Romantic Age PYQ +

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EXAM BASED QUESTIONS Set -1

1. Which book is subtitled “Showing the Two Contrary

States of the Human Soul”? 4. Which work contains a title page depicting a naked man
(a) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell throwing himself upon a scantily clad woman, while
(b) Songs of Innocence and Experience another woman looks on?
(c) Poetical Sketches (a) The Book of Thel
(d) Jerusalem (b) Visions of the Daughters of Albion
2 Whose mother died when he ‘was very young,’ and who (c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
was sold before his ‘tongue/Could scarcely cry’ in the (d) The Four Zoas
poem ‘London’? 5. Whose sigh ‘runs in blood down palace walls’ in the poem
(a) The School-Boy ‘London’?
(b) The Little Black Boy (a) The Little Black Boy’s
(c) The Chimney Sweeper (b) The Happless Soldier’s
(d) The Little Boy Lost (c) The Little Vagabond’s
3. Blake once pushed a soldier out of his garden and all the (d) The Chimney Sweep’s
way to a nearby inn, where the soldier was quartered. 6. Which of the following books, according to Blake,
The soldier then charged Blake with what? contained all he knew?
(a) Blasphemy (b) Assault (a) The Inferno (b) The Bible
(c) Sedition (d) Battery (c) The Talmud (d) The Canterbury Tales

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7. Identify Blake’s first printed work. 16. Who was hailed by critics as the first living poet and one
(a) Song of Innocence of the greatest that England had ever produced?
(b) Poetical Sketches (a) Scott (b) Donne
(c) The Book of Urizen (c) Wordsworth (d) Dryden
(d) The French Revolution 17. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘Spots of
8. Which of the following work is considered as a milestone Time’?
in Blake’s literary career? (a) John Keats (b) William Wordsworth
(a) America, a Prophecy (c) ST Coleridge (d) Lord Byron
(b) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 18. In which of the following spiritual appeal of nature is
(c) Songs of Innocence and Experience expressed in almost every line?
(d) The Four Zoos (a) To a Highland Girl
9. ‘William Blake’ famous poems such as ‘London’, `The (b) Stepping Westward
Sick Rose’, and ‘The Tyger’ appear in (c) Tintern Abbey
(a) Songs of Innocence (d) Solitary Reaper
(b) Songs of Experience 19. Who wrote ‘Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern
(c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Abbey’?
(d) Vision of the Daughters of Albion (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
10. When were the Lyrical Ballads published? (c) Byron (d) John Wilson
(a) 1797 (b) 1798 20. Which of the Wordsworth’s works records his
(c) 1800 (d) 1801 impressions of a manufacturing district of Northern
11. The Lyrical Ballads opens with England?
(a) Kubla Khan (a) The Excursion (b) The Ruined Cottage
(b) Ode to Duty (c) Prelude (d) None of these
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner 21. Who wrote Lucy poems?
(d) Immortality Ode (a) Wordsworth (b) Southey
12. The Lyrical Ballads closes with (c) Scott (d) Donne
(a) Kubla Khan 22. The concept of Pantheism believes in
(b) Immortality Ode (a) objectivity
(c) Cristobel (b) healing power in nature
(d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey (c) confession
13. Who was the third person with Coleridge and (d) natural calamity
Wordsworth at Quantico Hills when the Lyrical Ballads 23. Wordsworth believed in the concept of
were composed? (a) hellenism
(a) Robert Southey (b) pantheism
(b) Walter Scott (c) negative capability
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth (d) willing suspension of disbelief
(d) Mary Lamb 24. Who amongst the following was reforming poetry or
14. Who wrote the famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? upholding the moral law?
(a) Coleridge (b) Southey (a) Scott (b) Wordsworth
(c) Wordsworth (d) Byron (c) Keats (d) Byron
15. What was Wordsworth’s professed aim in the Lyrical 25. ‘Aids to Reflection’ is written by
Ballads? (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit (c) Blake (d) Porter
(b) Simplicity of diction 26. Who wrote ‘Religious Musings?’
(c) Make it intelligible to common people (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(d) All of the above (c) John Gibson (d) Francis Jeffrey
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27. The Fall of Robespierre’ is written by (b) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(a) Coleridge (b) John Gibson (c) In Defence of Poetry
(c) Francis Jeffrey (d) Jane Porter (d) Poetics
28. ‘Daydream’ of Coleridge reminds of which poem in past 37. Coleridge’s aubla Khan’ remains ‘a fragment’ because
(a) The Devil’s Thought (a) he was called by Wordsworth who was living in
(b) Highland Girl Porlock at that time
(c) Songs of Innocence (b) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their love affair
(d) Suicide Argument (c) he was interrupted by a called, a person on business
29. Who wrote ‘Fears in Solitude’? from Porlock
(a) John Gibson (b) Francis Jeffrey (d) he ran out of his stock of opium
(c) Jane Porter (d) Coleridge 38. Which among the following is a poem composed by two
30. ‘The Rime of Ancient Mariner’ is about enthusiasts, which is full of the two revolutionaries spirit?
(a) a perilous adventure in the sea (a) To a Highland Girl (b) The Fall of Robespierre
(b) the accidental killing of an octopus (c) Kubla Khan (d) Day Dream
(c) the curse of a sea God 39. Who wrote the ambitious poem Thalaba’?
(d) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner (a) Wordsworth (b) Southey
31. Which bird is killed by the Mariner in ‘The Ancient (c) John Gibson (d) Francis Jeffrey
Mariner’? 40. hich among the following is a tale of Arabian
(a) Penguin (b) Flamingo enchantment?
(c) Albatross (d) Swan (a) Madoc (b) Roderick
32. Who among the following wrote’ Ode to France’ under (c) Thalaba (d) The Curse of Kehama
the influence of the French Revolution? 41. ‘Auld Cloots’ was written by
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley (a) Southey (b) John Gibson
(c) Coleridge (d) Blake (c) Francis Jeffrey (d) Jane Porter
33. Which among the following is a fragment, painting a 42. The Well of St Keyne’ was written by
gorgeous oriental dream picture such as in October (a) Wordsworth (b) Francis Jeffrey
sunset? (c) Jane Porter (d) Southey
(a) The Fall of Robespierre 43. In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria,
(b) Christabel Francis Jeffery grouped the following poets together as
(c) Day Dream the ‘Lake School of Poets’.
(d) Kubla Khan (a) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
34. Which among the following is a fragment, which seems (b) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
to have planned as the story of a pure young girl, who fell (c) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
under the spell of a sorcerer, in the shape of a woman (d) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
Geraldine? 44. Byron’s ‘The Vision of Judgement’ is a satire directed
(a) Day Dream (b) The Devil Thought against
(c) Christabel (d) Kubla Khan (a) Charles Lamb (b) John Keats
35. What was on the banks of the Susquehanna, which was (c) Henry Hallam (d) Robert Southey
to be an ideal community, in which the citizens combined 45. Who pretends to know the secret, unwhole some side of
farming and literature? Europe, which generally hides itself in the dark?
(a) The Fall of Robespierre (a) Scott (b) Blake
(b) Kubla Khan (c) Byron (d) Wordsworth
(c) Pantisocracy 46. Which out of these is the first volume published by
(d) Day Dream Byron?
36. The phrase The willing suspension of disbelief’ occurs in (a) English Bards (b) Dunciad
(a) Biographia Literaria (c) Hours of Idleness (d) Talisman
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47. Who among the following is not called ‘Lake Poets’? (c) Coleridge (d) Browning
(a) Byron (b) Coleridge 59. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to
(c) Southey (d) Wordsworth the publication of
48. Who said that the poet was a ‘mere babbler’? (a) The Revolt of Islam
(a) Scott (b) Byron (b) The Necessity of Atheism
(c) Wordsworth (d) Gibson (c) The Triumph of Life
49. In which poem do we meet these characters? Don Alfonso, (d) The Masque of Anarchy
Julia, Sultana? 60. Which among the following is a wonderful threnody, or
(a) Lara (b) Don Juan a song of grief over the death of the poet Keats?
(c) Childe Harold (d) Beppo (a) Kubla Khan (b) Queen Mab
50. Who is Halide in Don Juan? (c) Adonais (d) Hellas
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso 61. Which out of the following is the poet’s confession not
(b) Daughter of an old pirate simply of failure, but of undying hope in some better
(c) Princess of Constantinople thing that is to come?
(d) A Duchess (a) Prometheus Unbound
51. The verse form of Byron’s Childe Harold was influenced by (b) Talisman
(a) Milton (b) Spenser (c) Adonais
(c) Shakespeare (d) Pope (d) Alastor
52. Which canon of Childe Harold was more frequently read 62. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
than any other work of Byron? (a) Hellas (b) Prometheus unbound
(a) Last two canons (c) Adonais (d) Queen Mab
(b) First two canons 63. Which character was the only one of Shelley’s character,
(c) Third and fourth canons seems to be entirely human?
(d) Mid canons (a) Prometneus (b) Hellas
53. Who wrote the ‘Witch of Atlas’? (c) Emilia (d) Beatrice
(a) Scott (b) Wordsworth 64. Who brought the concept of negative capability?
(c) Blake (d) Shelley (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
54. Who wrote Adonais? (c) Keats (d) Shelley
(a) Scott (b) Shelley 65. Who has been labelled as an Escapist?
(c) Blake (d) Gibson (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
55. Who among the following is far different in character in (c) Blake (d) Gibson
Shelley’s ‘Adonais’? 66. Which is the most perfect of Keats’ medieval poems, which
(a) Beatrice (b) Hellas is not a story after the manner of the metrical romances,
(c) Epipsychidion (d) Emilia Viviani but rather a vivid painting of a romantic mood?
56. Who among the following is like a wanderer following a (a) Endymion (b) Isabella
vague, beautiful vision forever sad and forever (c) Hyperion (d) The Eve of St Agnes
unsatisfied? 67. Identify the poem from the following, in which Keats bears
(a) Shelley (b) Scott the mark of Hellenism?
(c) Gibson (d) Blake (a) Lamia and Grecian Urn
57. The ‘Pansies’ as the symbol of sad thoughts and `violets’ (b) Ode to Nightingale
as the symbol of modesty and innocence was used by (c) Endymion and Hyperion
(a) John Keats (b) PB Shelley (d) All of these
(c) ST Coleridge (d) William Wordsworth 68. Which of the following poets has been said to be endowed
58. Identify from the following, who had called Wordsworth, with ‘Organic Sensibility’?
a ‘Moral Eunuch’. (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
(a) Byron (b) Shelley (c) Blake (d) Byron
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69. Which is the story written by Keats, of a young Shepherd (b) the Glorious Revolution
beloved by a Moon Goddess? (c) the French Revolution
(a) Isabella (d) Poor Laws
(b) Endymion 80. The Book of the Church’ and ‘Sir Thomas Moore’ was
(c) The Eve of St Agnes written by_____
(d) Faerie Queene (a) Coleridge (b) Blake
70. Who wrote the ‘Eve of St Agnes’? (c) Southey (d) Keats
(a) Scott (b) Keats 81. _____wrote blank-verse tragedies such as Cain,
(c) Wordsworth (d) Blake Manfred, Marino Faliero and The Deformed
71. Who of the following is known for his Hel-lenic Spirit? Transformed’.
(a) Lord Byron (b) PB Shelley (a) Scott (b) Byron
(c) Southey (d) John Keats (c) Godwin (d) Coleridge
72. Which is the pair of lovers Endymion does not meet in 82. In Shelley’s work ‘Hymn of Pan’, the Greek God Pan
Keat’s Endymion? fights with
(a) Venus and Adonis (b) Romeo and Juliet (a) Zeus (b) Titans
(c) Glaucus and Scylla (d) Arcthusa and Alpheus (c) Apollo (d) All of these
73. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais? 83 . _____is a Rhaphsody celebrating Platonic love, the most
(a) Lord Byron (b) John Keats impalpable and so one of the most characteristic of all
(c) Shelley himself (d) None of these Shelley’s works ?
74. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school (a) Hellas (b) Emilia Viviani
anthologies in India: (c) Episychidion (d) Beatrice
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead who never to 84. _____lived apart from men and from all political
himself hath said, this is my own, my native land.” Who measures, worshipping beauty like a devotee, perfectly
is the poet? content to write what was in his own heart or to reflect
(a) Robert Southey (b) Walter Scott some splendor of the natural world as he saw or dreamed
(c) Lord Byron (d) William Wordsworth it to be?
75. Who wrote a poem by the name The Shepherd’s (a) Wordsworth (b) John Keats
Calendar, that was published in 1827? (c) Shelley (d) Byron
(a) William Cobett (b) Robert Bloomfield 85. _____has expressed his dislike for poetry ‘that has a
(c) John Clare (d) Hopkins palpable design upon us’ in one of his letters.
76. Keats called _____as the Egotistical Sublime. (a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
(a) Shelley (b) Blake (c) Coleridge (d) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge 86. Which of the following is not true for William
77. Wordsworth in his poem_____tells the scholar to do Wordsworth periods?
away with books and make nature his teacher. (a) His childhood and youth in the Cumberland hills from
(a) The Prelude (b) Tables Turned 1770 to 1787
(c) Tintern Abbey (d) None of these (b) A period of uncertainty, of storms and stress,
78. These lines about French Revolution, including his University life at Cambridge, his travels
‘Liberty the soul of life shall reign /Shall throb in every abroad and his revolutionary experience from 1787 to
pulse, shall flow through every vein’ were written by 1800
_____ (c) A short, but significant period fo finding himself and
(a) Southey (b) Godwin his work from 1797 to 1799
(c) Coleridge (d) Blake (d) A long period of retirement in the Northern Lake
79. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably region, where he was born and where for a full half
influenced by_____ century he lived, so close to nature that her influence
(a) the Napoleonic Wars is reflected in all his poetry
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87. Which of the following statements about Don Juan is not 93. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
true? Authors Works
(a) The poem begins with a dedication to Robert Southey (a) William Blake : Songs of Experience
and William Wordsworth (b) PB Shelley : Don Juan
(b) The poem is written in the Italian ottava rima (c) Samuel Taylor : Christabel
(c) The poem consists of 16 cantos Coleridge
(d) It is a ballad (d) William : The Inchcape Rock
88. Which of these statements about aubla Khan’ is not Wordsworth
correct? 94. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
(a) The poem describes Xanadu, the palace of Kubla Authors Works
Khan, a Mongol emperor (a) Samuel Taylor : Kubla Khan
(b) It is a poem about poetry and poetic process Coleridge
(b) PB Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
(c) The speaker talks about a vision of his a woman
(c) John Keats : To a Nightingale
calling to her demonic lover
(d) Byron : To a Grecianurn
(d) The poem’s speaker starts by describing the setting
95. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
of the emperor’s garden
Authors Works
89. Which of these statements about Childe Harold’s
(a) Robert Southey : Adonais
Pilgrimage is true?
(b) Lord Byron : The Fall of Robespierre
(a) It is a lyric which focusses on illusion
(c) PB Shelley : Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(b) It is written in ten cantos
(d) John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale
(c) It introduced the concept of the Byronic hero
96. Assertion (A) : Literary and historical periodisation
(d) It does not reflect Byron’s political views
often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus,
90. Which of the following statements about ‘Ode to a
we see two writers born in the same year belonging to
Nightingale’ is true? two separate periods.
(a) It was composed in 1800 Reason (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born
(b) The speaker begins with a declaration of his Heartache in 1795. In standard literary histories, Keats is a
(c) The speaker realises that the nightingale is mortal at Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.
the end of the poem Codes
(d) In the poem, the song of the nightingale is a symbol (a) A and R are correct
of art that outlasts mortal life (b) A is correct R is incorrect
91. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? (c) A and R are incorrect
Authors Books (d) R does not follow A
(a) William Wordsworth : Don Juan 97. Assertion (A) : Romanticism as a literary and artistic
(b) Samuel Taylor : Kubla Khan movement started in reaction against the age of
Coleridge Enlightenment.
(c) John Keats : Ode to the West Wind Reason (R) : The Age of Enlightenment focussed on
(d) Shelley : Rime of the Ancient Mariner reason and empirical thought.
92. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? Codes
Authors Books (a) A is true, but R is false
(a) William Blake : Don Juan (b) A is false, but R is true
(b) William : The Marriage of Heaven (c) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct
Wordsworth and Hell explanation of A
(c) Lord Byron : The Prelude (d) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation
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98. Assertion (A) : At the beginning of the Romantic period, (c) To a Skylark, A Defence of Poetry, Ode to the West
there was a turmoil in the society. Wind
Reason (R) : The reason behind the turmoil was due to (d) A Defence of Poetry, Ode to the West Wind, To a
the political and economic problems. Skylark
Codes 104. Which of the following is in correct sequence?
(a) A is true, but R is false (a) Don Juan, Weiner, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(b) Both A and R are true (b) Weiner, Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(c) A is false, but R is true (c) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan, Weiner
(d) Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Weiner
(d) Both A and R are false
105. Which of the following is in correct sequence?
99. Assertion (A) : Romantic period is also known as the
(a) The Inchcape Rock, After Blenheim, The Fall of
age of revolutions.
Robespierre
Reason (R) : The Romantic period coincided with the
(b) After Blenheim, The Inchcape Rock, The Fall of
revolution in France and America.
Robespierre
Codes (c) The Fall of Robespierre, After Blenheim, The Inchcape
(a) A is true, but R is false Rock
(b) A is false, but R is true (d) After Blenheim, The Fall of Robespierre, The Inchcape
(c) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct Rock
explanation of A 106. Consider the following statements correctly. The
(d) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation Romantics were characterised by
of A 1. a belief in individual liberty and sympathy with those
100. Assertion (A) : The first generation romantic age poets who rebelled against tyranny.
were inspired by the Battle of Bastille and the French 2. the Romantic thought of nature as permanent.
Revolution. 3. a disbelief in individual liberty and sympathy with
Reason (R) : The second generation romantic age poets those, who rebelled against by tyranny.
were inspired by the second World War. 4. the Romantics thought of nature as transformative.
(a) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct Which of the statements given above are correct?
explanation of A (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 4
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 2
(b) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct
107. Combine the statements correctly.
explanation of A
The main characteristics of ‘spots of time’ are
(c) A is true but R is false
1. epiphanic moments where ordinary events appears
(d) A is false but R is True
transcendent.
101. Which of the following is in a proper sequence?
2. intense physical experiences.
(a) Queen Mab, Mont Blanc, Mansfield Park 3. epiphanic moments, which derange one mind and
(b) Queen Mab, Mansfield Park,, Mont Blanc reduce pleasure.
(c) Mansfield Park, Mont BlanR, Queen Mab 4. intense emotional experience in life.
(d) Mont Blanc, Mansfield Parlt, Queen Mab Which of the statements given above are correct?
102. Which of the following is in correct sequence? (a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 2
(a) Keats, Byron, Shelley (c) 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 2
(b) Byron, Shelley, Keats 108. Which of the following statements is not correct for
(c) Keats Shelley, Byron William Wordsworth?
(d) Shelley, Byron, Keats 1. Poet of Common Man and Lover of Nature.
103. Which of the following is in correct sequence? 2. Loved to write on Love and Mankind.
(a) Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, A Defence of 3. Employed day-to-day language in his poems.
Poetry Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
(b) A Defence of Poetry, To a Skylark, Ode to the West (a) Only 2 (b) Only 1
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109. Combine the statements correctly. The main 1. It is the enumeration of qualities already known.
characteristics of Coleridge’s Siographia Literaria’ are 2. It is the perception of the value of those qualities,
1. the primary imagination is merely the power of both separately and as a whole.
receiving impressions of the external world through 3. It respects the differences.
the senses. 4. It respects the similitudes of things. The correct
2. the s”condary imagination works up on what is combination reads.
perceived by the primary imagination. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
3. the primary imagination is not possessed by (a) 1 and 3 for reason; 2 and 4 for imagination
everyone. (b) 1 and 2 for reason 3 and 4 for imagination
4. the secondary imagination represented an inferior (c) 2 and 3 for reason; 1 and 4 for imagination
faculty. (d) 3 and 4 for reason; 1 and 2 for imagination
Which of the statements given above are correct? 114. Which of the following is not true for John Keats?
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 2 1. He was a lover of beauty.
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 2 2. Labelled as an escapist.
110. Which of the following is true about Kubla Khan? 3. Lost his parents during the childhood.
1. It was a complete dream. Select the correct answer using the codes given below
2. It was a dream segment. (a) Only 1 (b) All of these
3. It was a reality. (c) None of these (d) Only 2
4. It was a sensational achievement. 115. Consider the following statements about ‘Ode to the West
Select the correct answer using the codes given below. Wind’.
(a) 2 and 3 (b) Only 3 1. It is written by PB Shelley
(c) Only 2 (d) Only 1 2. It was published in 1820.
111. Combine the statements correctly. The main 3. It is not written in terza rima.
characteristics of Don Juan are 4. It is not addressed to the West Wind.
1. It is a finished poem by Byron. Which of the statements given above are correct?
2. It consists of sixteen cantos. (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 4
3. It is a satirical mock epic. (c) 3 and 2 (d) 3 and 4
4. The poem is written in French Ottava Rima. 116. Match the following first generation romantic poets with
Which of the statements given above are correct? their poems.
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 2 First Generation Romantic Poet
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 2 1. William Blake
112. Combine the statements correctly. 2. William Wordsworth
The main characteristics of ‘Childe Harold’s 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pilgrimage’ are 4. Robert Southey
1. It is written in six cantos published between 1812 Poem
and 1818. A. A Poison Tree B. The Prelude
2. The poem’s title is a medieval title for an old man, C. Kubla khan D. Joan of Arc
who is eligible for knighthood. (a) 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D (b) 1-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-A
3. It is a semi-autobiographical poem that focusses on (c) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C (d) 1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B
a nobleman. 117. Match the following poems with their first generation
4. The poem also reflects Byron’s political view. romantic poets.
Which of the statements given above are correct? 1. The Lamb 2. The Solitary Reaper
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 2 3. Frost at Midnight 4. Thalaba the Destroyer
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 3 and 2 First Generation Romantic Poet
113. In his distinction between Reason and Imagination, A. Robert Southey Coleridge
Shelley identifies the following. B. Samuel Taylor
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 C. William Wordsworth 122. Match the following works with their years.
D. William Blake List I List II
(a) 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D (b) 1-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-A A. The Excursion 1. 1814
(c) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C (d) 1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B B. Lyrical Ballads 2. 1798
18. Match the following opening lines with the poems of C. The Duddon Sonnets 3. 1820
Romantic Age: D. The Devil’s Walk 3. 1830
Opening Lines of the Poem Codes
1. Nor stir in the air, nor stir in the sea. A B C D
2. Oh, thou, in Hellas deemed of Heavenly birth... (a) 1 2 3 4
3. I want a hero, an uncommon want (b) 4 3 2 1
4. My heart aches and a drowry numbness pains..... (c) 2 3 4 1
Romantic Age Poem (d) 1 3 2 4
A. Don Juan 123. In the following series, which set of author and work is
B. The Inckcape Rock correctly matched?
C. Ode to a Nightingale (a) Wordsworth-The Revolt of Olam, Coleridge-The Bride
D. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage of Abydos, Byron-Aids to Reflection, PB Shelley-
(a) 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D (b) 1-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-A Ode to Duty
(c) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C (d) 1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B (b) Wordsworth-The Revolt of Islam, Coleridge-Ode to
119. Match the following romantic age poets with the year of Duty, Byron-Aids to Reflection, PB Shelley-The Bride
their birth. of Abydos
Romantic Age Poet (c) Wordsworth-Ode to Duty, Coleridge-Aids to
1. Robert Southey 2. Lord Bryon Reflection, Byron-The Bride of Abydos, PB Shelley-
3. PB Shelly 4. John Keats Birth Year The Revolt of Islam
A. 1788 B. 1795 (d) Wordsworth-Aids to Reflection, Coleridge-Ode to
C. 1774 D. 1792 Duty, Byron-The Bride of Abydos, PB Shelley-The
(a) 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D (b) 1-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-A Revolt of Islam
(c) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C (d) 1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B 124. In the following series, which set of author and their
120. Match the following romantic age poets with their poems. work is correctly matched?
List I List II (a) Coleridge-The Eve of St Agnes, Southey-The Rime
A. William Wordsworth 1. After Blenheim of the Ancient Mariner, Byron-The Inchcape Rock,
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. London Keats-Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. William Blake 3. Christabel (b) Coleridge-Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Sothey- The
D. Robert Southey 4. A Slumber did my spirit Eve of ST Agnes, Byron-The Rime of the Ancient
seal Mariner, Keats-The Inchcape Rock
(a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 (b) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 (c) Coleridge-The Inchcape Rock, Southey-Childe
(c) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3 (d) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 Harold’s Pilgrimage, Byron-The Eve of St Agnes,
121. Match the following poems with their poets. Keats-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
List I List II (d) Coleridge-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Southey-
A. Ozymandias 1. John Keats The Inchcape Rock, Byron-Childe Harold’s
B. Shl Walks in Beauty 2. William Wordsworth Pilgrimage, Keats-The Eve of St Agnes
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn 3. PB Shelley 125. In the given series, which one has all the romantic age
D. Composed upon 4. Lord Bryon Bridge, poems matched correctly with the year of their
Westminster publication?
(a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 (b) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 (a) The Tyger-1794, Lucy Gray-1800, To a Skylark-1820,
(c) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3 (d) A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2 Endymion-1818

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 (b) The Tyger-1818, Lucy Gray-1820, To a Skylark 1794, 130. I wander thro’ each chartered street Near where the
Endymion-1800 chartered Thames doth flow.
(c) The Tyger-1794, Lucy Gray-1800, To a Skylark-1818, Which of the following poets in which of his/her works
Endymion-1820. has used the above lines?
(d) The Tyger-1820 Lucy Gray-1818 To a Skylark-1860, (a) William Blake, London.
Endymion-1794. (b) Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter
126. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I ‘Milton belongs (c) Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
to the Devil’s party without knowing it’. (d) William Cowper, The Poetical works of William Cowper.
Who among the following made this statement? 131. Which of the following poems features the phrase, ‘The
(a) Frank Kermode (b) William Empson
still, sad music of humanity’?
(c) CS Lewis (d) William Blake
(a) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections
127. Which are the figures of speech used in the following
of Early Childhood”
lines by Blake?
(b) ‘Michael: A Pastoral Poem’
“Tyger, tyger, burning bright In the forest of the night,
(c) ‘The Solitary Reaper’
What immortal hand or eye
(d) ‘Tintern Abbey’
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
(a) Simile and personification 132. “But Europe at that time was thrilled up with joy France
(b) Irony and synecdoche standing on the top of golden hours and human nature
(c) Apostrophe and synecdoche seeming born again”.
(d) Metonymy and apostrophe These lines regarding the French Revolution are of
128. The Holy Word (a) De Quincey (b) Shelley
That walked among the ancient trees, (c) Wordsworth (d) Sir Walter Raleigh
Calling the lapsed soul, 133. He is not fully recognised at home, he is not recognised
And weeping in the evening dew, at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical
That might control The starry pole performance of______is, after that of Shakespeare and
And fallen, fallen light renew Milton, Undoubtedly most considerable in our language.
Which of the following poets in which of his/her works To Whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above
has used the above lines? statement?
(a) Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (a) Edmund Spenser
(b) William Cowper, The Poetical Works of William (b) John Keats
Cowper (c) William Wordsworth
(c) William Blake, Songs of Experience. (d) ST Coleridge
(d) Robert Burns, The Complete Poetical Works of Robert
134. “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/but to be young was
Burns
very heaven?”
129. I feared the fury of my wind
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge
Would blight all blossoms fair and true;
(c) Wordsworth (d) Blake
And my Sun it shined and shined,
135. William Long stated, “The essence of the literature was
And my wind it never blew; But a blossom fair and true
to be remembered, that literature must reflect all that is
Was not found on any tree,
For all blossoms grew and grew Faithless, false, though spontaneous and unaffected in nature and in man and be
fair to see. free to follow its own fancy in its own way.”
Which of the following poets in which of his/her works Which literature is referred to in the above statement?
has used the above lines? (a) Romantic (b) Neo-Classic
(a) William Blake, “Barren Blossom”. (c) Victorian (d) Modern
(b) Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter 136. Who wrote “Hymn before Sunrise in the vale of
(c) Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Chamoceni?”
(d) William Cowper, The Poetical Works of William (a) Wordsworth (b) Blake
Cowper (c) Coleridge (d) Porter
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137. Who said about Coleridge’s poetry “All that he did (a) Lara (b) Don Juan
excellently might be bound up in twenty pages, but it (c) Childe Harold (d) None of these
should be bound in pure gold”? 144. In a letter of his brother George in September 1819,
(a) Stafford Broke (b) John Gibson John Keats had this to say about a fellow romantic poet:
(c) Francis Jeffrey (d) Jane Porter “He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine:
138. In which poem Coleridge starts with “My eyes make Mine is the hardest task”. The poet under references is
pictures when they are shut_____" (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(a) The Devil Thought (b) Day Dream (c) Byron (d) Southey
(c) Songs of Innocence (d) Suicide Argument
145. Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, yellow
139. “Liberty the soul of life shall reign I shall throb in every
and black and Pale and hectic red, Pestilence —
pulse, shall flow through every vein”. Who wrote the
Stricken multitudes”.
above lines regarding the French Revolution?
These lines have been taken from the famous
(a) Thomas Paine (b) ST Coleridge
(a) The Night of the Scorpion
(c) William Godwin (d) Robert Southey
(b) Ode to the West Wind
140. “O Lady! We receive but we give,
(c) The Mirror
And in our life alone does Nature live:
Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And (d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
would we ought behold, of higher work, Than that 146. The famous quote “Our sweetest songs are those that
inanimate cold world allowed” tell our saddest thoughts” is by
The above extract has been taken from Coleridge’s (a) Robert Southey (b) Rudyard Kipling
_____" (c) PB Shelley (d) ST Coleridge
(a) Christabel (b) Kubla Khan 147. “Men of England, Wherefore plough, for the lords, who
(c) The Dejection Ode (d) The Ancient Mariner day ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care, the rich
141. “In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure –dome robes you tyrants wear”?
decree .. where Alph, the sacred river, ran through These revolutionary thoughts hailed from
caverns measureless to man.” (a) Byron (b) Shelley
(a) This is Coleridge in aubla Khan’ (c) De Quincey (d) Walter Scott
(b) This is Shelley in ‘Adonais’ 148. O wild West wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being Thou
(c) This is Southey in Inchcape Rock’ from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
(d) This is Byron in ‘Don Juan’ Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing...
142. Day after day, day after day, (a) This is Shelley in ‘Ode to the West Wind’
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; (b) This is Keats in ‘To a Nightingale’
As idle as a painted ship
(c) This is Byron in ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
Upon a painted ocean
(d) This is Coleridge in ‘Kubla Khan’
Water, water, everywhere,
149. “Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who
And all the boards did shrink;
day ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and case the rich
Water, water, everywhere,
robes you tyrants wear?”
Nor any drop to drink.”
These revolutionary thoughts hailed from
Identify the poem and the poet of the above lines.
(a) Coleridge (b) Blake
(a) Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
(b) Byron’s ‘Don Juan’ (c) Shelley (d) Scott
(c) Keat’s ‘Ode to Autum’ 150. ‘Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the
(d) Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it into
143. “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, “Tis woman’s fragments’ The above lines occur in
whole existence” (a) ‘Dejection: An Ode (b) Adonais
These lines have been taken from? (c) In Memoriam (d) Thyrsis

