ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Age of Johnson is also known as-
A
Age of Criticism
B
Age of Love
C
Age of Sensibility
D
Age of Pope
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Age of Johnson, often referred to as The Age of Sensibility, is the period in English literature that ranged from the middle of the eighteenth century until 1798. Ending this age, the Romantic Period arrived in 1798 with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -This period is known as the Age of Sensibility, but it is also sometimes described as the. “Age of Johnson".

Detailed explanation-3: -The period in British literature between roughly 1740 and 1800 is sometimes called “the Age of Sensibility, ” in recognition of the high value that many Britons came to place on explorations of feeling and emotion in literature and the other arts.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is certainly true of the work of the best example of the poet of sensibility, William Cowper (1731-1800).

Detailed explanation-5: -The second half of the 18th century saw the emergence of three major Irish authors Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) and Laurence Sterne (1713–68).

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