With which of these writers is the “spontaneous overflow of emotion” associated ?

Related Mcqs:

1. To whom “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion.” ?

   A. Keats
   B. Shelley
   C. Wordsworth
   D. Coleridge

2. 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

3. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof 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

4. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by___________?

   A. Shelley
   B. Coleridge
   C. Wordsworth
   D. None of these

5. ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ?

   A. Shelly
   B. De Quincey
   C. Wordsworth
   D. None of these

6. Which of these female writers is most closely associated with tears ?

   A. Julian of Norwich
   B. Margery Kempe
   C. Catherine of Siena
   D. Catherine de Pizan

7. According to Laura Smith, that which “affect[s] the human mind with a sense of overwhelming grandeur or irresistible power; calculated to inspire awe, deep reverence, or loft emotion, by reason of its beauty, vastness, or grandeur” is known as the______________?

   A. Beautiful
   B. Sublime
   C. Terrifying
   D. Romantic

8. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?

   A. Victorian
   B. Elizabethan
   C. Romantic
   D. None of these

9. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

   A. wit
   B. sprezzatura
   C. naturalism
   D. gusto

10. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

    A. Thomas Carlyle
    B. Matthew Arnold
    C. Charles Dickens
    D. all of the above.