British English Critics MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 6, 2025

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1. : Sir Philip Sidney mentions that ‘poetry’ consists in the art of ___ .



2. : Sir Philip Sidney had a strong urge for reviving the canons of criticism of which of the following?



3. : Sidney says about the observance of the three dramatic unities in drama that ____.



4. : According to ___ , “It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long gown maketh an advocate.”



5. : Who was Sidney?



6. : Poetry is defended in Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry against the accusations made against it by



7. : _____ is not written by Sidney.



8. : _____ classed poets with pipers and jesters and called them caterpillars of the Commonwealth.



9. : According to Sidney, poetry can be divided into _______ .



10. : _____ is the critical work of Ben Jonson.



11. : What does Ben Jonson mean by a ‘humorous’ character?



12. : According to __ , Poetry is an imitation of nature and its function is to teach and delight.



13. : In Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry, the Romans have a word for poets?



14. : Sidney is not in favour of which kind of writing?



15. : In Greek literature, what is the meaning of ‘poet’?



16. : Dramatic criticism in England began with



17. : Who said this? “The judge of poets is only the faculty of poets.”



18. : The term ‘comedy of humours’ was popularized by Jonson through the titles of his comedies



19. : Which comedy of Ben Jonson has a story of quackery as is found in Chaucer’s “The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”?



20. : In Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views?



21. : Which play of Ben Jonson constituted an important contribution to the art of comedy in England?



22. : ___ appreciated the universal appeal of Shakespeare.



23. : What is the contribution of Jonson to English comedy?



24. : Ben Jonson has talked about humours in the human body, they are



25. : The Latin meaning of ‘humours’ is



26. : Which work of Jonson satirizes the humours of the court?



27. : Jonson expounds his theory of ‘Comedy of Humours’ in the Introduction to his play



28. : Which humour is also called ‘yellow bile’?



29. : What does Dryden say about the observance of the three classical dramatic unities?



30. : Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy is a work of



31. : Which does not come under four principal humours in the body?



32. : Who called Dryden the father of English criticism?



33. : “They wholly mistake the nature of criticism who think, its business is principally to find fault. Criticism as it was first instituted by Aristotle was meant a standard of judging well.” Who said this?



34. : Who has defined drama “as a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject for the delight and instruction of mankind”?



35. : Dryden, with all his critical allurement of classical love, was unconsciously a forerunner of



36. : These lines are written by _____ , “What pleases the Greeks, would not satisfy an English audience.”



37. : Who wrote the line, “What pleases the Greeks, would not satisfy an English audience”?



38. : One of the most eminent critics of the neo-classical school refused to abide by the rules of the classical masters. Who was he?



39. : Of the following works, which is not written by John Dryden?



40. : “Shakespeare was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive genius.” Who has paid this tribute to Shakespeare in the above line?



41. : Dryden as a critic



42. : _____ is the founder of descriptive criticism in English.



43. : Dryden calls comedy “a representation of human life in inferior persons and low subjects”. In this regard, he followed



44. : Which work of Pope is modelled on Horace’s Ars Poetica?



45. : “Be Homer’s works your study and delight. Read them by day and meditate by night.” is the advice given to the poets by _____ .



46. : Alexander Pope has an undying craving to conform to the laws of



47. : Pope was a great critic of the age of



48. : In whose work did Pope find ‘unequalled fire and rapture”?



49. : Which poet has observed “Men not afraid of God, afraid of me”?



50. : Which poet was called in fondness the little Nightingale”?



51. : Which poet was from his birth constitution tender and delicate?



52. : Pope’s Essay on Criticism is divided into how many parts?



53. : Which critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?



54. : Dr. Johnson gave a new interpretation to the term of



55. : Which is not written by Dr. Johnson?



56. : Regarding the observance of the three classical unities in a play, Dr. Johnson observes that



57. : Dr. Johnson meticulously looked for the correctness of



58. : According to _____, “essay is a loose sally of mind, an irregular undigested piece, not a regular and orderly performance?”



59. : Who is without doubt a neo-classical critic but it does not mean a ‘blind surrender’ to authority of ancient or modern, rather he is for liberty?



60. : Who is the author of the Dictionary of the English Language, the first ambitious attempt at an English lexicon?



61. : The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. Who has said this?



62. : Johnson’s Literary Club, which had Burke, Gibbon, Goldsmith and indeed all the great literary men and politicians of the time as members, was formed in the year



63. : Dr. Johnson observes that “Poetry is an imitation of particular, with which it deals, but, through it, the universal”. This definition of poetry occurs in



64. : Which of the unities Dr. Johnson found justified by reason?



65. : _____ is the author of the famous biography Life of Johnson.



66. : From which king did Dr. Johnson receive an annual pension of three hundred pounds?



67. : Johnson started the publication of two journals. They are



 

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