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T.S. Eliot
B
G.B. Shaw
C
George Eliot
D
George Orwell

Explanation

T.S. Eliot wrote 'The Waste Land', considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century.

A
V.S. Naipaul
B
Sretlana Alexivick
C
Peter Handke
D
Orham Pamuke

Explanation

Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 for his influential work exploring the periphery and the specificity of human experience.

A
Charlotte Bronte
B
Emily Bronte
C
Jane Austen
D
Mary Shelley

Explanation

'Jane Eyre' is a novel by Charlotte Bronte, published under the pen name Currer Bell in 1847.

A
John Dryden
B
Alexander Pope
C
William Wordsworth
D
T. S. Eliot

Explanation

William Wordsworth is a central figure of the Romantic Age, launching it with 'Lyrical Ballads' (with Coleridge).

A
William Shakespeare
B
William Congreve
C
Ben Jonson
D
Oscar Wilde

Explanation

'The Way of the World' is a Restoration comedy by William Congreve, premiered in 1700.

A
Geoffrey Chaucer
B
Christopher Marlowe
C
John Milton
D
P. B. Shelley

Explanation

Satan speaks this famous line in Book I of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.

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Oscar Wilde
B
James Joyce
C
Jonathan Swift
D
D. H. Lawrence

Explanation

D.H. Lawrence was English. Wilde, Joyce, and Swift were of Irish birth or significant connection.

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P. B. Shelley
B
William Wordsworth
C
S. T. Coleridge
D
John Keats

Explanation

'Ozymandias' is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, exploring the inevitable decline of leaders and empires.

A
Herman Melville
B
Nathaniel Hawthome
C
Mark Twain
D
William Faulkner

Explanation

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick', a novel about the monomaniacal quest of Captain Ahab.

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William Blake
B
S. T. Coleridge
C
Lord Byron
D
P. B. Shelley

Explanation

This line concludes P.B. Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'.