BCS PRELI : English Literature

Authors, Books & Articles

Previous Year Question Analysis

#   Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'The Tale of Two Cities'- Charles Dickens [29th BCS]

#   Who wrote the plays 'The Tempest' and 'The Mid Summer Night's Dream'? -William Shakespeare [29th BCS; 15th BCS]

#   Who did write first English dictionary- Samuel Johnson [28th BCS]

#   'Animal Farm' was written by- George Orwell [10th BCS; 28th BCS]

#   Shakespeare is known mostly for his-plays [16th BCS]

#   Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a medical theory-? (Comedy of Humours) [15the BCS]

#   Who of the following was both a poet and painter? (Blake) [15th BCS]

#   What is the full name of the great American short story writer O'Henry? (William Sydney Porter) [14th BCS]

#   The Rainbow' is - a novel by D. H. Lawrence [13th BCS]

#   The literary work 'Kublai Khan' is- a verse by Coleridge [13th BCS]

#   ÔCaesar and Cleopatra' is- a play By G. B. Shaw [12th BCS]

#   Who is the greatest modern English dramatist? (George Bernard Shaw) [12th BCS]

#   Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'- Ernest Hemingway [12th BCS; 10th BCS]

#   Who is the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'- Ernest Hemingway [11th BCS]

Some Other Important Questions

#   "Gulliver's Travels" has been written by - Jonathan Swift

#   The drama 'Hamlet' is written by- Shakespeare

#   'Faerie Queene' is- an epic by Edmund Spenser

#   The "Merchant of Venice" written by Shakespeare is- a drama

#   Who wrote "The Tempest"? - William Shakespeare

#   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' was stated by- John Keats

#   'Paradise Lost' was written by- Milton

#   Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of - 14th century

#  The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.' These lines are from the poem- Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.

#   ÔMacbeth' is - a play by Shakespeare.

#   'Vanity Fair' is a- novel.

#   P. B. Shelley is known as- Poet of beauty.

#   'The Merchant of Venice' written by Shakespeare is- a drama.

#   'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a- poem by S.T. Coleridge.

Periods of English Literature
450-1066	Anglo Saxon Period or Old English Period
1066-1500	Middle English Period
1066-1350	Anglo Norman Period
1350-1400	The Age of Chaucer
1400-1485	Barren Age
1500-1660	The Renaissance
1500-1558	Preparation for the Renaissance
1558-1603	Elizabethan Age
1603-1625	Jacobean Age
1625-1649	Caroline Age
1649-1660	Commonwealth Period
1620-1660	Puritan Period
1660-1798	The Neoclassical Period
1660-1700	The Restoration Period
1700-1745	The Augustan Age (Age of Pope)
1745-1798	The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson)
1798-1832	The Romantic Period
1832-1901	The Victorian  Period
1901-1914	The Edwardian Period
1910-1936	The Georgian Period
1914-	The Modern Period
1945-	Postmodernism

Books & Authors
Adlof Hitler	Mein Kampf
Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad
Anthony Mascarenhas	The Rape of Bangladesh
Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, Ulysses
Andrew Marvell	The Garden
Aristotle	Politics, Poetics
Bertrand Russel	Marriage and Morals, The Impact of Science upon Society
Charles Darwin	Origin of Species, Descent of Man
Charles Dickens	The Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Paper, Great Expectations
Christopher Marlowe	Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine the Great
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
E.M. Foster	A Passage to India, Longest Journey
Edger Allan Poe	The Raven
Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun also Rises
Francis Bacon	Novum Organum
G.B. Shaw	Caesar and Cleopatra, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Doctor's Dilemma
H.G. Wells	The Time Machine
Homer	Odessey, Illiad
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice
John Keats	Ode to Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Um, Ode to Autumn
John Milton	Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels
Karl Marx	Das Capital, Communist Manifesto
Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan, The Vision of Judgment
Mahatma Gandhi	My Experiments with Truth
Nelson Mandela	A Long Walk to Freedom
Oscar Wilde	A Woman of no Importance
P.B. Shelley	Adonais, Ode to the West wind, To a Skylark, Ozymandia
Robert Browning	The Patriot
Sachin Tendulkar	Playing It my Way
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses
S.T. Coleridge	The Rhyme of Ancient Mariner, Kublai Khan, Christabel
Stephen Hawking	A Brief History of Time, Starmus 50 Years of man in Space
T. S. Eliot	The Waste Land, Four Quartets
William Shakespeare	Mid Summer Night's Dream, The Tempest, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Comedy of Enors, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra
W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence

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