A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Herman Melville
C. Thomas Gray
D. Henry David Thoreau
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 - According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
A. love.\
B. honor.\
C. money.\
D. his party.\ - Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
A. Henry Fielding
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Tobias Smollett - Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree…”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. Walt Whitman - Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
D. all of the above - Who wrote: “Reader, I married him.” ?
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Edith Wharton
D. Emily Bronte - Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?
A. William Butler Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Thomas Moore
D. Edgar Allan Poe - 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 - Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Woodsworth
D. Emily Dickinson - Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Robert Browning
D. Henrik Ibsen
