What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

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For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement

What does the phrase White Man’s Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?

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What does the phrase White Man’s Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?

A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
C. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems

Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?

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Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?

A. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
B. “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
D. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.