LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SIXTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
LO 30
EL 6600 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Date & Time : 16.04.2007/9.00-12.00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART A
Identify the following writers by relating them to:
10x2=20 marks
a) Literary school and movement
b) The chief literary form promoted
c) Contemporary writers
d) Any significant historical /social /political /ideological event.
Your answer should not exceed 30 words
01.Chaucer
06.Coleridge
02.Edmund Spenser
07.Arnold
03.Thomas Wyatt
08.Hardy
04.John Donne
09.Emily Dickinson
05.Pope
10.T.S.Eliot
PART B
Attempt any Five of the following in about 150 words
5x7=35 marks
11.Discuss the main characteristics of “revival of Learning”
12.The impact of Reformation on Literature
13.University Wits
14. Features of Metaphysical Poetry
15.Characteristics of the age of Shakespeare
16.The influence of Puritanism on Literature
17. Discuss the literary characteristics of the Restoration period
18.Why is the modern age called the “Age of Anxiety and Interrogation”
PART C
Answer any THREE of the following in about 250 words each:
3x15=45 marks
19.Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of his age.
20.Evaluate the main trends in modern American literature.
21.Examine the contribution made by Wordsworth to HEL.
22.Why should one study about the social/political/literary and other such background to
know about a work of art or about a writer fully. Give illustration
23.Trace the development of British drama up to Ben Jonson.
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