Q: Who called Milton "the mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies”?
a) John Dryer
b) Alfred Tennyson
c) Oliver Goldsmith
d) Jonathan Swift
Correct answer: b) Alfred Tennyson
Explanation of English Literature MCQs
Alfred Tennyson was born on 16th August 1809 in the village Somersby in Lincolnshire, where his father George Clayton Tennyson was the Rector. Tennyson was the fourth of the 12th children. Alfred Tennyson, with two of his brother, Frederick and Charles, was sent in 1815 to Louth grammar school. He left in 1820, but though home conditions were difficult, then his father managed to give him a wide literary education. He was precocious and before his teens, he had composed poems in the styles of Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott and John Milton. In 1889, Tennyson wrote the famous short poem "Crossing the Bar", during the crossing to the Isle of Wight. He died on the 6th of October 1892 and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Tennyson representative poet of the Victorian age and most sensitive to the conflict between the Old and the new. Tennyson called Milton "The mighty Mouthe inventor of harmonies, God gifted Organ, the voice of England".
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