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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822):
-This English poet was an atheist and expelled from Oxford University in 1811 due to his publication of a pamphlet named “The necessity of Atheism”.
-He believed that only revolution can change our society. So that he is called “Revolutionary Poet”.
-He is also called “The poet of Hope and Regeneration”.
-Shelly mourns over the death of John Keats in his famous elegy “Adonais”.
Famous Books: Prometheus Unbound (1820), Adonais (1821), A Defense of poetry (1820), The Revolt of Islam.
Famous Poems: Ode to the West Wind, To a skylark, Alastor, Ozymandias, Queen Mab, The cloud.
Source: Britannica and LiveMCQ Lecture

‘Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.’-was stated by W. Hazlitt (Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims).
His other famous quotes:
-‘We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.’(Sketches and Essays).
-‘The way to procure insults is to submit to them.(Characteristics)’.
-‘A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.’(Sketches and Essays).
-‘No young man believes he shall ever die.’(Literary Remains).
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Charles Dickens is the greatest novelist of the Victorian Period.
Famous novel of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, The Christmas Carol, The Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Little Dorrit, The Battle of Life etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman]

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870): He is a French writer.
His notable works: The Three Musketeers (Novel), The Gold Thieves (Drama), Twenty Years After(Novel) etc.
‘Silas Marner’ novel written by George Eliot and ‘Loss and Gain’ novel written by Cardinal Newman.
[Source: Live MCQ lecture.]

John Keats(1795-1821) English Romantic lyric poet. He is called the Poet of Beauty and also Poet of Sensuousness.
His famous books: Endymion, Hyperion, Lamia.
Famous Poems: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, The Eve of St. Agnes, Ode to Psyche etc.
[Source: Live MCQ lecture.]

Samuel Langhorne Clemens is the real name of Mark Twain.
His famous works: Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Novel), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Novel).
[Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ Lecture.]

Joseph Conrad(1857-1924):
English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim : A Tale (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart of Darkness” (1902).
‘Mr. Kurtz’ fictional character, the manager of a trading station in the interior of the Belgian Congo, in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” (1902).
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Live MCQ Lecture.]

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939):
- Irish dramatist, poet and critic.
- He is famous for his use of “Symbolism and Mysticism”.
- He wrote the preamble of Tagore's ''Song Offerings'' in 1912, which later got nobel prize in 1913.
- W.B Yeats got the Nobel prize in 1923.
Major Works:
Poems: The wild swans at coole, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other poems, The Resurrection, The Second Coming, The Cat and the Moon, Byzantium, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Among School Children, The Lord of Harts, falling of leaves, A prayer for My Daughter, When You Are Old.
Drama: The countess Cathleen, Cathleen in Houlihan.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Live MCQ Lecture]

Bertrand Arthur William Russell(1872–1970):
British philosopher, logician, and social reformer, founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
His notable works: Principia Mathematica, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, Why I Am Not a Christian, The Problems of Philosophy (1911), The Analysis of Mind (1921), The Analysis of Matter (1927), On Education (1926), Marriage and Morals (1929), The Conquest of Happiness (1930), A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), etc.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

D.H. Lawrence(1885-1930): In full David Herbert Lawrence. English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters.
His novels: Sons and Lovers (1913, The Virgin and the Gypsy, The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The White Peacock, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Aaron’s Rod, Kangaroo etc.
His famous short stories: The Rocking Horse Winner, The Captain Doll, The Labybird, The Price, The Fox.
His plays: Touch and Go, The Married Man.His Poems: The White Horse, Birds Beasts and Flowers.
Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica

Virginia woolf(1882–1941):
She was a British female novelist. She is famous for ‘Presentation of inner realities’.
Her famous novels are: The Voyage Out (first novel), To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando: A biography etc.
Her most famous essay was ‘A Room of One’s Own (1929)’.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]

James Joyce is famous for his Narrative Technique known as 'Stream of Consciousness'.
His famous works: Exiles (Play), Ulysses(Novel), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music.
‘The Exiles: A Novel’ is written by Christina Baker Kline.
[Source: Britannica.]

E.M. Forster(1879-1970):In full Edward Morgan Forster. British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic.
His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
Foster's other works:
- Aspects of Novel
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
- The Longest Journey
- A Room With a View
- The Celestial Omnibus(Collection of short stories).
E.M. Forster's famous Novel 'A Passage to India'. Characters of 'A Passage to India' novel: Dr. Aziz, Miss Adela, Rony Hislop, Stella Moore.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Chinua Achebe(1930-2013):
-One of the world's most widely recognized and praised Nigerian novelists.
-Chinua Achebe wrote some of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century.
Things Fall Apart (1958), Achebe’s first novel, concerns traditional Igbo life at the time of the advent of missionaries and colonial government in his homeland.
His other Notable works: No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

This character is from ‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles’, a novel by Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy was a Pessimistic Novelist and Poet.
His other famous novels are-
A Pair of Bluest Eyes, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Poems: The Blinded Bird, The voice, After a journey.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture]

‘Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.’- Silas Marner by George Eliot.
Other famous quotation: ‘One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.’-Middlemarch.
‘Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.’-Adam Bede.

John Masefield(1878-1967):
-He is a British poet.
-Best known for his poems of the sea, ‘Salt-Water Ballads’ (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ (1911).
His other notable works: Dauber, Reynard the Fox.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]