A. London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. a and c only
A. Hunnish epic
B. Gothic fiction
C. epistolary novel
D. meta-novel
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ? Read More »
English Literature Mcqs, Romantic 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
A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday
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)
Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ? Read More »
English Literature Mcqs, Romantic Period A. Byron’s Manfred
B. Coleridge’s Remorse
C. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
D. Shelley’s The Cenci
Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ? Read More »
English Literature Mcqs, Romantic Period A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
B. All of the actors were male.
C. All of the actors were British.
D. The play was spoken.
A. opium
B. dreams
C. childhood
D. A, B and c
Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states? Read More »
English Literature Mcqs, Romantic Period A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ? Read More »
English Literature Mcqs, Romantic Period 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
