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Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

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Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. The Satanic Schoolof Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

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Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth

What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: Men of Englandand England in 1819 ?

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What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: Men of Englandand England in 1819 ?

A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
B. the Battle of Waterloo
C. the Peterloo Massacre
D. the storming of the Bastille