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The Renaissance Age (1500 - 1660) Literary Features:
Originated in Italy (Florence City).
- Renaissance spirit was the main force that characterized the literature of this age.
Major Features:
i) Aestheticism.
ii) Humanism.
iii) Nationalism.
iv) Spirit of Adventure.
Source: LiveMCQ Lecture

John Milton is known as an Epic poet.
His famous Epic - Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
Source: Live MCQ lecture

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.

Gulliver’s Travels, original title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, four-part satirical work by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726 as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Source: Britannica

William Wordsworth's famous poems are - Lucy Poem, Lyrical Ballad, The Prelude, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion, The Daffodils, Tintern Abbey, The Solitary Reaper, Ode to Duty, Ode to on Intimations of Immortality, I wandered Lonely as a Cloud etc.
Source: Live MCQ lecture and Encyclopedia Britannica.

Alfred Tennyson is a famous Victorian poet.
His famous quotations are -
- I will never rest from travels, I will drink life to the lees.
- Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
- Sorrows are the best educator.
- The old order changeth yielding place to new.
- Authority forgets a dying king.
- Who are wise in love, love most, say least.
Source: Live MCQ archive

Allegory, a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative.
Allegory, which encompasses such forms as fable, parable, and apologue, may have meaning on two or more levels that the reader can understand only through an interpretive process.
source: britannica

Thomas Hardy was a pessimistic novelist.
His famous novels: Tess of the d'urbervilles, Far from the madding crowd, The Return of the Native, The Poor Man and the Lady, the Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Source: britannica

Benjamin Franklin is a USA philosopher.
His famous quotation-
- Honesty is the best policy.
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Eat to live not live to eat.
source: Live MCQ archive

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in full Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, (born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, India-died July 27, 2015, Shillong), Indian scientist and politician who played a leading role in the development of India's missile and nuclear weapons programs. He was president of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam wrote several books, including an autobiography, Wings of Fire (1999).
Among his numerous awards were two of the country's highest honours, the Padma Vibhushan (1990) and the Bharat Ratna (1997).
Source: goodreads

On July 18, 1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published.
It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945.
Source: history.com

Allen Ginsberg, American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement.

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: Britannica and The New York Times.

The Hairy Ape, drama in eight scenes by Eugene O’Neill, produced in 1922 and published the following year. It is considered one of the prime achievements of Expressionism on stage.
The Modern Age of English Literature is considered from the year 1901 to 1939.
Source: Britannica and Live MCQ Lecture.

A Prayer for My Daughter is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
His other poems are The Cat and the Moon, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, A Full Moon in March, The Falling of the Leaves, The Second Coming, Blood and the Moon, 'Easter, 1916', Sailing to Byzantium, The Stolen Child, The Wild Swans at Coole, No Second Troy, The Green Helmet And Other Poems.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ lecture.

Pearl S. Buck, pseudonym John Sedges, (born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vermont), American author noted for her novels of life in China.
She won a Pulitzer Prize for ''The Good Earth'' in 1932, and in 1938 she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Source: Britannica and The New York Times

Elegy: A sad poem or song, especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past.
Source: Cambridge Dictionary

Simile, figure of speech involving a comparison between two unlike entities. In the simile, unlike the metaphor, the resemblance is explicitly indicated by the words “like” or “as.”
For example: “He eats like a bird,”
“He is as smart as a whip,” etc.

This is a famous quotation by ‘Jane Austen’ from ‘Persuasion’.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY Robert Frost.