NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. June 2023 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Aristotle's "Poetics" was translated in Latin by Giorgio Valla from a Greek Manuscript he owned, and that tran-slation, published in 1498.
Aristotle's "Poetics" is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extent philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a)

"Driving into the Vreck" (1972), "Transcendental Etude" (1977), "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" (1963) are written by American poet Adrienne Rich while "The Applicant" (1962) and "Ripples on the Surface" were written by Sylvia Plath and Gary Synder respectively.
So, the poems mentioned in (D) & (E) are not written by Adrienne.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

• Novel "Basil" and "The Women in White" are written by William Wikkie Collins.
• A Tale of a Tub (1704)-Jonathan Swift
• Lapsing - Jill Paton Walsh
• A School for Lovers - Jill Paton Walsh.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

• Nicholas Nickleby (1839) is novel by Charles Dickens, in which a high spirited boy of 19 years old is left penniles along with his mother and sister Kate on the death of his father.
• Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickle by with the intention of exposing the abuses of for profit boarding schools in England.
• Dicken's third novel "Nicholas Nickle by" focuses on titular hero Nicholas and explores the danger of greed, the sublimity of family, and the central importance of maintaining one's ethical values.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

• Richard Lovelace composed Lucasta : Postume Poems, published posthumously in (1659-1660).
• Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the 17th Century. He was a Cavalier poet who fought on behalf of Charles I during the English Civil war.
• His renowned works are "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars", "To Althea, from Prison" etc.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

• Charles Lamb's "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare" (1808) is an anthology, with brief but cogent critical comments of extracts of scenes and speeches from Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists.
• William Hazlitt's "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" (1817) is a book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays.
• "Imaginary Conversations" is Walter Savage Landor's most celebrated prose work.
• Gryll Grange is the seventh and final novel of Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1861.
• So, the correct match of List I (authors) with List II (Works) is A2, B-3, C-1, D-4.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

Rose theatre was built in 1587 by Philip Henslowe and by a grocer named Joh Cholmley. It was repaired in 1592 and in 1595, and spent substantial sums on renovating and expanding his theatre. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

• The chronological sequence of the given works is A, E, B, C, D.
(A) Jane Eyre (1847) - Charlotte Bronte
(E) The Newcomes (1855) - William Makepeace Thackeray.
(B) A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens
(C) Middlemarch (1875) - George Eliot
(D) The Return of the Native (1878) -Thomas Hardy
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Chronological order of the writer in accordance with their year of birth is C, D, B, A, Е.
Samuel Johnson (1709, UK-1784, UK).
Edmund Burke (1729–1797).
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794).
James Boswell (1740–1795).
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816).
Hence, the correct answer is option (a)

Stephen Gosson observed in the pamphlet titted "Plays Confuted in Five Actions" (1582), "I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that ------bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked to furnish the playhouse in London."
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).