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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: Britannica]

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.

The book Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968) represents a 10-year study of poverty in Asia is written by Gunnar Myrdal.
[Source: Britannica]

Tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
[Source: Britannica]

The Neo-classical period (1660-1798) is divided into three periods. Such as
1. The Restoration Period (1660-1700),
2. The Augustan Age or the Age of Pope (1700-1745) and
3. The Age of Sensibility or The Age of Johnson (1745-1798).
And, the Elizabethan Period is from 1558 to 1603 ;
Jacobean Period is from 1603 to 1625.
[Source: Live MCQ lecture.]

Prometheus Bound, Greek Promētheus desmōtēs, tragedy by Aeschylus, the dating of which is uncertain.
The play concerns the god Prometheus, who in defiance of Zeus (Jupiter) has saved humanity with his gift of fire.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Allegory is a literary form in which one story is told in the guise of another story.
In other words, an allegory is a story of double meanings.
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: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica]

Pearl S. Buck is an American novelist and writer.
She was awarded the Nobel prize in 1938 for her rich and truly epic description of peasant life in China.
Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Source: Live MCQ lecture.

George Eliot (1819 – 80):
- Born at Arbury Form, Warwickshire.
- Real name – Mary Ann Evans.
- Major Works: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Romola, Silas Marner etc.
Source: Brittanica.com

To the Lighthouse, novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1927.
The work is one of her most successful and accessible experiments in the stream-of-consciousness style.
The three sections of the book take place between 1910 and 1920 and revolve around various members of the Ramsay family during visits to their summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
[Source: britannica]

Lord Byron is called the Rebel poet of English literature.
Famous books of Byron:
The Vision of Judgement,
Hours of Idleness,
Heaven and Earth.
Don Juan is a famous epic of Byron.
Famous poem: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
[Source: Live MCQ lecture]

William Wordsworth is an English poet whose ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.
Famous poems of Wordsworth:
The Solitary Reaper,
Tintern Abbey,
Rainbow,
Lucy Poems,
The Daffodils,
Ode on immortality,
The Excursion,
Michael etc.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope.
‘The Collar’ is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert.
‘Persuasion’, novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Jonathan Swift is the greatest satirist of the 18th century.
His famous novels are
Gulliver's Travels,
A tale of a Tub,
A Modest Proposal,
A Journey to Stella,
The Battle of the Books.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ lecture.

John Milton is a writer of Caroline Age.
He is called Epic Poet and also called 'A great master of verse in Puritan Period'.
His famous Epics are Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
[Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ Lecture]

George Herbert, English religious poet, a major metaphysical poet, notable for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words.
His famous quote is “Help Thyself, Good will help you”.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Edmund Spenser, English poet whose long allegorical poem ‘The Faerie Queene’ is one of the greatest in the English language.
It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Beowulf, heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature(England) and the earliest European vernacular epic.
It is also the first monument in English literature.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]