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151. My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, 156. How does the poet know that the song is melancholy when
as though of hemlock I had drunk or emptied some dull he cannot understand the words?
opiate to the drains one minute part, and Lethe – wards (a) From the girl’s expression
had sunk: ‘This not through every of thy happy, lot (b) From the words of the song
(a) This is Shelley in ‘Adonais’ (c) From the tune
(b) This is Keats in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (d) From her dress
(c) This is Byron in ‘Childe Harold’ 157. What effect does the girl’s song have over the
(d) This is Blake in ‘Songs of Innocence’ surroundings?
152 . Whose epitaph contains “here lies one whose name (a) Has no effect
was written in water”? (b) All people desert the valley
(a) Coleridge (b) Blake (c) The valley echoes with the song
(c) John Keats (d) William Wordsworth (d) The valey is indifferent
153. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line : 158. What is cuckoo bird famous for?
“Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / Bird thou never wert”? (a) Cheerfulne
(a) ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (b) Thrill
(b) ‘To the Cuckoo’ (c) Driving away tiredness
(c) ‘To a Skylark’ (d) Welcoming the spring
(d) ‘To the Daisy’ 159. Hebrides means:
154. “A portion of the loveliness (a) a group of trees
Which once he made more lovely”? (b) far off valleys
Who does ‘he’ refer to in these lines by Shelley? (c) sea
(a) Coleridge (b) Shelley himself (d) a group of islands off near Scotland
(c) Blake (d) Keats 160. The singing of the Solitary Reaper is compared to the
155. The words ‘where are the songs of spring? Ay, where (a) nightingale and robin
are they?’ occcur in: (b) cuckoo and peacock
(a) Ode to the West Wind (c) nightingale and cuckoo
(b) The Seasons (d) cuckoo and owl
(c) Ode to Autumn
(d) Resolution and Independence PREVIOUS YEARS’ QUESTIONS
Directions (Q. Nos. 156-160) : Read the following poem and
answer the questions.
December 2018
Behold her, single in the field,
1. In which work does William Blake say that Milton was
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
“a true poet and of devil’s party without knowing it”?
Reaping and singing by herself;
(a) ‘London’
Stop here, or gently pass!
(b) ‘Songs of Innocence’
Alone she suts and binds the grain,
(c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’
And sings a melancholy strain;
(d) The Chimney Sweeper’
O listen! for the Vale profound
2. Which ancient writer’s name is directly mentioned in
Is overflowing with the sound.
Lord Byron’s poem the Isles of Greece’?
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
(a) Euripides (b) Sophocles
More welcome notes to weary bands
(c) Aeschylus (d) Sappho
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
3. Match the poem with the opening lines:
Among Arabian sands:
(a) ‘Ode to Psyche’
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, (b) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
Breaking the silence of the seas (c) ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Among the farthest Hebrides. (d) ‘Ode on Melancholy’

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 1. “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my July 2018
sense, as though of Hemlock I had drunk,” 7. A half-sentence in Purchas his Pilgrimage triggered
2. “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, off aubla Khan’. Whose work was Purchas his
tight-rooted, for its Poisonous wine,” Pilgrimage?
3. “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou (a) Robert Herrick, the Poet’s
foster-child of silence and slow time,” (b) John Hakluyt’s, the collector of traveller’s tales
4. “O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, by sweet (c) Samuel Purchas, the London Parson’s
enforcement and Remembrance dear,” (d) Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter’s
Codes 8. An English poet couldn’t help the excitement that an
(a) (a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(3), (d)-(2) historical event caused in his life-time. Bliss was it in that
(b) (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1) dawn to be alive,
(c) (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2) But to be young was very heaven
(d) (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(4) Which poet? What ‘dawn’?
4. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as
(a) WH Auden; the Spanish Civil War
representatives of a “sect of poets.....
(b) Lord Tennyson; The Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign
Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and
(c) William Wordsworth, The French Revolution
criticism” who constituted “the most formidable
(d) William Blake; The Industrial Revolution
conspiracy against sound judgement is malters
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political”?
9. For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned
(a) Henry Vaughan (b) Francisco Franco
from the world about us is related to the category of
(c) Ralph Vaughan (d) Francis Jeffrey
(a) primary imagination (b) secondary imagination
5. S.T. Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ opens with an
(c) fancy (d) intuition
epigraph which is a reference to a ballad. Identify the
ballad. 10. This Byron work revolves around a wife whose husband
(a) Ballad of Goodly Fere is presumed lost at sea and she takes a lover in his
(b) La Belle Dame Sans Merci absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband’s
(c) Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence return. Byron’s technical skills in verse is in display
(d) Ballad of the Gibbet here as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the
6. Which interpretation of Keats, ‘Beauty is truth, truth formal. Identify the work.
beauty’ best represents the mimetic perspective. (a) Manfred (b) Don Juan
(a) The line is an ironic quotation, the equation of (c) Beppo (d) The Bride of Abydos
“beauty” and “truth” as “all we know on earth” 11. William Blake has a rare elan to provide telling images
suggests that reality is an illusory concept and that in arresting phrases. Match the phrases with the poems
the primary function of art is to construct a world they belong to:
within an aesthetic reality of its own. List I List II
(b) Those aspects of reality which we perceive to be A. ‘mind forg manacles’ 1. The Tyger’
“beautiful” are the only worthy subject matter of the B. ‘eternal winter’ 2. The Sick Rose’
artist and it is the artist’s job to observe closely and C. ‘fearful symmetry’ 3. ‘London’
isolate those sublime elements from the flux of the D. ‘crimson joy’ 4. ‘Holy Thursday’
mundane. Codes
(c) The authors arbitrary imposition of order upon the A B C D
chaotic impressions of reality constitutes the only (a) 3 4 1 2
‘truth’ is a work of art. (b) 3 1 4 2
(d) A work of literature is ‘beautiful’ in so far as it offers (c) 3 2 4 1
and acurate representation of its subject matter, with (d) 4 1 2 3
fully realized characters and vivid description of 12. The opening lines of Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’:
events. “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
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 The Earth, and every common sight, To me did seem 17. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a
Apparelled in celestial light: bearing on the composition of Shelley’s ‘Adonais’?
The glory and freshness of a dream”, closely resembles (a) Miletus (b) Socrates
Coleridge’s lines: (c) Plato (d) Aristotle
“There was a time when earth, and sea and skies, 18. What would help a reader recognise Keats’s ‘To Autumn’
The bright green vale, and the forest’ dark recess, as a poem from the Romantic Period?
In steady loveliness” (a) Its logical succession of images
Identify the Coleridge poem. (b) Its concise use of couplets
(a) ‘Fears In Solitude’ (c) Its lavish natural imagery
(b) ‘The Mad Monk’ (d) Its use of iambic pentameter
(c) ‘To William Wordsworth’ 19. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner
(d) ‘Dejection : An Ode’ “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and
13. Which character created by Coleridge makes the month sends forth a new one”?
following account of her harrowing experience? (a) Beppo (b) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
“Five warriors seized me yestermorn, (c) Don Juan (d) The Vision of Judgement
Me, even me, a maid forlorn 20. “O, for a draught of vintage that hath been Cooled a long
They choked my cries with force and fright, age in the deep-delved Earth,
And tied me on a palfrey white”. Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and
(a) Geraldine Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!”
(b) Christabel The above description is an example of
(c) Christabel’s mother (a) Paronomasia (b) Synaesthesia
(d) The maid who appeared in Christabel’s dream (c) Aphaeresis (d) Synecdoche
14. Which Byron work begins thus 21. In the Fall of Hyperion : A Dream, Keats sees a ladder
“I want a hero : an uncommon want, leading upwards and is addressed by a prophetess in the
when every year and month sends forth a new ne following words: “None can usurp this height....../ But
(a) Beppo (b) Cain those to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery,
(c) Manfred (d) Don Juan and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess?
15. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions (a) Urania (b) Moneta
famously that he was “fostered alike by (c) Melete (d) Mneme
and....”. 22. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two
Pick out the right pair. poetic forms
1. nature 2. fear 1. Lyric 2. Dramatic Monologue
3. imagination 4. beauty 3. Ballad 4. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is The right combination according to the code is
(a) 1 and 3 (b) 4 and 2 (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 4
(c) 4 and 3 (d) 1 and 4 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2 and 4
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16. Which statement best expresses the theme of 23. Which British University figures in William
Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’? Wordsworth’s Prelude?
(a) To kill a living creature is immoral (a) Durham (b) Glasgow
(b) People should honour and respect all living things (c) Cambridge (d) Oxford
(c) Prayer can accomplish miracles 24. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a
(d) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative (a) religious allegory (b) fairy tale
effort (c) long poem (d) utopian novel

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25. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality (c) 2 3 1 4
of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of (d) 2 1 3 4
his works as a rebuke to Wordworth’s own introduction December 2015
to ‘The Thorn’? 30. In Which of the following does Robert Southey detail the
(a) The Prisoner of Chillon Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a
(b) Don Juan civilising protestant form of colonialism?
(c) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (a) Thalaba (b) The Curse of Kehama
(d) The Vision of Judgement (c) Pitying the wolves (d) Country Horrors
26. PB Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is conversation 31. Which of the following is not a school associate with
between Julian and Count Maddalo. Romantic period in English literature?
Who do these characters represent? (a) The Cockney School
(a) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron (b) The Fireside School
(b) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo. Byron (c) The Lake School
(c) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William (d) The Satanic School
Godwin 32. According to Coleridge, the “secondary imagination
(d) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, dissolves, diffuses, ...in order to recreate..”
William Godwin Choose the right word for the blank.
27. In Biographia Literaria ST Coleridge defines the (a) disintegrates (b) dissipates
imagination as the faculty by which (c) displaces (d) dissociates
(a) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the 33. These beauteous forms,
universe. Through a long absence, have been to me
(b) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe. As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye.... (Tintern Abbey
(c) the mind acquires images by its associative power. Lines) Which of the following rhetorical term best suits
(d) the mind separates images by its discriminatory these lines?
power. (a) Apostrophe (b) Litotes
28. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following (c) Hyperbole (d) Catachresis
comment. “The poet is far from dealing only with these 34. Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling
subtle and analogical truths. Truths of every kind belongs intellect
to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty or is Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder
capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic to dissect.
faculty”? Which of the following best summarises the speaker’s
(a) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads position?
(b) William Hazlitt in ‘On the Feeling of Immortality in (a) Nature is incomplete without a human witness to attes
Youth’ to its beauty
(c) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry (b) Human endeavours will succeed only if the laws of
(d) Keats in one of his letters to his brother nature are taken into account
29. Match the work with author. (c) Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from
List I List II intrusive human inquiry
A. The Excursion 1. ST Coleridge (d) The flaws inherent in human nature are also evident
B. Christabel’ BP 2. Shelley in the natural world
C. Milton 3. William Wordsworth 35. “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because,
D. Queen Mab 4. William Blake in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find
Codes a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are
A B C D less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more
(a) 3 1 2 4 emphatic language..
(b) 3 1 4 2 The language, too, of these men has been adopted...
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 because such men hourly communicate with the best (b) The imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream
objects from which the best part of language is originally he woke and found it true
derived”. (c) This however I am persuaded of, that nothing beside
Which of the following groups of the authors’s poems in imagination can give us sweet sensations and
the Lyrical ballads (1800) contradict this statement in pleasurable thoughts
the ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed out by (d) My pains at last some respite shall afford, while I
ST Coleridge? behold the battles imagination maintains
(a) ‘Ode on the Intimations of Immortality’, Prelude
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(b) ‘The Tasks,’ Seasons
41. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected
(c) ‘Michael’, ‘Ruth’, The Brothers’
by
(d) ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, ‘Ode on
(a) blindness (b) deafness
the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands’
(c) muteness (d) lameness
36. One of the most quoted statements on poetry by John
42. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s
Keats is reproduced with blanks below complete the
statement with correct words. companion in a fanciful scheme to establish an Utopian
“If Poetry....as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it ....at all”. community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina
(a) does not come, had better not come river?
(b) comes not, might come not (a) Lord Byron (b) Robert Southey
(c) come not, had better not come (c) William Hazlitt (d) William Wordsworth
(d) come not, did not come 43. This work was satire in Ottava Rima, attacking George
July 2015 III and Robert Southey. Identify the poem.
37. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ what disaster befalls (a) Dunciad
the ship and the crew? (b) The Vision of Judgement
(a) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into pieces (c) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(b) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns the crew (d) Alastor
(c) ‘Slimy things with legs’ attack the ship and kill many 44. What superstition the Eve of St Agnes is crucial to an
of the crew understanding John Keat’s famous poem?
(d) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of thirst (a) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St Agnes’
38. Which of the following is not true of the Byronic hero?
Eve, she would dream of her future husband
(a) Moody (b) Passionate
(b) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St Agnes’
(c) Repentant (d) Remorse-torn
Eve, she would marry her lover
39. With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in
(c) If a married woman performed the proper ritual on St
‘Ode to a Nightingale’?
Agnes’ Eve, she would be reunited with her husband
(a) The nightingale’s haunting melody
(d) If a woman performed the proper ritual on St Agnes’
(b) The scented flavour of early summer
(c) The night sky and all the star Eve, she would dream of her future lover
(d) The peace that comes with death 45. What a mockery this.
40. In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey (22nd November, Of history, the past and that to come
1817) John Keats wrote: “I am certain of nothing but Now do I feel how all men are deceived, Reading of nations
the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of and their, in faith,
Imagination - What the imagination seizes as beauty Faith given to vanity and emptiness...The prelude the
must be truth.”Which of the following sentences follows above extract is form
this passage? (a) Book 9 Residence in France
(a) Now I am sensible all this is a mere sophistication, (b) Book 7 Residence in Loddon
however it may neighbour to any truths, to excuse (c) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
my own indolence (d) Book 4 Summer Vacations
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June 2014 3. He has been in love with Desdemona.
46. The prelude although begun as early as 1799 and 4. He wants to become Othello.
finished in its first version in 1805, was not published Codes
until (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3
(a) 1815 (b) 1820 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 2 and 4
(c) 1830 (d) 1850 50. ‘Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.’
47. Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem In what sense is the Bird ‘immortal’ as compared to
in... mortal man?
(a) 8 parts (b) 9 parts 1. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a
(c) 7 parts (d) 6 parts bird as a species.
48. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress with the wreathed trellis 2. The word ‘Bird’ stands for the Nightingale’s song.
of a working brain.” 3. When considered as a species man is equally
(a) Adonais (b) Ode to Psyche ‘Immortal’ as the ‘Bird’.
(c) Eve of St Agnes (d) Endymion 4. The ‘Bird’ is ‘Immortal’ because songs of birds have
49. Though Coleridge refers to ‘Motive-hunting of a given pleasure to man through the ages.
motiveless malignity’, the ‘human villain’ lago is far from Codes
‘motiveless’. His motives are: (a) 1 and 3 (b) Only 4
1. He has been disappointed of military promotion. (c) 2 and 4 (d) 1 and 4
2. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him.

Answers
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (b)
11. (c) 12. (d) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (d) 16. (c) 17. (b) 18. (c) 19. (a) 20. (a)
21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (b) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (c) 36. (a) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (b) 40. (c)
41. (a) 42. (d) 43. (d) 44. (d) 45. (c) 46. (c) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (b) 50. (b)
51. (b) 52. (b) 53. (d) 54. (b) 55. (c) 56. (a) 57. (b) 58. (b) 59. (b) 60. (c)
61. (d) 62. (b) 63. (d) 64. (c) 65. (b) 66. (d) 67. (d) 68. (b) 69. (b) 70. (b)
71. (d) 72. (b) 73. (b) 74. (b) 75. (c) 76. (c) 77. (b) 78. (c) 79. (c) 80. (c)
81. (b) 82. (d) 83. (c) 84. (b) 85. (b) 86. (b) 87. (d) 88. (d) 89. (c) 90. (d)
91. (b) 92. (d) 93. (b) 94. (d) 95. (d) 96. (a) 97. (c) 98. (b) 99. (d) 100. (c)
101. (b) 102. (b) 103. (a) 104. (c) 105. (c) 106. (b) 107. (a) 108. (a) 109. (b) 110. (c)
111. (d) 112. (c) 113. (a) 114. (c) 115. (a) 116. (a) 117. (b) 118. (c) 119. (d) 120. (b)
121. (d) 122. (a) 123. (c) 124. (d) 125. (a) 126. (d) 127. (c) 128. (c) 129. (a) 130. (a)
131. (d) 132. (c) 133. (c) 134. (c) 135. (a) 136. (c) 137. (a) 138. (b) 139. (b) 140. (c)
141. (a) 142. (a) 143. (b) 144. (c) 145. (b) 146. (c) 147. (b) 148. (a) 149. (c) 150. (b)
151. (b) 152. (c) 153. (c) 154. (d) 155. (c) 156. (c) 157. (c) 158. (d) 159. (d) 160. (c)

Previous Year Question

1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (c)
11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (b) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (b)
21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (c) 24. (c) 25. (a) 26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (b) 30. (b)
31. (b) 32. (b) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (c) 36. (c) 37. (d) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (b)
41. (c) 42. (b) 43. (b) 44. (a) 45. (a) 46. (d) 47. (c) 48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (c)

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 The Romantic Age
Set–2
1. Which of the following works of Keats is a narrative (c) Leigh Hunt (d) Wordsworth
romance composed in pentameter couRlets? 10. Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem?
(a) Bright Star (b) Human Seasons (a) ‘Alastor’ (b) ‘Queen Mab’
(c) Lamia (d) Ode to Autumn (c) ‘Adonis’ (d) ‘The Cenci’
2. Wordsworth’s purpose in ‘Lyrical Ballads’ was to 11. Which novel of Jane Austen has been considered to be the
(a) make the familiar, unfamiliar best from literary point of view?
(b) make the unfamiliar familiar (a) Northanger Abbey (b) Emma
(c) Both (a) and (b) (c) Mansfield Park (d) Sensefield Park
(d) None of the above 12. Which novel of Jane Austen was in form of Letters?
3. Which of the following poems was not composed by (a) Mansfield Park (b) Emma
Wordsworth? (c) Northanger Abbey (d) Elinor and Marrianne
(a) ‘Frost at Midnight’ 13. Jane Austen was contemporary to
(b) ‘Ode on the Intimations of Immortality’ (a) Thomas Hardy (b) Sir Walter Scott
(c) ‘The Prelude’ (c) Charles Dickens (d) Oscar Wilde
(d) Lines written on few miles above Tintern Abbey. 14. Jane Austen’s subject matter for his novels is
4. The first fruit of Wordsworth’s genius was seen in the (a) human nature (b) frustration
‘Lyrical Ballads’. This was published in (c) revenge (d) None of the above
(a) 1798 (b) 1799 15. Which of the following is written on the subject of
(c) 1800 (d) 1801 philosophy?
5. Which one of Coleridge poems was included in ‘Lyrical (a) Aids of Reflection (1825)
Ballads’? (b) Table Talk (1835)
(a) ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (c) Biographical Literaria (1817)
(b) ‘Christable’ (d) Sibylline Leaves (1817)
(c) ‘Kubla Khan’ 16. In 1802 Coleridge wrote a great ode—
(d) All of the above (a) France: An Ode (b) Frost at Midnight
6. Which work of Keats deal with the murder of a lady’s (c) DejeCtion (d) The Knight-’s Tomb
lover by her two wicked brothers? 17. Which of the following is a satire in the style of Pope?
(a) Endymion (b) Hyperion (a) The Prisoner of Chilton (1816)
(c) Lamia (d) Isabella (b) Mazeppa (1819)
7. Who was opium-addicted? (c) Hours of Idleness (1807)
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (d) English Bards and Scottish Reviewers
(c) Keats (d) Southey 18. Which of the following Byron composed in Spenserian
8. Adonis is an elegy in stanza?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Dryden (a) Beppo (1819)
(c) Keats (d) Wordsworth (b) The Vision_ of Judgment (1822)
9. Keats volume of poems was dedicated to (c) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(a) Spenser (b) Fanny Browne (d) Hours of Idleness

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19. ‘Byron’s best work is— (a) Coleridge (b) Byron
(a) Manfred (c) Wordsworth (d) Keats
(b) Cain 30. Who wrote The Necessity of Atheism?
(c) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (a) Keats (b) Robert Southey
(d) Don Juan (c) Byron (d) Shelley
20. Byron’s all plays are blank verse tragedies. Which of 31. Which of the following poem does not appear in Lyrical
the following is not his play? Ballad?
(a) The Deformed Transformed (1824) (a) Expostulation and Reply
(b) Don Juan (b) The Idiot Boy
(c) Manfred (1817) (c) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
(d) Marino Faliero (1821) (d) Tintern Abbey
21. Shelley’s Alaster or The Spirit of Solitude (1816) is a— 32. Thomas Love Peacock in his Nightmare Abbey satirised
(a) spiritual masque (b) spiritual ode (a) Coleridge
(c) spiritual biography (d) spiritual autobiography (b) Shelley
22. Which of the following poem of Shelly is based on (c) Both Coleridge and Shelley
Aeschylus? (d) None of these
(a) The Revolt of Islam (1818) 33. Christabel meter is a form of—
(b) Julian and Maddalo (1818) (a) heroic couple (b) blank verse
(c) Prometheus Unbound (1820) (c) ryme royal (d) octosyllabic couplet
(d) London and Cythna (1817) 34. Wordsworth died in...
23. What was the name of Byron's wife? (a) 1840 (b) 1815
(a) Jame Dsabella (b) Anna Isabellea (c) 1850 (d) 1860
(c) Augusta Leigh (d) Claire Claviment 35. Jane Austen's subject matter for novels is...
24. Who is known as brother poet of Byron? (a) Human Nature (b) Frustration
(a) Gambas (b) Shelley (c) Revenge (d) None of these
(c) Jane Williams (d) Leigh Hunt 36. What is Arnold's estimation of Words- worth when the
25. Which of the following poem expresses Shelley's latter was compared to Shakespeare and Milton?
revolutionary political views? (a) Next only to Shakespeare
(a) Epipsychidion (1821) (b) Best of the three
(b) Adonais (1821) (c) Next only to Shakespeare and Milton
(c) The Masque of Anarchy (1832) (d) Wordsworth is not comparable to Shakespeare and
(d) The Witch of Atlas (1824) Milton
26. Coleridge's Remorse (1803) is a— 37. Christabel meter is a form of—
(a) newspaper (b) essay (a) heroic couplet (b) blank verse
(c) play (d) poem (c) ryme royal (d) octosyllabic couplet
27. Which of the following is a classical elegy on the death of 38. Who wrote the novel Sir Ralph Esher?
Keats written in Spenserian stanza? (a) Sir Walter Scott (b) Jane Austen
(a) Laon and Cythna (1817) (c) Leigh Hunt (d) John Clare
(b) Adonais (1821) 39. The English Mail Coach (1849) is the work of—
(c) Epipsychidion (1821) (a) De Quincey (b) Hazlitt
(d) The Witch of Atlas (1829) (c) Lamb (d) Coleridge
28. Shelley's The Cenci (1819) is a— 40. In which poem do these lines appear, "We have given our
(a) play (b) novel hearts away" and "we are out of tune"?
(c) ode (d) lyric (a) "Tintern Abbey" (b) "Dover Beach"
29. Who was presented by Shelley through a character in (c) "Daffodils"
Julian and Maddalo (1818)? (d) "The World is Too Much With Us"
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41. Which of the following is a dream allegory? (c) 1813 (d) 1824
(a) Remorse (b) Kubla Khan 54. Which newspaper Coleridge produced in 1796?
(c) Lyrical Ballads (d) Poems on Various Subjects (a) The Man
42. Coleridge's Kubla Khan published in the same year of (b) The Englishman
the publication_of— (c) The Watchman None
(a) Christabel (1816) (d) None
(b) The Friend (1809) 55. On whose grave is this epitaph engraved? 'lice lies one
(c) Poems of Various Subjects (1796) whose name was writ in water?
(d) Lyrical Ballads (1798) (a) John Keats (b) P.(b) Shelley
43. Who wrote "Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth"? (c) Robert Southey (d) William Shakespeare
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) (a)(c) Swinburne 56. In addition to being a poet Coleridge was also a—
(c) (a)(c) Bradley (d) L.(c) Knights (a) dramatist (b) critic
44. Which of the following poem of Coleridge is incomplete? (c) essayist (d) novelist
(a) Lyrical Ballads (b) Frost at Midnight 57. In 1802 Wordsworth got married to his cousin—
(c) Kubla Khan (d) Poems on Various Subjects (a) Mary Pierci (b) Mary Wollstonecraft
45. The Heart of Midlothian and Castle Dangerous are novels (c) Mary Godwin (d) Mary Hutchinson
by— 58. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Saddest
(a) Walter Scott (b) Emily Bronte thoughts." Who composed these famous lines?
(c) George Eliot (d) Middleton Murry (a) Keats (b) Shelley
46. Keats' volume of poems was dedicated to— (c) Byron (d) Woodsworth
(a) Spenser (b) Fanny Brawne 59. Who among the following is known for his Hellenic
(c) Leigh Hunt (d) Wordsworth spirit?
47. Who said: "The Child is the father of the Man"? (a) John Keats (b) Lord Byron
(a) Pope (b) Arnold (c) P.(b) Shelley (d) Robert Southey
(c) Shakespeare (d) Wordsworth 60. 'I woke up one morning and found myself famous'. Who
48. Who composed "Ode to Skylark"? commented this on his sudden success as a poet?
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (a) Milton (b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth (d) Pope (c) Byron (d) Keats
49. What is the another name of Satan? 61. 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'
(a) Grafton (b) Asmodeus who said this?
(c) Michael (d) Lucifer (a) William Wordsworth (b) P. B.
50. Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was— (c) Thomas arlyle (d) John Ke,ats
(a) a separate supplement to the Lyrical Ballads 62. Shelley eloped with a married woman named—
(b) a rejoinder to Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (a) Clair Clairmont (b) Hariet West Brook
(c) the preface to the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads (c) Hary Garriet (d) Maria Weston
(d) the preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads 63. Byron's letters were published after his death by his
5. Charles Lamb also wrote a play named— friend—
(a) Dream children (b) John Wood Will (a) Thomas Moore (b) Thomas Carlyle
(c) South Sea House (d) The Cenci (c) George Herbert (d) Alexander Pope
52. Hugh Walker has called lamb— 64. Shelley died by—
(a) the Prince of Essayist (a) drinking poison (b) drowning himself
(b) a Pathetic figure (c) hanging himself (d) None of the above
(c) a third role writer 65. After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of
(d) None of the above England
53. S.T. Coleridge produced a play Remorse m the year al 1800 (a) Coleridge (b) Scott
(a) 1800 (b) 1808 (c) Southey (d) Dryden
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66. 'The Life of Napolean' is a biography written by Scott (b) The Lyrical Ballads -The White Doe of Rylstone - The
in— Descriptive Sketches - Peter Well - The Prelude - The
(a) seven volumes (b) nine volumes Excursion - Yarrow Revisited
(c) eleven volumes (d) twelve volumes (c) The Descriptive Sketches - The Lyric'al Ballads - The
67. Who is known for the Waverly novels? Prelude - The Excursion - The White Doe of Rylstone
(a) Charles Leaver (b) Thomas Love Peacock - Peter Well - Yarrow Revisited
(c) Sir Walter Scott (d) Jane Austen (d) None of these
68. Which poem of Sir Walter Scott written in 1810 made 78. "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Art" by De
him famous throughout England and Scotland? Quincey is about—
(a) `Revely' (a) Shakespearean tragedy
(b) 'The Lord of the Isle' (b) Black humour
(c) 'The Lady of the Lake' (c) Elizabethan comedy
(d) `Marmion' (d) Jacobean tragedy
69. 'Abundantly and enchantingly sensuous', who attributed 79. Keats critical views appears in his—
this phrase to Keats? (a) letters (b) poetry
(a) Arnold (b) Lamb (c) play (d) none of these
(c) T.S. Eliot (d) P.(b) Shelley 80. Rebecca is a character in Scott's—
70. Who said, 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful
(a) 'Rob Roy' (b) 'Ivanhoe'
feelings recollected in tranquility?
(c) 'The Antiquity' (d) 'The Heart of Midlothian'
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Byron
81. "Liberty, the Soul of Life, shall reign And shall throb in
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
every pulse, shall flow throu' every vein." Name the poet
71. William Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on—
who composed these lines—
(a) Milton (b) Pope
(a) William Blake (b) Robert Burns
(c) Ben Johnson (d) Spenser
(c) Sir Walter Scott (d) S.T. Coleridge
72. Who among the following had, called Wordsworth a moral
82. Shelley writes in Adonais "A portion of the loveliness
eununch?
which one he made more lovely." Who does 'he' refer to
(a) Byron (b) Browning
in these lines?
(c) Shelley (d) Arnold
(a) John Keats (b) William Wordsworth
73. In addition to being a poet Coleridge was also a—
(c) S.T. Coleridge (d) Himself
(a) dramatist (b) critic
83. According to Wordsworth Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(c) essayist (d) novelist
74. 'The World is Too Much' with US is a/ an was based on a dream of Coleridge's friend.
(a) Epistle (b) Sonnet (a) Robert Southey (b) Cruishank
(c) Elegy (d) Ballad (c) Dr. Salnaidim (d) None of the above
75. Who is "the most splendid example we have of the 84. 'Descriptive Sketches' is a poem written by—
struggling, winning and losing, enjoying and scoring, (a) William Mal (b) William Collins
aspiring and falling, loving and hating human spirits"? (c) William Cowley (d) William Wordsworth
(a) P.(b) Shelley (b) William Wordsworth 85. Wordsworth believed that the language of poetry should be-
(c) Lord Byron (d) John Keats (a) complex (b) urbanized
76. `Lectures on Shakespeare' was published in 1849 by— (c) colloquial (d) simple
(a) Rousseau (b) Locke 86. Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting; The Soul that
(c) S.T. Coleridge (d) Byron rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere in setting
77. Which of the following arrangements of Wordsworth's And cometh from afar. These lines occur in—
poetry is in the correct chronological sequence? (a) The Prelude
(a) The Lyrical Ballads - The Descriptive Sketches - The (b) Tintern Abbey
Excursion - The Prelude - Yarrow Revisited - Peter (c) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
Well - The White Doe of Rylstone (d) The Excursion
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87. Which of the following is the first poem of Wordsworth? 98. Robecca and Rowena appear as dull heroines in Sir
(a) The Prelude Walter Scott's:
(b) The Excursion (a) Quentin Durward
(c) Descriptive Sketches (b) Ivanhoe
(d) Lyrical Ballads (c) The Heart of Midlothian
88. Identify Emile Bronte's novel in the following— (d) The Bride of Lammermoor
(a) Persuasion (b) Wuthering Heights 99. Which of the following quarterly, founded in 1802 and
(c) Jane Eyre (d) Middlemaroh patronised by the Whig party—maliciously attacked
89. The Life of Sir Walter Scott was written by— Wordsworth, Coleridge and other Lake poets?
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Robert Southey (a) The Blackwood Magazine
(c) Lockhart (d) W.S. Landor (b) The London Magazine
90. After whom did Wordsworth become the Poet Laureate of (c) The Morning Post
England? (d) The Edinburgh Review
(a) Robert Southey (b) John Dryden 100. Which of the following poems by S.T. Coleridge was
(c) Sir Walter Scott (d) S.T. Coleridge included in the first edition of The Lyrical Ballads?
91. Who remarked Charles Lamb as a "scorner of the field" (a) Dejection : An Ode
because of his disinterestedness in politics? (b) Christabel
(a) P.(b) Shelley (b) Leigh Hunt (c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(c) William Wordsworth(d) Thomas De Quincey (d) Kubla Khan
92. What according to Wordsworth, is the power of nature? 101. In which poem do these lines occur: "For oft when on my
(a) To teach couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood They flash upon
(b) To elevate that inward eye When is a bliss of solitude"?
(c) To soothe and console (a) To Daffodils (b) The Daffodils
(d) All of the above (c) The Solitary Reaper (d) None of the above
93. Who said the following words: 102. 'If Winter comes, can spring be far behind'? This is the
"There is Providence even in the fall of a sparrow"? concluding line of—
(a) Tennyson (b) Shelley (a) The Cloud
(c) Keats (d) Eliot (b) The Eve of St. Agnes
94. Who other than Wordsworth composed Lyrical Ballads? (c) Ode to the West Wind
(a) John Keats (b) S.T. Coleridge (d) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Lord Byron (d) P.(b) Shelley 103. When Hours of Idleness was criticised by the Edinburgh
95. Coleridge's aim in the Lyrical Ballads was— Review, Lord Byron retaliated by writing a satiric piece.
(a) To deal with supernatural element What – was the title of this satire?
(b) To make the unfamiliar familiar (a) The Vision of Judgement
(c) Both (a) and (b) (b) Mazeppa
(d) None of these (c) The Giaour
96. Which of the following novels is not written by Sir Walter (d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Scott? 104. Who expressed his dislike for poetry "that has a palpable
(a) The Knight of Gynne design upon us" in one of his letters?
(b) The Fortunes of Nigel (a) Addison (b) Arnold
(c) The Black Dwarf (c) Wordsworth (d) Keats
97. In which metre is Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' 105. Who hastened the death of Keats according to Shelley's
written? Adonais?
(a) Terza Rima (b) Ottava Rima (a) The Government (b) The brutal reviewers
(c) Spenserian Stanza (d) Blank Verse (c) His beloved (d) Poetry

