A. Most Romantic poets were politicians
B. Poets have no actual effect upon the world
C. Poets actually help the world grow and develop
D. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry
Related Mcqs:
- Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. William Blake
C. William Hazlitt
D. Percy Shelley - What does Percy Shelley mean when he refers to poets as being the “unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?
A. He is suggesting that artists serve to develop culture.
B. He is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.
C. He is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.
D. He is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art. - John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ?
A. Romantic
B. Victorian
C. Cavalier
D. Enlightenment - The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?
A. Puritan movement
B. Romantic revival
C. Neo-classical age
D. Metaphysical school - How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’ ?
A. 48
B. 50
C. 52
D. 54 - Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?
A. Awe and fascination
B. Disinterest and disregard
C. Resentment and disrespect
D. Fear and horror - The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
A. The Franco-Prussian War
B. The American Civil War
C. World War I
D. World War II - Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden - Which of the following poets wrote about World War II ?
A. Rupert Brooke
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Karl Shapiro
D. Hart Crane - World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Oscar Wilde
