English Literature Mcqs

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?

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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?

A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

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Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

A. women’s rights and suffrage
B. child labor
C. Chartism
D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians