৯ম - ১৩তম গ্রেড পরীক্ষার প্রস্তুতি

Gorboduc is the first English tragedy written by Norton and Sackville.
The Virtue Rewarded or Pamela is the first English novel. The Spanish Tragedy written by Thomas Kyd and Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe.
An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.

Gorboduc, A Play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville takes as its subject Gorboduc, a mythical king of ancient Britain. First performed in 1561, it is the earliest English tragic play in blank verse.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gorboduc-by-Norton-and-Sackville

Elizabethan Age (1558 – 1603):
Features:
- ইংল্যান্ডের রাণী Queen Elizabeth এর নামানুসারে নামকরণ।
- এটি Golden Age হিসাবে পরিচিত।
- This period is a period of original romanticism.
- This period was replete with lyrics and songs.
- The literature shows a quest for ‘The remote, the wonderful and beautiful’.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910):
His real name is Samuel Langhorn Clemens.
Famous Works: The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.

Cavalier Poets are Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller and Robert Herrick.

So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear,
Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good.
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Source: Britannica

John Dryden is the Father of Modern English Criticism.
His famous works are- All for Love, The Indian Emperor, Aureng-Zebe, The Mistaken Husband, Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, The essay of Dramatic Poesy, The Conquest of Granada, The Medal of John Bays.
[Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ lecture.]

‘Robinson Crusoe’, novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in London in 1719. Defoe’s first long work of fiction, it introduced two of the most-enduring characters in English literature: Robinson Crusoe and Friday.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Great Expectations is the famous novel of Charles Dickens.
The important character of this novel is Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham, etc.
Source: Britannica.com.

ব্রিটিশ ঔপন্যাসিক, নাট্যকার ও কবি William Gerald Golding তার Lord of the Files উপন্যাসের জন্যে ১৯৮৩ সালে সাহিত্যে নোবেল পুরস্কার লাভ করেন।
তার অন্যান্য উপন্যাসের মধ্যে The Scorpion God Free Fall, The Pyramid, Darkness Visible উল্লেখযোগ্য।
সূত্রঃ লাইভ এমসিকিউ লেকচার।

September on Jessore Road is a poem by Allen Ginsberg on refugees from Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971. During Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971, the US government was an ally of Pakistan and even sent its 7th fleet to intimidate India from interfering with the events in then East Pakistan.
Source: The New York Times.

India Wins Freedom বইটি ভারতীয় জাতীয় কংগ্রেস নেতা মাওলানা আবুল কালাম আজাদ রচিত আত্মজীবনীমূলক গ্রন্থ। এটি ১৯৮৮ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়। আবুল কালাম আজাদ কংগ্রেসের সাবেক সভাপতি এবং ভারতের প্রথম শিক্ষামন্ত্রী ছিলেন।
সূত্রঃ বাংলাপিডিয়া।

The Pilgrim's Progress, the famous allegory in prose, is written by John Bunyan.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.

The word first occurred in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, published in Latin as Libellus…de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia (1516; “Concerning the highest state of the republic and the new island Utopia”); it was compounded by More from the Greek words for “not” (ou) and “place” (topos) and thus meant “nowhere.”
[ Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Nicholas Udall wrote the first known English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister. In 1553.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman

A poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines is called a sonnet. It is of three types: Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman