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Category: English Romantic Poetry
The primary subject of “Ode to Psyche” is ___________________?
A. The possibility of sudden death
B. The expansion of consciousness
C. The relationship between art and humanity
D. The death of Byron
Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Lord Byron
C. Percy Shelley
D. John Keats
Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?
A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
B. The poem was incomplete
C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it
Which poet would be most likely to write about his time in revolutionary France ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. John Keats
Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s mental decline ?
A. His addiction to opium
B. His experiences during the French Revolution
C. The end of his friendship with Wordsworth
D. His physical battle with gout
Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?
A. No sense of reality
B. A desire to make the world into a better place
C. A dark and twisted outlook on the world
D. A strong dislike of women
Paul O’Brien contends that _____________make(s) Shelley a “radical.”?
A. Shelley’s political beliefs
B. Shelley’s sexuality
C. Shelley’s love of Shakespeare
D. Shelley’s relationship with Byron
Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” suggests that _________________?
A. Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics
B. Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful
C. Beauty is missing from the world
D. The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt
The line “It is an honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind” appears in which essay ?
A. “A Defense of Poetry”
B. “The Rights of Man”
C. “Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads”
D. “An Essay on Dramatic Poetry”
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