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106. Who writes novels of haunted castles, bandits, trapdoor (d) deep sense of music
and horror? 117. Which work inspired Coleridge's Kubla Khan?
(a) Maria Edgeworth (b) Walter Scott (a) Holinshed's Chronicle
(c) Fanny Burney (d) Mrs. Anne Radcliffe (b) Plutarch's Lives
107. In which canto does the description of the "Battle of (c) Travels in Scotland
Waterloo" appear? (d) Purchas's Pilgrimage
(a) Canto I (b) It is an independent poem 118. Don Juan has
(c) Canto III (d) Canto IV (a) 5 cantos (b) 15 cantos
108. What is the tone of the ending of the second canto of (c) 20 cantos (d) 16 cantos
Childe Harold? 119. The French Revolution took place in
(a) Joyous (b) Melancholy (a) 1778 (b) 1789
(c) Self-pitying (d) Optimistic (c) 1776 (d) 1767
109. The first two cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to— 120. Wordsworth's The Borderers (1842) is a—
(a) Spain (b) Portugal (a) lyric (c) poem
(c) Greece and Albania (d) All of the above (b) novel (d) play
110. Who wrote Recollections ofthe Lake and Lake Poets? 121. Name the woman novelist whose pictures of Irish life
(a) Southey (b) Thomas De Quincey suggested to Walter Scott the idea of writing Scottish
(c) Joyoul (d) Melancholy romances.
111. How many cantos could Byron complete of Childe (a) Fanny Burney (b) Hannah More
Harold's Pilgrimage during his two years tour of the (c) Jane Porter (d) Maria Edgeworth
continent? 122. The age of Romanticism was
(a) All four (b) First two (a) 1800-1850 (b) 1770-1850
(c) One and three (d) Only one (c) 1760-1820 (d) 1771-1832
112. Who is Haidee in Don Juan? 123. Three of the following are called "Lake poets". Identify
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso who is not.
(b) Daughter of an old pirate (a) William Wordsworth
(c) Princess of Constantinople (b) Lord Byron
(d) A Duchess (c) S.T. Coleridge
113. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais? (d) Robert Southey
(a) Lord Byron (b) John Keats 124. Who among the following had written, "Hell is a city
(c) Shelley himself (d) None of the above much like London"?
114. The name of the prisoner of Chillon was— (a) Byron (b) Shelley
(a) Beppo (b) Giaour (c) Thomson (d) Lamb
(c) Francois de Bonnivard 125. Who summed up Coleridge's personality in the following
(d) Pasha lines? "A man of gigantic genius, he was absolutely
115. What was Wordsworth's professed aim in the Lyrical wanting in will power, and his slavery to opium, which
Ballads? lasted many years, helped him still further to paralyse
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit his energies. So the divinely gifted Coleridge stumbled
(b) Simplicity of diction through life, dreaming great dreams and projecting great
(c) Make it intelligible to common people books; but the dreams were never realised, and the books
(d) All of the above were never written".
116. "Michael", "The Solitary Reaper", "To a High-land Girl" (a) Arnold (b) Hudson
all these poems depict— (c) Wordsworth (d) Pater
(a) the poet's joy at the beauty of nature 126. "Resolution and Independence" is poem by
(b) simple common folk (a) Byron (b) Keats
(c) poet's awe at the spiritual presence (c) Leigh Hunt (d) Wordsworth
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127. Which of the following arrangements of Coleridge's 134. "Literature of power is to teach; and literature of
works is in the correct chronological sequence? knowledge is to move. Hence, the first is rudder, the
(a) Religious Musings – The Destiny of Nations – Ode second an ore or a soil". Who made the distinction
to the Departing Year – France: an Ode – The Rime of between the literature of knowledge and the literature of
the Ancient Mariner – Christabel Kubla Khan – Frost power?
at Midnight (a) S.T. Coleridge (b) Thomas De Quincy
(b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner –Frost at Midnight (c) Matthew Arnold (d) William Hazlitt
– Christabel –Kubla Khan France: An Ode – Ode to 135. Which of the following arrangements of Byron's poems
the Departing Year – The Destiny of Nations– is in correct chronological sequence?
Religious Musings The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(a) The Vision of Judgement – Manfred – Bride of Abydos
–Ode on the Departing Year –Religious Musings
– Hours of Idleness – Hebrew Melodies – The Curse
(c) The Destiny of Nations – Frost at Midnight –
of Minerva – Siege of Cornith – The Prisoner of Chillon
Christabel, Kubla Khan – France An Ode
– Childe Harold – Don Juan
(d) None of these
(b) Hour of Idleness – Bride of Abydos – Siege of Cornith
128. "An archangel —a little damaged". Who used this phrase
– The Prisoner of Chillon – Manfred – Hebrew
for S.T. Coleridge?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Matthew Arnold Melodies – The Curse of Minerva –Childe Harold –
(c) Rickett (d) Charles Reade The Vision of Judgement – Don Juan
129. Wordsworth's purpose in Ballads was to— (c) The Prisoner of Chillon – Siege of Cornith – Bride of
(a) Make the faimiliar, unfamiliar Abydos – Hour of Idleness – Hebrew Melodies –
(b) Make unfamiliar, familiar Manfred – Don Juan – The Vision of Judgement –
(c) Both (a) and (b) Childe Harold – The Curse of Minerva
(d) None of these (d) None of these
130. The term "Byronism" or "Byronic hero" implies the 136. Eagleton of St. Catherine College, University of Oxford?
qualities of— (a) Lamb (b) Macaulay
(a) passion, adventure, romance, impulsiveness, (c) Mill (d) Darwin
unconstancy, personal fascination, light heartedness, 137. Charles Lamb's sister appears in his essays under the
irresponsibility, isolation and loneliness, rebellion and name of—
negation (a) Mary Lamb (b) Bridget Elia or Bridget
(b) rationality, balance and proportion, restraint, (c) Frederick Myrryat (d) None of these
moderation, self-discipline, sense of responsibility and 138. In Lamb's first essay South Sea House appeared in The
dutifulness, affirmation and positive attitude London Magazine in—
(c) escapism, futile idealism, anarchy and lawlessness, (a) 1818 (b) 1820
idleness and indolence, destruction and rebellion
(c) 1823 (d) 1833
(d) None of these
139. Wordsworth's Theory of 'poetic diction' was propounded
131. In 1890 Lord Byron bitterly condemned his critics in—
in—
(a) The London Magazine
(a) Poetic volumes
(b) The Edinburgh Review
(b) The Prelude
(c) The English Bards and Scottish Reviewers
(c) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(d) The Blackward Magazine
132. Which of the following consonants is not considered (d) Biographia Literaria
redundant? 140. 'Let Nature be your teacher', these words are from
(a) c (b) q (a) 'The Thorn' (b) 'The Tables Turned'
(c) r (d) x (c) 'The Prelude' (d) 'Daffodils'
133. Which of the following sounds is not a guttural? 141. 'River Dudden' by Wordsworth is a
(a) k (b) ng (a) series of elegies (b) series of satires
(c) g (d) p (c) series of ballads (d) series of sonnets

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142. The doctrine that identifies God with the universe is (a) Epipsychidion (b) Queen Mab
(a) Naturalism (b) Pantheism (c) Hellas (d) Prometheus
(c) Mysticism (d) None of the above 156. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek
143. French Revolution is a poem composed by mythology?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley (a) Prometheus unbound
(c) Keats (d) Scott (b) Alastor
144. Wordsworth died in— (c) Queen Mab
(a) 1830 (b) 1840 (d) Julian and Maddalo
(c) 1848 (d) 1950 157. To which age did Jane Austen belong?
:45. Who opposed Wordsworth's views on poetry? (a) Modern age (b) Age of transition
(a) Shelley (b) Blake (c) Romantic age (d) Victorian age
(c) Byron (d) Coleridge 158. The Romantic age is also known as the
16. "Beauty is Truth, Truth is Beauty: That is all ye know (a) age of Pope (b) age of Dryden
on earth, that is all ye need to know". These lines are (c) age of Johnson (d) age of Wordsworth
from one of the famous odes of Keats. Name that Ode. 159. Peninsular War began in
(a) Ode to Autumn (b) Ode to a Nightingale (a) 1798 (b) 1808
(c) Ode to Psyche (d) Ode on a Grecian urn
(c) 1882 (d) 1782
147. Biographia Literaria is written by
160. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was one of the four
(a) William Blake (b) Thomas Carlyle
poems Coleridge contributed to Lyrical' Ballads. How
(c) S.T. Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
many poems did Wordsworth contribute to the volume?
148. In which novel Scott projects Scotland under Robert
(a) 11 (c) 19
Bruce, King and national hero?
(b) 17 (d) 15
(a) Quentin Durward (b) Kenilworth
161. Blackwood's Magazine came out in
(c) Castle Dangerous (d) St. Ronan Well
(a) 1800 (b) 1802
149. The great decade of Wordsworth's poetry was from
(c) 1811 (d) 1817
(a) 1791 to 1801 (b) 1797 to 1807
162. "On the Knocking at the Macbeth" was written by
(c) 1798 to 1808 (d) 1795 to 1805
(a) (a)(c) Bradley (b) (c)S. Lewis
150. Which of the following novel of Jane Austen deals with
(c) De Quincey (d) L.(c) Knights
elopement?
(a) Persuasion (b) Mansfield Park 163. "The Waggoner" is a poem by
(c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Emma (a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
151. 'Wordsworth had his passion for nature fixed in his (c) Keats (d) Byron
blood'. Who said this for Wordsworth? 164. "Hell is a city much like London". Whose view is this?
(a) De Quincey (b) Coleridge (a) Wordsworth (b) Scott
(c) Cazamian (d) Walter Scott (c) Shelley (d) Byron
152. To which age did Charles Lamb belong? 165. Who called eunuch'?
(a) The Augustan Age (b) The Age of Transition (a) Arnold (b) Coleridge
(c) The Romantic Age (d) The Victorian Age (c) Shelley (d) Browning
153. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in 166. "Hell is a city much like London". Which of the following
(a) Hellas (b) Prometheus Unbound Romantics wrote this?
(c) Adonais (d) Queen Mab (a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
154. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais? (c) Coleridge (d) Shelley
(a) Lord Byron (b) John Keats 167. Wordsworth's The Prelude is a/an
(c) Shelley himself (d None of the above (a) Philosophical poem
155. Which poem was inspired by the Greek proclamation of (b) Metaphysical poem
independence, followed by Greek revolt against TurV3h (c) Autobiographical poem
rule? (d) Biographical poem
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168. Who held "three inches of ivory" as an appropriate canvas 180. Who said "there is no such thing as a long poem"?
for a novelist? (a) John Keats (b) Lord Byron
(a) Walter Scott (b) Jane Austen (c) Walter Pater (d) Edgar Allen Poe
(c) Maria Edgeworth (d) Virginia Woolf 181. Whose work with that of Lamb strongly influenced Keats
169. Mr. Collins is a character in which of the following? last and best volume of poetry?
(a) Persuation (b) Sense and Sensibility (a) William Hazlitt (b) De Quincey
(c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Emma (c) Leigh Hunt (d) P.(b) Shelley
170. Miss Bates in Emma is 182. In whose works life was seen as nebulous and chaotic?
(a) Shy (b) Servile (a) Leigh Hunt (b) John Keats
(c) Garrulous (d) Discreet (c) P.(b) Shelley (d) Thomas De Quincey
171. Which of the following novels of Maria Edgeworth is 183. Who said: "Not to sympathise is not to understand"?
considered her best? (a) Addison (b) Eliot
(a) Castle Rackrent (1800) (c) De Quincey (d) Arnold
(b) The Absentee (1809) 184. Which author treated all reading as a kind of romantic
(c) Ormond (1 817) journey into new and pleasant countries?
(d) Patronage (1814) (a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb
172. Who ran away from the Grammar School at Manchester (c) William Hazlitt (d) De Quincey
finding the instruction far below his abilities?
185. Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by
(a) Thomas De Quincey
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Thomas Cooper
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) De Quincey (d) Robert Southey
(c) Lord Byron
186. Which of these authors was an opium addict?
(d) Charles Lamb
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Thomas De Quincey
173. A Byronic hero is he who is
(c) Leigh Hunt (d) William Hazlitt
(a) vain and melancholy
187. Which periodical founded in 1820, encouraged De
(b) cynical
Quincey?
(c) finds no good in life or love or anything
(a) London Magazine (b) Blackwood's Magazine
(d) all of the above
(c) Fraser 's Magazine (d) Edinburgh Review
174. Who is of the view: "All things that love the sun are out of
188. Thomas Holcraft died in
doors"?
(a) 1819 (b) 1810
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
(c) 1818 (d) 1809
(c) Keats (d) Coleridge
175. Who wrote The Four Ages of Poetry 189. Which work of De Quincey reveals his grotesque
(a) Shelley (b) Peacock humour?
(c) Eliot (d) Collins (a) Confessions of an English Opium Eater
176. Walter Landor's Count Julian is a (b) The Revolt of the Tartars
(a) poem (b) essay (c) Murder Considered
(c) drama (d) memoir (d) The English Mail Coach
177. Keat's statement that "we hate poetry that has palpable 190. "She walks in Beauty" and "To Thyrza" are mild lyrics
design upon us" is said in relation to by
(a) Coleridge (b) Blake (a) Keats (b) Coleridge
(c) Southey (d) Wordsworth (c) Wordsworth (d) Byron
178. The Old English Baron is a novel by 191. Which poem of Byron came out in 1814?
(a) Lewis (b) Walpole (a) "The Giaour" (b) "The Bride of Abydos"
(c) Clara Reeve (d) Mrs. Shelley (c) "Lora" (d) "Pasisina"
179. The Four Ages of Poetry was an attack on 192. Who died of fever?
(a) romanticism (b) neo-classicism (a) Byron (b) Keats
(c) Elizabethan poetry (d) Victorian age (c) Shelley (d) None
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193. "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" was written by 206. "Christabel" is an unfinished poem by
(a) Lord Byron (b) Wordsworth (a) Byron (b) Keats
(c) Keats (d) L. Hunt (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
194. Byron wrote his tragedies in 207. Walter Scott was born in
(a) heroic couplets (b) ottava rhyma (a) 1800 (b) 1785
(c) blank verse (d) none (c) 1771 (d) 1790
195. "Don Juan" was written by 208. In Ivanhoe what is the name of the disguised Robin Hood?
(a) Tennyson (b) Pound (a) Scott (b) Tennyson
(c) Eliot (d) Byron (c) George Eliot (d) Swinbume
196. Who wrote: "It is strange but true, for truth is always 209. Mike Lambourne is a character from
strange; stranger than fiction"? (a) Scott (b) Austen
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Eliot (d) Shelley
(c) Blake (d) Byron 210. Waverley is a historical novel by
197. Thomas De Quincey was born in the year (a) Tennyson (b) George Eliot
(a) 1782 (b) 1783 (c) Scott (d) Dickens
(c) 1784 (d) 1785 211. Who gave birth to historical novel?
198. Who made the statement? "A thing of beauty is a joy (a) Shakespeare (b) Austen
forever". (c) Smollett (d) Scott
(a) Keats (b) Pope 212. Sir Walter Scott has been best remembered for his book
(c) Coleridge (d) Shakespeare (a) Old Mortality (b) Ivanhoe
199. Which work of Keats deals with the murder of a lady's (c) The Talisman (d) None
lover by her two wicked brothers? 213. Coleridge met Wordsworth in
(a) "Endymion" (b) "Hyperion" (a) 1797 (b) 1790
(c) "Lamia" (d) "Isabella" (c) 1798 (d) 1802
200. Who made this statement? "Whom the gods love die 214. "Proud Maisie" is a ballad by
young". (a) Scott (b) Keats
(a) Shelley (c) Austen (c) Byron (d) Coleridge
(b) Byron (d) Yeats 215. Which one of the following tragedies was written by
201. Keats took the Endymion story from Coleridge?
(a) Greek mythology (b) Italian folk tales (a) The Borderers (b) The Cenci
(c) Irish legends (d) Roman myths (c) Otho, the great (d) Remorse
202. Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy came out in 216. Who is the lost leader in Browning's poem "The Lost
(a) 1817 (b) 1819 Leader"?
(c) 1821 (d) 1822 (a) Shelley (b) Milton
203. Which one of Keats' odes ends with this line: "For ever (c) Shakespeare (d) Wordsworth
will thou love, and she fair"? 217. "Table Talk" is an essay on Shakespeare by
(a) "Ode to a Nightingale" (a) Coleridge (b) Pope
(b) "Ode to Autumn" (c) Bradley (d) Johnson
(c) "Ode to Psyche" 218. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". A verse-tale of Keats
(d) "Ode on a Grecian Urn" begin with this line. Identify the poem.
204. Who died by drowning? (a) "Hyperion"
(a) Shakespeare (b) Pope (b) "Endymion"
(c) Lamb (d) Shelley (c) "The Eve of St. Agnes"
205. To which of the following poets does the phrase "willing (d) "Eve of St. Mark"
suspension of disbelief' apply? 219. John Keats came in contact with Leigh Hunt in the year
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (a) 1811 (b) 1807
(c) Shelley (d) Keats (c) 1816 (d) 1818
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220. Shelley's Defence of Poetry written in 1821, was 234. The House of Aspen is the only play by
published in (a) Scott (b) Byron
(a) 1822 (b) 1830 (c) Keats (d) Dryden
(c) 1835 (d) 1840 235. The quality of self-effacement is called
221. On which work was Shelly working when he died? (a) hedonism (b) neologism
(a) "Queen Mab" (b) "Alaster" (c) baroque (d) negative capability
(c) "The Cenci" (d) "The Triumph of Life" 236. "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" is a poem by
222. The author of Biographia Literaria is (a) Tennyson (b) Rossetti
(a) Coleridge (b) Hazlitt (c) Coleridge (d) Scott
237. Who remarked "Literature is the humanisation of the
(c) Arnold (d) Ruskin
whole world"?
223. Who wrote Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poets?
(a) A.C. Ward (b) Goethe
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(c) Aristotle (d) Arnold
(c) Southey (d) De Quincey
238. Who regarded Waverly as one of the best things that has
224. "The Lady of the Lake” is a poem by
been written?
(a) Scott (b) Byron
(a) Gaskell (b) Goethe
(c) Keats (d) Shelley (c) Godwin (d) Thackeray
225. Who died of tuberculosis? 239. Rejected Addresses was written by
(a) Coleridge (b) Keats (a) J. Smith (b) Horace Smith
(c) Shelley (d) Scott (c) Both (a) & (b) (d) None of the above
226. The prophetic words: “If winter comes, can spring be far 240. Cloudesley is a weak novel by
behind” have been uttered by (a) Anne Radcliffe (b) Clara Reeve
(a) Arthur Clough (b) Keats (c) Jane Austen (d) Godwin
(c) Browning (d) Shelley 241. Who postulated the concept of 'noble savage'?
227. Adonais is an elegy on (a) Southey (b) Blake
(a) Shakespeare (b) Dryden (c) Hazlitt (d) Rousseau
(c) Keats (d) Wordsworth 242. "The world is too much with us, late anc soon. Getting
228. Shelley's Prometheus Unbound written in 1818-19 was and spending, we lay waste our powers".
published in (a) Wordsworth (b) Scott
(a) 1820 (b) 1824 (c) Charles Lamb (d) William Hazlitt
(c) 1832 (d) 1828 243. "Daffodils" is a poem by
229. Shelly's "To a Skylark" came out with (a) D. G. Rossetti (b) Yeats
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
(a) Epipsychidion (b) Adonis
244. "Say not, the Struggle nought Availeth" is a poem by
(c) Cenci (d) Prometheus Unbound
(a) L. Hunt (b) A. H. Clough
230. Prometheus Unbound was written by
(c) Browning (d) Shakespeare
(a) Shelley (b) Keats
245. Epistle I of An Essay on Man deals with
(c) Scott (d) Peacock
(a) importance (b) religion
231. Shelley's "Adonais" is
(c) emotional crime (d) sincere man
(a) a satire (b) a defence
246. Hazlitt is best known by his
(c) an elegy (d) a lyric (a) Characters of Shakespeare's (1817)
232. Intellectual Beauty is a composition by (b) The English Poets (1818)
(a) Keats (b) Yeats (c) The Spirit of the Age (1825)
(c) Shelley (d) Coleridge (d) Table Talk
233. "Queen Mab" is an aesthetic poem of 247. William Blake's Songs of Innocence came out in
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (a) 1776 (b) 1789
(c) Coleridge (d) Eliot (c) 1787 (d) 1800
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248. "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads (1800) was written by 258. Horace Walpole is credited with the invention of... in The
(a) Coleridge (b) Coleridge and Wordsworth Castle of Otranto
(c) Wordsworth (d) Wordsworth and Southey (a) Gothic (b) Science fiction
249. English Romanticism is said to have begun with the (c) Fabulation (d) None of these
publication ofThe Lyrical Ballads. Which year was it 259. Shelley was interested in the teachings of ...
published in? (a) Thomas Hobbes (b) William Godwin
(a) 1789 (b) 1798 (c) Both 'a' and 'b' (d) None of these
(c) 1800 (d) None of these 260. From whom did the romantic poets get the idea 'Return to
250. Lyrical Ballads was published in Nature'?
(a) 1800 (b) 1798 (a) Garrod (b) Cobbelt
(c) 1789 (d) 1802 (c) Roussean (d) De Quincey
251. The Prelude is an epic of 261. Who wrote the pular nursery tale Three Bears?
(a) Christianity (b) Self
(a) Sir Walter Scott (b) Lord Byron
(c) Society (d) War
(c) Robert Southey (d) Charles Lamb
252. Wordsworth's first publication was
262. The Prelude completed in 1805 but was published in
(a) Descriptive Sketches
(a) 1850 (b) 1840
(b) Poetical Sketches
(c) 1830 (d) 1810
(c) Lyrical Ballads
268. Which of the following works of Byre,: is not a play?
(d) Ecclesiastical Sonnets
(a) The Vision of Judgment
253. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria (1817) does
(b) Manfred
Coleridge make a distinction between Fancy and
(c) Cain
Imagination?
(d) Marino Faliero
(a) IX (b) XI
263. Blake's dictum that Milton was "a true poet and of the
(c) XIII (d) XV
254 "And never turned a stone" appears in da of the following Devil's party without 270. knowing it" appears in
poems? (a) Milton
(a) Tintem Abbey" (b) "Michael" (b) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(c) Leech Gatherer" (d) "Ode to Duty" (c) Jerusalem
255. Which of the following poems of Byron is considered his (d) Europe
greatest? 264. "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright" appears in
(a) "The Prisoner of Chilton" (a) Songs of Experience
(b) Don Juan (b) Songs of Innocence
(c) "Beppo" (c) Poetical Sketches
(d) "The Vision of Judgment" (d) The Book of Urizen
256. The above line of Shelley is indicative of... 265. "Michael" of Wordsworth was
(a) Romantics' Return to nature (a) Included in Lyrical Ballads
(b) Romantics' dislike for the town life (b) Was not included in Lyrical Ballads
(c) Both 'a' and 'b' (c) Was included later in Lyrical Ballads
(d) None of these (d) Was never included in Lyrical Ballads
257. "Language really used by men" should be the language 266. Blake's So,ngs of Experience were published in
of poetry, and that the subject matter of poetry is "incidents (a) 1798 (b) 1788
and situations from common life". Who is the proponent (c) 1794 (d) 1802
of these views? 267. Who among the following wrote satirical poems?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) I.A. Richards (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge (c) Byron (d) Shelley
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268. Which of the following works of Byron is not a play? 279. Walter Savage Landor is best known for his
(a) The Vision of Judgment (a) Last Fruits off an Old Tree
(b) Manfred (b) Imaginary Conversations
(c) Cain (c) Heroic Idylls
(d) Marino Faliero (d) Hellenics
269. Who is the hero of Childe Harold? 280. Which of the following was Blake's first volume of poems?
(a) Nature (b) An unnamed traveller (a) Songs of Innocence(b) Songs of Experience
(c) A legendary king (d) The poet himself (c) The Book of Thel (d) Poetical Sketches
270. Thomas Hood is best known by which of the following? 281. For whom did Browning say, "For a handful of silver he
(a) Hero and Leander
left us"?
(b) Whims and Oddities
(a) Coleridge (b) Tennyson
(c) The Song of the Shirt
(c) Byron (d) Wordsworth
(d) The Bridge of Sighs
282. Sir William Thornhill (alias Mr. Burchel) figures in....
271. Coleridge's aim in The Lyrical Ballads was to...
(a) She Stoops to Conquer
(a) Make the unfamiliar, familiar
(b) Amelia
(b) Deal with the supernatural incidents
(c) Both 'a' and '13' (c) The Vicar of Wakefield
(d) None of these (d) None of these
272. The great ode "Dejection" was written by 283. The "Circulating Libraries" were popular during...
(a) Keats (c) Coleridge (a) The Eighteenth Century
(b) Byron (d) Wordsworth (b) The Seventeenth Century
273. Walter Scott is known as the father of (c) The Nineteenth Century
(a) Historical novel (b) Biographical novel (d) None of these
(c) Gothic novel (d) Realistic novel 284. Browning and Shelley have been said to have called
274. When was the Reform Bill passed? Wordsworth a "Lost Leader" and a "Moral Eunuch"
(a) 1837 (b) 1845 respectively. Why? Because...
(c) 1849 (d) 1832 (a) Wordsworth was disillusioned with France
275. The term 'Romantic' was in use right when the (b) Wordsworth became a conservative by becoming a
Romantics of England were writing... Tory
(a) Yes (b) No (c) Wordsworth supported the status quo of England
(c) Cannot be said (d) None of these towards the end of his career
276. The Lyrical Ballads was written by... (d) All these three
(a) Wordsworth
285. The phrase "the high road of life" was used by
(b) Coleridge
(a) Eliot (b) Kipling
(c) Both Wordsworth and Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
(d) None of these
286. "Without contraries is no appears in
277. "I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's
(a) Milton (b) Keats
affections and the truth of imagination". Feelings and
(c) Blake (d) Shelley
imagination were elevated by the Romantics to the level
287. Who wrote "Imitation of Spenser"?
of apprehending and communicating truth, as the above
lines indicate. Who wrote these lines. (a) Keats (b) Tennyson
(a) Wordsworth (b) Byron (c) Shelley (d) Browning
(c) Shelley (d) Keats 288. "To me the meanest flower that blows can give/thoughts
278. Who among the Romantics had "never seen the that do often lie too deep for tears". These lines are from
mountains"? which of the following poems?
(a) Hazlitt (b) Byron (a) "Dover Beach" (b) "In Memoriam"
(c) Clare (d) Lamb (c) "Dejection: An Ode" (d) "Immortality Ode"

