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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
Duncan Wu rejects the assertion that Wordsworth’s Lucy poems were primarily about ______________?
A. Death
B. Perception
C. Exhaustion
D. Love
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner could be said to be suffering from an overwhelming feeling of ___________?
A. Guilt
B. Disbelief
C. Hatred
D. Love
Which poem is considered Wordsworth’s magnum opus ?
A. “Lyrical Ballads”
B. “The Prelude”
C. “We Are Seven”
D. “Lines Written in Early Spring”
Which of the following concepts are NOT elements of neo-classicism ?
A. Optimism
B. A sense of man being imperfect
C. Order and reason
D. A belief that art is primarily intellectual
Which of the following is a love poem ?
A. John Clare’s “To Elia”
B. Wordsworth “Peter Bell”
C. Byron’s “Don Juan”
D. Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”
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