Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?

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1. Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?

   A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
   B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
   C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
   D. the divine gift of grace

2. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry appears in_____________?

   A. Excursion
   B. Tintern Abbey Lines
   C. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
   D. Immortality Ode

3. 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

4. Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth’s poetry ?

   A. The common man
   B. The promises of technology
   C. The outcast figure
   D. The movement of time

5. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Ben Jonson
   D. George Herbert

6. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

7. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

8. In “Of Poetry in General,”William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ____________?

   A. The intellect
   B. The author’s personal pain
   C. Strong feeling
   D. Rewriting Homer

9. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?

   A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
   B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
   C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
   D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

10. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?

    A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
    B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
    C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
    D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.