A. John Clare
B. John Keats
C. Robert Burns
D. A and C only
Related Mcqs:
- Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
A. John Clare
B. John Keats
C. Robert Burns
D. A and C only - 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 - The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above - 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 - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility - Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Swinburne
D. D.G. Rossetti - Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Lord Byron
D. Percy Shelley - Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?
A. William Blake
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Lord Byron
D. Percy Shelley - Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allen Poe
