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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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1. Who wrote: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!'?
2. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?
3. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?
4. In which work do you read: 'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.'?
5. In which work do you read: 'There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.'?
6. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
7. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years?
8. Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university?
9. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: 'Men of England' and England in 1819?
10. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
11. Who became the first 'prime minister' of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
12. In which work do you read: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
13. What is Shakespeare's longest play?
14. Who wrote: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
15. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
16. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called?
17. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
18. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era?
19. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
20. Who exemplified the role of the 'peasant poet'?
21. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
22. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
23. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
24. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
25. What was 'restored'in 1660?