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289. Who, among the following, heard "the still, sad music of 299. Which of the following poems was a part of Lyrical
humanity"? Ballads?
(a) Hardy (b) Arnold (a) "Immortality Ode" (b) "Kubla Khan"
(c) Tennyson (d) Wordsworth (c) "Christabel" (d) "Tintern Abbey"
290. In which Chapter of Biographia Literaria does Coleridge 300. "Dream Children" was written by
(a) William Blake (b) Robert Burns
criticize Wordsworth's theory of language?
(c) Charles Lamb (d) William Hazlitt
(a) X (b) XII
301. Essays of Elia (1823) was written by
(c) XVI (d) XIV
(a) Elia Lamb (b) Charles Elia
291. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell us saddest
(c) Mary Elia (d) Charles Lamb
thoughts" comes from 302. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was
(a) Keats (b) Shelley very heaven!" These lines from Wordsworth refer to
(c) Hardy (d) Arnold (a) American Revolution
292. Who defined poetry as "emotion recollected in (b) French Revolution
tranquility"? (c) Glorious Revolution
(a) Emerson (b) Wordsworth (d) Industrial Revolution
(c) Poe (d) Tennyson 303. The Prelude of Wordsworth was published in
293. Who defined poetry as "spontaneous overflow of powerful (a) 1850 (c) 1815
feelings"? (b) 1805 (d) 1801
(a) Shelley (b) Keats 304. Which of the following poems of Wordsworth is complete?
(a) The Recluse (b) The Excursion
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
(c) The Prelude (d) The Ruined Cottage
294. Which work of Coleridge, among following, is on the
305. Who launched the newspaper, The Watchman, for
subject philosophy?
converting humanity?
(a) Biographia Literaria (1817) (a) Blake (b) Coleridge
(b) Aids to Reflection (1825) (c) Shelley (d) Byron
(c) Sibylline Leaves 306. Blake believed in the importance of spiritual world and of
(d) Table Talk (1835) the presence of the divine in man
295. Which poem of Byron made him famous overnight? (a) Yes (b) No
(a) Childe Harold (1812) (c) Cannot be said (d) None of these
(b) "English Bards and Reviewers" (1807) 307. "On first Looking into Chapman's Homer" is about
(c) "Hours of Idleness" (1807) Keats's praise of
(d) "The Siege of Corinth" (1816) (a) Homer
296. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) was written (b) Chapman
(c) Chapman's translation of Homer
by
(d) Art of poetry
(a) S.T. Coleridge
308. In his early poetry Keats was influenced, besides Spenser,
(b) Charles Lamb
by
(c) Thomas De Quincey
(a) Wordsworth (b) Leigh Hunt
(d) Thomas Hood (c) Southey (d) Coleridge
297. Jane Austen's first novel was 309. Shelley's The Defence of Poetry (1821) was provoked by
(a) Emma (b) Persuation (a) Godwin (b) Burke
(c) Pride and prejudice (d) Sense and Sensibility (c) Peacock (d) Byron
298. "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about 310. Who claimed that "poets are the unacknowledged
the Time of Shakespeare", by Charles Lamb, represents legislators of the world"?
(a) major dramatists (b) minor dramatists (a) Matthew Arnold (b) Samuel Johnson
(c) classic dramatists (d) romantic dramatists (c) John Dryden (d) P.B. Shelley
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311. Who among the following is known as a peasant poet? (c) "The Witch of Atlas"
(a) Thomas Hood (b) James Hogg (d) "The Ancient Mariner"
(c) Thomas Moore (d) John Clare 320. Which of the following poems of Coleridge uses the myths
312. John Clare is best known for which of the following? of Lamia and vampire?
(a) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) (a) "Christabel"
(b) The Shepherd's Calendar (1827) (b) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(c) The Village Minstrel (1821) (c) "Frost at Midnight"
(d) The Rural Muse (1835) (d) "The Knight's Tomb"
313. Who wrote the Life of Byron? 321. Which of the following poems of Coleridge was conceived
(a) Robert Southey (b) Thomas Moore in a dream?
(c) Samuel Rogers (d) Thomas Campbell (a) "Christabel"
314. Which of the following novels of Jane Austen was (b) "The Ancient Mariner"
posthumously published? (c) "Dejection: An Ode"
(a) Northanger Abbey (1818) (d) "Kubla Khan"
(b) Mansfield Park (1814) 322. Shelley's Queen Mab is one of his
(c) Emma (1816) (a) Middle poems (b) Early poems
(d) Persuation (1815-16) (c) Later poems (d) Posthumous poems
323. Who wrote "The Necessity of Atheism"?
315. "I woke up one morning and found myself famous".
(a) Byron (b) Browning
Identify the poet who made this comment about his own
(c) Hardy (d) Shelley
popularity—
324. Which of the following poems of Shelley represents Byron
(a) John Keats (b) Lord Byron
through a character?
(c) S.T. Coleridge (d) Robert Southey
(a) "The Mask of Anarchy"
316. Wordsworth accepted the Poet Laureateship after the
(b) "Epipsychidion"
death of Robert Southey in—
(c) "Julian and Maddalo"
(a) 1820 (b) 1823
(d) "Adonais"
(c) 1843 (d) 1850
325. Who wrote the Life of Nelson!
317. "It was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to
(a) Walter Scott (b) Leigh Hunt
persons and characters. supernatural or at least
(c) Lord Byron (d) Robert Southey
romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a
326. Samuel Johnson wrote the Lives of the Poets. Who wrote
human touch and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure
the Lives of the Novelists?
for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension (a) Jane Austen (b) Walter Scott
of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith." (c) Maria Edgeworth (d) George Eliot
Who wrote these lines? 327. Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was written by
(a) Wordsworth in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (a) Charles Lamb
(b) Coleridge in Biographia Literaria (b) Mary Lamb
(c) Shelley in the Necessity of Atheism (c) Mary and Charles Lamb
(d) Robert Southey in Thalba the Destroyer (d) Lamb and Coleridge
318. "To Dissect is to Kill" appears in 328. "To generalize is to be a fool" comes from
(a) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (a) Johnson (b) Pope
(b) Europe (c) Byron (d) Blake
(c) The French Revolution 329. Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" was written when
(d) Milton Wordsworth
319. The phrases "Starlit Dome" and "Road to Xanadu" (a) Returned from France
appear in which of the following poems? (b) Published The Prelude
(a) "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (c) Became the Poet Laureate
(b) "Kubla Khan" (d) Left the Lake District
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330. Lectures on Shakespeare by Coleridge was published 341. Who wrote the famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) In his life time (b) In his mature years (a) Coleridge (b) Southey
(c) Posthumously (d) In the year of his death (c) Wordsworth (d) Byron
331. Who gave the Romantic period the title of the Renaissance 342. Who is known for the Waverly novels?
of Wonder in poetry? (a) Jane Austen (b) Walter Scott
(a) William Wordsworth (c) Thomas Hardy (d) Charles Dickens
(b) William Blake 343. Which poem of Keats opens with "A thing of beauty is a
(c) Theodox Watts joy for ever"?
(d) Profebsor Herford (a) "Endymion"
332. 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth consists of (b) "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
(a) twelve stanzas (b) twenty stanzas (c) "Ode to a Nightingale"
(c) twenty one stanzas (d) twenty two stanzas (d) "Sleep and Poetry"
333. Regarding which character did Jane Austen say that she 344. The title of Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
was a "heroine whom no one but myself will much like"? is derived from a
(a) Elizabeth Bennet (b) Mrs. Bennet (a) Palace in London (b) Castle in Windsor
(c) Emma (d) None of the above (c) Prison in Edinburgh (d) School in London
345. Who else besides Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital?
334. Who considered "three or four families in a country
(a) Hazlitt (b) Coleridge
village" as an ideal subject for the novel?
(c) Keats (d) Leigh Hunt
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Jane Austen
346. Which of the following novels of Scott deals with the
(c) Maria Edgeworth (d) George Eliot
murder of Lady Leicester?
335. Who wrote Joan of Arc?
(a) Ivanhoe (1820)
(a) Keats (b) Shelley
(b) Kenilworth (1821)
(c) Robert Southey (d) Thomas Moore
(c) The Pirate (1822)
336. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" refers to a work
(d) The Fair Maid of Perth (1828)
by...?
347. Which of the following works of Scott is considered his
(a) Goldsmith (b) Sheridan
best?
(c) Shakespeare (d) None of these
(a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
337. Which of the following work is provoked by Peacock?
(b) The Lord of the Isles (1814)
(a) The Defence of Poetry
(c) The Burial of Trienmain (1813)
(b) Zatrozzi
(d) The Lady of the Lake (1810)
(c) St. Irvyne 348. Walter Scott's The Minstrlesy of the Scottish Border
(d) None of these (1802) is a work
338. Who wrote: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive! But to (a) Of Scott and his contemporaries
be young was very heaven"? (b) Of his own poems
(a) S.T. Coleridge (b) William Wordsworth (c) Of editing old material
(c) Walter Scott (d) Joseph Lancaster (d) Edited by several hands including Scott
339. Which of the following poems of Southey is not long? 349. "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare" comes from
(a) Joan of Arc (a) L.C. Knights (b) G Wilson Knight
(b) Thalaba the Destroyer (c) A.C. Bradley (d) Charles Lamb
(c) The Curse of Kehama 350. "She Walks in Beauty like the night" appears in
(d) The Battle of Blenheim (a) Keats (b) Shelley
340. "Man is born free, but alas! he is everywhere in chains." (c) Browning (d) Byron
Whose words are these? 351. Shelley wrote Adonais on the death of
(a) Karl Marx (b) Frederic Engels (a) Keats (b) Byron
(c) Hegel (d) J.J. Rousseau (c) Scott (d) Southey
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352. "3f poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it (c) Austen (d) Southey
had better not come at all." This statement comes from 363. Whose fame as an essayist rests Imaginary
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth Conversations?
(c) Coleridge (d) Shelley (a) De Quincey (b) Hunt
353. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"? appears in (c) Scott (d) Landor
which of the following poems? 364. Who wrote: "Our Sweetest songs are those That tell our
(a) "To Autumn" (b) "To A Skylark" saddest thoughts" ?
(c) "The Cloud" (d) "Ode to the West Wind" . (a) P.B. Shelley (b) Robert Southey
354. Shelley based his Prometheus Unbound on an ancient (c) Cardinal Newman (d) S.T. Coleridge
play of 366. In which one of Austen's novels Fanny visits her parents'
(a) Sophocles (b) Euripedes home at apartments an absence of more than 10 years?
(c) Aeschylus (d) Seneca (a) Emma (b) Persuasions
355. Which of the following works of Shelley is a poetic drama? (c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Mansfield Park
(a) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude 367. The Times which acquired this name in 1788 was earlier
(b) The Cenci known as
(c) The Revolt of Islam (a) Daily Universal Register
(d) Prometheus Unbound (b) The Daily Digest
356. Which poem of Keats borrows its story from Burton's (c) The Tatler
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)? (d) The Rambler
(a) Endymion (b) Lamia 368. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man
(c) Hyperion (d) Isabella in possession of a good for-tUne, must be in want of a
357. Keats's Hyperion is written in the epic style of wife". Which novel of Jane Austen begins with this
(a) Homer (b) Virgil sentence?
(c) Milton (d) Spenser (a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Sense and Sensibility
358. Which of the following poems of Keats is based on a tale (c) Emma (d) Mansfield Park
from Boccaccio? 369. William Wordsworth was born in
(a) "The Eve of Saint Mark" (a) 1770 (b) 1771
(b) "The Eve of St. Agnes" (c) 1768 (d) 1769
(c) "Endymion" 370. Who wrote the following: Castle Rackrent, the Absentee,
(d) "Isabella, or The Pot of Basil" Ormond?
359. Blake's The Book of Urizen is about... (a) Fanny Burney (b) Jane Poster
(a) The origin of evil (b) The art of writing (c) Thomas Peacock (d) Maria Edgeworth
(c) Human liberation (d) None of these 371. The Lyrical Ballads opens with
360. In which chapter of the Biographia Literaria does (a) Kubla Khan
Coleridge make a subtle distinction between imagination (b) Ode to Duty
and fancy? (c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(a) Chapter I (b) Chapter VII (d) Immortality Ode
(c) Chapter XIII (d) Chapter XX 372. Which is the pair of lovers Endymion does not meet in
361. Where does Darcy propose Elizabeth in the Pride and Keat's Endymion?
Prejudice ? (a) Venus and Adonis (b) Romeo and Juliet
(a) Hunsford Parsonage (c) Glaucus and Scylla (d) Arcthusa and Alpheus
(b) The village ball 373. Sir Walter Scott collected Scottish ballads, and published
(c) Germany them along with his own, in
(d) None of the above (a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
362. The credit of pioneering the historical novel is often (b) Marmion
attributed to (c) Minstrelsy of The Scottish Border
(a) Godwin (b) Scott (d) The Lord of The Isles
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374. Name the journal to which Southey contrib-uted regularly (b) Mansfield Park
(a) The Quarterly Review (c) Sense and Sensibility
(b) The Blackwoods Magazine (d) Pride and Prejudice
(c) The Edinburgh Review 384. The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" associated
(d) The Westminister Review with...
375. When were the Lyrical Ballads published? (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
(a) 1797 (b) 1798 (c) Byron (d) None of these
(c) 1800 (d) 1801 385. Which of the following is considered an important
376. Which work of Jane Austen is a satire di-rected against milestone in the history of feminism?
Gothic Romance and stormy passions? (a) Vindication of the Rights of Men
(a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Mansfield Park (b) Vindication of the Rights of Women
(c) Emma (d) Northanger Abbey (c) The Rights of men
377. Keat's Endymion has (d) The Rights of Women
(a) 3,000 lines (b) 4,000 lines 386. When he wrote Queen Mab, Shelley was only
(c) 2,500 lines (d) 4,500 lines (a) 19 (b) 18
378. Who wrote this: "He prayeth Well, who loveth well/Both (c) 21 (d) 22
man and bird and beast"? 387. One of the following was not associated with the
(a) William Wordsworth 'Edinburgh Review'. Identify him.
(b) S.T. Coleridge (a) Sidney Smith (b) William Blackwood
(c) Leigh Hunt (c) Henry Brougham (d) Francis Jeffrey
(d) Cardinal Newman 388. This woman novelist wrote "Scotch" novels. Thaddeus of
379. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound ? As Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs. Who is she ?
(a) an epic (b) a legendary story (a) Jane Porter
(c) mythological story (d) a lyrical drama (b) Susan Ferrier
380. Romantic period is characteristic of... (c) Marry Russell Mitford
(a) The discovery of local cultures (d) Maria Edgeworth
(b) Flowering of vernacular literature 389. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Melincourt,
(c) Fragmentation of classical authority of Rome Nightmare Abbey, Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle
(d) All these three and Gryll Grange?
381. The Old French word, Romans, from which the word, (a) Thomas Peacock (b) G.P.R. James
'Romantic' was derived, means (c) George Meredith (d) Charles Lever
(a) A vernacular language descended from Latin 390. What is the background of Ivanhoe?
(b) A group of tribes (a) The first crusade of Constantinople
(c) Both 'a' and 'b' (b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span of St. Ronan's
(d) None of these Well
382. Which among the following was written by Edmund (c) Emmity of Saxon and Norman
Burke? (d) Wales under Henry II
(a) Rights of Man 391. Life of Walter Scott was written by
(b) The Wrongs of Woman (a) John Lockhart (b) Wordsworth
(c) Reflection on the Revolution in France (c) Southey (d) Mary Lamb
(d) None of these 392. Which of the following poem of Wordsworth is not
383. "It is a truth "universally acknowledged that a single incomplete?
man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a (a) The Ruined Cottage
wife." Which of the following novels begins with this (b) The White Doe of Rylstone
sentence? (c) The Recluse
(a) Emma (d) The Excursion
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393. Wordsworth's view, "something far more deeply 401. Where do we meet Hermes, Lycious, Appolonius?
interfused" suggests the Romantic spirit of... (a) Lamia (b) Endymion
(a) Something more than what is derived from everyday (c) Hyperion (d) None of the above
observation 402. Following poems are written by Shelley, ex-cept one.
(b) Something more than the sanction of the majority view Identify the one not written by him.
(c) Ideas against the material and "commonsense" views (a) Ode to the West Wind
that dominated in the preceding period (b) To a Skylark
(d) All these three (c) Ode to the Nightingale
394. The Romantics' view of religion is that... (d) The Cloud
403. Which of the following written in 1821 and published
(a) They looked towards the Church for answers
posthumously in 1840 bears Shelley's most confidential
(b) Christianity failed to be satisfactory
proclamation of the social function of poetry and the
(c) They searched personally for the spiritual truth outside
prophetic role of the poet?
religion
(a) A Defence of Poetry
(d) Both `b' and 'c'
(b) The Triumph of Life
395. The French Revolution took place in...
(c) Hellas
(a) 1778 (b) 1789 (d) The Mask of Anarchy
(c) 1776 (d) 1767 404. Who has been called 'Prose Shakespeare' by Macaulay?
396. Nature for the Romantics is... (a) Thomas Hardy (b) Charles Dickens
(a) Independence of man (c) Jane Austen (d) William Golding
(b) Nature is the setting of man 405. Which of the following is a revolutionary poem by
(c) Something that is needed for his fulfilment Southey?
(d) All these three (a) The Fall of Robespierre
397. One of the causes of the sorrow of the younger Romantics (b) Joan of Are
(Byron, Keats and Shelley) could be that... (c) Walt Tylor
(a) Their poetry was rejected by the society when they (d) The Constitution of Church and State
were alive 406. Blake's Songs of Innocence is about...?
(b) They did not write good poetry (a) The joys of childhood in a natural and protected world
(c) They were born sorrowful (b) The pastoral world
(d) None of these (c) Both 'a' and 'b'
398. The Romantics used the following faculties in search of (d) None of these
spiritual truth 407. Blake's Songs of Experience deals with:
(a) Feelings (b) Imagination (a) Social and Religious oppression
(b) Sorrow and suffering
(c) Both 'a' and `b' (d) None of these
(c) Both 'a' and 'b'
399. As regards philosophy, the Romantic writers were
(d) None of these
influenced by the ideal philosophy of...and...of Germany.
408. "Pity would be no more, if we did no make somebody
(a) Kant and Hegel
poor..." Who wrote these lines?
(b) Hegel and Marx
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(c) Both Kant and Hegel
(c) Shelley (d) Blake
(d) None of these 409. "Melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the
400. Romanticism is basically a movement tot reacted against infinite which was hid." What is Blake explaining in this
various aspects. In ethilosophy Romanticism reacted sentence?
(a) The rationalism of the Eighteenth Century (a) Art of writing poetry
(b) The view of physical world dominated by science (b) His method of printing
(c) The theories of John Lock if (c) This is not Blake's sentence
(d) All these three (d) None of these
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410. Blake printed his own works by a method devised by (d) The Waggoner, Yarrow Revisited, Peter Bell, The
himself. Borderers
(a) Yes (b) No 420. How many novels did Jane Austen write?
(c) Perhaps (d) None of these (a) Six (b) Eleven
411. Which book, though not literature, exercised an (c) Sixteen (d) Twenty three
enormous influence in England during the beginning of 421. Wordsworth composed 19 poems for Lyrical Ballads. How
19th century? many poems were contributed by Coleridge
(a) Communist Manifesto (a) 5 (b) 4
(b) Robert Burns's Poems (c) 8 (d) 7
(c) Thomas Paine's Rights of Man 422. In which from Byron's 'The vision of Judgement' has
(d) All of the above been conceived?
412. Who emphasized the use of thetlanguage really used by (a) Conceived in an allegorical form
man for poetry? (b) Conceived as a mock heroic
(a) Coleridge (b) Shakespeare (c) Conceived as a dream vision
(c) Chaucer (d) Wordsworth (d) Conceived as a mock epic
413. Coleridge produced Remorse on the recom-mendation 423. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school
of— anthologies in India :
(a) Shelley (b) Byron "Breathes there the man",
(c) Wordsworth (d) Keats With soul so dead
414. The Westminster Review came out in the year Who never to himself hath said,
(a) 1830 (b) 1834 "This is my own, my native land."
(c) 1824 (d) 1817 Who is the poet ?
415. Which is the last poem of 'The Lyrical Ballads'? (a) Robert Southey (b) Walter Scott
(a) Tintern Abbey (b) The Excursion (c) Lord Byron (d) William Wordsworth
(c) An Evening Walk (d) Daffodils 424. Who is the author of The Absentee, Ormond and Castle
416. 'The Romantics' view of religion is that Rackrent ?
(a) they looked towards the church for answers (a) Walter Scott (b) Edgeworth
(b) Christianity failed to be satisfactory (c) Galt (d) Susan Ferrier
(c) they searched personally for the spiritual truth outside 425. The fall of the prison of Bacfille, that marks the beginning
religion of the French Revolution occurred on
(d) both b and c (a) June 14, 1789 (b) June 14, 1798
417. Which of the following work of Coleridge published (c) July 14, 1789 (d) July 14, 1798
posthumously? 426. Lady Catherine is the famous character of Austen's
(a) Sibyline Leaves (b) Table Talk (a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Persuasion
(c) The Morning Post (d) The Friend (c) Mansfield Park (d) Emma
418. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancien-Mariner appears in 427. His sonnet was rejected by a magazine Gem, on the plea that
(a) Lyrical Ballads (b) Remorse it would "shock mothers". At this he wrote to a friend, "I am
(c) Kubla Khan (d) Christabel born out of time .... When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed
419. Which of the following four chronological orders is 'Hang the age, I will write for antiquity.' Who is he ?
correct? (a) Thomas Peacock (b) Hazlitt
(a) The Borderers, Peter Bell, Yarrow Revisited, The (c) Charles Lamb (d) Leigh Hunt
Waggoner 428. Where do we find Bingley?
(b) The Borderers, Yarrow Revisited, Peter Bell, The (a) Pride and Prejudice
Waggoner (b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) The Waggoner; Peter Bell, Yarrow Revisited, The (c) Mansfield Park
Borderers (d) Persuasion
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429. When was the unfinished dream poem `Kubla Khan' 440. All, except one, of the following poems are written by
published ? Coleridge. Mark the one which is not.
(a) 816 (b) 1810 (a) "Frost at midnight"
(c) 1820 (d) 1821 (b) "Hymn Before Sunrise in The Vale of Chamouni"
430. Where were Lyrical Ballads written ? In (c) "Ode to Night"
(a) Cumberland Hills (b) Cambridge (d) "Ode on Dejection,"
(c) Quantock Hills (d) Hawshead 441. Who wrote Preface of Lyrical Ballads
431. Who wrote Lectures on Shakespeare and Biographia (a) Wordsworth (b) Byron
Literaria? (c) S.T. Coleridge (d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
442. Who is Elia of Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia?
(a) S.T. Coleridge (b) Samuel Johnson
(a) His friend
(c) Alexander Pope (d) Lord Byron
(b) His patron
432. In which of his poems Coleridge wrote, "0 Lady ! we
(c) An Italian clerk with whom he had worked in the South
receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature
Sea House
Live"?
(d) An imaginary figure
(a) Kubla Khan (b) The Ancient Mariner
443. The Ossianic Poems which explore the world of Celtic
(c) Christabel (d) The Dejection Ode antiquity was written by
433. Marmion, The Lady of the Lake and Rokeby are the well- (a) Bishop Percy (b) Byron
known poems of (c) Macpherson (d) Coleridge
(a) Raleigh (b) Hunt 444. Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1813?
(c) Ferrier (d) Scott (a) Robert Southey (b) William Wordsworth
434. "At school he had been a playless day-dreamer, yet even (c) Lord Byron (d) Lord Tennyson
in those days, he gathered around him a host of admiring 445. Coleridge and Lamb died in the same year. The year is
listeners once he had begun to talk." Identify the poet (a) 1830 (b) 1834
about whose personality this opinion refer to— (c) 1850 (d) 1828
(a) Lord Byron (b) P.B. Shelley 446. The celebrated twentieth century novelist Woolf had died
(c) S.T. Coleridge (d) William Blake by drowning herself. Which Romantic poet had died a
435. Wordsworth was made the "Poet Laureate" in similar death ?
(a) 1850 (b) 1843 (a) Keats (b) Byron
(c) 1831 (d) 1837 (c) Coleridge (d) Shelley
436. "Abundantly and enchantingly sensuous"—this phrase 447. The first two cantos of Childe Harold which made Byron
was attributed to Keats by instantaneously famous were published in
(a) 1810 (b) 1811
(a) Shelley (b) Leigh Hunt
(c) 1812 (d) 1814
(c) Arnold (d) Eliot
448. Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1813?
437. Which of the nature poets has been said to be endowed
(a) Robert Southey (b) William Wordsworth
with "organic sensibility"?
(c) Lord Byron (d) Lord Tennyson
(a) ordsworth (b) Coleridge
449. Who was the third person with Coleridge and Wordsworth
(c) Shelley (d) Keats
at Quantock Hills when 'be Lyrical Ballads were
438. Which of Scott's novels depicts the conflict between the composed?
Puritans, the Covenanters, and the royal forces under (a) Robert Southey (b) Walter Scott
Ciaverhouse? (c) Dorothy Wordsworth (d) Mary Lamb
(a) Old Morality (b) Castle Dangerous 450. In which of his works, William Blake denounced the
(c) Heart of Midlothian (d) Talisman subordination of women?
439. Which novel, begun in 1895, but put aside, is Walter (a) Songs of Experience
Scott's first novel" ? (b) The Book of Urizen
(a) Ivanhoe (b) Waverley (c) He did not denounce of Albion
(c) Kenilworth (d) Peveril of The Peak (d) Visions of the Daughters
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451. Who is Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel? 461. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica appeared
(a) A monster in...
(b) An evil spirit (a) 1815 (b) 1717
(c) The feeling of irrational fear personified (c) 1771 (d) 1900
(d) The scientist 462. "For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die". Who
452. Sir Anthony Absolute, a character in The Rivals, utters: has been quoted here ?
"A circulating library in a town is an ever green tree of (a) Byron (b) Coleridge
diabolical knowledge." This mood is expressive of .. (c) Lamb (d) De Quincey
(a) Explosion of fiction 463. Coleridge's Christabel published in—
(b) Explosion of fiction by women (a) 1815 (b) 1816
(c) Both 'a' and '13' (c) 1800 (d) 1810
(d) None of these 464. "I firmly believe that the poetical performance of
453. "France standing on the top. of nature seeming born Wordsworth is after that of Shakespeare and Milton, of
again." These lines are from... which all the world now recognises the worth, undoubtedly
(a) The Prelude (b) Daffodils the most considerable in our language from the
(c) Tintern Abbey (d) None of these Elizabethan to the present time." Identify the critic who
wrote these lines in appreciation of Wordsworth's poetry.
454. The Times acquired this name in 1788. What was it
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) Herford
known as earlier?
(c) Charles Lamb (d) Ruskin
(a) The Telegraph (b) Tatler
465. Browning and Shelley denounced Wordsworth as a "Lost
(c) Sunday Mirror (d) Daily Universal Register
Leader" and a "Moral Eunuch" respectively, because
455. Can it be said that Dr. Johnson's attitude in The Lives of
(a) Wordsworth became a Tory, accepted Laureateship
the English Poets is judicial in evaluating the poets?
and conservative ideology
(a) No
(b) Wordsworth was disillusioned with France
(b) Yes
(c) Wordsworth accepted the Status Quo of England
(c) Cannot be ascertained
towards the end of his career
(d) None of these
(d) All these three
456. Who is known for effecting humour and pathos in his
466. The Lady of the Lake is written by—
prose?
(a) William Wordsworth
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Robert Burns
(b) William Hazlitt
(c) Sir Walter Scott
(c) Thomas De Quincey (d) John,Keats
(d) Leigh Hunt 467. In which novel of Austen, John Dashwood, the henpecked
457. Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a— husband, appears ?
(a) lyric (b) lyrical ballad (a) Northanger Abbey
(c) ode (d) sonnet (b) Emma
458. Frankenstein, a proto-science fiction was written by (c) Sense and Sensibility
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) Mary Shelley (d) Mansfield Park
(c) Charles Lamb (d) Mary Lamb 468. Who is not a member of the "cockney school" out of the
459. Which of Austen's following novels deals with elopement? following ?
(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (a) Hazlitt (b) De Quincey
(c) Mansfield Park (d) Persuation (c) Lamb (d) Leigh Hunt
460. Tales from Shakespeare were written at the suggestion 469. Who has been said to combine Pantheism and Platonism
of in his nature poetry ?
(a) Shelley (b) Leigh Hunt (a) Keats (b) Shelley
(c) Godwin (d) De Quincey (c) Byron (d) Coleridge
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470. What has been addressed as a "cloud of fire", an (a) Byron (b) Shelley
"unembodied joy", "a golden glow-worm", "a rose - (c) Keats (d) Leigh Hunt
empowered in green leaves" and a "poet hidden in the 480. Shelley writes in Adonais, "A portion of the loveliness
light of thought" ? Which once he made more lovely." Who does "he" refer
(a) West Wind (b) Pansy to in these lines ?
(c) Skylark (d) Nightingale (a) Himself (b) Keats
471. O Lady ! we receive what we give And in our life does (c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
nature live. These lines occur in— 481. Shelley's The Defence of Poetry is a piece of—
(a) Coleridge's Ode to Dejection (a) fiction (b) drama
(b) Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (c) criticism (d) poetry
(c) Shelley's The Revolt of Islam 482. Which of the following poem of Keats is partly based on
(d) Byron's Childe Harold Drayton's The Man in the Moon and Fletcher's The
472. Leigh Hunt's well known poeni is— Faithful Shepherders?
(a) Lalla Rookh (1817) (b) The Village Minstrel (1821) (a) The Eve of Saint Mark (1819)
(c) The Indicator (1819)(d) The Story of Rimini (1816) (b) Lamia (1819)
473. 'Who has been referred to as "the high priest of (c) Endymion (1818)
romanticism" ?
(d) The Eve of St. Agnes (1819)
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
483. To whom Keats dedicated Poems ?
(c) Blake (d) Coleridge
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
474. Prophyro and Madeline are the lovers in
(c) Spenser (d) Leigh Hunt
(a) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
484. Thomas Love Peacock has a close friendship with—
(b) The Eve of St. Agnes
(a) Keats (b) Shelley
(c) The Eve of St. Mark
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
(d) Isabella
485. Which of the following is the finest work of Edgeworth?
475. The most important ballad collection of the eighteenth
(a) Castle Rackrent (1800)
century was Reliques of Ancient English Poetry., Who
(b) Patronage
made this admirable collection ?
(c) Belinda (1801)
(a) Thomas Chatterton (b) Rowley
(d) Harrington (1817)
(c) Bishop Percy (d) James Mkpherson
486. Keats was very much influenced by Spenser and—
476. Witch of the following poems of Keats bears the mark of
(a) Wordsworth (b) Leigh Hunt
Hellenism ?
(a) Endymion and Hyperion (c) Shelley (d) Southey
(b) Lamia and Grecian Urn 487. Which of the following is the best known poem of John
(c) Ode to Nightingale and Psyche Clare?
(d) All of the above (a) The Shepherds Calendar (1827)
477. "Hallas", a frequent theme in. Romantic Po-etry is (b) The Rural Muse (1835)
(a) a Greek god (c) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)
(b) an ancient Greek sculptor (d) The Village Minstrel (1821)
(c) the oldest poet of Greece 488. William Cullen Bryant was the first .... poet
(d) the ancient name of Greece (a) American (b) African
478. Whom does the Greek god Pan fight with in Shelley's (c) Australian (d) Canadian
Hymn of Pan ? 489. Who among the following is a peasant poet?
(a) Titans (c) Zeus (a) Thomas Hood
(b) Apollo (d) All of the above (b) Leigh Hunt
479. Who wrote the "Isles of Greece", a fine appreciation of (c) William Cullen Bryant
the great deeds done by the Greeks in the past ? (d) John Clare

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490. Who influenced the journal The Examiner? 502. Keats Isabella or The Pot of Basil (1818) is based on the
(a) John Clare (b) Sir Walter Scott tale of—
(c) Byron (d) Leigh Hunt (a) Richardson (b) Boccaccio
491. Who is not the Lake Poet? (c) Chaucer (d) Fielding
(a) Robert Southey (b) Shelley 503. The last volume of Endymion (1818) was published in
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge (a) 1821 (c) 1819
492. Who wrote the biography of Byron entitled Life of Byron? (b) 1822 (d) 1820
(a) John Clare (b) Thomas Moore 504. Which of the following is considered the work of editing
(c) Robert Southey (d) Leigh Hunt old material?
493. Wordsworth has described various stages of his (a) The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
association with Nature. In which stage did he hear "The (b) The Lord of the Isles (1814)
still sad music of human-ity" ? (c) The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
(a) The boyish stage (b) The initial stage (d) Marmion (1808)
(c) The final stage (d) All the stages 505. Who was the member of Cockney school of poetry?
494. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey published— (a) Shelley (b) William Hazlitt
(a) posthumously (b) before the death (c) Wordsworth (d) Byron
(c) after the death (d) none of these
506. Who among the following writers never saw the
495. Which poem is written in Christabel meter?
mountains?
(a) Roke by (1813)
(a) William Hazlitt
(b) The Lord of the Isles (1814)
(b) James Fenimore Cooper
(c) The Lady of the Lake (1810)
(c) Thomas De Quincey
(d) The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
(d) Charles Lamb
496. Austen's character Mr. Collins appears in—
507. Walter Savage Landor's Poems (1795) is modelled on
(a) Persuasion (1818) (b) Mansfield Park (1814)
the classic influence of—
(c) Emma (1816) (d) Pride and Prejudice (1813)
(a) Spenser (b) Johnson
497. The selfish and vulgar character John Thorpe appear in
(c) Milton (d) Shakespeare
(a) The Monastery (1820)
508. Which of the following is not lecture of Hazlitt?
(b) Northanger Abbey (1818)
(a) The English Comic Writers (1819)
(c) Sense and Sensibility (1811)
(b) Table Talk
(d) Mansfield Park (1814)
(c) Characters of Shakespeare's, Plays (1817)
498. Who among the following joined East India Company?
(a) Michael Scott (d) The English Poets (1818) I
(b) Frederic Marryat 509. Regarding whom does Symonds write, "In none of his
(c) Thomas Love Peacock greatest contemporaries was the lyrical faculty so
(d) Washington Irving paramount" ?
499. "Bliss was it is that down to be alive. But to be young was (a) Keats (b) Spenser
very heaven?" Here Wordsworth is referring to (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
(a) Elizabethan age (b) Commonwealth period 510. Who wrote Recollections of the Lake and Lake Poets?
(c) French revolution (d) Augustan age (a) Southey (b) Thomas De Quincey
500. Which of the following poem appeared later in Lyrical (c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
Ballads? 511. Whichof the following is the best known work of William
(a) Simon Lee (b) Tintern Abbey Hazlitt?
(c) The Throne (d) Michael (a) The Spirit of the Age (1825)
501. Which of the following is written in the style of Milton? (b) Table Talk
(a) Lamia (1819) (b) Hyperion (c) The English Poets (1818)
(c) The Caps and Bells (d) Otho the Great (1819) (d) The Round Table (1817)

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512. Where do we meet these characters? Don Alfonso, Julia, 522. Who wrote the Life of Napoleon. (1827)?
Sultana? In (a) Thomas Love Peacock
(a) Lara (b) Don Juan (b) Washington Irving
(c) Childe Herold (d) Beppo (c) Jane Austen
513. Which of the following is the best work of Thomas De (d) Sir Walter Scott
Quincey? 523. Which of the following deals with murder of Lady
(a) On the Knocking. at the Gate in Macbeth Leicester?
(b) Suspiria de Profundis (1845) (a) The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
(c) Confessions of an English Opium Eater (b) The Talisman (1822)
(d) The English Map-Coach (1849) (c) Kenilworth (1821)
514. Which of the following work of Quincey is about the black (d) The Pirate (1822)
humour? 524. Which of the following represent the scene of England?
(a) Suspiria de Profundis (1845)
(a) Ivanhoe (1820)
(b) Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(b) The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
(c) The English Map-Coach (1849)
(c) Old Mortality (1816)
(d) On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
(d) Rob Roy (1818)
515. Charles Lamb's The Old Familiar Faces and To Hester
525. Leigh Hunt's well known poem is—
is his well known—
(a) Lalla Rookh (1817) (b) The Village Minstrel (1821)
(a) play (b) lecture
(c) The Indicator (1819)(d) The Story of Rimini (1816)
(c) poem (d) essay
526. Sir Walter Scott's best known work is—
516. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary came out in...
(a) The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
(a) 1755 (b) 1800
(b) The Lady of the Lake (1810)
(c) 1766 (d) None of these
(c) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border (1802)
517. Mary Lamb appears in Charles Lainb's -essays under
(d) None
the name of—
527. Who among the following had called Wordsworth, a
(a) Cousin Bridget (b) Mary Lamb
'Moral Eunuch'?
(c) Cousin Lamb (d) None of these
(a) Byron (b) Browning
518. Who was the fellow-pupil of Charles Lamb?
(c) Shelley (d) Arnold
(a) Coleridge (b) Shelley
528. The Romantic writers were influenced by the idealism
(c) Wordsworth (d) Keats
of German philosophers such as
519. Who collaborated with Charles Lamb in Tales from
(a) Kant and Rousseau (b) Rousseau and More
Shakespeare (1807)?
(c) More and Hegel (d) Kant and Hegel
(a) Mary Lamb
529. The mariner in "The Ancient Mariner" kills a bird.
(b) Sir Walter Scott
Identify the bird among the following.
(c) Thomas De Quincey
(d) William Hazlitt (a) Albatross (b) Swan
520. Who is known for leather stocking novels? (c) Penguin (d) Flemingo
(a) Thomas Love Peacock 530. The historic drama The Fall of Robespierre published
(b) Washington Irving in 1794 was written by Coleridge and
(c) James Fenimore Cooper (a) Crabbe (b) Southey
(d) Sir Walter Scott (c) Wordsworth (d) Burns
521. Johnson wrote The Lives of the Poets. Who wrote the 531. The total member of poems included in `Lyrical Ballads'
Lives of the Novelists? is
(a) Jane Austen (b) Sir Walter Scott (a) 23 (b) 24
(c) Henry Fielding (d) Richardson (c) 25 (d) 26

