LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SIXTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 6600 - HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Date : 16/04/2008
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
Identify the following writers by relating them to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
DM 18
(10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
Literary school and movement
The chief literary form promoted
Contemporary writers
Any significant historical/ social/ political/ ideological event. Your answer should not exceed
30 words.
06.
Thomas Gray
01. Philip Sydney
07.
Spenser
02. Marlowe
08.
John Donne
03. John Bunyan
09.
Blake
04. Addison
10.
Synge
05. Dr Johnson
PART – B
Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words:
(5 x 7 = 35 Marks )
11. The impact of Renaissance on Elizabethan Drama
12. Francis Bacon as a great prose writer
13. Features of Restoration Drama
14. Donne and the Metaphysical Poetry
15. The English Periodical Essay
16. Oliver Goldsmith as a popular writer of his time
17. Characteristics of Absurd Drama
18. Black American Fiction.
PART – C
Answer any THREE of the following in about 250 words:
(3 x 15 = 45 Marks)
19. Consider Marlowe as a representative dramatist of his age.
20. What features of his poetry make Shelley a great poet?
21. Write the contribution of the Bronte Sisters to the English Novel.
22. Examine Science Fiction in English.
23. What would be the quantum of loss to a student if his curriculum for U.G course in
English Literature does not provide room for an overall study of the History of English
Literature?
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