English Language · English Literature

Consider the following statements regarding the 18th-century literary figures and their works, and identify which ones are correct: I. In Jonathan Swift’s 'The Battle of the Books', the Spider symbolizes the Moderns who spin webs out of their own substance, representing self-sufficiency and barren knowledge, while the Bee represents the Ancients who gather material from nature to produce 'sweetness and light'. II. Fanny Burney’s novel 'Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress' (1782) features an inheritance clause requiring the heroine's husband to take her surname and includes the phrase 'Pride and Prejudice', which inspired the title of Jane Austen's masterpiece. III. In Thomas Gray’s Pindaric ode 'The Progress of Poesy', the poet describes John Milton as a sublime figure who 'passed the flaming bounds of place and time' and 'rode sublime upon the seraph-wings of Extasy'. IV. Tobias Smollett’s final novel, 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker', is a picaresque narrative based on the author's own experience as a naval surgeon aboard the HMS Chichester during the Cartagena expedition. Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: