English Literature

ইংরেজী সাহিত্য

Important period in English Literature 

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1. The Old English Period: 450-1066

2.The Middle English Period: 1066-1500

a) The Anglo Norman Period: 1066-1340
b) The Age of Chaucer: 1340-1400
c) The Dark/Barren Period: 1400-1485

3 The Renaissance : 1500-1660

a) Preparation for Renaissance: 1500-1558
b) The Elizabethan Period: 1558-1603
c) The Jacobean Period: 1603-1625
d) The Caroline Period: 1625-1649
e) The Commonwealth Period: 1649-1660

***Puritan period: 1620-1660

4. The Neoclassical Period: 1660-1798

a) The Restoration Period: 1660-1700
b) The Augustan Period: 1700-1745
c) The Age of Sensibility: 1745-1798

5.The Romantic Period: 1798-1832
6. The Victorian Period: 1832-1901
7. The Modern Period: 1901-1939
8. The Post Modern Period: 1939-Present

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1. "The Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield & Thomas Hardy": written by - Charles Dickens.
2. "Ware & Peace - Leo Tolstoy (An Epic tale of Napoleonic invasion).
3. Modern Period Started in English Literature - From 1901.
4. "A Farewell to Arms, The Old man & the Sea And For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Ernest Hemingway.
5. Man & Superman, Caesar & Cleopatra - George Bernard Shaw.
6. Bertrand Russell is the modern British philosopher - who was awarded Nobel prize for Literature.
7. Road to Freedom - Bertrand Russell .
8. The Waste Land(poem) - Thomas Stearns Eliot (Nobel Prize for this poem).
9. Murder in the Cathedral - TS Eliot.
10. Of Human Bondage, The Luncheon - William Somerset Maugham.
11. Churchill was a Statesman but awarded Nobel prize in English literature - in 1953 (History of the 2nd world war).
12.Full Name of "O' Henry" is - William Sydney Porter.
13. The Gift of the Magi - O' Henry ( a short story).
14. "Lady Chatterley's Lover & The Rainbow" was written by - D. H. Lawrence.
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15. On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin.
16. The Garden - Andrew Marvell.
17. The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King & In Memoriam - Alfred Tennyson.
18. Volpone, Everyman in His Humour - Ben Jonson.
19. La Divina Comedia - Dante.
20. A Psalm of Life - H. G Longfellow.
21. Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx.
22. To Daffodils, Hesperides - Robert Herrick.
23. Kidnapped, Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson.
24. Delusion and Dream - Sigmund Freud.
25. Don Juan - Lord Byron.
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1. The Old English Period - The Anglo Saxon Period(450-1066)
2. The Renaissance Period - 1500 to 1660.
3. The Italian word "Renaissance" means - Rebirth or Re again.
4. It started in Italy - in 1453. but its effect on English life and literature was felt in 1500.
5. The Elizabethan Age - is the most glorious age of Renaissance period in English literature.
6. It is called "The golden Age and - A nest of singing birds" of English literature.
7. The Father of English Poetry - Geoffrey Chaucer.
8. "The Tempest" & "The Midsummer Night's Dream" - Comedy (W. Shakespeare).
9. "To be or not to be" that is the - question.
10. Shakespeare is known mostly - for his Plays.
11. "Comedy of Humor" is connected with a - Medical Theory.
12. Shakespeare was died in - 1616.
13. He was called - The bird of Avon.
14. Francis Bacon is - an Essayist.
15. He was called - Father of English Prose.
16. Paradise Lost - an Epic poem (written by John Milton).
17. "Paradise Lost" attempted to - Justify the ways of God to Man.
18. The English Epic poet - John Milton.
19. "Lycidas" & "Paradise Regained" was written by - John Milton.
20. A Lexicographer is a person who writes - Dictionaries.
21. The first English Dictionary writer - Samuel Johnson.
22. The father of English novel - Henry Fielding.
23. "Tom Jones" was written by - Henry Fielding.
24. Jonathan Swift is the most famous - Satirist in English Literature.
25. Gullivers Travel was written by - Jonathan Swift.
26. Mock heroic poet in English literature - Alexander Pope (was written by - Rape of the Lock).
27. To err is human, to forgive is divine - Alexander Pope.
28. Patriotism & Ivan Hoe was written by - Sir Walter Scott.
29. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe.
30. The literary work "Kubla Khan" is - A verse by Coleridge.
31. Blake - was a both poet & a painter.
32. The poet of Nature of English Literature - William Wordsworth.
33. The poet of Beauty - John Keats.
34. John Keats is a - Romantic poet.
35. He was known as a man of Medicine.
36. Romantic Period was - 1798 to 1832.
37. "Ode to Autumn", "Ode on a Grecian Urn" & "Ode to a Nightingale " was written by - John Keats.
38. P.B Shelley was called - Revolutionary poet.
39. Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark & Ozymandias - P.B Shelley.
40. W. Wordsworth Inspired by the - French Revolution.
41. Solitary Reaper, The Daffodils, The Lucky poem & Prelude(verse) - w. wordsworth.
42. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
43. Robert Browning was a poet of - Victorian Period.
44. Victorian Period was - 1832 to 1901.
45. Andrea del Sarto, The Patriot & Rabbi Ben Ezra - Robert browning 


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বিখ্যাত ইংরেজী সাহিত্য কর্ম এবং তাদের লেখক। যা বিভিন্ন পরীক্ষায় প্রায়ই এসে থাকে-

1. Brick Lane - Monica Ali.
2. Spirit of Islam - Syed Amir Ali.
3. India Wins Freedom - Abul Kalam Azad.
4. The Rape of Bangladesh - Anthony Mascarenhas.
5. A Passage to India - E.M Forster.
6. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy.
7. Animal Farm - George Orwell.
8. Asian Drama - Gunnar Myrdal .
9. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer.
10. Crime & Punishment - Dostoevsky.
11. Emma - Jane Austen.
12. Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince - J.K Rowling.
13. Silent Woman - Ben Jonson.
14. The Captive Lady - M. Madhusudan Dutta.
15. The End of History & The Last Man - M. Francis Fukuyama.
16. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling.
17. The Odyssey & The Iliad - Homer.
18. The Return of The Native - Thomas Hardy.
19. The Sacred Flame - Oscar Wilde.
20. The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd.
21. The Time Machine - HG Wells.
22. Time, You Old Gipsy Man - Ralph Hodgson.
23. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf.
24. Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe.
25. Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak