UGC/ CBSE NET COACHING MODULE II: CHAUCER TO MILTON SET 1

CHAUCER TO MILTON

1) In which year was Shepherd's Calendar published?
- 1579

2) In which year was Faerie Queene published?
- 1590

3) who wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland?
- Edmund Spenser

4) what is the structure of Spenserian sonnet?
- abab bcbc cdcd ee

5) what is the structure of Spenserian stanza?
- abab bcbc c

6) which English poet is being hailed as " the poet's poet"?
- Edmund Spenser

7) who called Spenser " Our Sage and Serious poet... whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Acquinas"?
- John Milton

8) who called Spenser, " a mistress whose faults we see, but love her with them all"?
- Alexander Pope

9) Who called Spenser " the poet's poet"?
- Charles Lamb

10) Spenser's Prothalamion is an adaptation of ------------------.
- Italian Canzone ( 10 stanzas of 18 lines each)

English Literature Note