MISCELLANEOUS
- Samuel Johnson wrote first English Dictionary ( Published in 1755).
- William Wordsworth was a poet of nature.
- Helen of Troy was the wife of Menelaus.
- Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616.
- ‘Lyrical Ballads’ was published in 1798.
- ‘Hasting day’ in ‘To Daffodils’ means hurriedly passing day.
- ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ refers to the cities of London and Paris.
- The greatest modern English Dramatist is G.B. Shaw.
- ‘Things Fall Apart’ was written by Chinua Achebe.
- Shakespeare is known mostly for his Plays/dramas.
- William Blake is known both a poet and a painter.
- John Keats is primarily a poet of beauty.
- T.S. Eliot was born in USA but settled in England.
- George Bernard Shaw is a Play writer.
- Leo Tolstoy is a Russian novelist.
- Jonathon Swift is a famous satirist in English literature.
- ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is jointly written by William Wordsoworth and S.T. Coleridge in 1798.
- ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is based on Coleridge’s friend’s dream.
- Keats died of tuberculosis.
- W.B. Yeats translated the ‘Gitanzali’ into English.
- ‘Nakshi Kanthar Maat’ was translated into English by E.M. Milfold.
- Homer was a Greek epic poet.
- Homer was a blind poet.
- Famous three Greek Dramatists-Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus.
- W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize in 1923.
- T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1945.
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