Age of Milton (1600-

1660):

Introduction to Age of Milton:

Important Mcqs:
1. The period between 1620-1675 was known as ________ or
_________. (puritan age) (age of Milton)
2. During this period puritan prevailed in England and the literary
figure _________ was also a puritan. (John Milton)
3. This age was the most disturb age in the history because of two
reasons peoples were against the king _________, which was
 killed in _______ and the establishment of commonwealth under
Cromwell. (Charles I) (1649)
4. The puritans consider himself pure because of reformation which
was started by ________ (Martin Luther King).
5. The age was about ________ standard and the literature of this
age was not much developed. (moral)
6. _________ was the noblest representative of the puritan spirit.
(Milton)
7. The _______ movement in literature may be considered as the
second and greater Renaissance. (puritan)
8. The ________ movement stood for liberty of the people from the
shackles of the despotic ruler as well as the introduction of
morality and high ideals in politics. (Puritan)
9. The objects of this age were ________ (personal righteousness
and religious liberty)
10. It was _______ and _________, who fought for the liberty of
the people against the tyrannical rule of Charles I. (Milton,
Cromwell)
11. The puritan poetry also called _______ (The Jacobean and
Caroline)

Literature of This Age: -

Puritan Poetry:
12. Poetry during the reigns of ________ and ________
respectively divided into three parts. (James I) (Charles I)
13. Poetry of the School of Spenser, Poetry of the Metaphysical
School, Poetry of the Cavalier poets was the three reigns of
______ and _______ (James I) (Charles I)
14. ________, was the noblest and indomitable representative
of the puritan spirit. (John Milton)
15. This period is further divided into the _________ periods.
(Jacobean and Caroline)
The School of Spenser: -
16. A group of English poets who, in the earlier part of the 17th
c., were considerably under the influence of _________ (Edmund
Spenser).
17. The most thorough-going disciples of Spenser during the
reign of _______ were _______ and _________. (James I)
(Phineas Fletcher) (Giles Fletcher)
18. They were both _____ and fellows of Cambridge university.
(Priests)
19. Phineas Fletcher wrote a number of Spenserian ________
and _______. (Pastorals) (Allegories)
20. Phineas Fletcher’s most ambitious poem _______ (The
Purple Island)
21. It is an allegorical poem and follows the ________ pattern of
the faerie Queen. (allegorical)
22. Giles Fletcher was more lyrical and super natural than his
_______ (brother)
23. He also chooses his subjects for his poetry from ________
subjects. (Spencer)
24. His Christ's Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth over
and after Death (1610), which is an allegorical poem is a link
between the religious poetry of Spenser and ________ (Milton).
25. Other writers who wrote under the influence of Spencer
were ___________ (William Browne, George Wither and William
Drummond).
26. Brown’s important poetical work is _________ (Britannia’s
Pastorals)
27. His work shows all the characteristics of _________ pastoral
poetry. (Elizabethan)
28. The same didactic tone and lyrical strain are noticed in the
poetry of __________ (George Wither).
29. His best-known poems are ___________ (The Shepherd’s
Hunting a series of personal eclogues, and Fair Virtue, the
Mistress of Philarete)
30. Most of Wither’s poetry is _________ which is used by him
to convey his personal experience. (pastoral)
31. Drummond who was a _______ poet, wrote a number of
pastorals, sonnets, songs, elegies and religious poems. (Scottish)
32. His well-known poems are _________ (Tears on the Death
of Maliades (an elegy), Sonnets, Flowers of Sion and Pastorals)

The Poets of the Metaphysical School:

