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The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is ____________________?

The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is ____________________?

A. The nature of death
B. The French Revolution
C. The relationship between truth and beauty
D. The author’s childhood experience

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Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

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Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

A. Engagement with the natural world
B. Rationality
C. Emotional restraint
D. Political conservatism

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Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

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Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?

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One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?

A. How nature can render someone good
B. How nature can corrupt someone
C. Eternal youth
D. A dark voyage into madness

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The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?

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The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?

A. 1800 – 1900
B. 1805 – 1827
C. 1798 – 1832
D. 1785 – 1825

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Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing ?

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Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing ?

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. John Keats
D. Percy Shelley

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Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

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Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Lord Byron
D. Percy Shelley

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Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?

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Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?

A. Lord Byron
B. William Blake
C. William Hazlitt
D. Percy Shelley

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Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

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Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

A. Percy Shelley
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?

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Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?

A. Awe and fascination
B. Disinterest and disregard
C. Resentment and disrespect
D. Fear and horror

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