Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

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1. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?

   A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
   C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

2. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

   A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
   B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
   C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
   D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

3. In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ?

   A. 1778
   B. 1769
   C. 1798
   D. 1792

4. Who was the co-author of “Lyrical Ballads” with William Wordsworth ?

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

5. ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ was published in______________?

   A. 1798
   B. 1800
   C. 1802
   D. 1815

6. The Lyrical Ballads was published in____________________?

   A. 1780
   B. 1798
   C. 1815
   D. 1805

7. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?

   A. 1798
   B. 1800
   C. 1801
   D. 1802

8. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?

   A. Wordsworth
   B. Coleridge
   C. Southey
   D. Shelly

9. In his preface to “Lyrical Ballads”, Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?

   A. Typically poetic and fanciful language
   B. Ancient languages
   C. Complicated and difficult language
   D. Common, everyday language

10. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?

    A. the lyric poem written in the first person
    B. the sonnet
    C. doggerel rhyme
    D. the political tract