English Cosmos by Dr Mukesh Pareek

2012 December UGC NET   1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century: (A) Advancement of Learning (B) Gulliver’s Travels (C) The Spectator (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Answer:  (A)   1.The Advancement of Learning  (full title:  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human ) is a 1605 book by  Francis Bacon who was a Jacobean and Caroline writer.Published in the seventeenth century. 2. Gulliver's Travels , or  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships  is a 1726 prose  satire  by the  Irish   writer  and  clergyman   Jonathan Swift , satirising both  human nature  and the  "travellers' tales"  literary subgenre. It was written in the eighteenth century also called Neo-classical Age....