Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?

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1. 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

2. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

   A. H.D.
   B. Hart Crane
   C. William Carlos Williams
   D. T.S. Eliot

3. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?

   A. Hughes was very conscious that he
   was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.
   B. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.
   C. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.
   D. Both A and C

4. What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

   A. its intellectual complexity
   B. its union of thought and passion
   C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
   D. A and B

5. What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

   A. its intellectual complexity
   B. its union of thought and passion
   C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
   D. A and B

6. 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

7. 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

8. How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’ ?

   A. 48
   B. 50
   C. 52
   D. 54

9. Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?

   A. Tennyson
   B. Byron
   C. Southey
   D. Wordsworth

10. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?

    A. Geoffrey Chaucer
    B. Marie de France
    C. Chrétien de Troyes
    D. b and c only