History of English Literature

Who called Spenser ,"the poets' poet"?

• John Milton

• Charles Lamb

• Byron

• Christopher Marlowe

Who is the "Fairy Queene" in Spenser's work of the same title?

• Queen Mary

• Queen Elizabeth

• Abessa

• Lady Una

Who praised Spenser in the words,"no man was ever born with a greater genius or more knowledge to support it"?

• Francis Bacon

• Ben Jonson

• John Dryden

• Matthew Arnold

Name the person who imported the sonnet from Italy and the one who invented the English form of it.

• Spenser and Sydney

• Marlowe and Kid

• Wyatt and Surrey

• Chaucer and Spenser

Tottel's Miscellany(1557) contained the songs and sonnets of

• Wyatt and Surrey

• Surrey and Sidney

• Sidney and Spenser

• Wyatt and Raleigh

Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar (1579) is a

• tragedy

• pastoral poem

• Melodrama

• novel

Which work of Spenser celebrated his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle?

• Prothalamion

• Shepheardes Calendar

• Epithalamium

• Fairie Queen

Who called Spenser " Elfin poet"?

• John Milton

• John Dryden

• John Keats

• John Berger

"Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven /

With the moon's beauty and the moon's soft pace…." Who wrote these lines on Spenser?

• Coleridge

• Sidney

• Wyatt and Surrey

• Wordsworth

Which is NOT the characteristics of Renaissance poetry?

• Nationalism

• Humanism

• Patriotism

• Essentialism