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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”
Who refers to poetry as “an imitation of nature” ?
A. Percy Shelley
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Hazlitt
D. William Wordsworth
Referring to poets as “unacknowledged legislators of the world” suggests that_____________?
A. Most Romantic poets were politicians
B. Poets have no actual effect upon the world
C. Poets actually help the world grow and develop
D. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry
Napoleon’s decision to__________________can be understood as representative of the French Revolutionary spirit because this decision served to radically reposition France in contemporary European political affairs ?
A. Engage in the Napoleonic Wars
B. Change all aspects of French law
C. Involve himself directly in affairs in the United States
D. Offer landmark political writings calling for peace with other European nations
John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating _______________?
A. The beauty of the natural world
B. The pains of love
C. Political and philosophical conservatism
D. The nature of artistic creation
Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. William Blake
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