MCQs on First Generation Of Romantic Poets
When Wordsworth pass away?
(a) 1840
(b) 1850
(c) 1887
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1850
Who is the composer of Lucy poems?
(a) Shelley
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Wordsworth
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
The Prelude has been divided into books.
(a) 18
(b) 16
(c) 14
(d) 20
Question’s Answer: 14
The Lyrical Ballads was the creation of
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(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
(c) 17
(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
(c) 1850
(d) 1843
Question’s Answer: 1843
The Prelude completed in 1805 but was published in
(a) 1830
(b) 1840
(c) 1850
(d) 1810
Question’s Answer: 1850
“Daffodils” is a poem by
(a) D.G. Rossetti
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Yeats
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
“The Waggoner” is a poem by
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) Byron
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
According to_____, “The Child is the father of the Man”.
(a) Pope
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Arnold
(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”
(c) “Daffodils”
(d) “The World is Too Much With Us”
Wordsworth’s The Prelude is a/an
(a) Autobiographical poem
(b) Metaphysical poem
(c) Philosophical poem
(d) Biographical poem
Question’s Answer: Autobiographical poem
“Resolution and Independence” is a poem by
(a) Byron
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) John Keats
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
Who called Wordsworth a ‘moral eunuch’?
(a) Shelley
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(c) Arnold
(d) Browning
Question’s Answer: Shelley
“All things that love the sun are out of doors” is the view of _________ .
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
When S.T. Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a play Remorse?
(a) 1827
(b) 1813
(c) 1808
(d) 1824
Question’s Answer: 1813
Which of the following tragedies was the creation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
(a) The Borderers
(b) Remorse
(c) Otho, the great
(d) The Cenci
Question’s Answer: Remorse
The phrase “the high road of life” was used by
(a) Eliot
(b) Kipling
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Wordsworth
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who is the lost leader in Browning’s poem “The Lost Leader”?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Milton
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Shelley
Question’s Answer: Wordsworth
“Christabel” is an unfinished poem by
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Byron
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Table Talk” Is an essay on William Shakespeare by
(a) Bradley
(b) Pope
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Johnson
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The great ode “Dejection” was the creation of
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Byron
(c) John Keats
(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
(c) 1850
(d) 1828
To Which poets does the phrase “willing suspension of apply?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) John Keats
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The author of Biographia Literaria is
(a) Arnold
(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Ruskin
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was opium addicted?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) John Keats
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Robert Southey
Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge met Wordsworth in
(a) 1798
(b) 1790
(d) 1802
(c) 1797
Question’s Answer: 1797
Who talked of the ‘divinity of William Shakespeare’?
(a) Johnson
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(c) Arnold
(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”
(c) “Christabel”
(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”
(c) “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
(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
(c) John Keats
(d) Rousseau
Question’s Answer: John Keats
“Motiveless, malignity” is a phrase from
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Donne
(c) Eliot
(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
(c) 1801
(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”
(c) The Life of Nelson
(d) “The Curse of Kehama”
Question’s Answer: The Life of Nelson
When Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria appeared?
(a) 1829
(b) 1845
(c) 1823
(d) 1817
Question’s Answer: 1817
When Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy was released?
(a) 1927
(b) 1833
(c) 1821
(d) 1817
Question’s Answer: 1817
The House of Aspen is the play written by which of the following?
(a) John Keats
(b) Byron
(c) Scott
(d) Dryden
Question’s Answer: Scott
Robert Southey’s A Vision of Judgement is a ludicrous eulogy of
(a) George II
(b) Charles II
(c) Queen Mary
(d) George III
Question’s Answer: George III
After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of England?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Scott
(c) Dryden
(d) Robert Southey
Question’s Answer: Robert Southey
Walter Scott was born in
(a) 1771
(b) 1785
(c) 1800
(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
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Tennyson
Question’s Answer: Scott
Mike Lambourne is a character from which of the following?
(a) Shelley
(b) Austen
(c) Eliot
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Scott
“The Lady of the Lake” is a poem by which poet?
