Ques 1.

Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral elegy.

Ques 2.

Characteristic features of an Epic.

Ques 3.

Shakespearean tragedy.

Ques 4.

Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless

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And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day’s garish eye,…….

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Then flash’d the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th’ affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav’n are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last, Or when rich China vessels, fall’ n from high, In glitt’ ring dust and painted fragments lie!

Ques 7.

What are dominant tendencies of Jacobean Drama?

Ques 8.

2. Who were the three Johns of the 17th century and what was their contribution to Literature?

Ques 9.

What are the features of a mock-epic? Why is ‘The Rape of the Lock’ known as a mock heroic poem?

Ques 10.

How did Dryden define satire? Comment on the central idea of ‘An Essay on Man’?