A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
Related Mcqs:
- What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
A. John Milton
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. Allen Ginsberg
D. Amy Lowell - Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
A. Christina Rossetti
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ted Hughes - 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 - Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Victorian society and its ideals ?
A. Darwin’s work echoed Victorian thought with its emphasis on struggle while disrupting Victorian faith by decentering humans.
B. Darwin’s work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.
C. Darwin’s work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.
D. Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwin’s work completely. - What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation
