MCQs on Romantic Period of Romantic Poets

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When Wordsworth pass away?

(a) 1840

(b) 1850

(d) 1860

Question’s Answer: 1850

Who is the composer of Lucy poems?

(a) Shelley

(b) William Shakespeare

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

The Prelude has been divided into books.

(a) 18

(b) 16

(d) 20

Question’s Answer: 14

The Lyrical Ballads was the creation of

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)

How many poems of Wordsworth are included in the Lyrical Ballads?

(a) 4

(b) 19

(d) 12

Question’s Answer: 19

According to_____,”Nature never did betray/The heart that loved her”.

(a) Byron

(b) Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWordsworth

(c)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Wordsworth was made the “Poet Laureate” in

(a) 1831

(b) 1837

(d) 1843

Question’s Answer: 1843

The Prelude completed in 1805 but was published in

(a) 1830

(b) 1840

(d) 1810

Question’s Answer: 1850

“Daffodils” is a poem by

(a) D.G. Rossetti

(b) Wordsworth

(d) Yeats

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

“The Waggoner” is a poem by

(a) Shelley

(b) Wordsworth

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

According to_____, “The Child is the father of the Man”.

(a) Pope

(b) William Shakespeare

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

In which poem do these lines appear.”We have given our hearts away” and “we are out of tune”?

(a) “Tintern Abbey”

(b) “Dover Beach”

(d) “The World is Too Much With Us”

Wordsworth’s The Prelude is a/an

(a) Autobiographical poem

(b) Metaphysical poem

(d) Biographical poem

Question’s Answer: Autobiographical poem

“Resolution and Independence” is a poem by

(a) Byron

(b) Wordsworth

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Who called Wordsworth a ‘moral eunuch’?

(a) Shelley

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(d) Browning

Question’s Answer: Shelley

“All things that love the sun are out of doors” is the view of _________ .

(a) Shelley

(b) Wordsworth

(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

When S.T. Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a play Remorse?

(a) 1827

(b) 1813

(d) 1824

Question’s Answer: 1813

Which of the following tragedies was the creation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

(a) The Borderers

(b) Remorse

(d) The Cenci

Question’s Answer: Remorse

The phrase “the high road of life” was used by

(a) Eliot

(b) Kipling

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who is the lost leader in Browning’s poem “The Lost Leader”?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Milton

(d) Shelley

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

“Christabel” is an unfinished poem by

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) John Keats

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Table Talk” Is an essay on William Shakespeare by

(a) Bradley

(b) Pope

(d) Johnson

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The great ode “Dejection” was the creation of

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Byron

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lamb pass away in the same year. The year is

(b) 1834

(a) 1830

(d) 1828

To Which poets does the phrase “willing suspension of apply?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Wordsworth

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The author of Biographia Literaria is

(a) Arnold

(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(d) Ruskin

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who was opium addicted?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) John Keats

(d) Robert Southey

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge met Wordsworth in

(a) 1798

(b) 1790

(d) 1802

Question’s Answer: 1797

Who talked of the ‘divinity of William Shakespeare’?

(a) Johnson

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(d) Eliot

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“He Prayeth best, who loveth best, / All things, great and small”, In Which poems do these lines occur? 82.

(a) “Kubla Khan”

(b) “Dejection: An Ode”

(d) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Question’s Answer: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Which one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems was included in Lyrical Ballads?

(a) “Kubla Khan”

(b) “Christabel”

(d) All of these

Question’s Answer: “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”

“O Lady We receive but what we give,/ And in our life alone does Nature live” is written by ____ .

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(d) Rousseau

Question’s Answer: John Keats

“Motiveless, malignity” is a phrase from

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Donne

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Southey’s The Life of Nelson is a prose work which released in

(a) 1813

(b) 1805

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1813

Which of these is not a poetic work by Robert Southey?

(a) “Joan of Are”

(b) “Thalaba the Destroyer”

(d) “The Curse of Kehama”

Question’s Answer: The Life of Nelson

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria appeared?

(a) 1829

(b) 1845

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1817

When Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy was released?

(a) 1927

(b) 1833

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1817

The House of Aspen is the play written by which of the following?

(a) John Keats

(b) Byron

(d) Dryden

Question’s Answer: Scott

Robert Southey’s A Vision of Judgement is a ludicrous eulogy of

(a) George II

(b) Charles II

(d) George III

Question’s Answer: George III

After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of England?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Scott

(d) Robert Southey

Question’s Answer: Robert Southey

Walter Scott was born in

(a) 1771

(b) 1785

(d) 1790

Question’s Answer: 1771

“The Lay of the Last Minstrel” (narrative poem) is a poem written by which of the following poet?

(a) Scott

(b) Rossetti

(d) Tennyson

Question’s Answer: Scott

Mike Lambourne is a character from which of the following?

