Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth

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

Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb bowdlerize.What does it mean ?

Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb bowdlerize.What does it mean ?

A. the expurgation of indelicate language
B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. the insertion of bawdy songs
D. the misspelling of simple words like theand and

Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B. Paine’s Rights of Man
C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France