A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge
Related Mcqs:
- Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by___________?
A. Shelley
B. Coleridge
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these - ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ?
A. Shelly
B. De Quincey
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these - 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 - 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 - “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Matthew Arnold - 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 - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?
A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.
