She only said,My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said; She said,I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead, are lines of reported speech thatare repeated at the end of each stanza in a classic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In which poem?Mariana. The poem is a reaction on theway the character Mariana is portrayedin Shakespeares Measure for Measure.In Robert Brownings Porphyrias Lover, a dramatic monologue, the nameless speaker kills his beloved Porphyria. How does he do that?He strangles her with her own hair. Lines 37-41: ... I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her.Mary Ann Evans (or Marian Evans) wrote The Life of Jesus, a translation of Das Leben Jesu by David Friedrich Strauss, one of the leading figures of the Higher Criticism in Germany. Marian also wrote novels, but they were published under a pseudonym. A couple of titles: The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Silas Marner. Under what pseudonym is Marian Evans better known?George Eliot. Higher Criticism was founded in Gottingen at the end of the 18th century. The new discipline was aphilological approach towards the Bible, which considered the Scripture as, indeed, scriptures, texts written by people in past ages. Clearly, the views of this kind of biblical studies resulted in conflicts with fundamentalistswho held the view that the Scriptures not only represented the word of God but were also written by God through the intermediaries of His choice and underhis direct control, and should thereforenot be studied the way one studies secular writing.Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt are names that are strongly associated with a certain 19th century artistic movement. How is this movement called?Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The principal object of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, according to the Norton Anthology of English Literature was toreform English painting by repudiating the established academic style in favorof a revival of the simplicity and pure colors of pre-Renaissanceart. Some of the members, like D.G. Rosetti and his sister Christina also wrote poetry that took influences from older artistic styles.This man lived from 1844 till 1889, but his poems were first published in 1918. He entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and became a Jesuit priest. Among his poems we find Gods Grandeur and As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Who is this man?Gerard Manley Hopkins & Gerard Hopkins & G.M. Hopkins & GM Hopkins& Hopkins. Some of Hopkinss poems are very optimistic, others very pessimistic. This literary schizophreniain his work was translated into two contrasting nicknames for the poet: Desperate Gerard and Happy Hopkins.In which town was Oscar Wilde born?Dublin.I was born in Scotland in 1795. My father was a stonemason who later became a farmer, my mother was illiterate. Although I was born in the same year as Keats, I am considered to be a Victorian, not a romantic. Elizabeth Barrett called me the great teacher of the age. My most famous work is Sartor Resartus, first published in Frasers Magazine in 1833. Its a combination of novel, autobiography and essay. The hero is Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrockh of Germany. I died in 1881. Who am I?Thomas Carlyle. W.B. Yeats once asked William Morris which writers hadinspired the socialist movement of the 1880s, and Morris replied:Oh, Ruskin and Carlyle, but somebody should have been beside Carlyle and punched his head every five minutes. And for those interested: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh means God-Begotten Devils Dung.The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a translation of numerous rhymed quatrains from the twelfth century. Who did this translation in 1857?Edward FitzGerald. Omar Khayyam wasa 12th-century mathematician, astronomer, and teacher, from Nishapur in Persia. Omars four-lined epigrams were subsequently brought together in collections called Rubaiyat and recorded in various manuscripts. More than seven hundred years later, in 1857, one such Omar manuscript came into the hands of Edward FitzGerald. His translation ofOmars Persian verses at first was ignored. Two years later the volume was discovered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and enthusiasm for it gradually spread, until edition after edition was called for. (This information is largely based on the preface to Edward FitzGerald in NortonAnthology of English Literature)Which famous poem opens with these lines: The sea is calm tonight. The tideis full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone: the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay?Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold).Hymn to Proserpine, The Garden of Proserpine and Ave Atque Vale are works of which poet? He lived from 1837 till 1909.Algernon Charles Swinburne.In Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest, which character says the last line of the play:On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, Ive now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest?Jack.Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote his masterpiece In Memoriam to memorise the death of whom?Arthur Hallam. Tennyson met Arthur Hallam in Cambridge. Arthur became his best friend and later became engaged to Tennysons sister. Hallams sudden death, in 1833, seemed an overwhelming calamity to his friend. Not only the long elegy In Memoriam but many of Tennysons other poems are tributes to this early friendship.Im looking for one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century, although I guess hes not that well-known anymore in this day and age. Some of his work:The Ordeal of Richard Feverell (1859), The Egoist (1879), and Modern Love (a collection of poems from 1862). He married the daughter of the satirist Thomas Love Peacock. So, who am I looking for?George Meredith.One of the most dramatic controversies in the Victorian age concerned theories of evolution. This controversy exploded into prominence in 1859 when Charles Darwins Origin of Species was published. An important event in the debate was the famous Oxford Meeting of 1860. Defender of Darwinism that day was Thomas Henry Huxley. His main opponent was a bishop who asked him:Is it through your grandfather or your grandmother that you claim to descent from a monkey? What is the name of this bishop?Samuel Wilberforce. Huxley replied that he was not ashamed to have a monkey for his {ancestor;} but he would be ashamed to be connected with a man who used great gifts to obscure the truth. Huxley won the argument easily.Can you fill in the missing word in this title of a famous poem by Robert Browning. Caliban upon ... (or Natural Theology in the Island)?Setebos. Setebos is the name Caliban gives to God.Despite its later reputation as an age of solemnity, the Victorian age produced a remarkable outburst of humerous prose and verse. One typically Victorian speciality of humorous verse is to be found in the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. How is this style of writing known?Nonsense writing. What nonsense writing means? Ill give you an example: And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.(Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky)Patrick and Maria Bronte had six children. Within a year, the two elder girls had died. The remaining siblings grew up in a very literary family. One of them was a boy: Branwell. The oldest sister was Charlotte, the youngest one Anne. What is the name of the 5th child, maybe the most famous?Emily. This is the Bronte who wrote Wuthering Heights, but you probably knew that.Short and easy: Who wrote Aurora Leigh (first and last name)?Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Elizabeth Barrett & Elizabeth Browning.The six most important Victorian poets(according to the so-called Major Authors edition of the Norton Anthology (6th edition)), are Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins and .... Well, who is the 6th (both first and last name)?
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