T.S Eliot MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: April 15, 2025

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1. T.S. Eliot calls “Byron so empty of matter, Shelley so incoherent, and Wordsworth so wanting in completeness and variety.” Where does he say so?



2. To whom did T.S. Eliot dedicate The Waste Land?



3. To whom did T.S. Eliot dedicate Prufrock and Other Observations?



4. In which type of verse-form is the play The Family Reunion written?



5. According to T.S. Eliot, “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.” Why?



6. According to T.S. Eliot, “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion…” Where does Eliot make this observation?



7. In which verse-form is T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land written?



8. T.S. Eliot has not written a critical article on one of the following. Locate him:



9. Which play of Shakespeare has been regarded as “One of Shakespeare’s most assured artistic successes” by T.S. Eliot?



10. What is, according to T.S. Eliot, the most powerful tool in the hands of a critic?



11. T.S. Eliot calls Arnold “a propagandist of literature, and an over-worked school inspector.” Where does he make this observation?



12. Which poem ends with the following lines?



13. The Sacred Wood is:



14. Which of Shakespeare’s plays is critically referenced by Eliot?



15. The following lines are taken from which poem?



16. Which of Eliot’s poems ends with these lines:



17. Into how many parts is The Waste Land divided?



18. Which poem begins with:



19. On what basis does Eliot call Hamlet an artistic failure?



20. What type of play is Murder in the Cathedral?



21. “…….is the most carefully worked, and the most deeply flawed of all Eliot’s plays.” Which play is referred to?



22. What is Eliot’s The Cocktail Party?



23. T.S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song” is quoted from a poem by:



24. The phrase “dissociation of sensibility” was used by Eliot in:



25. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” This line is from:



26. “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.” This line is from:



27. T.S. Eliot uses the term “Objective Correlative” in:



28. What is Eliot’s The Confidential Clerk?



29. How many parts are there in Eliot’s play The Family Reunion?



30. The Waste Land is a series of how many poems?



 

T.S Eliot Basic info
T.S Eliot Basic info

 

T.S Eliot Books names
T.S Eliot Books names

T.S Eliot Basic info

Full Name Thomas Stearns Eliot
Birthdate September 26, 1888
Birthplace St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality American (later became British subject)
Occupation Poet, essayist, publisher
Notable Works “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Four Quartets”
Literary Style Modernist, fragmented, allusive
Nobel Prize Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1948)
Education Harvard University (B.A., M.A.); University of Oxford (Ph.D.)
Religion Converted to Anglicanism
Death Date January 4, 1965
Death Place London, England

T.S Eliot books names

Prufrock and Other Observations 1917
The Waste Land 1922
The Hollow Men 1925
Ash Wednesday 1930
Four Quartets 1935-1942
Murder in the Cathedral 1935
The Cocktail Party 1949
The Confidential Clerk 1954
The Elder Statesman 1959
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1915
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 1939

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