History of English Literature | Final Sugg for 2022 – The exam will be held in 2023

Part: B

1. Write a short note on “Beowulf”/ What do you know about Beowulf? *** Ans [SG: 15, SP: 22]
2. Write a short note on ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles’. *** Ans [SG: 18, SP: 22]
3. Black Death. *** Ans [SG: 47, SP: 74]
4. What is “Canterbury Tales”? / Give a brief account of the history of the composition of The Canterbury Tales. Ans [SG: 50, SP: 72]
5. What do you know about the Hundred Years’ War? *** Ans [SG: 46, SP: 67]
6. Who are the Cavalier poets? Write a note on the qualities of them. *** [SG: , SP: ]
7. Who are the University Wits? Write a short note on the University Wits. *** [SG: 129, SP: ]
8. Who is Sir Roger de Coverly? *** [SG: 264, SP: ]
9. Wordsworth’s pantheism. *** [SG: 88, SP: ]
10. Write a note on the women novelists of the Victorian Age. *** [SG: , SP: ]
11. What do you know about The Origin of Species? *** [SG: , SP: ]
12. What is the Victorian compromise? [SG: , SP: ]
13. What is absurd Drama? *** [SG: , SP: 396, 416]
14. Write a short note on “Stream of Consciousness” and ‘Dramatic Monologue’. *** [SG: , SP: 397]
15. What are the chief characteristics of Restoration Literature? *** [SG: , SP: ]
16. Which period is called ‘The Romantic Revival’ and why? *** [SG: , SP: ]
17. What is the Oxford Movement? *** [SG: , SP: ]
18. What do you know about King Alfred? [SG: 17, SP: ]
19. Write a short note on Reformation. Why did the reformation happen in England? *** [SG: 88, SP: 102]
20. For what is Ben Jonson remarkable in Jacobean literature / literary works? *** [SG: , SP: ]
21. Write about The Globe Theatre. *** [SG: 130, SP: ]
22. Why is Blake called “the precursor of Romanticism”. *** [SG: , SP: ]
23. Write a brief note on ‘Lyrical Ballads’. [SG: , SP: ]
24. Write a short note on Anglicanism. *** [SG: , SP: 100]
25. In what sense is John Milton a ‘classicist”? *** [SG: , SP: ]
26. How does Pope reflect the critical spirit of the eighteenth century? [SG: , SP: ]
27. What are the characteristics of romantic poetry? [SG: , SP: ]

Extra:

28. What is Renaissance? [SG: 117, SP: ]
29. In what sense is John Milton the classiest? [SG: , SP: ]
30. Why is Bacon’s prose style significant?? [SG: , SP: ]
31. Write a short note Reformation movement.  [SG: , SP: ]
32. Describe Coleridge’s ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’. [SG: , SP: ]
33. Write a note on Keats’s Negative Capability. [SG: , SP: ]
34. What is the Symbolist Movement? [SG: , SP: ]
35. What are the features of Romantic Poetry? [SG: , SP: ]
36. Write a note decadent play. [SG: , SP: ]

Part: C (Broad)

• History:
  1. What picture of the Anglo-Saxon life do you get in Beowulf/German life and manners [17] *** / Write a note on Beowulf. [20] [SP: 27]
  2. What do you know about Norman Conquest and its effect on English literature? Ans [SG: 33, SP: 59]

• The Age Of Chaucer:
  3. Discuss the three stages of Chaucer’s poetic development / career of Chaucer as a poet / Chaucer’s contribution to English literature in three phases. [17, 19] *** [SP: 81]
  4. Discuss Chaucer as a representative poet of his age / How did Chaucer represent his age? [16, 18] ***  Ans [SG: 56, SP: 76]
  5. Why is Chaucer called the father of English Poetry? / Chaucer’s contribution to English literature. Ans [SG: 59, SP: 80]

• Renaissance: Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Puritan Age:
  6. Trace the characteristics of English literature during the Elizabethan period [18 ] / Discuss the influence of the Renaissance on English literature. [20]*** [SG: , SP: 152]
  7. Write a brief essay on Shakespeare’s contribution to English drama. [20] ***
  8. Assess the contribution of the University Wits to English Drama. [15,19]  Ans [SG: 151, SP: 156]

• Restoration Period:
  9. Write an essay on the Restoration comedy of manners / Describe the comedy of manners / Discus the development of the Comedy of Manners. [16] *** [SG:233, SP:214]
  10. What is restoration? Discuss the historical and political background of the age. [18] ***  Ans [SG, SP:223]

• Neoclassical Age:
  11. Write a note on Pope’s works and contribution to the neoclassical age. [18] [SP: 262]/ Give a brief account of satire in the eighteenth century with reference to Pope and Dryden. [20] *** [SG: 290]
  12. Discuss the general characteristics of the poetry of the Neoclassical age. [17]  [SG: 281, SP: 253]

• Romantic Age:
  13. Describe the major Romantic poets and their contribution to English poetry. [18] [SG: 353, SP: 310]/ Evaluate Wordsworth as a romantic poet. [20] ***  [SG: 355]
  14. Examine the influence of the French Revolution on Romantic poetry.  [SG: 350, SP: 317]

