Preromantic Poetry MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 8, 2025

1. The Jolly Beggars is a sequence of ballads by
(A) Buxton
(B) Byron
(C) Burns
(D) Gay

2. Who is the author of My Love is like a Red Red Rose?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Robert Burns
(D) None of A, B, and C

3. To a Mountain Daisy is a poem composed by
(A) Blake
(B) Robert Burns
(C) Gray
(D) Collins

4. Robert Burns was born in 1759 and he passed away in
(A) 1796
(B) 1861
(C) 1814
(D) 1795

5. Tam O’Shanter was proudly written by
(A) Burns
(B) Fielding
(C) Crabbe
(D) None of A, B, and C

6. Which is not a poetical work of William Blake?
(A) Songs of Experience
(B) The Parish Register
(C) Poetical Sketches
(D) Songs of Innocence

7. Blake printed his own works by a method devised by him
(A) False
(B) True
(C) Perhaps
(D) Wooden blocks

8. The French Revolution is a poem by
(A) Johnson
(B) Gray
(C) Blake
(D) None of A, B, and C

9. Blake’s Songs of Innocence is about?
(A) The pastoral world
(B) The joys of childhood
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of A, B, and C

10. “Pity would be no more, if we did not make somebody poor…” Who is the author of this line?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth

11. In which of his works did Blake denounce the subordination of women?
(A) Songs of Innocence
(B) Visions of the Daughters of Albion
(C) Songs of Experience
(D) The Book of Urizen

12. The Task appeared in
(A) 1768
(B) 1774
(C) 1781
(D) 1785

13. Who made the cryptic remark that “Milton was of the Devil’s Party without knowing it”?
(A) Cowper
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Arnold
(D) Blake

14. Who was of the view: “Without contraries there is no progression”?
(A) Arnold
(B) Addison
(C) Swift
(D) Blake

15. Blake’s The Book of Urizen is about
(A) Human liberation
(B) The art of writing
(C) The origin of evil
(D) None

16. Blake’s Songs of Experience deals with
(A) Experience of the hard realities of sorrow and suffering
(B) Social and religious oppression
(C) Sorrow and suffering
(D) Life of labour

17. Holy Thursday is a poem by
(A) Cowper
(B) Blake
(C) Arnold
(D) Pope

18. Who does not belong to the “Satanic school of criticism”?
(A) Yeats
(B) Blake
(C) Eliot
(D) Auden