Annamalai University 2003 M.A English - 520 Restoration and Eighteeth Century Literature - - Question Paper

8317 M.A. DEGREE exam
May 2003 (First Year)
(ENGLISH)
(Paper - 1)
520 Restoration and Eighteeth Century English Literature

Time three Hours
Maximum 100 Marks

Attempt 5 ques. in Section-A and 3 ques. in Section-B



I. Annotate any 5 of, the subsequent passages choosing atleast 2 from every group.

GROUP - A (5x8 = 20)

1. (a) How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost
Defaced, deflowered and now to death devote.

(b) He, to be avenged.
And to repair his numbers thus impaired
2. (a) Thy Tragic muse provide smiles, thy
comic sleep with whate'er gall thou settlst thyself to write,
Thy inoffensive satires never bite.

(b) Grant me this to live and thus to die; Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than !

3. (a) Our countryman carries weight and yet wins the race at disadvantage

(b) It is sufficient to say according to the proverb that "here is Gods' plenty".

4. (a) So was this pair of friends transfixed till down they feet, joined in their lifes, joined in their deaths ; So closely joined , that Charan will mistake them both for 1 and waft them over styx for halfs his fare.

(b) At her right hand sat ignorance, her dad and husband, blind with age, at her left, pride, her mother dressing her up in the scrapes of paper herself had torn.

5. (a) Oh, he has withcraft in his eyes and tongue ; when I did not see him I could have bribed Villian to his assasination but his appearance make the embers, which have so long lain a few othered in many breast,

(b) No; the rogue's wit an readiness of invention charm me, dear petulant.

6. (a) Of those few fools who with ill stars and cursed sure scribbling fools called poets.

(b) That was by frible, direction, and my instruction that she might seen to cary it more privately.

II. Attempt the subsequent in about 200 words

7. (a) Illustrate from "MacFlecknoe" a few of the characteristics of Dryden as a satirist.

(b) Consider Thomas Gray as a precursor of the Romantics,

8. (a) How does Edmund Burke establish that conciliation with America alone is the right and useful course?

(b) Show that "The Rivals" is a comedy of incident and intrigue.

part - B (3 x 20 = 60)

ans any 3 of the followining

9. (a) Consider Pope's "Epistle to

Dr. Arbuthnot" as " an ironic autobiography versified.

(OR)

(b) Consider Blake' as a precursor of the revival of the Romantic Movement.

10. (a) Would you agree with the view that Dryden's "Preface to Fables" is 1 of the most celebrated pieces of his critical writing ?

(b) Do you support the view that" Coverly Papers" brings us within measurable distance of the genuine eighteenth century novel ?

11. (a) Estimate -The way of the world" as a comedy of contemporary manners.

(OR)

(b) Consider "She Stoops to Conquer" as an anti-sentimental comedy.

12.(a) Comment on the series of involved adventures in "Tom Jones".

(OR)

(b) Sketch the character of Dr. Primase in "The Vicar of WakeField".

13.(a) Account for the popularity of "Robinson Crusoe".

(OR)

(b) Trace the theme of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".

Earning:   Approval pending.