ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে থেকে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ কিছু তথ্য

⇒ The father of modern English poetry – Geoffrey Chaucer

⇒ Shakespeare is known mostly for his- Play

⇒ The English “Epic Poet”- John Milton

⇒ The first English dictionary writer- Samuel Johnson

⇒ The most famous satirist in English literature – Jonathan Swift

⇒ The father of English novel – Henry Fielding

⇒ The poet of nature – William Wordsworth

⇒ Both poet & painter- William Blake

⇒ Poet of Sensuousness – John Keats

⇒ The poet of beauty – John Keats

⇒ The Rebel poet in English literature – Lord Byron

⇒ The greatest modern English dramatist – G.B.Shaw

⇒ The father of modern English literature – G.B.Shaw

⇒ The first English novel – Pamela

⇒ The first translator of the Bible into English – John Wycliff

⇒ The poet of poets – Edmund Spenser.

⇒ ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের প্রথম মহাকাব্য হল- Beowulf

⇒ ইংরেজি গদ্যের জনক – John Wyclif

⇒ শেক্সপিয়র জন্মগ্রহণ করেন-১৫৬৪ সালে

⇒ শেক্সপিয়র মৃত্যুবরণ করেন- ১৬১৬ সালে

⇒ শেক্সপিয়র নাটক লিখেছেন – ৩৭ টি।

⇒ John Milton এর উপাধি হল- English Epic Poet.

⇒ George Orwell এর মূল নাম হল- Eric Arthur Blair

⇒ George Eliot এর মূল নাম হল-Mary Ann Evans.

⇒ P .B. Shelley কে Oxford University থেকে বহিস্কার করা হয়েছিল।

⇒ T .S. Eliot কে তার বিখ্যাত কবিতা ‘The Waste Land’ এর জন্য নোবেল পুরস্কার পেয়েছিল

⇒ John Keats পেশাগতভাবে একজন ডাক্তার ছিলেন।

⇒ Winston Churchill ছিলেন এমন একজন প্রধানমন্ত্রী যিনি সাহিত্যে নোবেল পেয়েছিলেন।⇒ The Tempest (Comedy)Shakespeare -Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, Caliban, Ariel

⇒ Measure for Measure (Problem Play)Shakespeare -Isabella, Juliet, Lucio, Angelo, Claudio

⇒ Macbeth (Tragedy)Shakespeare -Macbeth, Lady Macbeth (most powerful lady character of Shakespeare), Duncan, Banquo, the Three Witches

⇒ Merchant of Venice (Comedy)Shakespeare -Shylock, Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, Jessica

⇒ King Lear (Tragedy)Shakespeare -King Lear, Cordelia, Goneril, Regan

⇒ Hamlet (Tragedy)Shakespeare -Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude

⇒ Othello (Tragedy)Shakespeare -Othello, Desdemona, Iago (Shakespeare’s most infamous villain)

⇒ Twelfth Night (Comedy)Shakespeare -Viola, Duke Orsino, Malvolio, Olivia, Sebastian

⇒ As You Like It (Comedy)Shakespeare -Rosalind, Orlando, Jaques, Celia, Duke Senior

⇒ Doctor Faustus (Tragedy)Christopher Marlowe -Faustus, Mephistopheles

⇒ Paradise Lost (Epic)John Milton -Adam, Eve, Satan (most infamous villain of all times)

⇒ Volpone (Comedy)Ben Jonson -Volpone, Mosca, Celia

⇒ Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Novel)Thomas Hardy -Tess Durbeyfield

⇒ Robinson Crusoe (Novel)Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe, Friday, Xury

⇒ Gulliver’s Travels (Novel-Satire)Jonathan Swift -Gulliver, Blefuscudian, Lilliputians, Yahoos

⇒ Death of Salesman (Play-tragedy)Arthur Miller -Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Happy Loman

⇒ Oliver Twist (Novel)Charles Dickens -Oliver Twist, Fagin, Bill Sikes

⇒ Great Expectations (Novel)Charles Dickens -Pip (Philip Pirrip), Miss Havisham, Estella, Joe Gargery

⇒ David Copperfield (Novel)Charles Dickens -David Copperfield, Agnes Wickfield, James Steerforth

⇒ Anna Karenina (Novel) Leo Tolstoy -Anna Karenina, Alexis Karenin

⇒ Jane Eyre (Novel) Charlotte Bronte -Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester

⇒ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poem) S. T. Coleridge -The Mariner, the Wedding Guest, Albatross,

⇒ ‘To be or not to be‘ is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from – Hamlet.

⇒ The father of English Poem – Geoffrey Chaucer

⇒ Francis Bacon is an – Essayist

⇒ ‘Renaissance’ means – the revival of learning

⇒ The Elizabethan tragedy is centered on – Revenge

⇒ A lexicographer is a person who writes – dictionaries

⇒ The English Poet who addicted to opium – S.T. Coleridge

⇒ The Golden Age of English Literature – the Elizabethan Age

⇒ The author of the book ‘Asian Drama ‘ is – Gunnar Myrdal

⇒ Protagonist indicates -the leading character in a play

⇒ A sonnet is a poem having fourteen lines

⇒ ‘Blank Verse’ is a kind of verse -having no rhyming end

⇒ The real name of O’Henry – William Sydney Porter.

⇒ ‘To Daffodils‘ is written by – Robert Herrick

⇒ Goethe is the greatest poet of – Germany

⇒ ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ is a tragedy

⇒ ‘A Passage to India‘ is written by – E.M Forster

⇒ The full name of the tragedy ‘Dr.Faustus‘ – The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus

⇒ “Gulliver’s Travels” has been written by – Jonathan Swift

⇒ The drama ‘Hamlet’ is written by- Shakespeare

⇒ ‘Faerie Queene’ is- an epic by Edmund Spenser

⇒ The “Merchant of Venice” written by Shakespeare is- a drama

⇒ Who wrote “The Tempest”? – William Shakespeare

⇒ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’ was stated by- John Keats

⇒ ’Paradise Lost’ was written by- Milton

⇒ Chaucer is the representative poet of – 14th century

⇒ The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.’ These lines are from the poem- Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.

⇒ Macbeth is – a play by Shakespeare.

⇒ ‘Vanity Fair’ is a- novel.