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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D. all but C
Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
A. Addison
B. Bunyan
C. Crabbe
D. Dryden
A “classic” book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
A. It has universal appeal.
B. It can stand the test of time.
C. It makes connections.
D. All of the above.
Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean______________?
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?
A. Porphyria’s Lover
B. My Last Duchess
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. Fra Lippo Lippi
Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden
What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
A. the conviction that he was damned forever
B. the loss of his fortune in the South Sea Bubble
C. the vindication of Newtonian physics
D. condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier
In which work do you read: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ” ?
A. The Canturbury Tales
B. The Dark Angel
C. The Wild Swans of Coole
D. The Second Coming
Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
A. Henry Fielding
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Tobias Smollett
John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
A. King David’s son
B. A Judge of Israel
C. Bathsheba’s first husband
D. Absalom’s advisor
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