ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the author of the book ‘The Captive Lady’?
A
John Keats
B
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
C
Rabindronath Tagore
D
W. shakespeare
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1849, a year after coming to Madras from Calcutta, Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s poem Captive Ladie was published.

Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote 5 plays: Sermista (1859), Padmavati (1859), Ekei Ki Boley Sabyata (1860), Krishna Kumari (1860) and Buro Shaliker Ghare Ron (1860). Then followed the narrative poems: Tilottama Sambhava Kavya (1861), Meghnad Badh Kavya (1861), Brajagana Kavya (1861) and Veerangana Kavya (1861).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Heart of the Rebel Poet: Letters of Michael Madhusudan Dutt Hardcover – 5 February 2004.

Detailed explanation-4: -Michael Madhusudan Dutt was an iconic face of Bengali literature, having brought the Western form of sonnets into Indian literature. Where translations were the norm, he wrote the first original Bengali play and even gave the masterpiece of Bengali epic poem–‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’, inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aged twenty-four, in 1848 Dutt married seventeen year old Rebecca Thompson from the Madras Female Orphan Asylum.

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