A. Keats
B. Wordsworth
C. Shelley
D. Byron
Related Mcqs:
- The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above - In her essay “Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted,” Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon _______________?
A. Courtly love and modern-seeming emotion
B. Violence
C. Nature
D. Death and disease - What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. - “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - Which of the following is a literary work of “The Lost Generation ?”
A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols” - The term “Lost Generation” can be applied to which of the following groups ?
A. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller
B. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I
C. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I
D. A and B only - The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
A. Beat to his size
B. Beat to his stomach
C. Beat to his socks
D. Beat to his Shoe - What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Generation” designate ?
A. It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.
B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.
C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.
D. Both A and B
