Restoration and 18th Century

A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above

A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Woodsworth
D. Emily Dickinson

A. Henry St. John
B. Robert Harley
C. John Churchill
D. Robert Walpole

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

A. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
B. Sonnets from the Portuguese
C. Prelude
D. The Last Decalogue

A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
B. the dominance of the Tory Party
C. the “Book of Common Prayer”
D. toleration of religious dissidents

A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto

A. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
B. William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. John Keats’s “To Autumn”
D. all but C

A. a French revolutionary
B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

A. Spenser
B. John Gower
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Langland