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I Identify the following excerpts (10x1=10 points):

1. Full of religion, or at least of religiosity, as our Friend has since exhibited himself, he hides not
that, in those days, he was wholly irreligious: "Doubt had darkened into Unbelief," says he; "shade
after shade goes grimly over your soul, till you have the fixed, starless, Tartarean black."

Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle

2. Our little systems have their day;

They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

In Memoriam - Strong Son of God, Immortal Love - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

3. Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold,

A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
I am sick of singing; the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain
To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.

Hymn To Proserpine - Charles Algernon Swinburne

4. What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced
repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. It may be asserted without scruple,
that no other class of dependents have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural
proportions by their relation with their masters...

The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill

5. Our feast is but beginning.

Night yet is early,
Warm and dew-pearly,
Wakeful and starry:
Such fruits as these
No man can carry

Goblin Market - Christina Rosetti

6. And this is what we have to do with all our laborers; to look for the thoughtful part of them, and
get that out of them, whatever we lose for it, whatever faults and errors we are obliged to take with
it. For the best that is in them cannot manifest itself, but in company with much error.
The Stones of Venice - John Ruskin

7. Our physical life is a perpetual motion of them–the passage of the blood, the waste and repairing
of the brain under every ray of light and sound– processes which science reduces to simpler and
more elementary forces. Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces
extends beyond us: it rusts iron and ripens corn.

The Renaissance - Walter Pater

8. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists
in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Preface, Oscar Wilde

9. The room in which the boys were fed was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of
which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled
the gruel at mealtimes. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no
more—except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of
bread besides. The bowls never wanted washing.

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

10. Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,

Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold

II Answer the following questions (10x3=30 points):

1. What is the key argument in John Stuart Mill’s “The Subjection of Women”?

2. What is Thomas Carlyle’s attitude to materialism, utilitarianism, and hard work in Sartor
Resartus?

3. “The Lady of Shalott” as Tennyson’s comment on the position of art in Victorian society.

4. What is “In Memoriam A. H. H.”?

5. Ruskin’s criticism of industrialization in The Stones of Venice.

6. Dramatic monologue: definition and the best-known Victorian examples.

7. “All art is quite useless”: identify the author, and explain the meaning of this famous quote.

8. Thomas Hardy’s “Hap” and the Victorian crisis of religious belief.

9. What lies at the root of Walter Pater’s “urgent hedonism”?

10. How does Swinburne view Christianity in “Hymn to Proserpine”? What does he contrast it with?