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B.A . DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2013
( ENGLISH )
( SECOND YEAR )
( PART - III )

660. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

December ]

[ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer any FIVE of the following

without omitting any group.
ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
(5 20=100)
GROUP A
1. What are the contributions made by the
translators of the Bible? Illustrate.
2. Describe the part played by the university wits
in the Age of Elizabeth.

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3. Give an account of Shakespeare Plays.
4. Write an essay on the sonneteers of the
Elizabethan Age.
GROUP B
5. Give an account of the political and social
background in the age of the Puritans.
6. Bring out the characteristics of Miltons poetry.
7. Write an essay on Alexander Pope and his
poetry.

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GROUP D
13. Why is Tennyson regarded as the representative
poet of the Victorian Period? Illustrate.
14. What is the contribution of Thomas Hardy to
the Victorian novel? Elucidate.
15. In what ways can G.M. Hopkins be called an
innovator in the poetry of the times? Illustrate.
16. Bernard Shaw is a playwright of the modern
times. Explain.

8. Write an essay on Restoration Drama.

GROUP C
9. Wr i t e a n e s s a y o n t h e p r e c u r s o r s o f
Romanticism.
10. Discuss Henry Fielding as an 18 th Century
novelist.
11. Wr i t e a n e s s a y o n J o h n K e a t s a n d h i s
contribution to English Romanticism.
12. Discuss Sir Walter Scott as a novelist of the
Romantic era.