ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
A
Politician
B
Dramatist
C
Novelist
D
Architect
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English-born writer, whose masterpiece novel, Brave New World, depicted a future in which universal happiness is only achieved by thoroughly dehumanizing humanity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Huxley moved to the United States in 1937 and for the rest of his life maintained a prolific output of novels, nonfiction, screenplays and essays.

Detailed explanation-3: -Huxley established himself as a major author with his first two published novels, Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay (1923); these are witty and malicious satires on the pretensions of the English literary and intellectual coteries of his day.

Detailed explanation-4: -Born in Godalming, England, on July 26, 1894, Aldous Leonard Huxley was a novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet. Early in his career he wrote short stories and poetry, and edited the magazine Oxford Literature.

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