• Victorian Age:
  15. Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of the Victorian age. Ans [SP: 351] /
      What spirit of the Victorian age do you notice in the works of Tennyson? [15, 17] /
      Evaluate Tennyson’s contribution to Victorian poetry. [20] *** [SG: 387, SP: 358]
  16. Discuss the conflict between Science and Religion of the Victorian Period. [18] *** Ans [SG, SP: 377]
  17. Discuss Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy as Victorian novelists.  Ans [SG:395, SP: 361]

• Modern Age:
  18. Discuss the salient features of modern drama with special reference to G.B. Shaw. [18, 20] *** Or write a note on Modern English Drama. [SP: 432] 
  19. Discuss the major differences between the novels of the Victorian age and those of the Modern Period. [16]

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History of English Literature | Final Sugg for 2021

Part B:

1. What do you know about King Alfred? ★★★ [SG: 17, SP: 20]
2. Why did the reformation happen in England? ★★★ [SP: 102]
3. What is Renaissance? / Write a short note on “Renaissance”. ★★★ [SG: 117, SP: 133]
4. In what sense is John Milton a “Classicist”? ★★★
5. For what is Ben Jonson remarkable in Jacobean literature? ★★★ [SP: 141]
6. Why is Blake called ‘the precursor of Romanticism’? ★★★ [SG: 341, SP: 301]
7. Briefly discuss Coleridge’s idea of “William Suspension of Disbelief”. ★★★ [SG: 344, SP: 298]
8. What are the features/characteristics of Romantic Poetry? ★★★[SP: 297]
9. Write a short note on “Stream of Consciousness”. ★★★ [SG: 421, SP: 397]
10. What do you know by “Victorian Compromise”? ★★★ [SG: 381, SP: 335]
11. 2021 – Write a short note on Pre-Raphaelitism. ★★★ [SP: 340]
12. What is absurd drama? ★★★ [SG: 427, SP: 396]

1. What do you mean by ‘Symbolist Movement’? ★★ [SG: 422]
2. Write about the Globe Theatre. ★ [SG: 130, SP: 138]
3. How does Pope reflect the critical spirit of the 18th century? [For Broad also] ★★★
4. What were the causes of the rise of the Puritan Age? ★★★
5. Write a note on the woman novelists of the Victorian Age. / Write briefly about Jane Austen. ★★★
6. Discuss the contribution of Sir Thomas More
7. Why is Bacon’s prose style significant??
8. 2021 – What is Romantic Movement?

Short Notes for part B:

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Part C:

1. 2021 – (part: b) What do you know about Norman Conquest and its effect on English literature? Ans [SG: 33, SP: 59]
2. Why is Chaucer called the father of English poetry? Chaucer’s contributions to English literature. Ans [SG: 59, SP: 80]
3. Discuss Chaucer is the representative poet of his age / 2021 – 14th-century life and society. Ans [SG: 56, SP: 76]
4. Assess the contribution of the University Wits of English drama. Ans [SG: 151, SP: 156]
5. 2021 – Why is the Elizabethan Age called the Golden Age of English literature? Ans [SG: 154]
6. Who are the metaphysical poets and evaluate their contribution to English poetry. [SG: 197, SP: 194]
7. Describe the major romantic poets and their contribution to English poetry. [SG: 353, SP: 310]
8. Comment on major Victorian poets and their contributions as the representatives of their age. [SG,SP: 358] / Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of the Victorian Age. Ans
9. Discuss the conflict between Science and Religion of the Victorian Period. Ans [SG, SP: 377]
10. Discuss what are the salient features and social pictures of modern poetry, Chaucerian Age? / Salient features (উল্লেখযোগ্য বৈশিষ্ট্য) of romanticism in the works of the major romantic poets. / What do you know about the major trends in modern poetry? [SG:441, SP:430]
11. What is restoration? Discuss the historical and political background of the age. Ans [SG, SP:223]
12. Discuss the general characteristics of the poetry of the Neoclassical Age. [SG: 281, SP: 253]
13. Examine the influence of the French revolution on romantic poetry. [SG: 350, SP: 317]
14. Discuss Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy as Victorian Novelists. Ans [SG, SP: 361]
15. Write a note on ‘Decadent Play’.
    
16. Describe the social picture of the Anglo-Saxon period in the Beowulf/Old English period.
17. Impact of reformation in English Literature. / Write an essay on the English Reformation movement.
18. Describe the characteristics of the romantic age.
19. Describe the feature of victorian novels. / Write a note on victorian women novelists.
20. What are the salient trends of the Victorian Age?
21. Describe the features of the modern novel, poetry/age.
22. Alexander Pope’s works & contribution to the neo-classical age.
23. “Neo-classical Age is the age of prose and reason”- why? Ans
24. How did religion and politics affect the Puritan age/ features of the Puritan age?
25. Who are the cavalier poets? Trace their contribution to English poetry.
26. Discuss the three stages of Chaucer’s poetic development. / Write a note on Chaucer’s contribution to English literature in three phases.
27. Why is the Eighteenth Century called an Age of Prose and Reason? / Illustrate your answer with reference to at least two authors of the age.