A. On the slave trade
B. On romantic philosophy
C. On the creativity of human mind
D. On supernatural elements in poetry
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - When John Milton studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge, his college was a stronghold of what religious faith ?
A. Anglicism
B. Puritanism
C. Buddhism
D. A and C - Identify the speaker of these lines: “sweet Jesus, Jesus love” ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. Catherine of Siena
D. Christine de Pizan - Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
A. lycidas
B. Paradise Lost
C. II penseroso
D. none of the above - What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?
A. An identical rhyme structure
B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life - In the first 75 lines of Book One of “Paradise Regained,” Satan refers to which person he has recently seen, who is identified by the following quote? “Before him [Jesus] a great Prophet, to proclaim / His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all / Invites, and in the Consecrated stream / Pretends to wash off sin” ?
A. John the Apostle
B. John the Baptist
C. Michael the Archangel
D. Joseph, Jesus’s stepfather - Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
A. Pembroke College
B. Trinity College
C. Christ’s College
D. St. Xavier’s College - Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________?
A. Margaret
B. Emilia
C. Helena
D. Celia - Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A. \Air and Angels\
B. \Satire 3\
C. \The Apparition\
D. \The Indifferent\ - In the demonic council of Book Two of “Paradise Regained,” who proposes that Satan should tempt Jesus with lust for a beautiful woman the way Solomon was tempted ?
A. Belial
B. Beelzebub
C. Venus
D. Satan