Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?

   A. Thom Gunn
   B. Dylan Thomas
   C. Philip Larkin
   D. both A and C

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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 American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?

   A. Robert Frost
   B. R. W. Emerson
   C. Walt Whitman
   D. Edgar Allen Poe

9. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ?

   A. e. e. Cummings
   B. T. S. Elliot
   C. John Greenleaf Whittier
   D. Walt Whitman

10. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness.” ?

    A. T.S. Eliot
    B. Matthew Arnold
    C. Elizabeth Browning
    D. Virginia Woolf