(a) Shelley

(b) Austen

(d) Scott

Question’s Answer: Scott

“The Lady of the Lake” is a poem by which poet?

(a) Shelley

(b) Byron

(d) Scott

Question’s Answer: Scott

“Proud Maisie” is a ballad by which of the following?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) John Keats

(d) Scott

Question’s Answer: Scott

In Ivanhoe what is the name of the disguised Robin Hood?

(a) Swinburne

(b) Tennyson

(d) Scott

Question’s Answer: Scott

Waverley is a historical novel by

(a) Tennyson

(b) Eliot (English novelist)

(d) Dickens

Question’s Answer: Scott

Sir Walter Scott has been best remembered for his book

(a) Old Mortality

(b) Ivanhoe

(d) None of these

The Heart of Midlothian and Castle Dangerous are novels by which author?

(a) Emily Bronte

(b) Walter Scott

(d) Middleton Murry

Question’s Answer: Walter Scott

After whose refusal the poet Laureateship was conferred on Robert Southey?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Dryden

(d) Scott

Question’s Answer: Scott

The Talisman is a novel by

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Austen

(d) Dickens

Question’s Answer: Scott

Walter Scott’s The Talisman is about.

(a) Arabic islands

(b) English folk stories

(d) The Crusades

Question’s Answer: The Crusades

Who gave birth to historical novel?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Austen

(d) Smollett

Question’s Answer: Scott

Old Mortality is a novel by

(a) Walter Scott

(b) Eliot (English novelist)

(d) W. Godwin

Question’s Answer: Walter Scott

In which novel did Scott raise the Scottish esteem?

(a) Waverley

(b) Old Mortality

(d) The Antiquary

Question’s Answer: Ivanhoe

Life of Napoleon is a prose piece by which of the following author?

(a) Cobbett

(b) Scott

(d) W.S. Lander

Question’s Answer: Scott

Who is known as to be the founder of historical novel?

(a) Samuel Richardson

(b) James Joyce

(d) Walter Scott

Question’s Answer: Walter Scott

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Who happily married Mary Wollstonecraft?

(a) Horace Walpole

(b) Godwin

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Shelley was influenced by which of the followings?

(a) “The Medal”

(b) “Songs of Innocence”

(d) “Political Justice”

Question’s Answer: “Political Justice”

Shelley was interested in the teachings of which writer?

(a) William Godwin

(b) Thomas Hobbes

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Godwin

Shelley’s “Adonais” is _______.

(a) An elegy

(b) A defence

(d) A lyric

Question’s Answer: An elegy

“Queen Mab” is an aesthetic poem of which poet?

(a) John Keats

(b) Eliot

(d) Shelley

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Whit kind of writing is “O World! O Life! O Time!” by Shelley?

(a) Play

(b) Memoir

(d) Lyric

Question’s Answer: Lyric

Who composed “Ode to Skylark”?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) John Keats

(d) Pope

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Shelley’s “To a Skylark” came out with

(a) Epipsychidion

(b) Adonis

(d) Cenci

Question’s Answer: Prometheus Unbound

Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound written in 1818-19 was published in

(a) 1826

(b) 1824

(d) 1820

Question’s Answer: 1820

The prophetic words: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind” have been uttered by

(a) Arthur Clough

(b) Shelley

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Prometheus Unbound was the creation of

(a) Shelley

(b) Peacock

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Shelley’s Defence of Poetry written in 1821, was published in

(a) 1822

(b) 1840

(d) 1830

Question’s Answer: 1840

On which work was Shelley working when he pass away?”

(a) “The Triumph of Life”

(b) “Alaster”

(d) “Queen Mab”The Triumph of Life”

Question’s Answer: “The Triumph of Life”

Intellectual Beauty is a composition by which of the followings?

(a) John Keats

(b) Shelley

(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Who pass away by drowning?

(a) Shelley

(b) Pope

(d) William Shakespeare

Question’s Answer: Shelley

Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem?

(a) “Queen Mab”

(b) “Alastor”

(d) “The Cepci”

Question’s Answer: “Alastor”

Shelley was expelled from Oxford in

(a) 1817

(b) 1811

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1811

Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University for the publication of

(a) “The Mask of Anarchy”

(b) “Hellas”

(d) “The Revolt of Islam”

Question’s Answer: “Hellas”

Shelley’s “Julian and Maddalo” written in 1818 was published in

(a) 1819

(b) 1830

(d) 1824

Question’s Answer: 1824

“The Cloud” is a poem by

(a) Shelley

(b) John Keats

(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Shelley

First wife of __________ committed suicide.

(a) John Keats

(b) Wordsworth

(d) Shelley

Question’s Answer: Shelley

According to __________ , “Hell is a city much like London.”

(a) Shelley

(b) Scott

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Shelley

When Shelley’s “The Revolt of Islam” appeared?

