Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood ?

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1. A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals ?

   A. Passionate love
   B. Emotional restraint
   C. Revolution against tyranny
   D. Communion with the natural world

2. 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

3. John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating _______________?

   A. The beauty of the natural world
   B. The pains of love
   C. Political and philosophical conservatism
   D. The nature of artistic creation

4. Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

   A. Percy Shelley
   B. John Keats
   C. William Wordsworth
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5. Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Percy Shelley
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Percy Shelley
   C. John Keats
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7. Which of the following statements would you most likely NOT see in a Romantic poem ?

   A. “Truth is beauty … ”
   B. “Truth is stranger than fiction …”
   C. “Familure acts are beautiful through love …”
   D. “A little learning is a dangerous thing…”

8. Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?

   A. John Keats
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9. Which poet would be most likely to write a poem reflecting upon the psychological changes he has undergone since his youth ?

   A. William Blake
   B. John Keats
   C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   D. William Wordsworth

10. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

    A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
    B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
    C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
    D. A and C only