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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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1. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
2. In which work do you read: 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…'?
3. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
4. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
5. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time?
6. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
7. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?
8. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
9. Who wrote: 'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.'?
10. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted?
11. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by 'legitimate' drama?
12. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
13. In which work do you read: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!'?
14. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
15. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
16. Who exemplified the role of the 'peasant poet'?
17. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text?
18. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
19. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
20. 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?
21. Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university?
22. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
23. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
24. Who wrote: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
25. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?

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