Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. John Keats
B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Butler
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley’s poems to the working classes ?
What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley’s poems to the working classes ?
A Song: “Men of England” and 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
Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
A. London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. A and C only
His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
A. Sir John Denham
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Carew
D. John Dryden
What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation
Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace
Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
A. a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
B. a lyric poem written in the first person
C. a comedy of manners
D. a political tract demanding labor reform
What was restoredin 1660 ?
What was restoredin 1660 ?
A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
B. the dominance of the Tory Party
C. the Book of Common Prayer
D. toleration of religious dissidents
Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
Who wrote The Life and Oions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
A. Henry Fielding
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Tobias Smollett
John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?
John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Alexander Pope
C. Ben Jonson
D. George Herbert