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532. Who said about Wordsworth, "His poetry is the reality 540. Whom did T.L. Peacock satirise in his Night-mare Abbey?
his Philosophy is the illusion" ? (a) Shelley (b) Keats
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) John Ruskin (c) Coleridge (d) Both (a) and (c)
(c) Arnold (d) Byron 541. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was dedicated to
533. Which of the following is a critical work which represents (a) Richardson (b) Defoe
minor dramatists? (c) G. Lyttleton (d) Bishop Percy
(a) Specimens of English Dramatic Poets 542. Who among the following has been called a "Ploughman
(b) To Hester Poet" ?
(c) Tales from Shakespeare (1807) (a) Blake (b) Gray
(d) John Woodvil (1802) (c) Thomson (d) Burns
534. Who wrote On the Tragedies of Shakespeare? 543. Who made a scathing attack on the contemporary literary
(a) Thomas De Quincey scene and the `Edinburgh Review' through his satire,
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ?
(b) Charles Lamb
(a) Shelley (b) Byron
(c) Southey
(c) Scott (d) Hazlitt
(d) Hazlitt
544. Who emphasized the use of the "language really used by
535. Lamb's essays published in The Essays of Elia (1823).
men" for poetry?
Second time his essays was published under the title of
(a) Coleridge (b) Wordsworth
The Last Essays of Elia in—
(c) Shakespeare (d) Pope
(a) 1838 (b) 1850
545. Many critics have hailed the publication of the Lyrical
(c) 1825 (d) 1833
Ballads as the beginning of the Romantic Period. In which
536. Charles Lamb's essays appears in—
year was it published?
(a) The Public Ledger
(a) 1796 (b) 1797
(b) The London Magazine
(c) 1798 (d) 1799
(c) The Gentleman Magazine
546. Keats died in 1821 and Shelley died in
(d) The Englishman
(a) 1829 (b) 1821
537. Who is the author of The Book of the Church and Sir (c) 1819 (d) 1822
Thomas More? 547. Mary Lamb was the—
(a) Priestly (b) Burns (a) friend (b) mother
(c) Southey (d) Godwin (c) sister (d) daughter
538. Sir Walter Scott brought to the historical novel— 548. In which of his novels Scott represented that Shakespeare
(a) A knowledge that was pedantically exact, but died in 1590 without writing his tragedies ?
manageable, wide and bountiful. To the sum of this (a) Kenilworth (b) Red Gauntlet
knowledge he added a life giving force, a vitalizing (c) Woodstock (d) Abbot
energy, an insight and a general dexterity that made 549. Who was called by Keats as "The Egotistical Sublime" ?
his historical novel on entirely new species. (a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
(b) A subtle psychological unde-rstanding of the historical (c) Byron (d) Coleridge
characters and delineated them with rate psychological 550. Corneille is the name of a
realism, unsurpassed in the entire range of English (a) French dramatist (b) Italian essayist
historical novel. (c) Greek historian (d) Spanish poet
(c) A realistic presentation of characters, situations and 551. Who of the following is known for his Hel-lenic Spirit ?
surroundings. (a) Lord Byron (b) P.B. Shelley
(d) None of these (c) Southey (d) John Keats
539. "I awoke one morning and found myself famous" - who 552. Who was expelled from the Oxford University for his
commented thus on his sudden success as a poet ? undergraduate pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism ?
(a) Milton (b) Shelley (a) Byron (b) Keats
(c) Keats (d) Byron (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
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553. "It is no small thing to have so loved the principle of (a) William Cobbet (b) Robert Bloomfield
beauty as to perceive the nec-essary relation beauty with (c) John Clare (d) Hopkins
truth, and of both with joy". Who is Arnold talking about 563. In which year Waverley, the very first was novel of Scott's
in this sentence ? Waverley series published?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Wordsworth (a) 1810 (c) 1814
(c) Keats (d) Tennyson (b) 1812 (d) 1816
554. To the elder group of Romantic poets belonged. 564. Grongar Hill, a piece of vigorous landscape painting, was
(a) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Scott written by the pre-Romantic poet
(b) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey (a) James Thomson (b) John Dyer
(c) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats (c) Lady Winchilsea (d) Thomas Paruel
(d) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley 565. Who wrote the Ode to France under the influence of the
555. Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of French Revolution?
(a) Mining districts (b) Waverly region (a) Coleridge (b) Blake
(c) The Lake districts (d) Lancashiri region (c) Shelley (d) Byron
556. "Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who 566. "Man is born free, but alas.! he is everywhere in chains"
Day ye low ? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich - these are the famous words of
robes you tyrants wear ?" These revolutionary thoughts
(a) Plato (b) Socrates
hailed from
(c) Hobbes (d) Rousseau
(a) Byron (b) Shelley
567. What is Coleridge's Anima Poetae ?
(c) De Quincey (d) Walter Scott
(a) A treatise on poetry(b) Biographies of poets
557. "Liberty the soul of Life shall reign/ Shall throb in every
(c) Table-talk and notes(d) Lectures
pulse, shall flow through every vein." Who wrote the above
568. Who in his critical work Specimens of English Dramatic
lines aboilt the French Revolution ?
poets who wrote about the time of Shakespeare,
(a) Thomas Paine (b) S.T. Coleridge
endeavoured to spread the knowledge of older English
(c) William Godwin (d) Robert Southey
playwrights?
558. In which of his poems Wordsworth tells the scholar to do
(a) Hazlitt (b) Coleridge
away with books and make Nature his teacher ?
(c) Leigh Hunt (d) Lamb
(a) Tables Turned (b) Tintern Abbey
569. In which of his poems Shelley denounces all the forces of
(c) The Solitary Reaper (d) The Prelude
tyranny and oppression represented by kings and priests?
559. "But Europe at that time was thrilled with Joy France
(a) Alaster (b) Queen Mab
standing on the top of golden hours And human nature
seeming born again". These lines regarding. the French (c) Adonais (d) The Revolt of Islam
'Revolution are of 570. In which chapter of Bilsgraphia Literaria, Coleridge
(a) De Quincey (b) Shelley criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth?
(c) Wordsworth (d) Sir Walter Raleigh (a) 16 (b) 17
560. Who introduces as a narrator a country parson exploring (c) 14 (d) 15
"the simple annals" of his parish leafing, in his poem 571. Who had said that he had "a smack of Hamlet" in himself?
The Parish Register (1807)? (a) Byron (b) Keats
(a) Southey (c) Crabbe (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
(b) Burns (d) Austen 572. About which magazine Scott had said, "No-genteel family
561. Maid Marion and The Misfortunes of Elphin are the novels can pretend to be without it" and Carlyle had remarked
written by that it was "a kind of Delphic Oracle and voice of the
(a) De Quincey (b) T.L. Peacock inspired for the great majority of what is called the
(c) S. Glowry (d) Hazlitt intelligent public" ?
562. Who wrote a poem by the name The Shepherd's Calendar (a) Edinburgh Review (b) The London Magazine
that was published in 1827 ? (c) Fraser's Magazine (d) The Westminister Review

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573. Who wrote The Entail (1822), a tragic fic-tion? 584. Who wrote what are known as `Waveley novels' ?
(a) Scott (b) Ferrier (a) Hazlitt (b) Hardy
(c) Edgeworth (d) Galt (c) Scott (d) Peacock
574. Who wrote letter to Mr. Gifford, The Round Table, Table 585. Who wrote Frankenstein ?
Talk, The Spirit of the Age ? (a) Mary Shelley (b) Mary Wollstonecraft
(a) William Hazlitt (b) Leigh Hunt (c) Miss Edgeworth (d) Mrs. Radcliff
(c) Charles Lamb (d) De Quincey 586. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water". This was
575. Wordsworth composed The Prelude in 1805 It was chosen as his own epitaph by
published in— (a) Shelley (b) Byron
(c) Keats (d) Shakespeare
(a) 1820 (b) 1850
587. Which of the following is not written by Walter Scott ?
(c) 1805 (d) 1810
(a) The Black Dwarf (b) The Legend Montrose
576. Nature poem imbued with Wordsworth's Philosophy and
(c) The Talisman (d) None of the above
mysticism is
588. Who wrote Sir Ralph Esher?
(a) Tintern Abbey
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(b) The Thorn
(c) Hazlitt (d) Leigh Hunt
(c) Ode to Duty 589. Wordsworth's The Prelude is—
(d) Ode on the intimations of Immor-tality (a) an epic (b) a lyric
577. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria was published in (c) an ode (d) an elegy
(a) 1801 (b) 1808 590. Prior to Keats who else was an endow-ment of what has
(c) 1817 (d) 1827 been called the "Negative capa-bility"?
578. Who called Keats "a Greek" for his preoccupation with (a) Wordsworth (b) Milton
Hellenism in poetry? (c) Spenser (d) Shakespeare
(a) Arnold (b) Shelley 591. Who wrote blank-verse tragedies such as Cain, Manfred,
(c) Eliot (d) None of the above Marino Faliero and The Deformed Transformed ?
579. Which of these ballads and short tales are written by (a) Swinburne (b) Coleridge
Robert Southey ? (c) Scott (d) Byron
(a) The Battle of Blenheim 592. The Reform Bill was passed in the year
(b) Bishop Hatto (a) 1812 (b) 1832
(c) Inchcape Rock (c) 1820 (d) 1840
(d) All of the above 593. Which ofthe following forces influenced romantic revival
580. Who wrote "Magnificence" ? in England?
(a) The philosophy of Rousseau and the French
(a) Shelley (b) Skelton
Revolution of 1789
(c) Keats (d) Dryden
(b) Moliere and Racine
581. Who had said that "truth is always strange; stranger
(c) Greek classicism and Elizabethan literature
than fiction" ?
(d) None of these
(a) Coleridge (c) Byron
594. Who is the author of Story of Rumini ?
(b) Johnson (d) Hazlitt
(a) John Keats (b) Leigh Hunt
582. Nature for the Romantics is
(c) George Darley (d) Macaulay
(a) independence of man 595. Who uses the 'pansies' as the symbol of sad thoughts and
(b) nature is the setting of man 'violets' of modesty and innocence in one of his poems?
(c) something that is needed for his fulfilment (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(d) all these three (c) Keats (d) Shelley
583. Name Wordsworth's spiritual auto-biography. 596. Who is the author of Imaginary Conversa-tions ?
(a) Tintern Abbey (b) The Recluse (a) De Quincey (b) Landor
(c) The Prelude (d) Immortality Ode (c) William Cobbet (d) Hazlitt
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597. Who is the author of Emile that had influenced the 599. The Absentee is the best novel by
Romantic Movement ? (a) Edgeworth (b) Ferrier
(a) Balzac (b) Kant (c) Austen (d) F. Burney
(c) Diderot (d) Rousseau 600. Whom does Lamb describe as "an archangel a little
598. Hazlitt presented a sharp and witty criticism of his damaged" ?
literary and political contemporaries in 1825, in his (a) Shelley (b) Coleridge
compilation (c) Wordsworth (d) Keats
(a) Spirit of the Age
(b) Essays on the Principles of Human Action
(c) New Pygmalion
(d) None of the above

Answers
1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (a)
11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (b) 14. (a) 15. (a) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (b)
21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (c) 26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (a) 29. (b) 30. (d)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (c) 37. (d) 38. (c) 39. (a) 40. (d)
41. (b) 42. (a) 43. (c) 44. (c) 45. (a) 46. (c) 47. (d) 48. (a) 49. (d) 50. (d)
51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (c) 54. (c) 55. (a) 56. (b) 57. (d) 58. (b) 59. (a) 60. (c)
61. (b) 62. (b) 63. (a) 64. (b) 65. (c) 66. (b) 67. (c) 68. (c) 69. (a) 70. (d)
71. (a) 72. (c) 73. (b) 74. (b) 75. (c) 76. (c) 77. (c) 78. (b) 79. (a) 80. (b)
81. (d) 82. (a) 83. (b) 84. (d) 85. (d) 86. (c) 87. (c) 88. (b) 89. (c) 90. (a)
91. (c) 92. (d) 93. (c) 94. (d) 95. (c) 96. (a) 97. (a) 98. (b) 99. (a) 100. (c)
101. (b) 102. (c) 103. (d) 104. (d) 105. (b) 106. (d) 107. (c) 108. (c) 109. (d) 110. (b)
111. (b) 112. (b) 113. (b) 114. (c) 115. (d) 116. (b) 117. (d) 118. (c) 119. (b) 120. (b)
121. (d) 122. (a) 123. (b) 124. (b) 125. (b) 126. (d) 127. (a) 128. (d) 129. (a) 130. (a)
131. (c) 132. (c) 133. (d) 134. (b) 135. (b) 136. (d) 137. (b) 138. (b) 139. (c) 140. (b)
141. (d) 142. (b) 143. (a) 144. (d) 145. (d) 146. (d) 147. (c) 148. (c) 149. (b) 150. (c)
151. (a) 152. (c) 153. (b) 154. (b) 155. (c) 156. (a) 157. (c) 158. (d) 159. (b) 160. (c)
161. (d) 162. (c) 163. (a) 164. (c) 165. (c) 166. (d) 167. (c) 168. (b) 169. (d) 170. (c)
171. (a) 172. (a) 173. (d) 174. (a) 175. (b) 176. (c) 177. (d) 178. (c) 179. (a) 180. (d)
181. (a) 182. (d) 183. (c) 184. (c) 185. (c) 186. (b) 187. (a) 188. (d) 189. (a) 190. (d)
191. (c) 192. (a) 193. (a) 194. (c) 195. (d) 196. (d) 197. (d) 198. (a) 199. (d) 200. (b)
201. (c) 202. (a) 203. (d) 204. (d) 205. (b) 206. (d) 207. (c) 208. (a) 209. (a) 210. (c)
211. (d) 212. (b) 213. (a) 214. (a) 215. (d) 216. (d) 217. (a) 218. (b) 219. (b) 220. (d)
221. (d) 222. (a) 223. (d) 224. (a) 225. (b) 226. (d) 227. (c) 228. (a) 229. (d) 230. (a)
231. (c) 232. (c) 233. (b) 234. (a) 235. (d) 236. (d) 237. (b) 238. (b) 239. (c) 240. (d)
241. (d) 242. (a) 243. (d) 244. (b) 245. (a) 246. (c) 247. (b) 248. (c) 249. (b) 250. (b)
251. (b) 252. (a) 253. (c) 254. (b) 255. (b) 256. (c) 257. (c) 258. (a) 259. (b) 250. (c)
261. (c) 262. (a) 263. (b) 264. (a) 265. (c) 266. (c) 267. (c) 268. (a) 269. (d) 270. (c)
271. (c) 272. (c) 273. (a) 274. (d) 275. (b) 276. (c) 277. (c) 278. (d) 279. (b) 280. (d)
281. (d) 282. (c) 283. (a) 284. (d) 285. (d) 286. (c) 287. (a) 288. (d) 289. (d) 290. (d)
291. (b) 292. (b) 293. (c) 294. (b) 295. (a) 296. (c) 297. (c) 298. (d) 299. (d) 300. (c)
301. (d) 302. (b) 303. (a) 304. (c) 305. (b) 306. (a) 307. (c) 308. (b) 309. (c) 310. (d)
311. (d) 312. (a) 313. (b) 314. (a) 315. (b) 316. (c) 317. (b) 318. (a) 319. (b) 320. (a)

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321. (d) 322. (b) 323. (d) 324. (c) 325. (a) 326. (b) 327. (c) 328. (d) 329. (c) 330. (c)
331. (c) 332. (b) 333. (c) 334. (b) 335. (c) 336. (a) 337. (a) 338. (b) 339. (d) 340. (d)
341. (c) 342. (b) 343. (a) 344. (c) 345. (b) 346. (b) 347. (d) 348. (c) 349. (d) 350. (d)
351. (a) 352. (a) 353. (d) 354. (c) 355. (b) 356. (b) 357. (c) 358. (d) 359. (a) 360. (c)
361. (a) 362. (b) 363. (d) 364. (a) 365. (c) 366. (d) 367. (a) 368. (a) 369. (a) 370. (d)
371. (c) 372. (b) 373. (c) 374. (b) 375. (b) 376. (d) 377. (b) 378. (a) 379. (d) 380. (d)
381. (a) 382. (c) 383. (d) 384. (a) 385. (b) 386. (b) 387. (b) 388. (a) 389. (a) 390. (c)
391. (a) 392. (b) 393. (d) 394. (d) 395. (b) 396. (a) 397. (a) 398. (c) 399. (c) 400. (d)
401. (a) 402. (c) 403. (a) 404. (c) 405. (b) 406. (c) 407. (c) 408. (d) 409. (b) 410. (a)
411. (c) 412. (d) 413. (b) 414. (c) 415. (a) 416. (d) 417. (b) 418. (a) 419. (c) 420. (a)
421. (b) 422. (c) 423. (b) 424. (b) 425. (c) 426. (a) 427. (c) 428. (a) 429. (a) 430. (c)
431. (a) 432. (d) 433. (d) 434. (c) 435. (b) 436. (c) 437. (d) 438. (b) 439. (b) 440. (c)
441. (a) 442. (a) 443. (c) 444. (b) 445. (b) 446. (d) 447. (c) 448. (b) 449. (c) 450. (d)
451. (d) 452. (b) 453. (a) 454. (d) 455. (b) 456. (a) 457. (b) 458. (b) 459. (b) 460. (c)
461. (c) 462. (c) 463. (b) 464. (a) 465. (a) 466. (c) 467. (c) 468. (b) 469. (b) 470. (c)
471. (a) 472. (d) 473. (d) 474. (b) 475. (c) 476. (d) 477. (c) 478. (b) 479. (a) 480. (b)
481. (c) 482. (c) 483. (d) 484. (b) 485. (a) 486. (b) 487. (c) 488. (a) 489. (d) 490. (d)
491. (b) 492. (b) 493. (c) 494. (a) 495. (d) 496. (d) 497. (b) 498. (c) 499. (c) 500. (d)
501. (a) 502. (b) 503. (d) 504. (c) 505. (b) 506. (d) 507. (c) 508. (b) 509. (c) 510. (b)
511. (a) 512. (a) 513. (c) 514. (d) 515. (c) 516. (a) 517. (a) 518. (d) 519. (a) 520. (c)
521. (b) 522. (d) 523. (c) 524. (a) 525. (d) 526. (b) 527. (c) 528. (d) 529. (a) 530. (b)
531. (a) 532. (b) 533. (a) 534. (b) 535. (d) 536. (b) 537. (c) 538. (a) 539. (d) 540. (d)
541. (c) 542. (d) 543. (b) 544. (b) 545. (c) 546. (d) 547. (c) 548. (c) 549. (a) 550. (a)
551. (d) 552. (c) 553. (c) 554. (b) 555. (c) 556. (b) 557. (d) 558. (d) 559. (c) 560. (c)
561. (b) 562. (c) 563. (c) 564. (c) 565. (a) 566. (d) 567. (c) 568. (d) 569. (d) 570. (c)
571. (d) 572. (a) 573. (d) 574. (a) 575. (b) 576. (d) 577. (c) 578. (b) 579. (d) 580. (b)
581. (c) 582. (d) 583. (c) 584. (c) 585. (a) 586. (c) 587. (d) 588. (d) 589. (a) 590. (b)
591. (d) 592. (b) 593. (a) 594. (b) 595. (d) 596. (b) 597. (d) 598. (b) 599. (a) 600. (b)

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 Non – Fiction in
Romantic Age
The Romantic Age witnessed non-fiction literatuie, definition of the essay is- “The essay is a loose sally (witty)
mainly in the form of essays, memoirs and biographical of mind, an irregular, indigested piece, not a regular and
depictions. orderly composition.”
This definition touches only one aspect- though a
Literary Trends in Non-Fiction Prose very important aspect of the essay. Many other writers too,
during Romantic Age tried to define essay, Dut they too could explain only one or
two aspects of the essay. A definition that covers a vast
In the eighteenth century, a change had taken place in
proportion of essay is- “An essay is a short, incomplete,
the prose style. Many eighteenth century prose-writers
informal, light, subjective literary composition in prose.”
dependent on the assumptions about the suitability of various
also saw significant development. Though essay and
prose styles for various purposes, for which they shared with
criticism, both were not new, criticism had peen practiced
the relatively small, but the sophisticated public. Writers in the before by Dryden, Addison, Johnson and Goldsmith; and
Romantic Period were rather concerned more with subject matter the personal essay or essay proper, derived from Montaigne
and emotional expression than with appropriate style. They (Father of Essay), had attracted Cowley, Addison, Steele, and
wrote for an ever-increasing audience which was less Goldsmith.
homogeneous in its interest and education than that of their Romantic Prose is not based on love stories, though
predecessors. The autobiographical exploitation of personality some of the novels do have a romantic element. Romantic Prose
manifests itself in a great variety of ways among writers of the refers to the prose written in Romantic Period.
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; it is symptomatic
of a significant change in the relation between the writer and Characteristics of Non-Fiction
the society There was an indication of a growing distrust of the Prose in Romantic Age
sharp distinction between matter and manna which was made Following are the main characteristic features of the
in the eighteenth century. In the Romantic Period, the tendency essay of Romantic Age
was for the writer to draw on his own personality either as
illuminating case history or as a gesture of defiance of Departure from Reason
showmanship or ‘alienation’ rather than to objectify it in terms The Romantic Period came after the Age of
of a cause or a system. The growth of the familiar essay, with its Enlightenment, which really had a focus on logic, reason and
highly personal, often whimsical, flaunting of the writer’s tastes science and the Romantic Period was a deviation from that. In
prejudices, and idiosyncrasies, represents another aspect of Romantic literature, we see an emphasis on emotions,
the Romantic exploitation of personality. imaginations and Intuitions-elements of humanity that can defy
Essays have variable shapes and therefore, it is reason.
understandable hat, though numerous attempts have been
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made to give a definition to the essay, yet none has met Focus on Nature
with complete success. Most of such attempts succeeded In Neo-classical Prose, the main focus was on realism,
in covering only a part of the compositions which commonly morality and reason, whereas the essay writers of Romantic
go under the label of the essay. A comprehensive definition Age, like Romantic Poets focussed on connecting with the
which would cover essays as different is those of Bacon, natural world. Thus they tried to escape from troubles of world
Addison, Lamb etc. is yet to come. Dr. fohnson’s famous and quest for the peace of mind in nature.

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 Elements of Supernaturalism Elizabeth Dixon, into a state of servitude. A weaver by
profession, her father left his work, mismanaged his share of
To further separate itself from the Age of
family inheritance and engaged in futile attempts to become a
Enlightenment, from logic and reason, there is really no better
gentleman. After her mother’s death, Wollstonecraft left home
place to turn than to the supernaturalism. A lot of works like
in search of her own livelihood.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
contain elements that require the reader to suspend his disbelief Literary Carrer and Works
to accept what they are reading and go along with something
that will defy logic and reason. Together, the two sisters along with Wollstonecraft’s
close friend Fanny established a school at Newington Green,
Transcendentalism an experience from which Wolistonecraft drew to write. Thoughts
Transcendentalist Movement was a reaction against on the Education of Daughters With Reflections on Female
the 18th-century rationalism. The movement was based on a Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life ( I 787). She
fundamental belief in the unity of world and God. Soul was started work as a lady’s companion to a Mrs Dawson, in Bath
thought to be the world. Thus individual soul was identified and later worked as a governess in the family of Lord
with God. Kingsborough. Wollstonecraft gradually grew disgusted with
Focus on Individual the work and returned to London. She became a translator and
an adviser to Joseph Johnson, a noted publisher of radical
A lot of works talked about the rights and freedoms of
texts.
an individual and their ability to exert their will even against
In 1790, Wollstonecraft produced her Vindication of
something logical. A lot of these novels have themes of rebellion
the Rights of Man, the first response to Edmund Burke’s
in the face of oppression. Characters do things that might seem
Reflections on the Revolution in France. She attacked Burke’s
irrational because it is really what they want to do.
ideas based on antiquity and tradition. The publication of A
Humanitarianism Vindication of the Rights of Man brought Wollstonecraft to
Like Romantic poets, the Essayists of Romantic Age the attention of other radical thinkers such as Tom Paine, John
too showed interest in the common man. The essays of Cartwright, John Horne Tooke, William Godwin and William
Romantic Age, too like poetry, reflect the feelings of Blake. Wollstonecraft is best known for her feminist tract, A
Humanitarianism. Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), which advocated
equality of sexes.
Interest in Past, Primitive and Medieval
Apart from her pamphlets and feminist tracts,
Writers of the Neo-classical Age created their works Wollstonecraft also wrote two novels, Mao?, A Fiction and
on the basis of reason and morality. The writers of Romantic Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman. She also completed Original
Age, contrary to them, drew inspirations from the past and Stories From Real Life; with Conversations, calculated to
justified their statements by experiences of primitive and
Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and
medieval ages.
Goodness (1788) and an anthology, The Female Reader;
Idea of Revolution Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse; Selected from the
Best Writers and Disposed under Proper Heads; For the
Essays of Romantic Age exhibit the idea of Revolution
Improvement of Young Women (1789), published under the
and change.
pen name ‘Mr. Cresswick, teacher of Elocution’. She married
Major Writers of the Romantic Age William Godwin, a philosopher in February 1797. Her daughter,
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Mary Shelley, author of
British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft was born Frankenstein), was born in August 1797. Wollstonecraft died
in Spitalfields, London in 1759. Her father, Edward John of an infection on 10th September, 1797, 11 days after the birth
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 Vindication of the Rights of Women publications as the The Albion, The Morning Chronicle and
The Morning Post.
 Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of When Lamb was 20 years old, he suffered a period of
Woman, published in 1792, is considered as one of the insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and
earliest texts of Western feminism. had murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined
 It is partly structured as a response to several works on to an asylum, but was eventually released into the care of her
women education and female conduct written by men brother. Lamb devoted his life to caring for his sister, Mary,
during the latter half of the 18th century, among the most who even collaborated with him on some of his works. They
significant of these was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile jointly published Tales from Shakespeare in 1807.
or On’ Educations. Lamb was part of a large circle of influential friends
 She states that since childhood, women are taught to such as Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, Henry Brougham,
believe that they are inferior to men. They are taught to be Lord Byron,Thomas Barnes and Leigh Hunt. He and his sister
docile and submissive. Characteristics such as meekness had frequent visitors, their salon evenings- consisting of
and self-sacrifice are inculcated as feminine virtues, which playing cards, eating, drinking, smoking and discussing diverse
lead to subjugation of women. matters. In 1819, at the age of 44, Lamb, who, because of family
 Wolistonecraft further states that women are denied proper commitments, had never married, fell in love with an actress,
education, which prevents their empowerment. The Fanny Kelly, of Covent Garden and proposed marriage to her.
education given to women only aims at ‘acquirement of She refused him and he died a bachelor. Lamb’s best
some corporeal accomplishment’ rather than ‘the known work is the series of essays under his pseudonym Elia,
cultivation of the understanding’. It only trains them to the Essays of Elia (1823). The essays first appeared in the
get husbands. London Magazine, but were later published in book form in
 She makes a case for women education and states; 1823.
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it and there will The name ‘Elia’ was taken from a clerk in the South
be an end to blind obedience but, as blind obedience is Sea House, where Lamb had worked for some time. Lamb’s
ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in intimate and conversational tone in these essays captivated
the right, when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, the readers.
because the former only want slave and the latter a play- Lamb’s other works are his short story, A Tale of
thing.” Rosamund Gray and Poor Blind Margaret (1798), his play
 Wolistonecraft argues that both men and women should John Wodvil (1802), his anthology with critical notes- Specimens
be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of
founded on reason. Shakespeare, his ballad Satan in Search of a Wife (1831) and
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Last Essays of Elia (1833).
William Hazlitt in his The Spirit of the Age remarked
Romantic essayist Charles Lamb was born in London that “Mr Lamb has succeeded, not by conforming to the Spirit
in 1775. He was the son of Elizabeth Field and John Lamb Lamb of the Age, but in opposition to it. He does not march boldly
studied at Christ’s Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship along with the crowd, but steals off the pavement to pick his
with Samuel Taylor Coleridge However, he left the school early way in the contrary direction”. Lamb succumbed to an infection
and did not seek a university career. he contracted from a minor cut on his face after having fallen in
After leaving school, Lamb was sent to Hertfordshire the street and died at Edmonton, a suburb of London in 1834.
where he fell in love with Ann Simmons. He wrote sonnets
dedicated to her, which later appeared in Coleridge’s Poems. Major Works
Literary Career and Works  Blank Verse, poetry (1798)
 A Tale of Rosamund Gray and old blind Margaret (1798)
In 1792, Lamb obtained a position with the British  John Woodvil, poetic drama (1802)
East India Company as an accountant, but he continued to  Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
write epigrams, plays, poetry and essays, many printed in such  The Adventures of Ulysses (1808)
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 Specimens of English Dramatic poets who lived about the men he believed to be significant. These included Samuel Taylor
time of Shakespeare ( 1808) Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, William
 On the Tragedies of Shakespeare ( 1 8 1 1 ) Cobbett, William Godwin, Leigh Hunt, Jeremy Bentham and
 Witches and Other Night Fears ( 1 82 I ) William Wilberforce. Hazlitt died in poverty on 18th September,
 The Pawnbroker’s Daughter (1825) 1830.
 Essays of Elia (1823)
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
 The Last Essays of Elia (1833)
English essayist Thomas de Quincey was born in
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Manchester in 1785. He was the son of a wealthy linen merchant,
English writer and critic William Hazlitt was born in Thomas Quincey. After his father’s death in 1793, his mother
Maidstone, Kent, England in 1778. His mother, Grace Loftus, Elizabeth Penson adopted the name ‘De Quincey’. His father
was from a dissenting family in Cambridgeshire, and his father, had left them sufficient financial resources. De Quincey was
the Reverend William Hazlitt, was an Irish Unitarian minister. educated at prestigious schools at Salford, Bath and Winkfield.
Rev. Hazlitt and his family were forced to leave Kent and live in In 1801, De Quincey began attending the Manchester Grammar
Ireland because of their support for the American Revolution. School. He later got bored of it, ran away from this school and
However, they returned in 1787 and settled at Wem in wandered around the Wales region, sleeping outdoors in order
Shropshire. Hazlitt was educated at the Unitarian New College to stretch his money supply. When he finally had no money
at Hackney, but left 2 years later because he did not want to left, he returned to London to borrow money. On his
become a Unitarian minister. reconciliation with his family, he was sent to Oxford, and during
this period he began taking opium. By 1813, he was addicted to
Literary Career and Works
the drug so much that he consumed ten wine-glasses of the
Hazlitt went to Paris with the aim of becoming a painter, drug each day. He married a farmer’s daughter named Margaret
but gradually convinced himself that he could not excel in this Simpson in 1816.
art. He then turned to journalism and literature and came into
Literary Career and Works
close association with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hunt and
others of the Romantic School. He wrote a few occasional articles to support his family.
His first book, An Essay on the Principles of Human He was appointed as an editor of a local Tory newspaper, the
Action, was published in 1805. Westmoreland Gazette. However, his first major work was
Other works written during this period were Free Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which appeared in
Thoughts on Public Affairs (1806); An Abridgment of the Light London Magazine in 1821.
of Nature Revealed, by Abraham Tucker... (1807); The Apart from this, his other famous works were On the
Eloquence of the British Senate... (2 vols 1807); A Reply to Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (an essay in Shakespearean
Maithus, on his Essay on Population (1807); A New and criticism, which deals with the scene of murder of King Duncan
Improved Grammar of the English Tongue... (1810). Hazlitt also by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth), On Murder Considered as
wrote several books on literature including Characters of one of the Fine Arts (a satirical account of an address made to
Shakespeare (1817), A View of the English Stage (1818), a club) and Recollections of the Lake Poets (a collection of
English Poets (1818) and English Comic Writers (1819). biographical essays of the lake poets-Wordsworth, Coleridge
Hazlitt also wrote for The Times and in 1808, he married and Southey).
the editor’s sister, Sarah Stoddart. The marriage was unhappy He published The Logic of the Political Economy
and the couple separated several years later in 1823, as a result (1844), a dissertation on David Ricardo’s economic theory and
of an affair with a maid, Sarah Walker. Suspiria De Profundis (1845), the sequel to his Confessions, in
Hazlitt also wrote an account of this relationship in which he documented his childhood, dreams and fantasies.
his book Liber Amoris. In 1824, Hazlitt married Isabella From 1853 until his death, De Quincey worked with his
Bridgewater, but this relationship only lasted a year. Hazlitt’s Selections Grave and Gay from: Writings Published and
most well known work; The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Unpublished by Thomas De Quincey. He died in Edinburgh on
Portraits (1825), was a collection of character sketches of 25 the 8th December, 1859.
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 Major Works the age, of poetic decay and decline. The current brass era was
marked, according to Peacock, by poems of “Verbose and
 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) minutely-detailed description of thoughts, passions, actions.
 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823) persons and things.” Peacock in this essay defined the poet as
 On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827) ‘a semi-barbarian in a civilised community’.
 Klosterheim or The Masque (1832) Apart from this essay, Peacock wrote several other
 Lake Reminiscences or Recollections of the Lake Poets works such as Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House
(1834-40) (1837), Memoirs of Shelley (1858-62) and novels such as
 Revolt of the Tartars (1837) Melincourt (1817) and Nightmare Abbey (1818). Peacock
 The Logic of the Political Economy (1844) succeeded James Mill as chief examiner for the East India
 Suspiria de Profundis (1845) Company in 1836 and retired on a pension in 1856. He died on
 The English Mail-Coach (1849) the 23rd January 1866 at Lower Halliford.
 Autobiographical Sketches (1853)
 California and the Gold Mania (1854) Major Works Essays
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)  The Four Ages of Poetry (1820)
 Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House (1837)
English writer Thomas Love Peacock was born in  Memoirs of Shelley (1858-62)
Dorset, England in 1785. He was the son of Samuel Peacock  The Last Day of Windsor Forest (1887)
and his wife Sarah Love. Peacock’s father was a glass merchant,
who died three years after his birth. His education was cut Novels
short due to his father’s death. Thereafter, Peacock was raised
 Headlong Hall (1815) • Melincourt (1817)
by his mother at her maternal home. He taught himself Greek,
 Nightmare Abbey (1818) • Maid Marian (1822)
Latin, French and Italian.  The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
Literary Career and Works  Crotchet Castle (1831)
 Gryll Grange (1861)
After a brief experience of business, Peacock determined to
devote himself to literature. His poetical works; Palmyra and
Other Poems and The Monks of St Mark were published, when
Romantic Age
he was in his late teens. He served for a short time as secretary Important Writer
to Sir Home Popham at Flushing and paid several visits to
Wales. In 1812 he met PB Shelley and formed a close relationship
with him. Because of financial constraints, he took a job in 1819 The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
with the East India Company. The following year, he married
Jane Gryffydh, daughter of a Welsh rector.
UNIT A : HISTORICAL
Peacock is best known for his essay The Four Ages of PERSPECTIVE AND
Poetry (1820), which provoked Shelley’s famous Defence of BACKGROUND
Poetry. It was first published in the journal ‘Literary Miscellany’
in 1820. In this essay, he wrote about the gradual origin and 1. The Borderers is a
development of poetry in four ages: Age of Iron; Age of Gold, (a) comedy (b) novel
Age of Silver and Age of Brass. Poetry originated in the Iron (c) epic (d) blank verse tragedy
Age, in which “Rude bards celebrated in rough numbers the 2. Peterloo massacre took place in
exploits of ruder chiefs, in days when every man was a warrior”. (a) 1891 (b) 1890
(c) 1819 (d) 1765
The golden age was the age of the noblest poetic
3. Theodore Watts Duntan gives the title “The Renaissance
productions when poetry tended to become retrospective. This of Wonder” to the
was followed by the artificial silver age in which poets re-casted (a) Elizabethan Age (b) Restoration Age
or imitated the poems of the age of gold. The Brass age, was (c) Romantic Age (d) None

