1. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (“The better Craftsman”) which refers to :
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Baudelaire
(C) G.M. Hopkins
(D) Dante
ANSWER:A
2. The poet who described poetry as “inspired mathematics” is :
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Hopkins
(C) Archibald Macheish
(D) Ezra Pound
ANSWER:D
3. ’IL Migilor Fabro’ is the expression Eliot used for :
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound
ANSWER:D
4. One of the following was described by its author as “a poem including history.” Identify the poem.
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
(B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos
ANSWER:D
5. Who made the remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”?
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Ezra Pound
3. B. Yeats
4. S. Eliot
ANSWER:2
6. Which one of these essays by Ezra Pound defines an Image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time ?
a. A Retrospect
b. ” The Tradition
c. The Renaissance
d. ” How to Read “
ANSWER:A