33. The metaphysical poets were ___________ (John Donne,
Herrick, Thomas Carew, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan,
George Herbert and Lord Herbert of Cherbury).
34. The leader of this school was ________ (John Donne).
35. They are called the metaphysical poets not because they are
highly _________ (philosophical).
36. It was _________ who in his essay on Abraham Cowley in his
“Lives of the Poets” used the term ‘metaphysical’. (Dr. Johnson)
37. One important feature of metaphysical school which Dr.
Johnson mentioned was their ___________ (“discovery of occult
resemblances in things apparently unlike.”)
38. ________ and _______ are the two major poets of
metaphysical school. (John Donne) (George Herbert)
39. Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell and
Edmund Waller are the minor poets of ________ school.
(Metaphysical)
40. John Donne (1537-1631), the leader of the _________
school of poets, had a very chequered career until he became the
Dean of St. Paul. (Metaphysical)
41. Donne’s main work was to deliver ________ sermons, he
wrote poetry of a very high order. (religious)
42. His best-known works are _________ (The Progress of the
Soul; An Anatomy of the World, an elegy; and Epithalamium).
43. His poetry can be divided into three parts _________
(Amorous, Metaphysical, Satirical).
44. In his amorous lyrics which include his earliest work, he
broke away from the _________ model so popular among the
Elizabethan poets. (Petrarchan)
45. The “Progress of the Soul and Metempsychosis”, in which
Donne pursues the passage of the soul through various
transmigrations, including those of a bird and fish, is a fine
illustration of his _________ poetry. (metaphysical)
46. Donne has often been compared to _________ on account
of his metrical roughness, obscurity, ardent imagination, taste for
metaphysics. (Browning)
47. Donne is a poet of wit while Browning is a poet of
__________ (ardent passion).
48. Robert Herrick (1591-1674) wrote amorous as well as
________ verse. (religious)
49. He has much in common with the________ song writers.
(Elizabethan)
50. Herrick is included in the metaphysical school of _______
(Donne).
51. Thomas Carew (1598-1639), on whom the influence of
Donne was stronger, was the finest ______ writer of his age.
(lyric)
52. His “Persuasions of Love” is a fine piece of rhythmic _______
and ________. (cadence) (harmony)
53. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) possessed a temperament
different from that of ________ or _______. (Herrick) (Carew)
54. He was a fundamentally religious poet, and his best work is
________ (“The Flaming Heart”).
55. George Herbert (1593-1633) is the most widely read of all
the poets belonging to the metaphysical school, except, ________
(Donne).
56. Other poets who are also included in the group of
Metaphysical are ___________ (Abraham Cowley (1618-1667),
Andrew Marvel (1621-1672) and Edmund Waller (1606-1687)).
57. Cowley is famous for his_________, which influenced
English poetry throughout the eighteenth century. (‘Pindaric
Odes’)
58. Marvel is famous for his loyal friendship with ______
(Milton)
59. His poetry shows the conflict between the two schools of
_______ and _________. (Spenser) (Donne)
60. Waller was the first to use the _______ couplet which
dominated English poetry for the next century. (‘closed’)
61. The Metaphysical poets show the spiritual and moral fervour
of the _________ as well as the frank amorous tendency of the
__________. (Puritans) (Elizabethans)
The Cavalier Poets:
62. Whereas the metaphysical poets followed the lead of
Donne, the cavalier poets followed ________ (Ben Jonson).
63. Jonson followed the classical method in his poetry as in his
________ (drama).
64. The Cavalier poets normally wrote about ________ subjects.
(trivial)
65. The important Cavalier poets were_______ (Herrick,
Lovelace, Suckling and Carew).
66. Sir John Suckling (1609-1642), a courtier of________, wrote
poetry because it was considered a gentleman’s accomplishment
in those days. (Charles I)
67. Sir Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) was another follower of
King ________ (Charles I).
68. His volume of love lyric _______ are on a higher plane than
Suckling’s work. (Lucasta)
69. Some of his poems like _______, and_________, from
Prison’, have won a secure place in English poetry. (“To Lucasta’)
(“To Althea”)
John Milton (1608-1674):
70. Milton was the greatest poet of the _______ age. (Puritan)
71. Paying a just tribute to the dominating personality of Milton,
Wordsworth wrote the famous line ________
(“They soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”)
72. Milton praised ___________ as poets. (Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson)
73. In his verse, which is harmonious and musical, we find no
trace of the harshness of ________ (Ben Jonson).
74. In all his poetry, Milton sings about himself and his own lofty
______ (soul)
75. Milton was a great scholar of _______ as well as________.
(classical) (Hebrew literature)
76. He was also a child of the_______, and a great humanist.
(Renaissance)
77. Milton’s early poetry is _______ (lyrical).
78. The important poems of the early period are _________
(The Hymn on the Nativity (1629); L’Allegro, Il Penseroso (1632);
Lycidas (1637); and Comus (1934)).
79. The Hymn, written when Milton was only________, shows
that his lyrical genius was already highly developed. (twenty-one)
80. The complementary poems, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, are
full of very pleasing descriptions of rural scenes and recreations in
_______ and _______. (Spring) (Autumn)
81. L’Allegro represents the poet in a gay and merry mood and it
paints an idealized picture of ______ life from dawn to dusk.
(rustic)
82. Il Penseroso is written in serious and _______ strain.
(meditative)
