When Lamb produced his Essays of Elia?
(a) 1823
(b) 1829
(c) 1797
(d) 1805
Question’s Answer: 1823
What is the cause of popularity of English essayist Charles Lamb?
(a) Essays of Elia
(b) Short Stories
(c) Lyrics
(d) Tales from William Shakespeare
Question’s Answer: Tales from William Shakespeare
Jane Austen and Charles Lamb (English essayist) were born in the same year, i.e.
(a) 1770
(b) 1772
(c) 1785
(d) 1775
Question’s Answer: 1775
Who had an afflicted sister?
(a) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Scott
(d) William Shakespeare
Question’s Answer: Charles Lamb (English essayist)
Who wrote, “For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die”?
(a) John Keats
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(c) Lamb
(d) Shelley
Question’s Answer: Lamb
Which author viewed all of reading as a kind of romantic journey into new and pleasant countries?
(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(c) De Quincey
(d) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
Question’s Answer: William Hazlitt (English essayist)
Who is the author of Rosamund Gray is a novel?
(a) Lamb
(b) Dickens
(c) Johnson
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Lamb
Whose work with that of Lamb had a significant impact on John Keats’ final and greatest collection of poetry?
(a) De Quincey
(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) P. B. Shelley
Question’s Answer: William Hazlitt (English essayist)
The Specimens of English Dramatic Poets was the creation of
(a) Addison
(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
(c) Lamb
(d) Bacon
Question’s Answer: Lamb
John Woodvil is a drama by
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Lamb
Question’s Answer: Lamb
Leigh Hunt wrote continuously for,more than
(a) 15 years
(b) 20 years
(c) 30 years
(d) 25 years
Question’s Answer: 30 years
William Hazlitt (English essayist)’s “The Spirit of the Age” released in the year’
(a) 1820
(b) 1825
(c) 1823
(d) 1822
Question’s Answer: 1825
Confessions of an English Opium Eater was the creation of
(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Thomas Cooper
(c) Robert Southey
(d) De Quincey
Question’s Answer: De Quincey
Which author has been called “the psychologist of style”?
(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Thomas De Quincey
(c) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(d) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)
Question’s Answer: Thomas De Quincey
Of the following works of De Quincey which is a novel?
(a) Suspiria de profundis
(b) The English Mail Coach
(c) Klosterheim
(d) Joan of Arc
Question’s Answer: Klosterheim
Leigh Hunt, a poet linked with John Keats was born in 1784 and pass away in
(a) 1850
(b) 1859
(c) 1849
(d) 1840
Question’s Answer: 1859
In whose works life was seen as nebulous and chaotic?
(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)
(c) Thomas De Quincey
(d) P.B. Shelley
Question’s Answer: Thomas De Quincey
According to_____, “Not to sympathies is not to understand”.
(a) Addison
(b) De Quincey
(c) Eliot
(d) Arnold
Question’s Answer: De Quincey
Which periodical founded in 1820,encouraged De Quincey?
(a) Blackwood’s Magazine
(b) London Magazine
(c) Fraser’s Magazine
(d) Edinburgh Review
Question’s Answer: London Magazine
Which of these authors was an opium addict?
(a) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) Thomas De Quincey
(d) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
Question’s Answer: Thomas De Quincey
Which work of De Quincey reveals his grotesque humour?
(a) The Revolt of the Tartars Opium Eater
(b) Confessions of an English
(c) Murder Known as
(d) The English Mail Coach
Question’s Answer: Confessions of an English
When Thomas De Quincey was born?
(a) 1782
(b) 1785
(c) 1790
(d) 1783
Question’s Answer: 1785
Who fled the Manchester Grammar School after concluding that the instruction was much below his level of ability?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) Thomas De Quincey
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
Question’s Answer: Thomas De Quincey
Literary Reminiscences is the most illuminating critical work of
(a) Thomas De Quincey
(b) Lord Byron
(c) Leight Hunt
(d) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
Question’s Answer: Thomas De Quincey
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