Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?

Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?

A. The notoriety of the Lake School
B. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press
C. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books
D. Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools

Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

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

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