83. Lycidas is a _______ and it is the greatest of its type in
English literature. (pastoral elegy)
84. It was written to mourn the death of Milton’s friend,
________ (Edward King)
85. Besides these poems a few great sonnets such
as__________, also belong to Milton’s early period. (“When the
Assault was intended to the City”)
86. When the Civil War broke out in 1642, ______ threw himself
heart and soul into the struggle against King Charles I. (Milton)
87. Finding himself unfit to fight as a soldier he became the
Latin Secretary to ________ (Cromwell).
88. This work he continued to do till_______, when Charles I
was defeated and Common wealth was proclaimed under
Cromwell. (1649)
89. when he returned to poetry to accomplish the ideal, he had
in his mind, Milton found himself completely ________ (blind)
90. After the death of Cromwell and the coming of _______ to
the throne, Milton became friendless. (Charles II)
91. Milton girded up his loins and wrote his greatest poetical
works, __________ (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and
Samson Agonistes).
92. “The subject-matter of Paradise Lost consists of the casting
out from ___________ (“Heaven of the fallen angels”)
93. Milton projects his own philosophy of the purposes of
human existence, and attempts _________ (“to justify the ways
of God to men.”)
94. Paradise Lost is called the last great ________ poem.
(Elizabethan)
95. In Paradise Lost the most prominent is the figure of _______
who possesses the qualities of Milton himself. (Satan)
96. It is written in _______ verse of the Elizabethan dramatist.
(blank)
97. Paradise Regained which deals with subject of
____________ is written, unlike Paradise Lost, in the form of
discussion and not action. (“Temptation in the Wilderness”)
98. The central figure is _______ (Christ)
99. In Samson Agonistes Milton deals with an ancient Hebrew
legend of _______, the mighty champion of Israel, now blind and
scorned, working as a slave among Philistines. (Samson)
100. This tragedy, which is written on the _______ model, is
charged with the tremendous personality of Milton himself.
(Greek)
Jacobean and Caroline Drama:
101. After Shakespeare the drama in England suffered and a
decline during the reigns of _______ and _______. (James I)
(Charles I)
102. The heights reached by Shakespeare could not be kept by
later dramatists, and drama in the hands of Beaumont and
Fletcher and others became, what may be called, ________
(‘decadent’).
103. Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists took delight
in _______ and the _______ associated with it. (action)
(emotions)
104. The Jacobean and Caroline dramatists gave expression to
________ and lack of _______ and physical vigour. (passive
suffering) (mental)
105. The greatest dramatist of the Jacobean period was _______
(Ben Jonson)
106. The other dramatist of the Jacobean and Caroline periods is
________ (John Marston (1575-1634))
107. His melodramas _________ and _________ are full of
forceful and impressive passages. (Antonia and Mellida)
(Antonia’s Revenge)
108. In “The Malcontent, The Dutch Courtezan, and Parasitaster,
or Fawne, Marston criticised the society in an ______ and
_______ manner. (ironic) (lyrical)
109. His best play is ________ (Eastward Hoe)
110. Another dramatist of the Jacobean and Caroline periods is
________ (Thomas Dekker (1570-1632))
111. Thomas Dekker, was gentle and free from _________ and
________. (coarseness) (cynicism)
112. The gayest of his comedies is _________ (“The Shoemaker’s
Holiday”)
113. His best-known work, is ________ in which the character of
an honest courtesan is beautifully portrayed. (“The Honest
Whore”)
114. Another dramatist of Jacobean and Caroline periods is
________ (Thomas Heywood)
115. Most of his plays deal with the life of the _______ (cities).
116. In ____________ with the Conquest of Jerusalem, he flatters
the citizens of London. (“The Foure Prentices of London”)
117. His best-known play is __________ (“A Woman Kilde with
Kindness”)
Jacobean and Caroline Prose:
118. This period was rich in _______ (prose).
119. The great prose writers were __________ (Bacon, Burton,
Milton, Sir Thomas Browne, Jeremy Tayler and Clarendon).
120. Francis Bacon (1561-1628) belongs both to the __________
and ___________. (Elizabethan) (Jacobean periods)
121. As a prose-writer he is the master of the ________ style.
(aphoristic)
122. Bacon is best-known for his _______ (Essays)
123. The tone of the essay is that of a _______ man who wants to
secure material success and prosperity. (worldly)
124. Besides the Essays, Bacon wrote ________ the first piece of
scientific history in the English language. (Henry VII)
125. Robert Burton (1577-1640) is known for his ________, which
is a book of its own type in the English language. (The Anatomy of
Melancholy)
126. He has analyzed human melancholy, described its effect and
prescribed its ______ (cure).
127. Other writers of his period, who were, like Browne, the
masters of rhetorical prose, were _________ (Milton, Jeremy
Taylor and Clarendon).
128. Most of Milton’s prose writings are concerned with the
questions at issue between the Parliament and the _______
(King).
129. His most famous prose work is _________ which was
occasioned by a parliamentary order for submitting the press to
censorship. (Areopagitica)
130. Milton vehemently criticized the ________ control over
genius. (bureaucratic)
131. Opposed to Milton, the greatest writer in the parliamentary
struggle was the __________ (Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)).
132. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), a bishop, made himself famous
by his literary _______ (sermons)
133. Taylor is considered as one of the masters of English
________ (eloquence).
134. His best prose famous book of devotion among English
_____ and ________. (men) (women)