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the time of Queen Elizabeth was a golden period for theater flourishment. As many theaters were ÿÿprovÿÿg very rapidly, then were also pÿÿducing many excellent dramas. At time craved for entertainment and in response to this demand, there came the dramas and short stories.
Good governance of Queen Elizabeth: The Queen herself was a lady of peaceful mentality. Her reign was absolutely of high thinking and far reaching. Elizabethan period was warless. Then people would live peacefully. People of all sections enjoyed their life by watching dramas in the theatres and singing songs. That is why Elizabethan period was called “a nest of singing birds.

#Q. Name of Romantic writers and works.
Name Work

1. William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads
2. S.T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria
3. Lord Byron Don Juan
4. P.B. Shelley Adonais
5. John Keats Odes, Letters
6. Jane Austen(Female) Emma
7. Charles Lamb The Essays of Elia
8. William Hazlitt Elizabeth

#Q. Short note on Shelley.

Shelley (1792- 1822) was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. He was a reformer and revolutionary poet. Shelley became a rebel against all the existing evils of human society. His famous poem The West Wind is the symbol of the destroyer and the creator. The West Wind is called the destroyer as well as the preserver because while it destroys the leaves, it preserves seeds to grow later. Another poem is The Skylark. The Skylark is a symbol of man’s aspiring vision. The Skylark belongs to a world of perfection but the poet is chained to a world of hatred, pride, fear and pain.

Q. P.B. Shelley’s characteristics.

(1). Great Ode writer. (2). Great Lyric. (3). Poet of platonic love. (4). Wonderful imagery. (5). Revolutionary poet. (6). Poet of nature. (7). Melancholic tone.

#Q. Shelley’s Platonic Love: -

All earthly things are in a state of flux and are shadows of the unchanging eternal reality. The one remeans the many change and pass.

#Q. What is Transcendentalism ?

Transcendentalism means “beyound” and “above” hence a transcendentalist is one who believes in the existence of a divine world, beyound and above the world of essences. The divine can’t be known by reason or national analyses but it can be felt and experienced by the spirit through intuition.

#Q. What is Phi Beta Kappa?

It is a society for college and university students who are very much successful in their studied.

. Four great quotations of Shakespeare.
(a) “Life is a tale, told by an idiot full of fury,
Signifying nothing.” (As You Like It)

(b) “To be or not to be that is the question” (Hamlet)

(c) “Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest
Lend less than thou owest.
Ride more than thou goest.” (King Lear)

(d) “All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players.” (As You Like It)

#Q. Three great quotations of Alexander Pope.

(a) “To err is human, to forgive divine.” (An Essay on Criticism)

(b) “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” (An Essay on Criticism)

(c) “Charms strike the sight,
but merit wins the soul.” (Rape Of The Lock)

#Q. Three great quotations of John Keats.

(a) “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” (Endymion)

(b) “Away! Away! For I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of poesy.” (Ode to a Nightingale)

(c) “Heard melodies are sweet,
but those unheard sweeter.” (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

#Q. Three great quotations of P.B Shelley.

(a) “If winter comes, can spring be far behind.” (Ode To The West Wind)

(b) “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” (To a Skylark)

(c) “Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Ode to The West Wind)

#Q. Three great quotations of Wordsworth.

(a) “The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite.” (Tintern Abbey)