In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. Adonais
B. Bright Star
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci
Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden
Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
A. Jane Austen’s Emma
B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
Horace’s doctrine ut pictura poesiswas interpreted to mean______________?
Horace’s doctrine ut pictura poesiswas interpreted to mean______________?
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Alexander Pope
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Dryden
This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson
Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?
Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?
A. William Butler Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Thomas Moore
D. Edgar Allan Poe
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D. all but C
Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
A. Henry St. John
B. Robert Harley
C. John Churchill
D. Robert Walpole
Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
A. Seagull
B. Albatross
C. Humming Bird
D. Crow