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) John Keats
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Scott
“Proud Maisie” is a ballad by which of the following?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) John Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Scott
In Ivanhoe what is the name of the disguised Robin Hood?
(a) Swinburne
(b) Tennyson
(c) Eliot (English novelist)
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Scott
Waverley is a historical novel by
(a) Tennyson
(b) Eliot (English novelist)
(c) Scott
(d) Dickens
Question’s Answer: Scott
Sir Walter Scott has been best remembered for his book
(a) Old Mortality
(b) Ivanhoe
(c) The Talisman
(d) None of these
The Heart of Midlothian and Castle Dangerous are novels by which author?
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Eliot (English novelist)
(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
(c) Pope
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Scott
The Talisman is a novel by
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Austen
(c) Scott
(d) Dickens
Question’s Answer: Scott
Walter Scott’s The Talisman is about.
(a) Arabic islands
(b) English folk stories
(c) Bloodless revolution
(d) The Crusades
Question’s Answer: The Crusades
Who gave birth to historical novel?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Austen
(c) Scott
(d) Smollett
Question’s Answer: Scott
Old Mortality is a novel by
(a) Walter Scott
(b) Eliot (English novelist)
(c) Charlotte Bronte
(d) W. Godwin
Question’s Answer: Walter Scott
In which novel did Scott raise the Scottish esteem?
(a) Waverley
(b) Old Mortality
(c) Ivanhoe
(d) The Antiquary
Question’s Answer: Ivanhoe
Life of Napoleon is a prose piece by which of the following author?
(a) Cobbett
(b) Scott
(c) Robert Southey
(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
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Walter Scott
Question’s Answer: Walter Scott
MCQs on 2nd Generation Of Romantic Poets
Who happily married Mary Wollstonecraft?
(a) Horace Walpole
(b) Godwin
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Shelley was influenced by which of the followings?
(a) “The Medal”
(b) “Songs of Innocence”
(c) “The Season”
(d) “Political Justice”
Question’s Answer: “Political Justice”
Shelley was interested in the teachings of which writer?
(a) William Godwin
(b) Thomas Hobbes
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: William Godwin
Shelley’s “Adonais” is _______.
(a) An elegy
(b) A defence
(c) A satire
(d) A lyric
Question’s Answer: An elegy
“Queen Mab” is an aesthetic poem of which poet?
(a) John Keats
(b) Eliot
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Shelley
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Whit kind of writing is “O World! O Life! O Time!” by Shelley?
(a) Play
(b) Memoir
(c) Masque
(d) Lyric
Question’s Answer: Lyric
Who composed “Ode to Skylark”?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Pope
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Shelley’s “To a Skylark” came out with
(a) Epipsychidion
(b) Adonis
(c) Prometheus Unbound
(d) Cenci
Question’s Answer: Prometheus Unbound
Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound written in 1818-19 was published in
(a) 1826
(b) 1824
(c) 1822
(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
(c) Browning
(d) John Keats
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Prometheus Unbound was the creation of
(a) Shelley
(b) Peacock
(c) Scott
(d) John Keats
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Shelley’s Defence of Poetry written in 1821, was published in
(a) 1822
(b) 1840
(c) 1835
(d) 1830
Question’s Answer: 1840
On which work was Shelley working when he pass away?”
(a) “The Triumph of Life”
(b) “Alaster”
(c) “The Cenci”
(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
(c) Yeats
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Who pass away by drowning?
(a) Shelley
(b) Pope
(c) Lamb
(d) William Shakespeare
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem?
(a) “Queen Mab”
(b) “Alastor”
(c) “Adonais”
(d) “The Cepci”
Question’s Answer: “Alastor”
Shelley was expelled from Oxford in
(a) 1817
(b) 1811
(c) 1922
(d) 1817
Question’s Answer: 1811
Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University for the publication of
(a) “The Mask of Anarchy”
(b) “Hellas”
(c) “On the Necessity of Atheism”
(d) “The Revolt of Islam”
Question’s Answer: “Hellas”
Shelley’s “Julian and Maddalo” written in 1818 was published in
(a) 1819
(b) 1830
(c) 1826
(d) 1824
Question’s Answer: 1824
“The Cloud” is a poem by
(a) Shelley
(b) John Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Shelley
First wife of __________ committed suicide.
