TS Eliot (1888-1965)

In which year did Eliot get Nobel Prize?

1948

In which year was The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock published?

1915, in ‘Poetry’ (American magazine)

The Love Song is inspired by which art movement?

Imagism

For which poem’s epigraph did Eliot borrow from Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’?

Gerontion (1920)

Gerontion is an internal dramatic monologue of ?

A little old man

The symbolic setting of Gerontion is?

Dry & sterile month of May

What is the symbolic structure of Gerontion?

Fragmentary, collage-like

The dramatic monologue in Gerontion is intertwined with works of which other writers?

Bible, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Chapman

& other Elizabethan & Jacobean writers.

The wasteland was first published in?

The Criterion in 1922

The initial title of the wasteland?

‘He do the police in different voices’

(Spoken by Betty Higden about his adopted son Sloppy, in Dickens’ ‘Our Mutual Friend’

From where did Eliot borrow the myth of “the holy grail”?

‘Ritual to Romance’ (1920) by Jessie L Weston.

The “fertility myth” was inspired by?

‘The Golden Bough’ (1980) by James Frazer.

Tiresias, the narrator and the protagonist of the Wasteland is a character in?

Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

Which mythical character figures in the epigraph of the wasteland?

Sybil of Cumae.

From where is the myth of Sybil borrowed?

‘Satyricon’, by Petronius.

Who is the narrator of the Epigraph?

Trimalchio

The original epigraph before editing was?

“The horror! The horror!” (Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness)

Which is the shortest section of the wasteland?

Death by Water (4)

The longest section of the Wasteland

The Fire Sermon (3)

The Wasteland is dedicated to?

Ezra Pound

The dedication that reads as “a better craftsman” is from?

Dante’s Purgatario

Who said that The Wasteland is a “music of ideas”?

IA Richards

Who said that Christian ideals forms the centre of the poem?

Cleanth Brookes

Which character who is inspired from Adolus Huxley’s ‘Crome Yellow’ features in ‘The Burial of the Dead’ as well as ‘Death by Water’?

Madame Sosostris

The title of the second section is inspired by which play?

Thomas Middleton’s ‘A Game at Chess’ (1627)

The game of chess is a ruse. The idea is borrowed from which play?

Thomas Middleton’s ‘Women Beware Women’ (1653)

The end of the second section is a famous line from which play?

Ophelia’s farewell speech, from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’

Section 4 is a close adaption of which poem by Eliot himself, written in French?

Dans le Restaurant

Phlebas, the Phonecian features in which section of the poem?

Section 4 : Death by Water

The title of the 5th section alludes to which spiritual text?

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Which critical work of Eliot is about Dryden, Marvell & other metaphysical poets?

Homage to John Dryden (1924)

Eliot has called himself as “classicist in literature, royalist in politics and Anglo catholic in religion”.

Essays on style & order (1928)

Which collection consists of The Hollow Men?

Poems 1909-25 (1925)

The poems like The Journey of the Magi and Ash Wednesday is part of which collection?

Poems 1909-35 (1936)

What are the sections in Four Quartets (1943)?

Burnt Norton (1935)

East Coker (1940)

The Dry Salvages (1941)

Little Gidding (1942)

The famous line “to purify the dialect of the tribe” referring to linguistic purification in Modernist times features in which work?

Little Gidding (1942)

Which poem of Eliot is based on Dante’s Purgatario?

Ash Wednesday (1927)

Ash Wednesday is also called?

“Conversion Poem”

Herbert Palmer’s parody of Ash Wednesday?

Cinder Thursday

Which is Eliot’s debut verse drama?

Sweeney Agonistes (1933)

Which other works of Eliot figures the character of Sweeney?

1. Sweeney among the nightingale

2. R. Eliot’s Sunday morning service

3. Sweeney Erect

4. The Wasteland

From which work did Eliot draw material for Murder in the Cathedral (1935)?

Edward Grim’s ‘Vita S Thomae’

What is the duration of Murder in the Cathedral?

Part 1 : 2nd December 1170

Interlude : Christmas Day 1170

Part 2 : 29th December 1170

What did the 4 tempters offer to Becket?

1. King’s friendship

2. Political power

3. Freedom

4. Martyrdom

Which verse play of Eliot is a modern variation of the Orestes story?

The Family Reunion (1939)

Which verse play is modelled upon the Heracles in Akestis of Euripides?

The Cocktail Party (1949)

Which work of Eliot is about mistaken identity?

The Confidential clerk (1954)

Which is Eliot’s only verse play written in blank verse?

The Family Reunion (1939)

“Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.”

Gerontion (1920)

“Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song.”

The Fire Sermon, from The Wasteland

“To purify the dialect of time.”

Little Gidding (1942)