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. 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

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. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Why is the presence of the comitatus ethic in Beowulf significant ?

    A. The comitatus ethic represents the shift from a nomadic to a more organized social structure.
    B. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics.
    C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization.
    D. The comitatus ethic represents a culture in which rulers had no responsibilities to their citizens.