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 ?

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 ?

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