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4. The Battle of Marathon was written by (c) Eliot (d) Collins
(a) Arnold (b) Anne Bronte 17. Walter Landor’s Count Julian is a
(c) Elizabeth Barret (d) Tennyson (a) poem (b) essay
5. Who gave the slogan “back to nature”? (c) drama (d) memoir
(a) Rousseau (b) Cowper 18. The Four Ages of Poetry was an attack on
(c) Wordsworth (d) Pope (a) romanticism (b) neo-classicism
6. Cobbett’s Political Register appeared in (c) Elizabethan poetry (d) Victorian age
(a) 1800 (b) 1802 19. The Old English Baron is a novel by
(c) 1793 (d) 1811 (a) Lewis (b) Walpole
7. The old French word, ‘Romans,’ from which the word (c) Clara Reeve (d) Mrs. Shelley
“Romantic” was derived, means 20. Who is the author of Heroic Idylls?
(a) a vernacular language descended (a) W.S. Landor (b) L. Hunt
(b) a group of tribes from Latin (c) W. Scott (d) W. Cobbett
(c) both (a) and (b) 21. Edinburgh Review was founded in
(d) none of these (a) 1809 (b) 802
8. The Romantics’ view of religion is that (c) 1817 (d) 1819
(a) they looked towards the church for answers 22. Punch was produced by
(b) Christianity failed to be satisfactory (a) Thomas Hood (b) Leigh Hunt
(c) they searched personally for the spiritual truth outside (c) Robert Southey (d) John Keats
religion 23. John Woodwil came out in the year
(d) both b and c (a) 1801 (b) 1807
9. The French Revolution took place in (c) 1817 (d) 1822
(a) 1778 (b) 1789 24. Sidney Smith’s Wit and Wisdom came out in
(c) 1776 (d) 1767 (a) 1850 (b) 1857
10. Nature for the Romantics is (c) 1860 (d) 1863
(a) independence of man 25. Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh is a/an
(b) nature is the setting of man (a) play (b) essay
(c) something that is needed for his fulfilment (c) short story (d) oriental romance
(d) all these three 26. Which among the following was not written by John
11. Peninsular War began in Clare?
(a) 1798 (b) 1808 (a) The Village Minstrel
(c) 1882 (d) 1782 (b) The Rural Muse
12. Life of Walter Scott was written by (c) Punch
(a) John Lockhart (b) Wordsworth (d) The Shepherd’s Calender
(c) Southey (d) Mary Lamb 27. Tales from Shakespeare came out in the year
13. The Absentee is the best novel by (a) 1801 (b) 1802
(a) Edgeworth (b) Ferrier (c) 1804 (d) 1807
(c) Austen (d) F. Burney 28. The Road to Ruin is a sentimental comedy by
14. The Westminster Review came out in the year (a) Thomas Holcraft (b) Sheridan
(a) 1830 (b) 1834 (c) Goldsmith (d) Cumberland
(c) 824 (d) 1817 29. Ancient Spanish Ballads was produced by
15. Corneille is the name of a (a) L. Hunt (b) De Quincey
(a) French dramatist (b) Italian essayist (c) Southey (d) Lokhant
(c) Greek historian (d) Spanish poet 30. Recess was written by
16. Who wrote The Four Ages of Poetry? (a) Sophia Lee (b) Walpole
(a) Shelley (b) Peacock (c) Ducjebs (d) Scott
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31. Mason wrote an elegy Wales” in (a) Galt (b) Austen
(a) 1778 (b) 1777 (c) Peacock (d) J.G. Lockhart
(c) 1724 (d) 1787 46. Thomas Love Peacock died in the year
32. Thomas Holcraft died in (a) 1886 (b) 1866
(a) 1819 (b) 1810 (c) 1824 (d) 1830
(c) 1818 (d) 180933 47. Rural Rides came out in the year
33. The quality of self-effacement is called (a) 1832 (b) 1831
(a) hedonism (b) neologism (c) 1830 (d) 1801
(c) baroque (d) negative capability 48. “The Rural Muse” (1835) is a poem by
34. Who postulated the concept of ‘noble savage’? (a) Thomas Hood (b) John Clare
(a) Southey (b) Blake (c) Shelley (d) Keats
(c) Hazlitt (d) Rousseau
35. Rejected Addresses was written by UNIT B : THE FIRST GENERATION
(a) J. Smith (b) Horace Smith
(c) both a & b (d) none of the above
OF ROMANTIC POETS
36. Who remarked “Literature is the humanisation of the
1. William Wordsworth
whole world”?
49. Who said,”Nature never did betray/The heart that loved
(a) A.C. Ward (b) Goethe
her”?
(c) Aristotle (d) Arnold
(a) Byron (b) Coleridge
37. When was the Reform Bill passed?
(c) Wordsworth (d) None of these
(a) 1837 (b) 1845
50. The Prelude has been divided into _____books.
(c) 1849 (d) 1 832
(a) 14 (b) 16
38. Who regarded Waverly as one of the best things that has
(c) 18 (d) 20
been written?
51. The Lyrical Ballads was written by
(a) Gaskell (b) Goethe
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(c) Godwin (d) Thackeray
(c) both (d) None
39. Who wrote “Magnificence”?
52. Wordsworth died in
(a) Shelley (b) Skelton
(a) 1840 (b) 1815
(c) Keats (d) Dryden
(c) 1850 (d) 1860
40. Cloudesley is a weak novel by
53. Who is the composer of Lucy poems?
(a) Anne Radcliffe (b) Clara Reeve
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth
(c) Jane Austen (d) Godwin
(c) Shakespeare (d) None of these
41. Epistle I of An Essay on Man deals with
54. How many poems of Wordsworth are included in the
(a) importance (b) religion
Lyrical Ballads?
(c) emotional crime (d) sincere man
(a) 4 (b) 12
42. “Say not, the Struggle nought Availeth” is a poem by
(c) 17 (d) 19
(a) L. Hunt (b) A.H. Clough
55. Wordsworth was made the “Poet Laureate” in
(c) Browning (d) Shakespeare
(a) 1850 (b) 1843
43. Blackwood’s Magazine came out in
(c) 1831 (d) 1837
(a) 1800 (b) 1802
56. The Prelude completed in 1805 but was published in
(c) 1811 (d) 1817
(a) 1850 (b) 1840
44. Who says, “The romantic movement was the expression
(c) 1830 (d) 1810
of individual genius rather than the established rules”?
57. “The Waggoner” is a poem by
(a) W.J. Long (b) Charles Lamb
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
(c) Walter Pater (d) John Keats
(c) Keats (d) Byron
45. Valerius is a novel by
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58. Who said:”The Child is the father of the Man”? 71. Coleridge and Lamb died in the same year. The year is
(a) Pope (b) Arnold (a) 1830 (b) 1834
(c) Shakespeare (d) Wordsworth (c) 1850 (d) 1828
59. In which poem do these lines appear, “We have given our 72. “Christabel” is an unfinished poem by
hearts away” and “we are out of tune”? (a) Byron (b) Keats
(a) “Tintern Abbey” (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
(b) “Dover Beach” 73. Which one of the following tragedies was written by
(c) “Daffodils” Coleridge?
(d) “The World is Too Much With Us” (a) The Borderers (b) The Cenci
60. Wordsworth’s The Prelude is a/an (c) Otho, the great (d) Remorse
(a) Philosophical poem 74. To which of the following poets does the phrase “willing
(b) Metaphysical poem suspension of disbelief” apply?
(c) Autobiographical poem (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(d) Biographical poem (c) Shelley (d) Keats
61. “Resolution and Independence” is a poem by 75. The author of Biographia Literaria is
(a) Byron (b) Keats (a) Coleridge (b) Hazlitt
(c) Leigh Hunt (d) Wordsworth
(c) Arnold (d) Ruskin
62. “Daffodils” is a poem by
76. Who was opium addicted?
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) Yeats
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
(c) Southey (d) Coleridge
63. Who called Wordsworth a ‘moral eunuch’?
77. Which one of Coleridge’s poems was included in Lyrical
(a) Arnold (b) Coleridge
Ballads?
(c) Shelley (d) Browning
(a) “The Rime of Ancient
64. Who is of the view: “All things that love the sun are out of
(b) “Christabel” Mariner”
doors”?
(c) “Kubla Khan”
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley
(d) All of these
(c) Keats (d) Coleridge
78. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria appeared in the year
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(a) 1817 (b) 1821
65. S.T. Coleridge produced a play Remorse in the year
(c) 1823 (d) 1829
(a) 1800 (b) 1808
(c) 1813 (d) 1824 79. Who wrote: “O Lady We receive but what we give, And in
66. The phrase “the high road of life” was used by our life alone does Nature live”?
(a) Eliot (b) Kipling (a) Keats (b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge (c) Wordsworth (d) Rousseau
67. Who is the lost leader in Browning’s poem “The Lost 80. “Motiveless, malignity” is a phrase from
Leader”? (a) Eliot (b) Donne
(a) Shelley (b) Milton (c) Coleridge (d) Keats
(c) Shakespeare (d) Wordsworth 81. Who talked of the ‘divinity of Shakespeare’?
68. “Table Talk” is an essay on Shakespeare by (a) Johnson (b) Arnold
(a) Coleridge (b) Pope (c) Coleridge (d) Eliot
(c) Bradley (d) Johnson 82. “He Prayeth best, who loveth best, All things, great and
69. The great ode “Dejection” was written by small”. In which of the following poems do these lines
(a) Keats (b) Byron occur?
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth (a) “Kubla Khan”
70. Coleridge met Wordsworth in (b) “The Rime of the AncientMariner”
(a) 1797 (b) 1790 (c) “Christabel”
(c) 1798 (d) 1802 (d) “Dejection: An Ode”
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3. Robert Southey 96. “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” is a poem by
83. Southey’s The Life of Nelson is a prose work which came (a) Tennyson (b) Rossetti
out in (c) Coleridge (d) Scott
(a) 1801 (b) 1805 97. Mike Lambourne is a character from
(c) 1813 (d) 1817 (a) Scott (b) Austen
84. Which one is not a poetic work by Robert Southey? (c) Eliot (d) Shelley
(a) “Joan of Arc” 98. Sir Walter Scott has been best remembered for his book
(b) “Thalaba the Destroyer” (a) Old Mortality (b) Ivanhoe
(c) “The Curse of Kehoma” (c) The Talisman (d) None
(d) The Life of Nelson 99. The Heart of Midlothian and Castle Dangerous are
85. The Life of Nelson is a prose piece by novels by
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (a) Walter Scott (b) Emily Bronte
(c) Coleridge (d) Southey (c) George Eliot (d) Middleton Murry
86. Robert Southey’s A Vision of Judgement is a ludicrous 100. Walter Scott’s The Talisman is about
eulogy of: (a) Arabic islands
(a) George II (b) Charles II (b) the Crusades
(c) George III (d) Queen Mary (c) bloodless revolution
(d) English folk stories
87. After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of
101. Old Mortality is a novel by
England?
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) George Eliot
(a) Coleridge (b) Scott
(c) Walter Scott (d) W. Godwin
(c) Southey (d) Dryden
102. Who is considered to be the founder of historical novel?
4. Sir Walter Scott
(a) Richardson (b) Walter Scott
88. Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy came out in
(c) Virginia Woolf (d) James Joyce
(a) 1817 (b) 1819
103. In which novel did Scott raise the Scottish esteem?
(c) 1821 (d) 1822
(a) Waverley (b) Ivanhoe
89. The House of Aspen is the only play by
(c) Old Mortality (d) The Antiquary
(a) Scott (b) Byron
104. Life of Napoleon is a prose piece by
(c) Keats (d) Dryden
(a) Cobbett (b) Southey
90. Walter Scott was born in
(c) Scott (d) W.S. Lander
(a) 1800 (b) 1785
105. After whose refusal the poet Laureateship was conferred
(c) 1771 (d) 1790 on Robert Southey?
91. “Proud Maisie” is a ballad by (a) Scott (b) Coleridge
(a) Scott (b) Keats (c) Pope (d) Dryden
(c) Byron (d) Coleridge 106. The Talisman is a novel by
92. “The Lady of the Lake” is a poem by (a) Scott (b) Austen
(a) Scott (b) Byron (c) Coleridge (d) Dickens
(c) Keats (d) Shelley
93. In Ivanhoe what is the name of the disguised Robin Hood?
(a) Scott (b) Tennyson
UNIT C : THE SECOND
(c) George Eliot (d) Swinburne GENERATION OF ROMANTIC
94. Waverley is a historical novel by POETS
(a) Tennyson (b) George Eliot
(c) Scott (d) Dickens 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
95. Who gave birth to historical novel? 107. Shelley’s “O World! O Life! O Time!” is a
(a) Shakespeare (b) Austen (a) play (b) memoir
(c) Smollett (d) Scott (c) lyric (d) masque
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108. Who married Marry Wallstone Craft? 122. “Hell is a city much like London.” Whose view is this?
(a) Shelley (b) Godwin (a) Wordsworth (b) Scott
(c) Horace Walpole (d) None of these (c) Shelley (d) Byron
109. Shelley was influenced by 123. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University for the
(a) “The Medal” (b) “Political Justice” publication of
(c) “The Season” (d) “Songs of Innocence” (a) “The Mask of Anarchy”
110. Shelley was interested in the teachings of (b) “The Revolt of Islam”
(a) Thomas Hobbes (b) William Godwin (c) “On the Necessity of Atheism”
(c) Both (d) None (d) “Hellas”
111. Who composed “Ode to Skylark”? 124. Shelley’s “Julian and Maddalo” written in 1818 was
(a) Shelley (b) Keats published in
(c) Wordsworth (d) Pope (a) 1819 (b) 1824
112. Shelley’s “To a Skylark” came out with (c) 1829 (d) 1817
(a) Epipsychidion (b) Adonis 125. “The Cloud” is a poem by
(c) Cenci (d) Prometheus Unbound (a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
113. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound written in 1818-19 was (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
published in 126. Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem?
(a) 1820 (b) 1824 (a) “Alastor” (b) “Queen Mab”
(c) 1832 (d) 1828 (c) “Adonais” (d) “The Cenci”
114. Who died by drowning? 127. Shelley was expelled from Oxford in
(a) Shakespeare (b) Pope (a) 1817 (b) 1818
(c) Lamb (d) Shelley (c) 1811 (d) 1825
115. The prophetic words: “If winter comes, can spring be far 128. Whose first wife committed suicide?
behind” have been uttered by (a) Keats (b) Shelley
(a) Arthur Clough (b) Keats (c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
(c) Browning (d) Shelley 129. Shelley’s “The Revolt of Islam” appeared in
116. Prometheus Unbound was written by (a) 1802 (b) 1814
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) 1817 (d) 1822
(c) Scott (d) Peacock 130. Which work of Shelley was written in irregular
117. Shelley’s “Adonais” is unrhymed metre?
(a) a satire (b) a defence (a) “Queen Mab”
(c) an elegy (d) a lyric (b) “Laon and Cythna”
118. “Queen Mab” is an aesthetic poem of (c) “The Revolt of Islam”
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (d) None
(c) Coleridge (d) Eliot 131. Shelley’s “The Witch of Atlas”, which was written in
119. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry written in 1821, was 1820, was published in
published in (a) 1821 (b) 1824
(a) 1822 (b) 1830 (c) 1828 (d) 1835
(c) 1835 (d) 1840 2. John Keats
120. On which work was Shelley working when he died? 132. “To Autumn” is a poem composed by
(a) “Queen Mab” (c) “The Cenci” (a) Keats (b) Yeats
(b) “Alaster” (d) “The Triumph of Life” (c) Horace (d) Pope
121. Intellectual Beauty is a composition by 133. Who is not a Lake Poet?
(a) Keats (b) Yeats (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
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134. Keats died in 1821 and Shelley died in (b) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(a) 1829 (b) 1821 (c) “Ode on Melancholy”
(c) 1819 (d) 1822 (d) “Ode to the West Wind”
I35. Who made the statement? “A thing of beauty is a joy 147. Who wrote Chapman’s Homer?
forever”. (a) Keats (b) Arnold
(a) Keats (b) Pope (c) Dryden (d) Pater
(c) Coleridge (d) Shakespeare 148. The term ‘negative capability’ was given by
136. Which work of Keats deals with the murder of a lady’s (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
lover by her two wicked brothers? (c) Eliot (d) Wordsworth
(a) “Endymion” (b) “Hyperion” 149. Who said: “What the imagination seizes as Beauty must
(c) “Lamia” (d) “Isabella” be truth”?
137. Who died at the age of 25? (a) Keats (b) Shelley
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) Lamb (d) De Quincey
(c) L. Hunt (d) Southey 150. Which poem of Keats highly impressed Shelley?
138. John Keats came in contact with Leigh Hunt in the year (a) “Ode to a Nightingale”
(a) 1811 (b) 1807 (b) “Hyperion”
(c) 1816 (d) 1818
(c) “I Had a Dove”
139. Keats took the Endymion story from
(d) “To Autumn”
(a) Greek mythology (b) Italian folk tales
151. Who said: “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves
(c) Irish legends (d) Roman myths
to a tree, it had better not come at all”?
I40. Adonais is an elegy on
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge
(a) Shakespeare (b) Dryden
(c) Wordsworth (d) Spenser
(c) Keats (d) Wordsworth
152. Which one of Keats’ works is based on Drayton’s “The
141. Who died of tuberculosis?
Man in the Moon” and Fletcher’s “The Faithful
(a) Coleridge (b) Keats
Shepherdess”?
(c) Shelley (d) Scott
(a) “Isabella” (b) “Endymion”
142. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” A verse-tale of Keats
(c) “Hyperion” (d) “The Eve of St. Agnes”
begins with this line. Identify the poem.
153. “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” This
(a) “Hyperion”
epitaph is written on whose tombstone in Rome?
(b) “Endymion”
(a) Sidney (b) Byron
(c) “The Eve of St. Agnes”
(d) “Eve of St. Mark” (c) Keats (d) Shelley
I43. Which one of Keats’ odes ends with this line: “For ever 154. The name of John Keats’ first poem is
will thou love, and she fair”? (a) “To Autumn” (b) “When I have Fears”
(a) “Ode to a Nightingale” (c) “Endymion” (d) “I Had a Dove”
(b) “Ode to Autumn” 3. Lord Byron
(c) “Ode To Psyche” 155. “Don Juan” was written by
(d) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (a) Tennyson (b) Pound
144. Keats’ volume of poems was dedicated to (c) Eliot (d) Byron
(a) Spenser (b) Fanny Brawne 156. Byron wrote his tragedies in
(c) Leigh Hunt (d) Wordsworth (a) heroic couplets (b) ottava rhyma
145. Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is a (c) blank verse (d) none
(a) drama (b) short story 157. Who made this statement?
(c) lyrical ballad (d) essay “Whom the gods love die young”.
146. Which is not an ode by Keats? (a) Shelley (b) Byron
(a) “Ode to a Nightingale” (c) Austen (d) Yeats

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158. “Child’s Harold’s Pilgrimage” was written by 170. Who wrote, “For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything
(a) Lord Byron (b) Wordsworth but die”?
(c) Keats (d) L. Hunt (a) Keats (b) Lamb
159. Who died of fever? (c) Coleridge (d) Shelley
(a) Byron (b) Keats 171. The Specimens of English Dramatic Poets was written
(c) Shelley (d) None by
160. “She walks in Beauty” and “To Thyrza” are mild lyrics (a) Lamb (b) Hazlitt
by (c) Addison (d) Bacon
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge
172. John Woodvil is a drama by
(c) Wordsworth (d) Byron
(a) Shelley (b) Lamb
161. Which poem of Byron came out in 1814?
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
(a) “The Giaour” (b) “The Bride of Abydos”
2. Leigh Hunt
(c) “Lora” (d) “Pasisina”
173. Leigh Hunt, a poet associated with Keats was born in
162. Byron’s first volume “Hours of Idleness” came out in
1784 and died in
the year
(a) 1800 (b) 1807 (a) 1850 (b) 1849
(c) 1810 (d) 1815 (c) 1859 (d) 1840
163. Who wrote: “It is strange but true, for truth is always 174. Leigh Hunt wrote continuously for more than
strange; stranger than fiction”? (a) 15 years (b) 20 years
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) 25 years (d) 30 years
(c) Blake (d) Byron 3. William Hazlitt
164. A Byronic hero is he who is 175. Hazlitt’s “The Spirit of the Age” came out in the year
(a) vain and melancholy (a) 1820 (b) 1822
(b) cynical (c) 1823 (d) 1825
(c) finds no good in life or love or anything 176. Which author treated all reading as a kind of romantic
(d) all of the above journey into new and pleasant countries?
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles lamb
UNIT D: ESSAYISTS AND CRITICS (c) William Hazlitt (d) De Quincey
177. Whose work with that of Lamb strongly influenced Keats
1. Charles Lamb last and best volume of poetry?
165. Rosamund Gray is a novel by (a) William Hazlitt (b) De Quincey
(a) Dickens (b) Lamb (c) Leigh Hunt (d) P. B. Shelley
(c) Johnson (d) Kipling 4. Thomas De Quincey
166. Jane Austen and Charles Lamb were born in the same 178. Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by
year, i.e. (a) Leigh Hunt (b) Thomas Cooper
(a) 1770 (b) 1772 (c) De Quincey (d) Robert Southey
(c) 1775 (d) 1785 179. Who said: “Not to sympathise is not to understand”?
167. Who had an afflicted sister? (a) Addison (b) Eliot
(a) Shakespeare (b) Wordsworth (c) De Quincey (d) Arnold
(c) Scott (d) Charles Lamb 180. Which periodical founded in 1820, encouraged De
168. Lamb produced his Essays of Elia in Quincey?
(a) 1817 (b) 1823 (a) London Magazine (b) Blackwood’s Magazine
(c) 1797 (d) 1805 (c) Fraser’s Magazine (d) Edinburgh Review
169. Charles Lamb is best known for his 181. Which of these authors was an opium addict?
(a) Essays of Elia (b) Tales from Shakespeare (a) Charles Lamb (b) Thomas De Quincey
(c) Lyrics (d) Short Stories (c) Leigh Hunt (d) William Hazlitt

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182. In whose works life was seen as nebulous and chaotic? (c) Lord Byron
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) John Keats (d) Charles Lamb
(c) P.B. Shelley (d) Thomas De Quincey 186. Literary Reminiscences is the most illuminating critical
183. Which work of De Quincey reveals his grotesque work of
humour? (a) William Hazlitt (b) Thomas De Quincey
(a) Confessions of an English (c) Leight Hunt (d) Lord Byron
(b) The Revolt of the Tartars Opium Eater 187. Which author has been called “the psychologist of style”?
(c) Murder Considered (a) Thomas De Quincey
(d) The English Mail Coach (b) Leigh Hunt
184. Thomas De Quincey was born in the year (c) Charles Lamb
(a) 1782 (b) 1783 (d) John Keats
(c) 1784 (d) 1785 188. Of the following works of De Quincey which is a novel?
185. Who ran away from the Grammar School at Manchester (a) Suspiria de profundis
finding the instruction far below his abilities? (b) Klosterheim
(a) Thomas De Quincey (c) The English Mail Coach
(b) Leigh Hunt (d) Joan of Arc

Answers

Unit A
1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (b) 10. (d)
11. (b) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (a)
21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (b) 24. (c) 25. (d) 26. (c) 27. (d) 28. (a) 29. (d) 30. (a)
31. (d) 32. (d) 33. (d) 34. (d) 35. (c) 36. (b) 37. (d) 38. (b) 39. (b) 40. (d)
41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (d) 44. (a) 45. (d) 46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (b)

Unit B
49. (c) 50. (a) 51. (c) 52. (c) 53. (b) 54. (d) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (a) 58. (d)
59. (d) 60. (c) 61. (d) 62. (d) 63. (c) 64. (a) 65. (c) 66. (d) 67. (d) 68. (a)
69. (c) 70. (a) 71. (b) 72. (d) 73. (d) 74. (b) 75. (a) 76. (d) 77. (a) 78. (a)
79. (b) 80. (c) 81. (c) 82. (b) 83. (c) 84. (d) 85. (d) 86. (c) 87. (c) 88. (a)
89. (a) 90. (c) 91. (a) 92. (a) 93. (a) 94. (c) 95. (d) 96. (d) 97. (a) 98. (b)
99. (a) 100. (b) 101. (c) 102. (b) 103. (b) 104. (c) 105. (a) 106. (a)

Unit C
107. (c) 108. (a) 109. (b) 110. (b) 111. (a) 112. (d) 113. (a) 114. (d) 115. (d) 116. (a)
117. (c) 118. (b) 119. (d) 120. (d) 121. (c) 122. (c) 123. (d) 124. (b) 125. (c) 126. (a)
127. (c) 128. (b) 129. (c) 130. (a) 131. (b) 132. (a) 133. (b) 134. (d) 135. (a) 136. (d)
137. (b) 138. (c) 139. (a) 140. (c) 141. (b) 142. (b) 143. (d) 144. (c) 145. (c) 146. (d)
147. (a) 148. (b) 149. (a) 150. (b) 151. (a) 152. (b) 153. (c) 154. (c) 155. (d) 156. (c)
157. (b) 158. (a) 159. (a) 160. (d) 161. (c) 162. (b) 163. (d) 164. (d)

Unit D
165. (b) 166. (c) 167. (d) 168. (b) 169. (b) 170. (b) 171. (a) 172. (b) 173. (c) 174. (d)
175. (d) 176. (c) 177. (a) 178. (c) 179. (c) 180. (a) 181. (b) 182. (d) 183. (a) 184. (d)
185. (a) 186. (b) 187. (a) 188. (b)

