Which of the following are significant texts of Victorian criticism?
- A. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
- B. Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance
- C. Eliot, 'Hamlet and His Problems'
- D. Arnold, 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'
- E. Ruskin, Modern Painters
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Correct answer: B. A, D and E only
Explanation
Pater (1873), Arnold (1864/65) and Ruskin (1843–60) are Victorian. Weston (1920) and Eliot's Hamlet essay (1919) are modernist.
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