English Literature Mcqs

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

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Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”

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Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”

A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden