B.A. SPECIAL
ENGLISH – FINAL YEAR – 5TH SEMESTER
Unit: Gandhian
Era, 1920-1947: Development of Prose and Poetry
1.
1920 is the beginning of Gandhian Era
in the history of India.
2.
Gandhian Era is the period between 1920 and
1947
3.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak established the Home
Rule League in 1916
4.
Mrs. Anne Beasant established All India
Home Rule League in 1917
5.
Jallian Wala Bagh slaughter – took place in 1919.
6.
Gandhiji launched the first counrywide Non-Cooperation Movement in 1919.
7.
Gandhiji launched the Civil Disobedience
Movement in 1930.
8.
Quit India Resolution was passed on 9th
August 1942.
9.
India got independence on 15th
August 1947.
10.
Important books written by Mahatma Gandhi:
a.
Hind Swaraj
b.
Satyagraha in South Africa
c.
Indian Home Rule
d.
Hind Swaraj and Indian Home Rule
e.
Satyagraha (a weekly)
f.
Young India (English Magazine)
g.
Navjivan (Gujarati Monthly Magazine)
h.
My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography)
i.
11.
Gandhiji’s world –view developed under the
influence of the books: New Testament (The Bible); The Gita (Bhagavad Gita);
Ruskin’s “Unto this Last” and Henry David Thoreau’s essay on “Civil
Disobedience”.
12.
Jawaharlal Nehru is considered the
political heir of Gandhiji.
13.
Jawaharlal Nehru was educated at Harrow
and Cambridge in England.
14.
Jawaharlal Nehru returned to India in
1912.
15.
Jawaharlal Nehru was acknowledged to be
the greatest Indian master of letter-writing in English.
16.
Important books written by Jawaharlal Nehru
are:
a.
Soviet Russia (a collection of articles on
Russia after his visit in 1927)
b.
Whither India
c.
Glimpses of World History
d.
An Autobiography
e.
The Discovery of India
17.
Sachchidananda Sinha – was the editor of
famous journals like –The Hindustan Review, The Searchlight, etc.
18.
Kasturi Ranga Iyer was the editor of ‘The
Hindu” from 1905 to 1923.
19.
Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan- was a great
Philosopher and teacher – who was the first Vice President of India, and second President of India.
20.
Important
books written by Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan are:
a.
The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
b.
The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy
c.
The Hindu View of Life
d.
Kalki or The future of Civilization
e.
An Idealist view of Life
21.
K.D. Sethna – wrote two books: “The
Secret Spelndour”; and “Punjalal”
22.
Nalini Kanth Gupta –wrote the book: “To
The Heights”
UNIT:
Development of Poetry from 1947 onwards. Post Independence Period
1.
Nissim Ezekiel is considered as the
first of New poets among the post Independence Indian English writers of
Poetry.
2.
Nissim Ezekiel belongs to a Bene-Israel
family, which migrated to India generations ago.
3.
Nissim Ezekiel’s Mother tongue –is Marathi.
He admitted English is his second Mother tongue.
4.
Important poems/ Books written by Nissim
Ezekiel are:
a.
A Time to Change
b.
The Third
c.
The Unfinished Man
d.
The Exact Name
e.
Hymns in Darkness
f.
“The Very Indian Poem in Indian English”
g.
“Night of the Scorpion”
5.
Dom Moraes – is the first of the new
Indian English poets to win recognition in England.
6.
Dom Moraes disowned his Indian
heritage as he adopted British citizenship in 1961.
7.
Famous poems/ Books written by Dom Moraes
are:
a.
“From 1955 to 1965”
b.
“Collected Poems”
8.
P. Lal –was born in Punjab, and
brought up in Calcutta.
9.
P. Lal – is a teacher of
English.
10.
P. Lal’s important poems/ books are:
a.
The Parrots’ death and other poems
b.
Change they said
c.
Droupadi and Jayadratha and others
11.
A. K. Ramanujan – is the most
outstanding poet of the sixties.
12.
A. K. Ramanujan – is a teacher of Dravidian
Linguistics at the University of Chicago.
13.
Important poems / books by A.K. Ramanujan
are:
a.
The Striders
b.
The Hindoo: he reads his Gita and is calm
at all times
c.
14.
A.K. Ramanujan wrote poems in Tamil
and Kannada also which were translated into English.
15.
R. Parthasarathy – is from Tamilnadu.
16.
R. Parthasarathy said: “English forms
a part of my intellectual, rational make-up, Tamil of my emotional, Psychic
make up”
17.
“Rough Passage” is a poem written by R. Parthasarathy
18.
Gieve Patel –is a member of the Parsi
Community –
19.
Gieve Patel is from Medical
profession
20.
Gieve Patel’s important poems:
a.
How do you understand Body
b.
Postmortem Report
21.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s famous poems
are:
a.
Bharatamata, a prayer
b.
Woodcuts on paper
c.
Nine Enclosures
22.
Pritish Nandy – is a prolific writer,
who produced more than a dozen collections. His poetry is considered to be a
prose poetry.
23.
Famous poems of Pritish Nandy are:
a.
Of Gods and Olives
b.
The Poetry of Pritish Nandy
24.
K. N. Daruwalla – is a notable poet
of seventies. He is a Police Officer by profession.
25.
Important poems/ collections of K.N.
Daruwalla are:
a.
Under Orion
b.
Apparition
c.
Crossing of Rivers
26.
Shiv. K. Kumar –is a senior academic.
27.
Famous poems/ collections of Shiv. K.
Kumar are:
a.
Articulate Silences
b.
Cobwebs in the Sun
c.
Subterfuges
d.
Woodpeckers
28.
Jayanta Mahapatra is a teacher of
Physics.
29.
Jayanta Mahapatra –was born in
Orissa- and his poetry is redolent of the Orissa scene and the Jagannatha
temple in Puri.
30.
Important poems/ collections of Jayanta
Mahapatra are:
a.
Close to the Sky
b.
Ten by Ten
c.
A Rain of Rites
d.
Waiting
e.
The False Start
31.
Arun Kolatkar - is a bilingual poet. He wrote poetry both in English and his
mother tongue Marathi.
32.
Famous poems of Arun Kolatkar are:
a.
Jepri (This poem won Commonwealth Poetry
Prize)
b.
Jojuri
(considered as an Indian Waste Land)
Women Poets:
33.
Kamala Das is the most outstanding
writer among women poets of modern Indian English poetry.
34.
Kamala Das is a bilingual poet – who wrote in English and
her mother tongue – Malayalam
35.
Kamala Das was converted into Islam
and got a new name – Kamala Suraiyya
36.
Famous poems/ collections of Kamala Das
are:
a.
Summer in Calcutta
b.
The Descendents
c.
The Old Play House and the other poems
37.
Monika Varma’s poems/ collections
are:
a.
Dragon Flies
b.
Draw Flame
38.
Gauri Desh Pande’s poems/ Collections
are:
a.
Between Births
b.
Last Love
c.
Beyond the Slaughter House
Poets during and after 1980s:
39.
Manohar Shetty’s important poems are:
a.
A Guarded Space
b.
Borrowed Time
c.
Domestic Cultures
40.
Vikram Seth – was born in Calcutta
and educated in Dehra Dun and at Oxford and Stanford Universities.
41.
Famous poems/ books by Vikram Seth are:
a.
Mappings
b.
The Humble Administration’s Garden
c.
The Golden Gate
d.
All You Who Sleep Tonight
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