(a) 1844

(b) 1817

(d) 1822

Question’s Answer: 1817

“To Autumn” is a poem composed by which of the following poet?

(a) Yeats

(b) John Keats

(d) Pope

Question’s Answer: John Keats

Who is not a Lake Poet?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Wordsworth

(d) Robert Southey

Question’s Answer: John Keats

Shelley’s “The Witch of Atlas”, which was in 1820, was published in

(a) 1821

(b) 1828

(d) 1835

Question’s Answer: 1824

John Keats pass away in 1821 and Shelley pass away in

(a) 1829

(b) 1822

(d) 1821

Question’s Answer: 1822

Who made the statement? “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Pope

(d) William Shakespeare

Question’s Answer: John Keats

Adonais is an elegy on

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Dryden

(d) Wordsworth

Which work of Shelley was written in irregular unrhymed metre?

(a) “The Revolt of Islam”

(b) “Laon and Cythna”.

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: “Queen Mab”

Who pass away of tuberculosis?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) John Keats.

(d) Scott

Which work of John Keats deals with the murder of a lady’s lover by her two wicked brothers?

(a) “Endymion”

(b) “Isabella”

(d) “Hyperion”

Question’s Answer: “Isabella”

Who pass away at the age of 25?

(a) Shelley

(b) Robert Southey

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: John Keats

John Keats took the Endymion story from

(a) Greek mytholegy

(b) Italian folk tales

(d) Roman myths

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” A verse-tale of John Keats begins with this line. Identify the poem..

(a) “Hyperion”

(b) “The Eve of St. Agnes”

(d) “Eve of St. Mark”

Question’s Answer: “Endymion”

Which one of John Keats’ odes ends with this line: “For ever will thou love, and she fair”?

(a) “Ode to a Nightingale”

(b) “Ode To Psyche”

(d) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Question’s Answer: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

John Keats’ volume of poems was dedicated to which of the followings?

(a) Spenser

(b) Fanny Brawne

(d) Leigh Hunt

Question’s Answer: Leigh Hunt

The term ‘negative capability’ was given by

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Eliot

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: John Keats

John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets) came in contact with Hunt in the year

(a) 1811

(b) 1807

(d) 1818

According to_____, “What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth”.

(a) Lamb

(b) Shelley

(d) De Quincey

Question’s Answer: John Keats

John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is” a:

(a) Drama

(b) Short story

(d) Lyrical ballad

Question’s Answer: Lyrical ballad

Who wrote Chapman’s Homer?

(a) Dryden

(b) Arnold

(d) Pater

Question’s Answer: John Keats

Which poem of John Keats highly impressed Shelley?

(a) “Ode to a Nightingale”

(b) “To Autumn”

(d) “Hyperion”

Question’s Answer: “Hyperion”

According to_____, “If poetry naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had comes not as

better not come at all”

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) John Keats

(d) Spenser

Question’s Answer: John Keats

“Don Juan” was the creation of

(a) Tennyson

(b) Pound

(d) Eliot

Question’s Answer: Byron

Which is not an ode by John Keats?

(a) “Ode to a Nightingale”

(b) “Ode to the West Wind”

(d) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Question’s Answer: “Ode to the West Wind”

Byron wrote his tragedies in

(a) Heroic couplets

(b) Blank verse

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Blank verse

Which one of John Keats’ works is based on Drayton’s “The Man in the Moon” and Fletcher’s

“The Faithful Shepherdess”?

(a) “Isabella”

(b) “The Eve of St. Agnes”

(d) “Endymion”

Question’s Answer: “Endymion”

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” This epitaph is written on whose tombstone in Rome?

(a) Sidney

(b) Byron

(d) Shelley

Question’s Answer: John Keats

Who made this statement? “Whom the gods love dies young”.

(a) Shelley

(b) Yeats

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Byron

“It is strange but correct, for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction”. The writer of this is ______ .

(a) John Keats

(b) Shelley

(d) Blake

Question’s Answer: Byron

A Byronic hero is he who is

(a) Vain and melancholy

(b) Cynical

(d) All of the above

Question’s Answer: All of the above

“Child’s Harold’s Pilgrimage” was the creation of

(a) John Keats

(b) Wordsworth

(d) L. Hunt

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron

Who pass away of fever?

(a) Shelley

(b) John Keats

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Byron

What is the first poem of English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets “John Keats”?

(a) “Endymion”

(b) “When I have Fears”

(d) “I Had a Dove”

Question’s Answer: “Endymion”

“She walks in Beauty” and “To Thyrza” are mild lyrics by

(a) John Keats

(b) Byron

(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Byron

Which poem of Byron released in 1814?

(a) “The Giaour”

(b) “Lora”

(d) “Pasisina”

Question’s Answer: “Lora”

Byron’s first volume “Hours of Idleness” released in the year

(a) 1800

(b) 1815

(d) 1807

Question’s Answer: 1807

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