ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was not a prominent Anti-Transcendentalist author during this time period?
A
T.S Elliot
B
Nathaniel Hawthorne
C
Edgar Allan Poe
D
Herman Melville
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred Prufrock” in 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), “The Hollow Men” (1925), “Ash Wednesday” (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949).

Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot best known for? T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Frank Kermode, we find dissociation however far back; he doubts whether such a split ever occurred. He expresses his objection to Eliot’s theory in a very persuasive manner in his essay Dissociation of Sensibility: Modern Symbolist Readings of Literary History.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. When he began publishing poetry in the 1880 s, his poems had a lyrical, romantic style, and they focused on love, longing and loss, and Irish myths.

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