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
Related Mcqs:
- What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe 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 - Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?
A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
B. The poem was incomplete
C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it - Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?
A. Not an atheist
B. In love with Lord Byron
C. Suicidal
D. Fiercely anti-war - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - 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 - 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 - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Hero and Leander
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Apollo and Hyacinth - In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
A. The Book of Margery Kempe
B. “Revelations of Divine Love”
C. “The Wooing of Our Lord”
D. The Art of Courtly Love - In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
A. Her own memories of slavery.
B. Stories her grandmother told her.
C. The television series Roots.
D. Slave narratives.