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 Mid–Ninteenth
(1832–1875)
9. First important production of Froude after the works of
UNIT A : HISTORICAL PERSPEC-
the Oxford period was On the Influence of Authority in
TIVE AND BACKGROUND Matters of Opinion
(a) Shadows of the Clouds
1. Which literary period has been called a homogeneous (b) The Nemesis of Faith
period?
(c) Short Stories on Great Subjects
(a) Romantic (b) Puritan
(d) History of England fromthe Fall of Wolsey to the
(c) Victorian (d) Edwardian
defeat of the Spanish Armada
2. Who wrote History of the Revolution?
10. Richard Hurrell Froude’s characteristics are
(a) James Mackintosh (b) Max Muller
(a) A Sense of history
(c) Thomas Carlyle (d) Macaulay
(b) A good storyteller
3. Macaulay entered the House of Commons in
(c) Narrative skills and
(a) 1813 (b) 1820
(d) Topical issues meticulous research
(c) 1830 (d) 1840
11. Freeman’s History of the Norman Conquest is a
4. In Macaulay’s The History of England, merits and defects
glorification of
of his “Essays” are
(a) religion (b) romance
(a) repeated (b) removed
(c) aristocracy (d) teutonism
(c) exaggerated (d) stressed upon
12. The essays gathered together by F.W. Maitland in his
5. Sir G.C. Lewis’ “Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some
‘Roman Canon Law in the Church of England’ are_____
Political Terms” shows his
in number.
(a) philosophical side (b) practical side
(a) four (b) six
(c) religious side (d) literary side
(c) eight (d) ten
6. The philosophical side of Lewis’ mind is best represented
13. Who wrote The Making of England under the shadow of
in
death?
(a) His letters
(a) Charles Henry Pearson
(b) Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some Political Terms
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson
(c) Inquiry on the Credibility of early Roman History
(c) Freeman
(d) On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion
7. With a volume of autobiographic action, Shadows of the (d) John Richard Green
Clouds_____James Anthony Froude’s literary career. 14. Lives of Eminent British Statesmen was edited and partly
(a) opened (b) finished written by
(c) boosted (d) endangered (a) John Forster (b) G.H. Lewes
8. James Anthony Froude’s The Nemesis of Faith was a (c) Thomas Carlyle (d) Andrew Lang
blow not only to the Tractarians but in general to 15. Samuel Smiles’ Self Help and Thrift are in principle
(a) religion (b) literary faith (c) biographic (d) romantic
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16. The deepest interest of Smiles lay in the problems
UNIT B : PHILOSOPHY/ESSAY
suggested by the organization of
(a) ancient industry (b) workers 1. John Stuart Mill
(c) modern industry (d) employers 28. The greatest of the opponents of utilitarianism went back
17. The French Revolution was for for their inspiration to
(a) France (b) Russia (a) Russia (b) Europe
(c) Germany (d) France
(c) Europe (d) Asia
29. To describe the spiritual fathers of Utilitarianism, the
18. After French Revolution, what was immediately visible
adjective ‘Utilitarian’ was substituted by the adjective
was the wreck of the
(a) classical (b) socialistic
(a) ancient regime (b) literary tradition
(c) philosophical (d) transcendental
(c) moral norms (d) none 30. John Stuart Mill based his theory upon
19. Which Victorian writer satirised the fantastic romance? (a) Kant (b) Hume
(a) Carlyle (b) Darwin (c) Goethe (d) Carlyle
(c) Cervantes (d) Adam Smith 31. J.S. Mill from cradle was a
20. Hegels and the Hegelians are called ‘the romantic school’ (a) Benthamite (b) Jew
by (c) Russian (d) British
(a) Carlyle (b) Hume 32. J.S. Mill became editor of “London Review” in
(c) Kant (d) Hoffding (a) 1804 (b) 1814
21. Who said, different breed, tends to superannuation.”? (c) 1824 (d) 1834
“Every literature unless it be crossed by some other of 33. The first important work of J.S. Mill was
(a) System of Logic
(a) Hume (b) Carlyle
(b) Logica
(c) De Quincey (d) Jeremy Bentham
(c) Utilitarianism
22. Who spoke of Goethe as ‘the greatest man of Germany-
(d) Principles of Political Economy
perhaps of Europe?
34. Last work published during J.S. Mill’s life was
(a) Byron (b) Bacon (a) Logica
(c) Carlyle (d) De Quincey (b) Utilitarianism
23. Coleridge’s “Wallenstein” was a fine tribute to (c) Political Economy
(a) Schiller (b) Goethe (d) The Subjection of Women
(c) Hume (d) Kant 35. J.S. Mill’s Utilitarianism is devoted to
24. Coleridge condemned some scenes of Faust as (a) ethics (b) religion
(a) unrealistic (b) mere magic lantern picture (c) philosophy (d) art
(c) foolish (d) nonsensical 36. Who shows himself an ardent positivist in Problems of
25. Life of Sterling appeared in Life and Mind?
(a) 1751 (b) 1851 (a) J.S. Mill (b) George Henry Lewes
(c) Thomas Carlyle (d) Newman
(c) 1890 (d) 1900
37. The translation of the Dialogues of Plato was the most
26. Who said,”Sir William Hamilton was among the greatest
important work of
of the great”?
(a) Freeman (b) Newman
(a) Carlyle (b) Newman
(c) Jowett (d) J.S. Mill
(c) Freeman (d) J.F. Ferrier 38. In The Descent of Man Charles Darwin applies the
27. Who said, “A God understood would be no God at all"? evolutionary laws specifically to the
(a) Hamilton (b) Freeman (a) poets (b) writers
(c) Carlyle (d) J.S. Mill (c) philosophers (d) human race

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39. J.S. Mill's thought and attitude was characterized by 50. Shakespeare's Line–
(a) Liberalism (b) Scepticism "We ae such stuff
(c) Utilitarianism (d) None As dreams are made on; and our little life
40. Who was the founder of the Utilitarianism school? Is rounded with a sleep".
(a) James Mill (b) Hamilton –are a favourite of
(c) Newman (d) Carlyle (a) Aristotle (b) J.S. Mill
2. Thomas Carlyle (c) Ruskin (d) Carlyle
41. Thomas Carlyle, the foremost man of letters of his time, 51. Behind everything in Carlyle lay an unalterable belief in
was obliged to earn by the
(a) writing (b) lecturing (a) Law of Universe (b) Gravitational Law
(c) acting (d) poetry writing (c) Law of Newton (d) Grimm's Law
42. The complete and perfect Carlyle migrated to London in 3. John Ruskin
(a) 1834 (b) 1824 52. John Ruskin was the son of a
(c) 1844 (d) 1864 (a) writer (b) philosopher
43. To Carlyle, the tremendous civil war in America was a (c) teacher (d) wine merchant
(a) nightmare 53. Ruskin's mother was a strict
(a) vegetarian (b) puritan
(b) challenge
(c) disciplinarian (d) evangelical
(c) misfortune
54. The influence of the English Bible gave dignity to the
(d) smoky chimney which had taken fire
rhetoric and thought of
44. Carlyle in his essay on "State of German Literature"
(a) John Ruskin (b) Newman
denied
(c) Thomas Carlyle (d) J.S. Mill
(a) English philosophy
55. John Ruskin tells about his home life in his delightful
(b) French philosophy
(a) Proeterita
(c) Russian philosophy
(b) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(d) German philosophy
(c) Modern Painters
45. Life of Schiller was authored by
(d) None
(a) Carlyle (b) Goethe
56. Ruskin's Proeterita reminds one of Dickens'
(c) Wordsworth (d) Kant
(a) Hard Times (b) Oliver Twist
46. Geother is 'the only living model of a great writer' to
(c) David Copperfield (d) The Bleak House
(a) Coleridge (b) Kant
57. On his thirteenth birthday, Ruskin's father Henry
(c) Schiller (d) Carlyle Telfourd gave him
47. Who translated Wilhelm Master's Apprenticeship? (a) Dickens' Hard Times
(a) Coleridge (b) Kant (b) Rogers Italy
(c) Schiller (d) Carlyle (c) Milton's Paradise Lost
48. Carlyle go married in (d) Keats's Hyperion
(a) 1816 (b) 1826 58. John Ruskin entered as a Gentleman Commoner at Christ
(c) 1836 (d) 1840 Church in January
48. Carlyle's idea of the relation between power and right is (a) 1837 (b) 1857
similar in meaning to that of (c) 1860 (d) 1870
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato 59. The first fruits of Ruskin's tours abroad came in the
(c) Kant (d) Rousseau shape of the
49. Carlyle's idea of the relation between power and right is (a) Modern Painters
similar in meaning to that of (b) Proeterita
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) The Seven Lamps of
(c) Kant (d) Rousseau (d) The Stones of Venice Architecture
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60. Ruskin was elected Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 73. Gothic architecture is extolled and Renaissance
(a) 1849 (b) 1858 architecture is condemned in Ruskin's
(c) 1869 (d) 1879 (a) The Stones of Venice
61. From 1843 to 1860, Ruskin concerned himself with (b) Modern Painters
(a) religion (b) philosophy (c) The King of the Golden River
(c) fine arts (d) literature (d) Salsette and Elephanta
62. Mr. J.A. Hobson has called John Ruskin a 74. Sesame and Lilies (1865) is the most popular book of
(a) teacher (b) puritan (a) Cervantes (b) Firdausi
(c) social reformer (d) philosopher (c) Shakespeare (d) John Ruskin
63. John Ruskin insists on the dominance of
4. John Henry Newman
(a) discipline (b) philosophy
75. Who calls Newman 'the indicating number?
(c) utilitarianism (d) moral ideas
(a) Froude (b) J.S. Mill
64. Upon the Gospel of Work, Ruskin is as emphatic as
(c) Ruskin (d) Carlyle
(a) J.S. Mill (b) Thomas Carlyle
76. Newman's Tracts for the Times appeared in
(c) Newman (d) Freeman
(a) 1813 (b) 1823
65. Ruskin's passion for Gothic was due to his temper of
(a) sensuousness (b) medievalism (c) 1833 (d) 1843
(c) romanticism (d) artistry 77. Lectures on Justification of Newman appeared in
66. Who declared that Ruskin was one of the greatest men of (a) 1818 (b) 1828
the age? (c) 1838 (d) 1840
(a) Thomas Carlyle (b) J.S. Mill 78. Which work of Newman drew from Macaulay the remark
(c) J.A. Hobson (d) Leo Tolstoy that 'the times require a Middleton?
67. Ruskin's Fors Clavigera sums up the trend of his (a) The Essay on Miracles
(a) philosophy (b) teaching (b) Apologia
(c) writing (d) religion (c) Lectures on Justification
68. Who said, "Religion as a mere sentiment is to me a dream (d) Loss and Gains
and a mockery"? 79. Next to Apologia, the most remarkable of Newman's works
(a) Newman (b) John Ruskin is
(c) Carlyle (d) Martineau (a) Calista
69. John Ruskin won the Newdigate Prize for his (b) Loss and Gains
(a) Modern Painters (c) The Essay on Miracles
(b) Salsette and Elephanta (d) Development of Christian Doctrine
(c) The King of the Golden River
80. Where does Newman say there is ‘no medium, in true
(d) Stones of Venice
philosophy between Atheism and Catholicity?
70. Ruskin wrote The King of the Golden River for his
(a) Apologia (b) Calista
(a) wife (b) father
(c) Loss and Gains (d) Lectures on Justification
(c) son (d) brother
81. Newman has been praised for the subtlety of his
71. Ruskin's works on art Modern Painters are
(a) logic (b) philosophy
in_____volumes.
(c) style (d) literary art
(a) four (b) five
(c) six (d) eight 82. In Newman's case, the use of reason is always
72. A connection between literature and the fine arts can be (a) subordinate (b) primary
traced as far back as Dryden's essay on (c) dominant (d) obvious
(a) Poetry and Painting 83. It was observed 'Nothing more characterised Newman
(b) Mac Fleckno than his unconscious'
(c) Essays on Dramatic Poesy (a) logic (b) style
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84. 'Out of the strong came forth sweetness'-about whom 95. After Pickwick, the life of Dickens is mainly a record of
was it said? (a) romance (c) epistles
(a) Newman (b) Carlyle (b) satires (d) publications
(c) Ruskin (d) J.S. Mill 96. Charles Dickens was suspected of, having written The
85. Which work of Newman gave the idea that the novel might Four Georges in order to
be used as a vehicle for disseminating Catholic truth? (a) flatter American (b) please the public prejudices
(a) Loss and Gains (b) Apologia (c) gain popularity (d) earn money
(c) Calista (d) The Grammar of Ascent 97. Uriah Heep is a character in
(a) Hard Times (b) The Pickwick Papers
UNIT C: THE NOVEL (c) David Copperfield (d) Oliver Twist
1. Charles Dickens 98. The administration of the poor law and the making of
86. Charles Dickens was the son of a criminals is dealt in
(a) writer (b) philosopher (a) Hard Times (b) The Bleak House
(c) clerk (d) priest (c) Oliver Twist (d) David Copperfield
87. The Authoritative Life of Charles Dickens was written 99. The obvious purpose of Nicholas Nickleby is
by (a) reform of schools (b) reform of society
(a) Thackeray (b) Disraeli (c) reform of jails (d) utilitarianism
100. An attack upon the orthodox political economy is made in
(c) John Forster (d) Anthony Trollope
(a) Oliver Twist (b) Nicholas Nickleby
88. The Essence of History was biography to
(c) Hard Times (d) The Bleak House
(a) Charles Dickens (b) Thackeray
2. Benjamin Disraeli
(c) John Forster (d) None
101. Benjamin Disraeli was born in
89. Charles Dickens was sent to school in
(a) 1800 (b) 1802
(a) 1804 (b) 1814
(c) 1804 (d) 1810
(c) 1824 (d) 1830
102. Disraeli entered the House of Commons in
90. Dickens became a staff reporter for
(a) 1820 (b) 1826
(a) Edinburgh Review
(c) 1837 (d) 1840
(b) The True Son
103. Disraeli's novel of society is
(c) The Quarterly Review
(a) Vivian Grey (b) The Young Duke
(d) New Sporting Magazine
(c) Venetia (d) The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
91. Dickens' first article was printed in
104. Disraeli's Tale of Alroy was remarkably
(a) Life of Dickens (b) David Copperfield
(a) oriental (b) romantic
(c) Sketches by Boz (d) Hard Times
(c) satiric (d) none
92. In which magazine was Dickens both a reporter as well
105. Disraeli became leader of the opposition in the House of
as a contributor?
Commons in
(a) Morning Chronicle
(a) 1830 (b) 1835
(b) New Sporting Magazine
(c) 1840 (d) 1848
(c) The Monthly Magazine
3. Mrs. Gaskell 106. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was the
(d) None
daughter of a
93. Who is the author of The Pickwick Papers? (a) poet (b) philosopher
(a) Charles Dickens (b) George Eliot (c) unitarian minister (d) miner
(c) William Thackeray (d) Anthony Trollope 107. Mrs. Gaskell's life in Manchester gave her the materials
94. Oliver Twist was published in of her novel
(a) 1818 (b) 1827 (a) Mary Burton (b) Cranford
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108. Mrs. Gaskell's most precious gift was 121. The period between the close of the interregnum and the
(a) humour (b) romance end of the nineteenth century may be roughly divided into
(c) satire (d) imagery (a) 2 parts (b) 3 parts
109. Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford was written in (c) 4 parts (d) 5 parts
(a) 1853 (b) 1867 122. Alfred Tennyson was born in
(c) 1870 (d) 1875 (a) 1800 (b) 1805
110. Captain Brown is a character of Mrs. Gaskell's (c) 1809 (d) 1815
(a) Our Village (b) Mary Burton 123. Out of a family of eight sons and four daughters, Tennyson
(c) Cranford (d) Cousin Phillips was the
111. Mrs. Gaskell's short stories appeared serially in (a) second (b) fourth
(a) The Cornhill Magazine (c) sixth (d) tenth
(b) The Westminster Review 124. The first independent volume of Tennyson's poems, which
(c) The Christian Observer appeared in 1830, is
(d) Blackwood's Magazine (a) Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
4. The Bronte Sisters 112. Charlotte Bronte was born in (b) The Miller's Daughter
(a) 1806 (b) 1816 (c) The Princess
(c) 1855 (d) 1860 (d) The Lady of Shalott
113. College Poems and Rural Minstrel were authored by 125. Tennyson's long silence of nearly ten years was broken
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Emily Bronte (a) "In Memoriam" (b) "Maud"
(c) Patrick Bronte (d) Anne Bronte (c) “The Lover's Tale" (d) “The Princess"
114. The Bronte family had .......... son. 126. The poet who among Tennyson's immediate predecessors,
(a) two (b) three had the greatest influence on him was
(c) one (d) none (a) Byron (b) Shakespeare
115. The career of Charlotte Bronte was fixed by the success (c) John Keats (d) P.B. Shelley
of 127. In 1833, a heavy blow fell on Alfred Tennyson in the death
(a) Jane Eyre (b) Shirley of
(c) Villete (d) The Professor (a) his father (b) his wife
116. Charlotte died on 31st March (c) his brother (d) his friend Arthur Hallam
(a) 1855 (b) 1845 128. Tennyson's The True Voices was originally entitled
(c) 1860 (d) 1865 (a) The Miller's Daughter
117. Emily died at the age of (b) The May Queen
(a) thirty (b) forty (c) The Gardener's Daughter
(c) thirty-five (d) twenty-five (d) Thoughts of a Suicide
118. Heathcliff appears in the novel of 129. Who declared Tennyson's mind to be "saturated with
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Anne astronomy?
(c) Emily Bronte (d) Patrick Bronte (a) Emily Sellwood (b) Coventry Patmore
(c) Norman Lockyer (d) None
UNIT D : THE POETRY 130. Who pronounced Tennyson to be 'the first poet since
1. Alfred Tennyson Lucretius who understood the drift of science?
119. Whose death brought end of an era? (a) Mill (b) Huxley
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Arnold (d) Fitzgerald
(c) Arnold (d) Gray 131. Tennyson's "Ulysses" was written soon after the death
120. The second volume of Tennyson's verse was published in of
(a) 1813 (b) 1832 (a) Browning (b) Arnold
(c) 1833 (d) 1836 (c) Hallam (d) A.C. Clough

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132. Tennyson's "Ulysses", "The Two Voices" and the early 2. Robert Browning
fragments of "In Memoriam" were directly associated 45. Robert Browning was born in
with his memory of (a) 1810 (b) 1812
(a) Milton (b) Shakespeare (c) 1820 (d) 1825
(c) Bacon (d) Hallam 146. Browning got married to Elizabeth in
133. The best proof of the great advance which Tennyson had (a) 1826 (b) 1836
made in the art of construction is to be found in (c) 1840 (d) 1846
(a) "In Memoriam" (b) "The Two Voices" 147. In 1824, Browning privately printed a collection of his
(c) “The Vision of Sin" (d) “The Lotos Eaters" son's verses under the title of
134. "The Lotos Eaters" was a perfect picture of life of (a) “Incondita" (b) "Pauline”
(a) dreamful ease (b) splendour (c) "Men and Women" (d) “Sordello"
(c) harmonious nature (d) none 148. Rossetti compares Browning's scholarship with that of
135. Alfred Tennyson matriculated from Trinity College in (a) Bacon (b) Dickens
(a) 1826 (b) 1828 (c) Ruskin (d) None
(c) 1830 (d) 1832 149. Browning's first publication was
136. The quality of Keats which impressed Tennyson most (a) "Sordello" (b) "Ring and the Book”
was his (c) "Pauline" (d) None
(a) sensuousness (b) medievalism 150. Browning's Ottima and Sebald in "Pippa Passes” are
(c) imagery (d) romanticism equivalent to
137. Tennyson left Cambridge and his father died in (a) Othello and Desdemona
(a) 1820 (b) 1823 (b) Ferdinand and Miranda
(c) 1830 (d) 1831 (c) Romeo and Juliet
138. The most perfect and thoughtful of his songs hitherto (d) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
published is 151. The two numbers of Browning which were not filled with
(a) "Maud" (b) "In Memoriam" dramas were
(c) “Lotos Eaters" (d) “Break, Break, Break” (a) "Dramatic Lyrics" and "Dramatic Romance"
139. In 1835, “Morte d'Arthurwas read to (b) "In a Gondola" and "Porphyria's Lover"
(a) Swinburne (b) Rossetti (c) “The Lost Leader” and “Pauline"
(c) Morris (d) Edward Fitz Gerald (d) “Men and Women" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
140. Which Tennyson's poem is a picture of 'dreamful ease? 152. Browning's expression of surprise and regret at the
(a) "The Lotos Eaters" (b) “Maud" sudden disappearance of a precious friend is
(c) "The Princess" (d) "In Memoriam" (a) "Waring" (b) "Pauline"
141. "In Memoriam" appeared in (c) “Men and Women" (d) “The Portrait"
(a) 1820 (b) 1825 153. Browning chose .......... to attack the two extreme forms of
(c) 1845 (d) 1850 faith which divide his countrymen.
142. Which Tennyson's poem was published anonymously? (a) "Christmas Eve" (b) “Pauline"
(a) "In Memoriam" (b) "Maud" (c) “Dramatic Lyrics" (d) None
(c) "Morte d'Arthur" (d) None 154. Browning's home, till Mrs. Browning's death was at
143. Which poet's scepticism was anticipated in the quality of (a) London (b) New York
Tennyson's faith? (c) Florence (d) Italy
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) W.H. Auden 155. The poem addressed to Browning's wife is
(c) T.S. Eliot (d) None (a) "One Word More" (b) "Pauline"
144. Scientific leaders like Herschel, Owen, Sidgwick and (c) "Parleyings" (d) None
Tyndall regard Tennyson as a champion of 156. Which work of Browning gives one phase of jealousy?
(a) Victorian faith (b) Science (a) “James Lee's Wife" (b) "Pauline"
(c) Scepticism (d) Religious faith (c) "Caliban" (d) “The Worst of it"
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157. A perfect picture of cold blooded heartlessness is 3. Matthew Arnold
Browning's 168. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in
(a) "The Grammarian's Funeral" (a) 1827 (b) 1837
(b) "Holy Cross Day" (c) 1845 (d) 1850
(c) “Youth and Art" 169. In Victorian period, criticism developed very distinctly
(d) "My Last Duchess" through
158. Who said, "Robert Browning is unerring in every (a) two phases (b) three phases
sentence he writes of the Middle Ages"? (c) four phases (d) five phases
(a) Tennyson (b) Ruskin
170. Queen Victoria passed away in
(c) Eliot (d) Yeats
(a) 1901 (b) 1905
159. A group of dramatic monologues penned by Browning is
(c) 1910 (d) 1915
(a) "The Ring and the Book"
171. Matthew Arnold blended Hebraism with
(b) "The Pope"
(a) Romanticism (b) Classicism
(c) “Dramatis Personoe"
(c) Hellenism (d) Medievalism
(d) None
160. The greatest of all Browning's works is 172. Prof. Saintsbury wrote his famous History of Criticism
(a) "The Pope" in/at
(b) “Rabbi Ben Ezra" (a) 1850 (b) 1864
(c) "The Ring and the Book" (c) 1879 (d) the close of the 19th century
(d) “Pomilia" 173. Who has described Matthew Arnold as the great
161. Which of these is Browning's female character? moderncritic?
(a) Pompilia (b) Miranda (a) David Daiches (b) L.A. Richards
(c) Desdemona (d) Olivia (c) F.R. Leavis (d) T.S. Eliot
162. An undisguised dissertation on immortality is 174. Arnold's views on poetry and criticism are discussed in
Browning's (a) "La Saisiaz" (a) "Preface to the Poems"
(b) "Saul" (b) "On Translating Homer"
(c) "The Flight of the Duchess" (c) "Scholar Gypsy"
(d) “Childe Roland" (d) “Culture and Anarchy"
163. "Prince Hohenstiel - Schwangan" by Browning is a poem 175. Arnold expounds his classical creed and disapproves
founded upon the history of romantic style in a clear and forceful manner in
(a) Napoleon I (b) Napoleon II (a) “Essays in Criticism"
(c) Napoleon III (d) Edward II (b) “Culture and Anarchy"
164. Don Juan and his wife Elvire are the characters of
(c) “Preface to the Poems"
Browning's
(d) “Scholar Gypsy"
(a) “Fifine at the Fair" (b) “Ferishta's Fancies."
176. Which work of Arnold was published posthumously in
(c) “Parleyings (d) “Fra Lippo Lippi"
first, second and third series?
165. Browning's “Ferishta's Fancies" is a collection of
(a) “Essays in Criticism"
(a) poems (b) parable
(b) “Culture and Anarchy"
(c) short stories (d) dramatic monologues
166. Who said, 'God's in His Heaven and all's right with the (c) "Dover Beach"
world.'? (d) "On Translating Homer"
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning 177. Matthew Arnold's conception of poetry is
(c) Arnold (d) Macaulay (a) romantic (b) classical
167. Which Browning's poem deplores Wordsworth's political (c) Keatsian (d) Aristotelian
apostasy? 178. In his famous expression, Arnold has called poetry
(a) "Fra Lippo Lippi" (b) "Men and Women” (a) the song of life (b) the criticism of life
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179. Both Arnold and Aristotle appeared to be (a) romanticism (b) imagination
(a) enamoured of poetry (c) philosophy (d) objectivity
(b) fed up of poetry 191. Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustum" is a mini-epic in blank
(c) impressed by poetry verse drawing on the Shah-Nama of
(d) oblivious of lyrical poetry (a) Homer (b) Dante
180. The basic idea of the term 'grand style' was elaborated (c) Firdausi (d) None
and illustrated in Arnold's 192. Arnold's "The Scholar Gypsy" a pastoral poem is based
(a) "On Study of Poetry” upon an old legend related by
(b) “On Translating Homer" (a) Alfred Tennyson
(c) “Scholar Gypsy” (b) Robert Browning
(d) “Essays in Criticism” (c) Mrs. Browning
181. Whom has Arnold acknowledged as his master in (d) Joseph Glanvil
criticism? 193. Arthur Hugh Clough, Arnold's friend died in
(a) J.S. Mill (b) Keats (a) 1861 (b) 1875
(c) Milton (d) Sainte-Beuve (c) 1880 (d) 1890
182. Arnold as a critic was heavily run down by
(a) F.R. Leavis (b) T.S. Eliot UNIT E : THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
(c) W.B. Yeats (d) Ezra Pound 1. D.G. Rossetti
183. Arnold's "Thyrsis" came out in 194. The works of Pre-Raphaelite group is characterized by
(a) 1826 (b) 1836
(a) scepticism
(c) 1845 (d) 1866
(b) religious faith
184. Arnold's "Westminster Abbey” is occasioned by the death
(c) emotional indulgence
of
(d) preponderance of art
(a) A.H. Clough (b) Arthur Hallam
195. Arthur Hugh Clough visited France in 1850 and began
(c) Stanley (d) None
his most ambitious poem
185. Arnold's volume of poems which contained Sohrab and
(a) "Dipsy Chus" (b) “Bothie"
Rustum also included
(c) "The Marble Faun" (d) "Amours de Voyage
(a) "Scholar Gypsy" (b) "Balder Dead"
196. 'Sit if ye will, sit down upon the ground Yet not to weep,
(c) "Switzerland" (d) “Faded Leaves"
and wait, but calmly look around. .......... cries.
186. Who said,'Standing between two worlds, one dead, The
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) Tennyson
other powerless to be born?
(c) A.H. Clough (d) Browning
(a) Arnold (b) Tennyson
197. The leading spirit in the Pre-Raphaelite group was
(c) Browning (d) Hopkins
187. In "Dover Beach”, Arnold hears the melancholy, long, (a) William Morris (b) D.G. Rossetti
withdrawing roar of the sea of (c) W.M. Rossetti (d) Christina Rossetti
(a) emotion (b) doubt 198. D.G. Rossetti's devoted friend Thomas Gordon Hake was
(c) faith (d) grief also a
188. Matthew Arnold's "Switzerland" comprises .......... poems. (a) poet (b) teacher
(a) six (b) seven (c) physician (d) philosopher
(c) eight (d) nine 199. Best pieces of D.G. Rossetti are contained in
189. In "Rugby Chapel", Arnold pays a noble tribute to the (a) New Symbols (b) Vates
memory of his (c) The Blessed Damozel
(a) father (b) brother (d) The Philosophy of Madness
(c) sister (d) friend 200. D.G. Rossetti was a true descendant of
190. In his sonnet "Shakespeare", Arnold praises above all (a) Shelley (b) Keats
other qualities, Shakespeare's (c) Charles Lamb (d) De Quincey

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201. The sonnet-sequence in which D.G. Rossetti expresses 212. William Morris saw modern industrialism divorced from
his love for his wife is (a) art (b) faith
(a) "The Blessed Damozel" (c) religion (d) emotion
(b) "The House of Life" 213. William Morris' The Walter of the Wondrous Isles and
(c) “Ballads and Sonnets" The Story of the Sundering Flood were
(d) “Love's Nocturn" (a) romantic (b) classical
202. The story of the murder of King James I is told in D.G. (c) religious (d) posthumous
Rossetti's 214. A.C. Swinburne was introduced to William Morris and
(a) "The King's Tragedy" Burne Jone in
(b) "The Blessed Damozel" (a) 1830 (b) 1857
(c) "Ballads and Sonnets" (c) 1860 (d) 1870
(d) None 215. Who was named along with Mazzini and Hugo as one of
2. Christina Rossetti the three gods of the poet's worship?
203. Christina Rossetti was D.G. Rossetti's (a) D.G. Rossetti (b) William Morris
(a) wife (b) mother (c) A.C. Swinburne (d) None
(c) niece (d) sister 216. The most successful of Swinburne's poems is (a)
204. Christina Rossetti's New Poems was edited after her
"Atlanta"
death by
(b) “Poems and Ballads"
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) W.M. Rossetti
(c) "The Queen Mother and Rosamond"
(c) William Morris (d) William Thackeray
(d) “Laus Veneris"
205. Christina Rossetti sings renunciation in
217. The most powerful expression of physical passion is found
(a) "Goblin Market"
in Swinburne's
(b) "The Prince's Progress"
(a) "Atlanta"
(c) “Despised and Rejected"
(b) "Hymn to Prospero"
(d) “Monna Innomimata"
(c) "Laus Veneris”
206. "Goblin Market” of Christina Rossetti is a charming
(d) “In Memory of Walter Savage Landor"
excursion into
218. “Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long”-said
(a) fairyland (b) dreamland
(a) Kingsley (b) Newman
(c) wasteland (d) real world
(c) D.G. Rossetti (d) William Morris
207. Coventry Patmore's first volume of poems was published
219. Which William Morris' work bears on Chaucer for a
(a) 1804 (b) 1814
(c) 1834 (d) 1844 model?
208. The adjective Spasmodic' was given to the poets by (a) "Jason"
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) W.E. Aytoun (b) "The Defence"
(c) Tennyson (d) T. Young Simpson (c) "The Earthly Paradise”
209. Sydney Dobell's Balder has been compared by many (d) “The Lovers of Gudrun"
critics to 220. The story "The Man who never Laughed Again" of
(a) Ibsen's Brand (b) Byron's Don Juan William Morris' The Earthly Paradise is drawn from
(c) Ibsen's Peer Gynt (d) Shaw's St. Joan (a) Chaucer's The Knight's Tale
3. William Morris (b) Arabian Nights Tale
210. "Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write"-said (c) Chaucer's The Miller's Tale
(a) Carlyle (b) Ruskin (d) None
(c) Maurice (d) William Morris 221. The forgotten form of the medieval drama is reviewed by
211. Carlyle's Past and Present was one of the holy books of William Morris in
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) Christina Rossetti (a) “Love is Enough" (b) "The Lovers of Gudrun"
(c) William Morris (d) Tennyson (c) "Balder is Dead" (d) None

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222. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) was founded 232. From 1842 to 1854, Thackeray was a regular contributor
and conducted for a year by (a) "Punch"
(a) D.G. Rossetti (b) Christina Rossetti (b) "The New Monthly Magazine"
(c) A.C. Swinburne (d) William Morris (c) "Fraser's Magazine"
223. William Morris drew his poems from purely (d) None
(a) Latin sources 233. Thackeray's Pendennis corresponds to Dickens'
(b) Greek sources (a) “David Copperfield"
(c) German sources (b) "The Pickwick Papers"
(d) English or Scandinavian sources (c) “The Bleak House”
224. Who published the free version of Omar Khayyam's The (d) “Hard Times"
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam? 234. Thackeray's Rebecca and Rowena is the best ever penned
(a) romance (b) burlesque
(a) Tennyson (b) Robert Browning
(c) satire (d) comedy
(c) D.G. Rossetti (d) Edward Fitzgerald
235. Thackeray's criticism in The Four Georges was
225. A.C. Swinburne startled London in 1866 with
(a) literary (b) moral
(a) "Poems and Ballads"
(c) religious (d) heartless
(b) "Erecthus"
236. The influence of Scott is felt in Thackeray's
(c) “Songs after Sunrise" (a) Esmond (b) Pendennis
(d) "Atalanta in Calydon" (c) The Newcomes (d) The Four Georges
226. William Morris's The Defence of Guinevere shows him 237. William Thackeray was born in
following Rossetti into a (a) London (b) America
(a) medieval world (b) romantic world (c) Russia (d) Calcutta
(c) dream world (d) none 238. Becky Sharp is a character in Thackeray's
227. In which poem, William Morris goes back to Chaucer's (a) Vanity Fair (b) Pendennis
way of using verse for story-telling? (c) Esmond (d) None
(a) “The Earthly Paradise" 2. Anthony Trollope
(b) "A Dream of John Bull" 239. Anthony Trollope was born in
(c) “News from Nowhere” (a) 1810 (b) 1815
(d) “The Well at the World's End" (c) 1820 (d) 1825
228. A Dream of John Bull is a prose written by 240. Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barset shire consists
(a) William Morris (b) D.G. Rossetti of .......... novels.
(a) six (b) nine
(c) A.C. Swinburne (d) Edward Fitzgerald
(c) ten (d) fifteen
229. Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House is a
241. The plot of Doctor Thorne was drawn forAnthony Trollope
(a) poem (b) play
by his
(c) narrative poem (d) novel in verse
(a) wife (b) brother
UNIT F : REALISM (c) sister (d) father
242. Trollope's Framley Parsonage forms a good criticism of
1. William M. Thackeray (a) society (b) religion
230. In 1829, W.M. Thackeray went to Cambridge and was (c) his own work (d) the literary contemporaries
one year junior to 243. Mrs. Proudie is a character in the work of
(a) Tennyson (b) Arnold (a) Dickens (b) George Eliot
(c) Dickens (d) Trollope (c) Thackeray (d) Anthony Trollope
231. Whose intercourse with Goethe is recollected in Lewes's 244. In which work, Anthony Trollope discussed the simplicity
Life of Goethe? of novel writing?
(a) Dickens (b) D.G. Rossetti (a) Autobiography (b) The Warden
(c) W.M. Thackeray (d) Anthony Trollope (c) The Three Clerks (d) Rachael Ray

