Which Romantic poet did Shelley consider a close friend ?

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1. 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

2. Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?

   A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
   B. The poem was incomplete
   C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
   D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it

3. Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?

   A. Not an atheist
   B. In love with Lord Byron
   C. Suicidal
   D. Fiercely anti-war

4. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?

   A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
   B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
   C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
   D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

5. Who does Shelley consider the true founders of civilized cultures and laws ?

   A. Kings and queens
   B. Poets and artists
   C. Dictators and Tyrants
   D. All people equally

6. Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?

   A. No sense of reality
   B. A desire to make the world into a better place
   C. A dark and twisted outlook on the world
   D. A strong dislike of women

7. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?

   A. Charles Lamb
   B. Jane Austen
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Oliver Goldsmith

8. Which period of John Keats as called “the most placid time in Keats’s life” by Cowden Clarke, a close friend of Keats ?

   A. His visit to Lake District
   B. Keats’ lodging in the attic above the
   surgery at 7 Church Street
   C. Keats stay in Italy
   D. Keats’ travel to Alps

9. In the play, “Henry V,” who is the close friend and mentor of young Henry ?

   A. Montjoy
   B. Horatio
   C. Falstaff
   D. Nim

10. Which Romantic poet died relatively unknown but would become famous posthumously, in the 19th century ?

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