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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. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the 'spirit of the age,' which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?
2. In which work do you read: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
3. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
4. John Dryden wrote 'Absalom and Achitophel.' Who was Achitophel, historically speaking?
5. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind?
6. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
7. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
8. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?
9. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period?
10. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
11. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
12. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?
13. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
14. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?
15. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
16. Who became the first 'prime minister' of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
17. Who wrote: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
18. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted?
19. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era?
20. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
21. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
22. Horace's doctrine 'ut pictura poesis'was interpreted to mean:
23. In which work do you read: 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'?
24. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
25. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?