English Poetry MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: April 19, 2025

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1. When Eliot was invested with the Order of Merit?



2. When Eliot received the Nobel Prize for literature?



3. When T.S. Eliot, an American of a New adopted British citizenship?



4. Eliot became a director of the publishing firm of



5. When T.S. Eliot was born?



6. Which Indian religious book had the biggest impact on Eliot?



7. “Gerontion” is a poem included in Eliot’s



8. Animula of Eliot was inspired by which of the followings?



9. Which is the most popular as well as the obscurest of Eliot’s poem in English language?



10. In which Eliot poem is the theme of Ash Wednesday repeated, continued and expanded?



11. “The Waste Land” A Poem by T. S. Eliot was published in _____.



12. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi occurs in his



13. Magi of Journey of the Magi are



14. Wystan Hugh Auden was the leader of the _______ .



15. Auden found the solution of all social and political ills in



16. When Auden immigrated to _______ in 1939, his poetry entered a second phase.



17. Which work of Yeats was written to honour his beloved Maud Gonne?



18. The story of which work of Yeats occupies in Irish literature much the same place as that of King Arthur in English?



19. Auden’s faith in communism was shaken by



20. Auden was influenced by



21. Who called Auden, the most accomplished technician now writing poetry in English?



22. Auden learnt the symbolic method and the use of modern imagery from



23. Wystan Hugh Auden’s major critical work is



24. The world of W.B. Yeats is full of _________.



25. In which play of Yeats, a wise-man keeps school and teaches there is no God, no Soul, no Heaven, no Hell?



26. W.B. Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for literature is



27. Auden’s use of assonance and internal rhyme is an attribute of



28. One of the best known of Yeats’ early lyrics is



29. ‘Yeats’ The Green Helmet and Other Poems and Responsibilities are



30. When Stephen Spender was born?



31. The Little Minister and Sentimental Tommy have been written by



32. Dylan Thomas’ mature work is more



33. Robert Bridges was born in



34. Robert Bridges was appointed Poet Laureate in



35. Thy work with beauty crown, thy life with love, Thy mind with truth uplift to God above. Where does Bridges write these lines?



36. According to_____, ‘What led me to poetry was the inexhaustible satisfaction of form.”



37. In 1873 appeared Robert Bridges’



38. Dylan Thomas’ early poetry is deeply



39. Which is the masterpiece of Robert Bridges’ in 1929?



40. The gipsy girl is a character in Barrie’s



41. Which play of Barrie is considered to be his finest dramatic work?



42. Martha is a character in the work of



43. Which poem of Walter de la Mare portrays dreadful figures of the criminal in the dock, the drug addict, the suicide?



44. Walter de la Mare is a poet of



45. “It has not been done, the sea, not yet been done. From the inside, by one who really knows” These lines have been written by



46. “Her voice and her narrow chin Her grave small lovely head Seemed half the meaning Of the words she said.” These lines have been composed by



47. Which poet is considered to be a master in the art of creating atmosphere alive with mystery and strangeness?



48. Which work of Masefield brought out fully his genius as a poet?



49. Masefield’s poem “The Everlasting Mercy” has a theme.



50. They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine, but man’s. These are the lines of



 

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