, Cecil De Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis xMacNeice

[ ] Cockney School - Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Keats (attacked by Torries-aristocrats- Blackwood's Magazine and Quarterly Review)

[ ] Satanic School - Byron, Shelley

[ ] Lake Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey

[ ] The Cavalier Poets/Sons of Ben/The Tribe of Ben -- Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick, John Suckling, Andrew Marvell [Charles I]

[ ] Georgian- Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon and John Drinkwater

[ ] The Movement- Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin and John Wain

[ ] Angry young man- John Osborne. Kingsley Amis.

[ ] Imagism - TE Hulme. Ezra Pound.
[ ] Vorticism- Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound
[ ] Pre-Raphaelites- William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.(founders).William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner

[x] Montreal group (Canadian) - AJM Smith, AM Klein, Leo Kennedy, FR Scott, EJ Pray

01/07/2018

[ ] Transrealism- 21st c
[ ] New formalism of America
[ ] Spoken word- a postmodern literary movement
[ ] Prakalpana movement- Bengali literature
[ ] Magic realism- 20th c Latin America
[ ] New York school- gay friendly movt.
[ ] Hungryalist poets-postcolonial India (Kolkata) 1961-1965
[ ] Beat poets- american- 1950s and 60s
[ ] Black Mountain poets- based in Black Mountain College
[ ] Oulipo- mid 20th c poetry
[ ] Stridentism- Mexican movt.
[ ] Russian Formalism - Roman Jacobson, Victor Shkolvsky, Boris Eichenbaum
[ ] Higher-Criticism
[ ] Pre-Romantics
[ ] Radical Feminists
[ ] Vorticism - Ezra Pound and Windham Lewis (cofounders)
[ ] Oxford Movement/Trctarianism - 19th c reformist movement

27/05/2018

Who was called "Lady of Christ's"?
*John Milton (When he studied at Christ College, Cambridge -- due to his hair and delicate manners)

14/05/2018

Early Comedies of Shakespeare

I. Love's Labour's Lost (1598)
*characters
Don Adriano
Dull
Costard - speaks the long Latin word "honorificabilitudinitatibus "
* ends with songs of cuckoo and the owl
* play with in the play of Nine Worthies called Mozartian. Here actors dress like Muscovites
II. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
* male friendship
*Valentine - Silvia and Proteus - Julia ( characters)
* conforms to 3 unities

14/05/2018

Facts about Shakespeare

*The First Folio (1623) - Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies"
-Compiled by John Heminges and Henry Condell
- 36 plays
* Nicholas Rowe' s edition 1709- first editor of Shakespeare's plays. First biographer
* David Garrick- major Shakespearean actor
* Sonnets first published in quarto form by Thomas Thrope (1609)
* Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia praised sonnets as "sugared sonnets"
* Globe Theatre 1599
First recorded performance - Julius Caeser on 21 Sept 1599
Destroyed by fire on 1613 during the play HenryVIII

06/05/2018

Chaucer 1340-1400
* Patron - John of Gaunt
* Wrote in East Midland Dialect
* Lived during Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV
* Son of wine merchant
* Burial place came to be known as Poet's Corner

Chaucer's works

* The Book of the Duchess
* The House of Fame
* The Parliament of Fowls
* Troilus and Criseyde
* The Legend of GoodWomen
* The Canterbury Tales

06/05/2018

Important historical events during Chaucer's age
1 Magna Carta 1215 (king john)
2 Black Death 1358-1376
3 Hundred years of war 1337-1453
4 Peasant's revolt 1381

24/02/2018

CBSE UGC NET July 2018: The official notification for the UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) exam has been released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today. As per the notice, the exam will be conducted on July 8 (Sunday). All those who are interested in applying can do so at the official website – cbsenet.nic.in, from March 5. The last date for applying online will be April 5. NET will be conducted in 84 subjects at 91 selected cities.

05/02/2018

1.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature
2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry
3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language
4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance
5.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet
6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.
7.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History
8.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose
9.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy
10.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer
11.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
12.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance
13.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
14.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing
15.William Caxton = Father of English Press
16.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay
17.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation
18.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy
19.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon
20.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama
21.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon
22.William Shakespeare = The Bard
23.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
24.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland
25.Robert Burns = Rabbie
26.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet
27.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland
28.John Dryden = Father of English criticism
29.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism
30.John Donne = Poet of love
31.John Donne = Metaphysical poet
32.John Milton = Epic poet
33.John Milton = The great master of verse
34.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College
35.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party
36.John Milton = Master of the Grand style
38.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England
39.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet
40.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
41.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature
42.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature
43.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet
44.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood
45.William Wordsworth = Egotistical Sublime
46.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = The Poet of Supernaturalism
47.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = O***m Eater
48.Coleridge & Wordsworth = The Father of Romanticism
49.Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey = Lake Poets
50.Lord Byron = The Rebel Poet
51.Percy Bysshe Shelley = The Revolutionary Poet
52.Percy Bysshe Shelley = Poet of hope and regeneration
53.John Keats = Poet of Beauty
54.William Blake = The Mystic Poet
55.John Keats = Chameleon Poet
56.Lord Alfred Tennyson = The Representative of the Victorian Era
57.George Bernard Shaw = The greatest modern dramatist
58.George Bernard Shaw = The Iconoclast
59.Jane Austen = Anti-romantic in Romantic age
60.Lindley Murray = Father of English Grammar
61.James Joyce = Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
62.Edgar Allen Poe = Father of English Mystery play
63.Edgar Allen Poe = The Father of English Short Story
64.Henry Fielding = The Father of English Novel
65.Samuel Johnson = Father of English one Act Play
66.Sigmund Freud = A great Psycho-analyst
67.Robert Frost = The Poet of Terror
68.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
69.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Humanism
70.Sir Thomas Wyatt = The Father of English Sonnet
71.Henry Louis Vivian Derozio = The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
72.William Hazlitt = Critic’s Critic
73.Charles Lamb = The Essay of Elia
74.Arthur Miller = Mulk Raj Anand of America
75.Addison = The voice of humanist Puritanism
76.Emerson = The Seneca of America
77.Mother Teresa = The Boon of Heaven
78.Thomas Nash = Young Juvenile
79.Thomas Decker = Fore-runner of Humorist
80.Homer = The Father of Epic Poetry
81.Homer = The Blind Poet
82.Henrick Ibsen = Father of Modern theatre
83.Rabindranath Tagore = Indian National Poet
84.Nissim Ezekiel = The Father of Indian English Poet
85. Father of English Criticism - Dryden (called by Dr Johnson

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