A. Shelley
B. Coleridge
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ?
A. Shelly
B. De Quincey
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these - To whom “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion.” ?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge - 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 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 - With which of these writers is the “spontaneous overflow of emotion” associated ?
A. Ann Radcliffe
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Alfred Lord Tennyson - “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Matthew Arnold - In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. Ben Jonson folios
D. English Renaissance theatre - Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
A. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers.
B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.
C. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.
D. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare. - Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images. - Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.
