Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Aemilia Lanyer
   C. Samuel Daniel
   D. Mary Wroth

3. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?

   A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
   B. the Battle of Waterloo
   C. the Peterloo Massacre
   D. the storming of the Bastille

4. 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

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. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?

    A. W.E.B. DuBois
    B. Amiri Baraka
    C. Booker T. Washington
    D. Frederick Douglass