ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although Aesthete’s are typically art critics, or critics of the ‘times’, the definition goes far beyond that; to them it is a way of life. We’ll explore the lives of three of the most influential Aesthete’s-John Ruskin (1819–1900), Walter Pater (1839–1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902–1972).

Detailed explanation-3: -Benthamism, the utilitarian philosophy founded by Jeremy Bentham, was substantially modified by his successor John Stuart Mill, who popularized the term utilitarianism.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Quote by Samuel Johnson: “Language is the dress of thought.”