FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IIN BPS – 17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2004
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – I
NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART – I
1. Critically evaluate W. Blake as a writer of lyrical poetry.
- How far does Wordsworth follow his critical principles in his best poems? Give examples.
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Discuss Browning’s monologues as beautiful psychological analysis of characters belonging to different countries.
PART – II
4. Write a Critical note on Charles Lamb as a prose writer. In what particular ways was he different from the prose writers of his age? Give examples.
- It is said, “Dickens has his own sentimental way of solving social problems”. Discuss with examples.
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It is said by C. Rickett. “In his earlier writing, Sweetness and bitterness are Contrasted but in his later novels of Hardy, the gloom is needlessly intensified”. Discuss with examples.
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Write detailed notes on Two of the following:
((a) Shelley as revolutionary poet ((b) Byron as a Satirist ((c) Contrast between Romantic and Victorian poets (d) Keats as a writer of Odes
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.
1) Hellenism of Keats connotes:
(a) his love of poetry (b) his love of ancient cultures (c) his love of Greek culture and art d) None of these
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The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:
(a) Ode to Nightingale (b) Ode to Grecian Urn (c) Ode to Psyche d) None of these -
In his poetry Tennyson is:
(a) The representative poet of Victorian Age (b) The representative poet of Romantic Age (c) The best nature poet d) None of these -
T. Hardy is:
(a) A social reformer (b) A satirist (c) A fatalist d) A lover of nature (e) None of these -
Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:
(a) Adam Bede (b) Middlemarch (c) The Mill on the Floss d) Silas Marner (e) None of these -
Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:
(a) Modern painters (b) The Stones of Venice (c) The Crown of wild olive d) None of these -
Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth (c) Coleridge d) Arnold (e) None of these -
‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill d) None of these -
The French Revolution took place in:
(a) 1793 (b) 1796 (c) 1798 d) None of these -
‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:
(a) Arnold (b) T. S. Eliot (c) Shelley d) None of these -
“David Copperfield” was written by:
(a) Hardy (b) Dickens (c) Thackeray d) None of these -
Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Byron (c) T. S. Eliot d) Arnold (e) None of these -
‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley d) None of these -
‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
(a) Blake (b) Byron (c) Tennyson d) None of these -
‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Browning (c) Blake d) None of these -
The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Lamb (c) Mill d) Oscar Wilde (e) None of these -
Ruskin is famous for:
(a) Being a critic of art (b) A social reformer (c) A moral teacher d) None of these -
Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:
(a) The Mill on the Floss (b) Adam Bede (c) Silas Marner d) None of these -
‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:
(a) Coleridge (b) Wordsworth (c) Keats d) None of these -
‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Keats d) T. S. Eliot (e) None of these