Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?

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1. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?

   A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
   B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
   C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
   D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

2. Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?

   A. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
   B. Scientific exploration.
   C. Love and romance.
   D. The philosophy of how to run a new country.

3. 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

4. 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

5. Hawthorne’s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?

   A. History of puritans
   B. History of slavery
   C. Transcendentalism
   D. None of the above

6. 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

7. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

   A. Elliot
   B. Kipling
   C. Cummings
   D. Brooke

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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