A. Immortality Ode
B. Tintern Abbey
C. The Prelude
D. The Solitary Reaper
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a “chosen son” primarily because_____________?
A. his brothers died in their youth.
B. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.
C. he was given special educational opportunities.
D. he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth. - The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Communism
C. Totalitarianism
D. Feudalism - ’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ’one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?
A. Mammon
B. Moloch
C. Beelzebub
D. Ashtaroth - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?
A. FR Leavis
B. Harold Bloom
C. William Empson
D. Mariella Frostrup - In “Paradise Lost,” Milton calls his Muse by which of the following names ?
A. Uriel
B. Urania
C. Calypso
D. Calliope - Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?
A. Laodamia
B. The Prelude
C. Guide to the Lakes
D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?
A. The European Magazine
B. New Poetry
C. The Tatler
D. The Rambler - In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
A. 1798
B. 1779
C. 1795
D. 1789
