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Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?


athe rhythmic expression of moral intuition


bthe spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings


cthe polite patter of a corrupted age


dthe divine gift of grace



Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?


aWollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men


bPaine’s Rights of Man


cGodwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice


dBurke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France



Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?


athe expurgation of indelicate language


bthe modernization of archaic vocabulary


cthe insertion of bawdy songs


dthe misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\



Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?


aToo many of its readers were women.


bIt required less skill than other genres.


c It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?


athe organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England


bthe Battle of Waterloo


cthe Peterloo Massacre


dthe storming of the Bastille


View Answer the Peterloo Massacre

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?


aMary Wollstonecraft and William Blake


bMary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley


cWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge


dCharles Lamb and William Hazlitt



Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?


aopium


bdreams


cchildhood


dA, B and c


View Answer A, B and c

Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?


aByron’s Manfred


bColeridge’s Remorse


cShelley’s Prometheus Unbound


dShelley’s The Cenci


View Answer Coleridge’s Remorse

Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?


aThe notoriety of the \Lake School\


bTechnological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press


cInnovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books


dIncreased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools



Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?


aHunnish epic


bGothic fiction


cepistolary novel


dmeta-novel


View Answer Gothic fiction

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