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.