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[03/09, 11:08 am] +92 302 9334550: *Criticism on Shakespeare*
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit.”
2. T. S. Eliot
“We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.”
3. Orson Welles
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
4. Cole Porter

“Brush Up Your Shakespeare.”
5. D. H. Lawrence
“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.”
7. Ben Jonson
“Sweet Swan of Avon!”
“My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room.”
“A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.”
“He was not of an age, but for all time!”
“Thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.”

8. Robert Graves
“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good – in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
9. Brendan Behan
“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
10. Thomas Carlyle
“If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare’s intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.”
11. William Hazlitt
“If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.”
12. George Bernard Shaw

“Hamlet’s experience simply could not have happened to a plumber.”
13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!”
14. John Dryden
“He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inwards, and found her there.”
15. John Milton
“Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d bones,
The labour of an age in piled stones,
Or that his hallow’d relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”

16. Thomas More
“And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights,
Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.”
17. Laurence Olivier
“Shakespeare – The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.”
18. Dame Ellen Terry
“Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?”
19. Horace Walpole
“One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed,
Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.”
20. William Wordsworth
“Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
[03/09, 4:05 pm] +92 302 9334550: Points to remember

Elizabethan Prose and Poetry

1) The sonnet was first brought to England by

Sir Thomas Wyatt

2) The first blank verse in English is written by

Earl of Surry

3) How many lines does the sonnet contain?

ANS. 14

4) What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?

ANS. ababcdcdefefgg

5) What is Marlowe’s “Mighty Line”?

ANS. Blank Verse

5) Who made blank verse the regular metre of epic?
Milton
10) Who wrote the following lines?

“But were some child of yours alive that time
You should live twice – in it, and in my rhyme”
Shakespeare

11) Spenser wrote The Shepherd’s Calendar.

12) The Faerie Queene is written by
Edmund Spenser

13) The Faerie Queene is written in
6 books

14) The rhyme plan of a Spenserian stanza is
ababbcbcc

15) In 1594, Spenser married
Elizabeth Boyle

16) Who wrote marriage song Epithalamion?
Edmund Spenser

18) The title of Spenser’s collection of sonnets is
Amoretti

19) The Elizabethan Age was especially congenial for Lyrics.

20) Sir Philip Sidney was killed in the battle of
Zutphen
21) The title of Sidney’s book of sonnets is
Astrophel and Stella
22) Who was the soldier, sailor, explorer, courtier and writer of the Elizabetha Age?

Sir Walter Raleigh

23) Identify the source of the following line

“O mistress mine, where are you roaming?”

Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night

24) The longer poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are written by
William Shakespeare

25) The lyric Passionate Shepherd to his Love is written by
Marlowe

26) Identify the writer of the following lines
“Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove”
Marlowe

27) John Donne is the greatest Metaphysical Poet

28) The poem Go and Catch the Falling Star is written by
John Donne

29) John Donne was
Lawyer and Priest

30) Who wrote The Songs and Sonnets?
Donne

31) To Celia is written by

Ben Jonson

32) Identify the author of the following lines

“Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I’ll not look for wine”

Ben Jonson
[05/09, 6:52 pm] +92 302 9334550: Most important study points on Geoffrey Chaucer

PROLOGUE TO CANTERBURY TALES-2

1. The true import of the Clerk’s Tale in the Canterbury Tales is “that man must learn to endure adversity with courage and understanding.

2. In chaucer’s time the Peasant Revolt resulted in the end of serfdom.

3. The two French writers influenced Chaucer in his early literary career was De Lorries and De Maung

4. The Canterbury Tales is believed to have been taken from Boccaccio’s Decameron

5. The poem by Chaucer to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

6. In Prologue to Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the Heroic Couplet.

7. Chaucer’s physician in the Doctor of Phsique was heavily dependent upon Astrology.

8. Chaucer has been criticized for presenting about courts and cultivated classes and neglects the suffering of the poor.

9. Chaucer has been called as The Morning star of the Renaissance

10. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a story of Twenty –nine pilgrims

11. Arnold criticizes Chaucer for lacking in high seriousness.

12. Long called the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the prologue to modern fiction because of its Realism.

13. In Canterbury Tales, 120 stories planned, but 20 tales completed (4 fragment).

14. The best among the tales by all pilgrims in the Canterbury tales is selected based on meaningful and funny.

15. Chaucer introduced felicity in English.

16. Longest tale-the knights Tale

17. A satire on unequal marriages is found in the Merchant’s Tale of January and May.

18. The lines are about 17,000 in verse.

19. Chaucer has been called the "Prince of Plagiarists".
20. Chaucer was born and bred In London.
21. "Chaucer was not in any sense a poet of the people" said Hudson.
22. Who called Chaucer as "The earliest of the great moderns" and was also "The morning star of the Renaissance"? Albert.
23. Chaucer introduced "The Heroic Couplet into English Verse.
24. Chaucer introduced "The Rhyme Royal",
25. Dryden called Chaucer "The father of English Poetry".
26. Matthew Arnold described chaucer as "with Chaucer is born our real poetry".
27. Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language" said Lowes.
28."Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns" said Mathew Arnold.
29. If Chaucer is the Father of English poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel"-G. K. Chesterton.
30.Dryden said about Chaucer's characters--- "Here is God's plenty".
31. Three pilgrims are Knighthood.
32. Eight pilgrims are ecclesiastical.
33. Three pilgrims are women.
34. Harry Bailey is the Host.
35. Bath is the name of the town to which she belonged.
36. Chaucer's Prose work is Treatise on the Astrolabe
37. Occleve in The Governail of Princess wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer.
38. Chaucer was indebted for his sources Virgil, Dante and Ovid.
39. Chaucer lived the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV.
40. Chaucer and Langland died in the same year.
41. Chaucer is the first poet to have been buried in poet's corner of Westminister Abbey.

Important QUESTIONS

1. Chaucer on the death of Blanche, wife of john of Gaunt has written the poem the book of Duchess

2. The Canterbury tales remain unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

3. Prose tale- The Parson’s tale

4. Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales is Experience.

5. Chaucer’s contemporary was John Gower.

6. The tradition of Beast Fable is used in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

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