ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
A
Thomas Carlyle
B
Spencer
C
Shakespeare
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The object of poetry is confessedly to act upon the emotions; —and therein is poetry sufficiently distinguished from what Wordsworth affirms to be its logical opposite—namely, not prose, but matter of fact, or science.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benthamism, the utilitarian philosophy founded by Jeremy Bentham, was substantially modified by his successor John Stuart Mill, who popularized the term utilitarianism.

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