(a) John Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Shelley
Question’s Answer: Shelley
According to __________ , “Hell is a city much like London.”
(a) Shelley
(b) Scott
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Byron
Question’s Answer: Shelley
When Shelley’s “The Revolt of Islam” appeared?
(a) 1844
(b) 1817
(c) 1814
(d) 1822
Question’s Answer: 1817
“To Autumn” is a poem composed by which of the following poet?
(a) Yeats
(b) John Keats
(c) Horace
(d) Pope
Question’s Answer: John Keats
Who is not a Lake Poet?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(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
(c) 1824
(d) 1835
Question’s Answer: 1824
John Keats pass away in 1821 and Shelley pass away in
(a) 1829
(b) 1822
(c) 1819
(d) 1821
Question’s Answer: 1822
Who made the statement? “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Pope
(c) John Keats
(d) William Shakespeare
Question’s Answer: John Keats
Adonais is an elegy on
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) John Keats
(d) Wordsworth
Which work of Shelley was written in irregular unrhymed metre?
(a) “The Revolt of Islam”
(b) “Laon and Cythna”.
(c) “Queen Mab”
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: “Queen Mab”
Who pass away of tuberculosis?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) John Keats.
(c) Shelley
(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”
(c) “Lamia”
(d) “Hyperion”
Question’s Answer: “Isabella”
Who pass away at the age of 25?
(a) Shelley
(b) Robert Southey
(c) L. Hunt
(d) John Keats
Question’s Answer: John Keats
John Keats took the Endymion story from
(a) Greek mytholegy
(b) Italian folk tales
(c) Irish legends
(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”
(c) “Endymion”
(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”
(c) “Ode to Autumn”
(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
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Leigh Hunt
Question’s Answer: Leigh Hunt
The term ‘negative capability’ was given by
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Eliot
(c) John Keats
(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
(c) 1816
(d) 1818
According to_____, “What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth”.
(a) Lamb
(b) Shelley
(c) John Keats
(d) De Quincey
Question’s Answer: John Keats
John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is” a:
(a) Drama
(b) Short story
(c) Essay
(d) Lyrical ballad
Question’s Answer: Lyrical ballad
Who wrote Chapman’s Homer?
(a) Dryden
(b) Arnold
(c) John Keats
(d) Pater
Question’s Answer: John Keats
Which poem of John Keats highly impressed Shelley?
(a) “Ode to a Nightingale”
(b) “To Autumn”
(c) “I Had a Dove”
(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
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Spenser
Question’s Answer: John Keats
“Don Juan” was the creation of
(a) Tennyson
(b) Pound
(c) Byron
(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”
(c) “Ode on Melancholy”
(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
(c) Ottava rima
(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”
(c) “Hyperion”
(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
(c) John Keats
(d) Shelley
Question’s Answer: John Keats
Who made this statement? “Whom the gods love dies young”.
(a) Shelley
(b) Yeats
(c) Austen
(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
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
Question’s Answer: Byron
A Byronic hero is he who is
(a) Vain and melancholy
(b) Cynical
(c) Finds no good in life or love or anything
(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
(c) Lord Byron
(d) L. Hunt
Question’s Answer: Lord Byron
Who pass away of fever?
(a) Shelley
(b) John Keats
(c) Byron
(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”
(c) “To Autumn”
(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
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Byron
Which poem of Byron released in 1814?
(a) “The Giaour”
(b) “Lora”
(c) “The Bride of Abydos”
(d) “Pasisina”
Question’s Answer: “Lora”
Byron’s first volume “Hours of Idleness” released in the year
(a) 1800
(b) 1815
(c) 1810
(d) 1807
Question’s Answer: 1807
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