Romanticism

1. Romanticism ETP QUIZ

2. 1 The Romantic period derives its name from what genre? a) Roman tragedy b) Roman poetry c) Medieval romance d) Romantic comedy

3. 1 KEY c)

4. 2 According to Wordsworth, who do poets write for? a) the underprivileged b) the well educated c) other poets d) everybody

5. 2 KEY d)

6. 3 Wordsworth suggests that a poem tends to get worse when what happens? a) It is edited too much. b) It uses unnatural language. c) It is read aloud. d) It gets too long.

7. 3 KEY b)

8. 4 Wordsworth writes that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of… a) subconscious thoughts b) powerful feelings c) sublime images d) intense dreams

9. 4 KEY b)

10. 5 Wordsworth declares that a poet is… a) a man speaking to men b) a worshipper of God c) a prophet d) a critic of society

11. 5 KEY a)

12. 6 Which of the following does Wordsworth suggest that poets possess more so than ordinary people? a) a knowledge of nature b) a knowledge of history c) a knowledge of human nature d) a knowledge of moral philosophy

13. 6 KEY c)

14. 7 What does Shelley define as “the expression of the Imagination”? a) reason b) emotion c) poetry d) logic

15. 7 KEY c)

16. 8 According to Shelley, the “great instrument of moral good” is which of the following? a) imagination b) reason c) feeling d) tradition

17. 8 KEY a)

18. 9 Which of the following completes this famous declaration from Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry: “Poets are the unacknowledged … of the World.” a) prophets b) judges c) legislators d) leaders

19. 9 KEY c)

20. 10 Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry was written as a response to what work? a) William Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads b) Edward Young’s Conjectures on Original Composition c) Samuel Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria d) Thomas Love Peacock’s “The Four Ages of Poetry”

21. 10 KEY d)

22. 11 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Who is ‘I’? • My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

23. 11 KEY • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein • The Creature

24. 12 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Who does the word ‘thou’ refer to? • Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man

25. 12 KEY • John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ • The urn

26. 13 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Who do the highlighted words refer to? • I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a faery's child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.

27. 13 KEY • John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ • The knight and the lady

28. 14 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Who is ‘thou’? • Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day,

29. 14 KEY • P. B. Shelley, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ • The West Wind

30. 15 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? What does the highlighted word refer to? • Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning, silent, bare

31. 15 KEY • W. Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ • London

32. 16 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Who are ‘they’? • For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude…

33. 16 KEY • W. Wordsworth, ‘I Wandered Lonely’ • The daffodils he saw on an excursion

34. 17 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Which book is this text from? • I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head.

35. 17 KEY • W. Wordsworth, ‘We Are Seven’ • Lyrical Ballads

36. 18 • Where is this extract taken from (writer/title)? Which book is this text from? • Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me.

37. 18 KEY • William Blake, ‘Introduction’ • Songs of Innocence

38. 19 • Which poets collaborated on Lyrical Ballads?

39. 19 KEY • W. Wordsworth • S. T. Coleridge

40. 20 • Which philosophers had a particular influence on Coleridge?

41. 20 KEY • Immanuel Kant • Friedrich Schelling

42. 21 • Define ‘bard’ and give the name of at least one romantic writer who makes extensive use of this concept.

43. 21 KEY • A prophet-like artist-figure or a visionary poet inspired by medieval (especially Celtic) professional poet-singers • W. Blake

44. 22 • List at least two members of the first generation of romantic poets.

45. 22 KEY • W. Wordsworth • S.T. Coleridge • Robert Southey • Sir Walter Scott

46. 23 • List at least two members of the second generation of romantic poets.

47. 23 KEY • Lord Byron • P. B. Shelley • John Keats

48. 24 • List at least two members of the Lake School of romantic poets.

49. 24 KEY • W. Wordsworth • S. T. Coleridge • Robert Southey

50. 25 • List at least two members of the Cockney school of romantic poets.