According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?

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Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?”

A. Wilfred Owen B. Siegfried Sassoon C. Rupert Brooke D. Rudyard Kipling...

Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay’s poem “The Harlem Dancer” ?

A. It is an English sonnet. B. It is an Italian sonnet. C. It is a Spenserian sonnet. D. It is a free verse poem....

What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?

A. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry. B. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry. C. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience. D. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry....

Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?

A. His political views B. His will to imaginative freedom C. His will to sexual freedom D. Both B and C...

According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?

A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment D. All of the above...