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245. Who is called by I for Evans, a male Jane Austen? 257. Which work of George Eliot marks a decline in her
(a) George Eliot (b) Emily Bronte powers?
(c) Anthony Trollope (d) Charlotte Bronte (a) Daniel Deronda (b) Middlemarch
246. That Rudyard Kipling has remained deservedly popular (c) Adam Bede (d) The Mill on the Floss
can be seen in A Choice of Kipling's Verse of 258. Which Victorian novelist acted as assistant editor of The
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) D.G. Rossetti Westminster's Review?
(c) William Morris (d) Walt Whitman (a) Charles Dickens (b) George Eliot
247. Katherine Mansfield was the wife of (c) Charlotte Bronte (d) Emily Bronte
(a) Middleton Murry (b) Charles Dickens 259. Who was the great stimulant of George Eliot's genius?
(c) Anthony Trollope (d) W.M. Thackeray (a) Herbert Spencer (b) G.H. Lewes
3. George Eliot (c) Charles Dickens (d) Anthony Trollope
248. George Eliot was originally named 260. Which work of George Eliot was a Wordsworth story told
(a) Mary Ann Evans (b) Florence
in prose as well as a novel?
(c) Mary Smith (d) Anna Hathaway
(a) Adam Bede
249. George Eliot was first sent to School at
(b) Silas Marner
(a) Attleborough (b) London
(c) The Mill on the Floss
(c) Paris (d) Ottawa
(d) Middlemarch
250. The name George Eliot was adopted while .....appearing.
(a) The Mill on the Floss
(b) Silas Marner
The New Romanticism
(c) Adam Bede
(d) Scenes of Clerical Life Walter Pater
251. Romola is a turning point in the career of 261. Marius, the Epicurean, a well-known novel has been
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Mrs. Gaskell written by
(c) George Eliot (d) Emily Bronte (a) Meredith (b) Wilde
252. George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss appeared in (c) Walter Pater (d) Hardy
(a) 1860 (b) 1870
262. Essay on Style, a critical work has been composed by
(c) 1890 (d) 1900
(a) Walter Pater (b) Matthew Arnold
253. The last novel of George Eliot written in 1876 was
(c) John Symonds (d) None of the above
(a) Silas Marner (b) Daniel Deronda
263. Who formulated a philosophy of receptivity to works of
(c) Romola (d) Adam Bede
art as a means of enriching human experience through
254. The volume of literary essays which closed George Eliot's
the intensest responses of the sensibilities?
literary career was
(a) Impressions of (a) Ruskin (b) Walter Pater
(b) The Legend of Jubal Theophrastus Such (c) Morris (d) Swinburne
(c) Felix Holt 264. The Core of Pater’s thinking can be found in the famous
(d) Romola ‘Conclusion’ to his work
255. George Eliot's Adam Bede is a tale of (a) Studies in the Hisory of the Renaissance
(a) humour (b) seduction (b) Essay on Style
(c) exploitation (d) child abuse (c) Marius, the Epicurean
256. A foreign land and a distant age is presented in George (d) Imaginary Portraits
Eliot's 265. The expression ‘hedonistic aestheticism’ is related to
(a) Romola (b) Daniel Deronda (a) Swinburne (b) Meredith
(c) Silas Marner (d) Felix Holt (c) Walter Pater (d) Morris
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 Answers
Unit A
1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (d) 10. (c)
11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (d)
21. (c) 22. (a) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (b) 26. (d) 27. (a)

Unit B
28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (b) 31. (a) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. (d) 35. (a) 36. (b) 37. (c)
38. (d) 39. (a) 40. (a) 41. (b) 42. (a) 43. (d) 44. (a) 45. (a) 46. (d) 47. (d)
48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (d) 51. (a) 52. (d) 53. (d) 54. (a) 55. (a) 56. (c) 57. (b)
58. (a) 59. (a) 60. (c) 61. (c) 62. (c) 63. (d) 64. (b) 65. (b) 66. (d) 67. (d)
68. (a) 69. (b) 70. (a) 71. (b) 72. (a) 73. (b) 74. (d) 75. (a) 76. (c) 77. (c)
78. (a) 79. (d) 80. (a) 81. (a) 82. (a) 83. (c) 84. (a) 85. (a)

Unit C
86. (c) 87. (c) 88. (c) 89. (c) 90. (b) 91. (c) 92. (a) 93. (a) 94. (c) 95. (d)
96. (a) 97. (c) 98. (c) 99. (a) 100. (c) 101. (c) 102. (c) 103. (a) 104. (a) 105. (d)
106. (c) 107. (a) 108. (a) 109. (a) 110. (c) 111. (a) 112. (b) 113. (c) 114. (c) 115. (a)
116. (a) 117. (a) 118. (c)

Unit D
119. (b) 120. (c) 121. (b) 122. (c) 123. (b) 124. (a) 125. (c) 126. (c) 117. (d) 128. (d)
129. (c) 130. (b) 131. (c) 132. (d) 133. (d) 134. (a) 135. (b) 136. (a) 137. (d) 138. (d)
139. (d) 140. (a) 141. (d) 142. (a) 143. (c) 144. (b) 145. (b) 146. (d) 147. (a) 148. (c)
149. (c) 150. (d) 151. (a) 152. (a) 153. (a) 154. (c) 155. (a) 156. (a) 157. (d) 158. (b)
159. (a) 160. (a) 161. (a) 162. (a) 163. (c) 164. (a) 165. (d) 166. (b) 167. (d) 168. (b)
169. (b) 170. (a) 171. (c) 172. (d) 173. (a) 174. (d) 175. (c) 176. (a) 177. (b) 178. (b)
179. (d) 180. (b) 181. (d) 182. (b) 183. (d) 184. (c) 185. (a) 186. (a) 187. (c) 188. (b)
189. (a) 190. (d) 191.(c) 192. (d) 193. (a)

Unit E
194. (d) 195. (a) 196. (c) 197. (b) 198. (c) 199. (a) 200. (b) 201. (b) 202. (a) 203. (d)
204. (c) 205. (d) 206. (a) 207. (d) 208. (b) 209. (a) 210. (d) 211. (c) 212. (a) 213. (d)
214. (b) 215. (c) 216. (a) 217. (c) 218.(a) 219. (a) 220. (b) 221. (a) 222. (d) 223. (d)
224. (d) 225. (a) 226. (a) 227. (a) 228. (a) 229. (d)

Unit F
230. (a) 231. (c) 232. (a) 233. (a) 234. (b) 235. (b) 236. (a) 237. (d) 238. (a) 239. (b)
240. (a) 241. (b) 242. (c) 243. (d) 244. (a) 245. (c) 246. (a) 247. (a) 248. (a) 249. (a)
250. (d) 251. (c) 252. (a) 253. (b) 254. (b) 255. (b) 256. (a) 257. (a) 258. (b) 259. (b)
260. (c)

The New Romanticism (Walter Pater)

261. (c) 262. (a) 263. (b) 264. (a) 265. (c)

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 Some Most Important
Writers of 19th Centuery

MCQ Based 10. Shakespeare's lines—

"We are such stuff
1. Thomas Carlyle A dreams are made on; and our little life
1. Thomas Carlyle, the foremost man of letters of his time, Is rounded with a sleep".
was obliged to earn by (a) Aristotle (b) J.S. Mill
(a) writing (b) lecturing (c) Ruskin (d) Carlyle
11. Behind everything in Carlyle lay an unalterable belief in
(c) acting (d) poetry writing
the
2. The complete and perfect Carlyle migrated ot London in
(a) Law of Universe (b) Gravitational Law
(a) 1834 (b) 1824
(c) Law of Newton (d) Grimn's Law
(c) 1844 (d) 1864
3. To Carlyle, the remendous civil war in America was a
Answers
(a) nightmare
(b) challenge 1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (d)
(c) misfortune 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (d) 11. (a)
(d) smoky chimney which had taken fire
4. Carlyle in his essay on "State of German Literature"
denied 2. John Ruskin
(a) English philosophy (b) French philosophy 1. John Ruskin was the son of a
(c) Russian philosophy(d) German philosophy (a) writer (b) philosopher
5. Life of Schiller was authored by (c) teacher (d) wine merchant
(a) Carlyle (b) Goethe 2. Ruskin's mother was a strict
(c) Wordsworth (d) Kant (a) vegetarian (b) Puritan
6. Goethe is 'the only living model of a great writer' to (c) disciplinarian (d) evangelical
(a) Coleridge (b) Kant 3. The influence of the English Bible gave dignity to the
(c) Schiller (d) Carlyle rhetoric and thought of
7. Who translate Wilhelm Master's Apprenticeship? (a) John Ruskin (b) Newman
(a) Coleridge (b) Kant (c) Thomas Carlyle (d) J.S. Mill
(c) Schiller (d) Carlyle 4. John Ruskin tells about his home life in his delightful
8. Carlyle got married in (a) Proeterita
(a) 1816 (b) 1826 (b) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(c) 1836 (d) 1840 (c) Modern Painters
(d) None
9. Carlyle's idea of the relation between power and right is
5. Ruskin's Proeterita reminds one of Dickens'
similar in meaning to that of
(a) Hard Times (b) Oliver Twist
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato
(c) David Copperfield (d) The Bleak House
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6. On his thirteenth birthday, Ruskin's father Henry 18. John Ruskin won the Newdigate Prize for his
Telfourd gave hin (a) Modern Painters
(a) Dicken's hard Times (b) Salsette and Elephanta
(b) Roger's Italy (c) The King of the
(c) Milton's Paradise Lost (d) Stones of Venice Golden River
(d) Keats's Hyperion 19. Ruskin wrote The King of the Golden River for his
7. John Ruskin entered as a Gentleman Commoner at Christ (a) wife (b) father
Church in January (c) son (d) brother
(a) 1837 (b) 1857 20. Ruskin's works on art Modern Painters are in volumes.
(c) 1860 (d) 1870 (a) four (b) five
8. The first fruits of Ruskin's tours abroad came in the (c) six (d) eight
shape of the 21. A connection between literature and the fine arts can be
(a) Modern Painters traced as far back as Dryden's essay on
(b) Proeterita (a) Poetry and Painting
(c) The Seven Lamps of Architecture (b) Mac Fleckno
(d) The Stones of Venice (c) Essays on Dramatic Poesy
(d) None
9. Ruskin was elected Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in
22. Gothic architecture is extolled and Renaissance archi-
(a) 1849 (b) 1858
tecture is condemned in Ruskin's
(c) 1869 (d) 1879
(a) The Stones of Venice
10. From 1843 to 1860, Ruskin concerned himself with
(b) Modern Painters
(a) religion (b) philosophy
(c) The King of the
(c) fine arts (d) literature
(d) Salsette and Elephanta Golden River
11. Mr. J.A. Hobson has called John Ruskin a
23. Sesame and Lilies (1865) is the most popular book of
(a) teacher (b) puritan
(a) Cervantes (b) Firdausi
(c) social reformer (d) philosopher
(c) Shakespeare (d) John Ruskin
12. Joh Ruskin insists on the dominance of
(a) discipline (b) philosophy
(c) utilitarianism (d) moral ideas
Answers
13. Upon the Gospel of Work, Ruskin in as emphatic as 1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (b)
(a) J.S. Mill (b) Thomas Carlyle 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (c) 11. (c) 12. (d)
(c) Newman (d) Freeman 13. (b) 14. (b) 15. (d) 16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (b)
14. Ruskin's pasion for Gothic was due to his temper of 19. (a) 20. (b) 21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (d)
(a) sensuousness (b) medievalism
(c) romanticism (d) artistry
15. Who declared that Ruskin was one of the greatest men of 3. Alfred Tennyson
the age? 1. Whose death brought end of an era?
(a) Thomas Carlyle (b) J.S. Mill (a) Tennyson (b) Browning
(c) J.A. Hobson (d) Leo Tolstoy (c) Arnold (d) Gray
16. Ruskin's Fors Clavigera sums up the trend of his 2. The second volume of Tennyson’s verse was published in
(a) philosophy (b) teaching (a) 1813 (b) 1832
(c) writing (d) religion (c) 1833 (d) 1836
17. Who said, "Religion as a mere sentiment is to me a dream 3. The period between the close of the interregnum and the
end of the nineteenth century may be roughly divided into
and a mockery"?
(a) 2 parts (b) 3 parts
(a) Newman (b) John Ruskin
(c) 4 parts (d) 5 parts
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4. Alfred Tennyson was born in (a) “In Memoriam” (b) “The Two Voices”
(a) 1800 (b) 1805 (c) “The Vision of Sin” (d) “The Lotos Eaters”
(c) 1809 (d) 1815 16. “The Lotos Eaters” was a perfect picture of life of
5. Out of a family of eight sons and four daughters, Tennyson (a) dreamful ease (b) splendour
was the (c) harmonious nature (d) none
(a) second (b) fourth 17. Alfred Tennyson matriculated from Trinity College in
(c) sixth (d) tenth (a) 1826 (b) 1828
6. The first independent volume of Tennyson’s poems, which (c) 1830 (d) 1832
appeared in 1830, is 18. The quality of Keats which impressed Tennyson most
(a) Poems, Chiefly Lyrical was his
(b) The Miller’s Daughter
(a) sensuousness (b) medievalism
(c) The Princess
(c) imagery (d) romanticism
(d) The Lady of Shalott
19. Tennyson left Cambridge and his father died in
7. Tennyson’s long silence of nearly ten years was broken
(a) 1820 (b) 1823
by
(c) 1830 (d) 1831
(a) “In Memoriam” (b) “Maud”
20. The most perfect and thoughtful of his songs hitherto
(c) “The Lover’s Tale” (d) “The Princess”
8. The poet who among Tennyson’s immediate predecessors, published is
had the greatest influence on him was (a) “Maud” (b) “In Memoriam”
(a) Byron (b) Shakespeare (c) “Lotos Eaters” (d) “Break, Break, Break”
(c) John Keats (d) P.B. Shelley 21. In 1835, “Morte d’ Arthur” was read to
9. In 1833, a heavy blow fell on Alfred Tennyson in the death (a) Swinburne (b) Rossetti
of (c) Morris (d) Edward Fitz Gerald
(a) his father (b) his wife 22. Which Tennyson’s poem is a picture of `dreamful ease’?
(c) his brother (d) his friend Arthur Hallam (a) “The Lotos Eaters” (b) “Maud”
10. Tennyson’s The True Voices was originally entitled (c) “The Princess” (d) “In Memoriam”
(a) The Miller’s Daughter 23. “In Memoriam” appeared in
(b) The May Queen (a) 1820 (b) 1825
(c) The Gardener’s Daughter (c) 1845 (d) 1850
(d) Thoughts of a Suicide 24. Which Tennyson’s poem was published anonymously?
11. Who declared Tennyson’s mind to be ‘saturated with (a) “In Memoriam” (b) “Maud”
astronomy’? (c) “Morte d’Arthur” (d) None
(a) Emily Sellwood (b) Coventry Patmore 25. Which poet’s scepticism was anticipated in the quality of
(c) Norman Lockyer (d) None Tennyson’s faith?
12. Who pronounced Tennyson to be ‘the first poet since (a) W.B. Yeats (b) W.H. Auden
Lucretius who understood the drift of science’? (c) T.S. Eliot (d) None
(a) Mill (b) Huxley 26. Scientific leaders like Herschel, Owen, Sidgwick and
(c) Arnold (d) Fitzgerald
Tyndall regard Tennyson as a champion of
13. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” was written soon after the death
(a) Victorian faith (b) Science
of
(c) Scepticism (d) Religious faith
(a) Browning (b) Arnold
(c) Hallam (d) A.C. Clough
14. Tennyson’s “Ulysses”, “The Two Voices” and the early
fragments of “In Memoriam” were directly associated
Answers
with his memory of
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (b) 6. (a)
(a) Milton (b) Shakespeare 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (d) 10. (d) 11. (c) 12. (b)
(c) Bacon (d) Hallam 13. (c) 14. (d) 15. (d) 16. (a) 17. (b) 18. (a)
15. The best proof of the great advance which Tennyson had 19. (d) 20. (d) 21. (d) 22. (a) 23. (d) 24. (a)
made in the art of construction is to be found in 25. (c) 26. (b)

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 4. Robert Browning 12. Which work of Browning gives one phase of jealousy?
(a) “James Lee’s Wife” (b) “Pauline”
1. Robert Browning was born in (c) “Caliban” (d) “The Worst of it”
(a) 1810 (b) 1812 13. A perfect picture of cold blooded heartlessness is
(c) 1820 (d) 1825 Browning’s
2. Browning got married to Elizabeth in (a) “The Grammarian’s (b) “Holy Cross Day”Funeral”
(a) 1826 (b) 1836 (c) “Youth and Art” (d) “My Last Duchess”
(c) 1840 (d) 1846 14. Who said, “Robert Browning is unerring in every
3. In 1824, Browning privately printed a collection of his sentence he writes of the Middle Ages”?
son’s verses under the title of (a) Tennyson (b) Ruskin
(a) “Incondita” (b) “Pauline” (c) Eliot (d) Yeats
(c) “Men and Women” (d) “Sordello” 15. A group of dramatic monologues penned by Browning is
4. Rossetti compares Browning’s scholarship with that of (a) “The Ring and the Book”
(a) Bacon (b) Dickens (b) “The Pope”
(c) Ruskin (d) None (c) “Dramatis Personoe”
(d) None
5. Browning’s first publication was
16. The greatest of all Browning’s works is
(a) “Sordello” (b) “Ring and the Book”
(a) “The Pope”
(c) “Pauline” (d) None
(b) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
6. Browning’s Ottima and Sebald in “Pippa Passes” are
(c) “The Ring and the Book”
equivalent to
(d) “Pomilia”
(a) Othello and Desdemona
17. Which of these is Browning’s female character?
(b) Ferdinand and Miranda (a) Pompilia (b) Miranda
(c) Romeo and Juliet (c) Desdemona (d) Olivia
(d) Macbeth and LadyMacbeth 18. An undisguised dissertation on immortality is
7. The two numbers of Browning which were not filled with Browning’s
dramas were (a) “La Saisiaz”
(a) “Dramatic Lyrics” and “Dramatic Romance” (b) “Saul”
(b) “In a Gondola” and “Porphyria’s Lover” (c) “The Flight of the Duchess”
(c) “The Lost Leader” and “Pauline” (d) “Childe Roland”
(d) “Men and Women” and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” 19. “Prince Hohenstiel — Schwangan” by Browning is a
8. Browning’s expression of surprise and regret at the poem founded upon the history of
sudden disappearance of a precious friend is (a) Napoleon I (b) Napoleon II
(a) “Waring” (b) “Pauline” (c) Napoleon III (d) Edward II
(c) “Men and Women” (d) “The Portrait” 20. Don Juan and his wife Elvire are the characters of
9. Browning chose _____ to attack the two extreme formsof Browning’s
faith which divide his countrymen. (a) “Fifine at the Fair” (b) “Ferishta’s Fancies”
(a) “Christmas Eve” (b) “Pauline” (c) “Parleyings” (d) “Fra Lippo Lippi”
(c) “Dramatic Lyrics” (d) None 21. Browning’s “Ferishta’s Fancies” is a collection of
(a) poems (b) parable
10. Browning’s home, till Mrs. Browning’s death was at
(c) short stories (d) dramatic monologues
(a) London (b) New York
22. Who said, ‘God’s in His Heaven and all’s right with the
(c) Florence (d) Italy
world.’?
11. The poem addressed to Browning’s wife is
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning
(a) “One Word More” (b) “Pauline”
(c) Arnold (d) Macaulay
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23. Which Browning’s poem deplores Wordsworth’s political 8. Arnold expounds his classical creed and disapproves
apostasy? romantic style in a clear and forceful manner in
(a) “Fra Lippo Lippi” (a) “Essays in Criticism”
(b) “Men and Women” (b) “Culture and Anarchy”
(c) “My Last Duchess” (c) “Preface to the Poems”
(d) “The Lost Leader” (d) “Scholar Gypsy”
9. Which work of Arnold was published posthumously in
Answers first, second and third series?
(a) “Essays in Criticism”
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (d) (b) “Culture and Anarchy”
7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (a) (c) “Dover Beach”
13. (d) 14. (b) 15. (a) 16. (a) 17. (a) 18. (a) (d) “On Translating Homer”
19. (c) 20. (a) 21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (d) 10. Matthew Arnold’s conception of poetry is
(a) romantic (b) classical
(c) Keatsian (d) Aristotelian
5. Matthew Arnold 11. In his famous expression, Arnold has called poetry
(a) the song of life (b) the criticism of life
1. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in
(c) way of life (d) none of the above
(a) 1827 (b) 1837
12. Both Arnold and Aristotle appeared to be
(c) 1845 (d) 1850 (a) enamoured of poetry
2. In Victorian period, criticism developed very distinctly (b) fed up of poetry
through (c) impressed by poetry
(a) two phases (b) three phases (d) oblivious of lyrical poetry
(c) four phases (d) five phases 13. The basic idea of the term ‘grand style’ was elaborated
3. Queen Victoria passed away in and illustrated in Arnold’s
(a) 1901 (b) 1905 (a) “On Study of Poetry”
(c) 1910 (d) 1915 (b) “On Translating Homer”
(c) “Scholar Gypsy”
4. Matthew Arnold blended Hebraism with
(d) “Essays in Criticism”
(a) Romanticism (b) Classicism
14. Whom has Arnold acknowledged as his master in
(c) Hellenism (d) Medievalism
criticism?
5. Prof. Saintsbury wrote his famous History of Criticism (a) J.S. Mill (b) Keats
in/at (c) Milton (d) Sainte-Beuve
(a) 1850 15. Arnold as a critic was heavily run down by
(c) 1879 (a) F.R. Leavis (b) T.S. Eliot
(b) 1864 (c) W.B. Yeats (d) Ezra Pound
(d) the close of the 19th century 16. Arnold’s “Thyrsis” came out in
6. Who has described Matthew Arnold as the great modern (a) 1826 (b) 1836
(c) 1845 (d) 1866
critic?
17. Arnold’s “Westminster Abbey” is occasioned by the death
(a) David Daiches (b) I.A. Richards
of
(c) F.R. Leavis (d) T.S. Eliot
(a) A.H. Clough (b) Arthur Hallam
7. Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in (c) Stanley (d) None
(a) “Preface to the Poems” 18. Arnold’s volume of poems which contained Sohrab and
(b) “On Translating Homer” Rustum also included
(c) “Scholar Gypsy” (a) “Scholar Gypsy” (b) “Balder Dead”
(d) “Culture and Anarchy” (c) “Switzerland” (d) “Faded Leaves”
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19. Who said, ‘Standing between two worlds, one dead, The 2. Whose intercourse with Geothe is recollected in Lewes's
other powerless to be born’? Life of Goethe?
(a) Arnold (b) Tennyson (a) Dickens (b) D.G. Rossetti
(c) Browning (d) Hopkins (c) W.M. Thackeray (d) Anthony Trollope
20. In “Dover Beach”, Arnold hears the melancholy, long, 3. From 1842 to 1854, Thackeray was a regular contributor
withdrawing roar of the sea of to
(a) emotion (b) doubt (a) "Punch"
(c) faith (d) grief (b) "The New Monthly Magazine"
21. Matthew Arnold’s “Switzerland” comprises poems. (c) "Fraser's Magazine"
(a) six (b) seven (d) None
(c) eight (d) nine 4. Thackeray's Pendennis corresponds to Dicken's
22. In “Rugby Chapel”, Arnold pays a noble tribute to the (a) "David Copperfield"
memory of his (b) "The Pickwick Papers"
(c) sister (d) friend (c) "The Bleak House"
(a) father (b) brother (d) "Hard Times"
23. In his sonnet “Shakespeare”, Arnold praises above all 5. Thackeray's Rebecca and Rowena is the best ever penned
other qualities, Shakespeare’s (a) romance (b) burlesque
(a) romanticism (b) imagination (c) satire (d) comedy
(c) philosophy (d) objectivity 6. Thackeray's criticism is The Four Georges was
24. Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum” is a mini-epic in blank (a) Literary (b) moral
verse drawing on the Shah-Nama of (c) religious (d) heartless
(a) Homer (b) Dante 7. The influence of Scott is felt in Thackeray's
(c) Firdausi (d) None (a) Esmond (b) Pendennis
25. Arnold’s “The Scholar Gypsy” a pastoral poem is based (c) The Newcomes (d) The Four Georges
upon an old legend related by 8. William Thackeray was born in
(a) Alfred Tennyson (b) Robert Browning (a) London (b) America
(c) Mrs. Browning (d) Joseph Glanvil (c) Russia (d) Calcutta
26. Arthur Hugh Clough, Arnold’s friend died in 9. Becky Sharp is a character in Thackeray's
(a) 1861 (b) 1875 (a) Vanity Fair (b) Pendennis
(c) 1880 (d) 1890 (c) Esmond (d) None

Answers Answers
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (a) 1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (b)
7. (d) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (d) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9. (a)
13. (b) 14. (d) 15. (b) 16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (a)
19. (a) 20. (c) 21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (c)
25. (d) 26. (a)
7. George Eliot

Romantic Realism 1. George Eliot was originally named

6. William M. Thackeray (a) Mary Ann Evans (b) Florence
(c) Mary Smith (d) Anna Hathaway
1. In 1829, W.M. Thackeray went to Cambridge and was
2. George Eliot was first sent to School at
one year junior to
(a) Attleborough (b) London
(a) Tennyson (b) Arnold
(c) Paris (d) Ottawa
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3. The name George Eliot was adopted while was appearing. Answers
(a) The Mill on the Floss
(b) Silas Marner 1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b)
(c) Adam Bede 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (b)
13. (c)
(d) Scenes of Clerical Life
4. Romola is a turning point in the career of
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Mrs. Gaskell 8. Walter Pater
(c) George Eliot (d) Emily Bronte
1. Marius, the Epicurean, a well-known novel has been
5. George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss appeared in written by
(a) 1860 (b) 1870 (a) Meredith (b) Wilde
(c) 1890 (d) 1900 (c) Walter Pater (d) Hardy
6. The last novel of George Eliot written in 1876 was 2. Essay on Style, a critical work has been composed by
(a) Silas Marner (b) Daniel Deronda (a) Walter Pater (b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Romola (d) Adam Bede (c) John Symonds (d) None of the above
7. The volume of literary essays which closed George Eligt's 3. Who formulated a philosophy of receptivity to works of
literary career was art as a means of enriching human experience through
(a) Impressions of the intensest responses of the sensibilities?
(b) The Legend of Jubal Theophrastus Such (a) Ruskin (b) Walter Pater
(c) Morris (d) Swinburne
(c) Felix Holt
4. The Core of Pater’s thinking can be found in the famous
(d) Romola
‘Conclusion’ to his work
8. George Eliot’s Adam Bede is a tale of
(a) Studies in the Hisory of the Renaissance
(a) humour (b) seduction
(b) Essay on Style
(c) exploitation (d) child abuse (c) Marius, the Epicurean
9. A foreign land and a distant age is presented in George (d) Imaginary Portraits
Eliot’s 5. The expression ‘hedonistic aestheticism’ is related to
(a) Romola (b) Daniel Deronda (a) Swinburne (b) Meredith
(c) Silas Marner (d) Felix Holt (c) Walter Pater (d) Morris
10. Which work of George Eliot marks a decline in her
powers? Answers
(a) Daniel Deronda (b) Middlemarch
1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (c)
(c) Adam Bede (d) The Mill on the Floss
11. Which Victorian novelist acted as assistant editor of The
Westminster’s Review? 9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(a) Charles Dickens (b) George Eliot
(c) Charlotte Bronte (d) Emily Bronte 1. S.T. Coleridge produced a play Remorse in the year
12. Who was the great stimulant of George Eliot’s genius? (a) 1800 (b) 1808
(a) Herbert Spencer (b) G.H. Lewes (c) 1813 (d) 1824
(c) Charles Dickens (d) Anthony Trollope 2. The phrase “the high road of life” was used by
13. Which work of George Eliot was a Wordsworth story told (a) Eliot (b) Kipling
in prose as well as a novel? (c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
(a) Adam Bede 3. Who is the lost leader in Browning’s poem “The Lost
Leader”?
(b) Silas Marner
(a) Shelley (b) Milton
(c) The Mill on the Floss
(c) Shakespeare (d) Wordsworth
(d) Middlemarch
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4. “Table Talk” is an essay on Shakespeare by 17. Who talked of the 'divinity of Shakespeare'?
(a) Coleridge (b) Pope (a) Johnson (b) Arnold
(c) Bradley (d) Johnson (c) Coleridge (d) Eliot
5. The great ode “Dejection” was written by 18. "He Prayeth best, who loveth best, /All things, great and
(a) Keats (b) Byron small". In which of the following poems do these lines
(c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth occur?
6. Coleridge met Wordsworth in (a) "Kubla Khan"
(b) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(a) 1797 (b) 1790
(c) "Christabel"
(c) 1798 (d) 1802
(d) "Dejection: An Ode"
7. Coleridge and Lamb died in the same year. The year is
(a) 1830 (b) 1834
(c) 1850 (d) 1828
Answers
8. “Christabel” is an unfinished poem by 1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (a)
(a) Byron (b) Keats 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (b) 11. (a) 12. (d)
(c) Shelley (d) Coleridge 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (b)
9. Which one of the following tragedies was written by
Coleridge?
(a) The Borderers (b) The Cenci 10. Robert Southe
(c) Otho, the great (d) Remorse
10. To which of the following poets does the phrase “willing 1. Southey's The Life of Nelson is a prose work which came
suspension of disbelief” apply? out in
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (a) 1801 (b) 1805
(c) Shelley (d) Keats (c) 1813 (d) 1817
11. The author of Biographia Literaria is 2. Which one is not a poetic work by Robert Southey?
(a) Coleridge (b) Hazlitt (a) "Joan of Arc"
(c) Arnold (d) Ruskin (b) "Thalaba the Destroyer"
12. Who was opium addicted? (c) "The Curse of Kehoma"
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats (d) The Life of Nelson
(c) Southey (d) Coleridge 3. The Life of Nelson is a prose piece by
13. Which one of Coleridge's poems was included in Lyrical (a) Shelley (b) Keats
Ballads? (c) Coleridge (d) Southey
(a) "The Rime of Ancient 4. Robert Southey's A Vision of Judgement is a ludicrous
(b) "Christabel" Mariner" eulogy of:
(c) "Kubla Khan" (a) George II (b) Charles II
(d) All of these (c) George III (d) Queen Mary
14. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria appeared in the year 5. After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of
(a) 1817 (b) 1821 England?
(c) 1823 (d) 1829 (a) Coleridge (b) Scott
15. Who wrote: "O Lady We receive but what we give, /And (c) Southey (d) Dryden
in our life alone does Nature live"?
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth (d) Rousseau
Answers
16. "Motiveless, malignity" is a phrase from 1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (c)
(a) Eliot (b) Donne
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 11. Sir Walter Scott 15. Who is considered to be the founder of historical novel?
(a) Richardson (b) Walter Scott
1. Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy came out in (c) Virginia Woolf (d) James Joyce
(a) 1817 (b) 1819 16. In which novel did Scott raise the Scottish esteem?
(c) 1821 (d) 1822 (a) Waverley (b) Ivanhoe
2. The House of Aspen is the only play by (c) Old Mortality (d) The Antiquary
(a) Scott (b) Byron 17. Life of Napoleon is a prose piece by
(c) Keats (d) Dryden (a) Cobbett (b) Southey
3. Walter Scott was born in (c) Scott (d) W.S. Lander
(a) 1800 (b) 1785 18. After whose refusal the poet Laureateship was conferred
(c) 1771 (d) 1790 on Robert Southey?
4. "Proud Maisie" is a ballad by (a) Scott (b) Coleridge
(a) Scott (b) Keats (c) Pope (d) Dryden
(c) Byron (d) Coleridge 19. The Talisman is a novel by
5. "The Lady of the Lake" is a poem by (a) Scott (b) Austen
(a) Scott (b) Byron (c) Coleridge (d) Dickens
(c) Keats (d) Shelley
6. In Ivanhoe what is the name of the disguised Robin Hood? Answers
(a) Scott (c) George Eliot
(b) Tennyson (d) Swinburne 1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (a)
7. (c) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (a)
7. Waverley is a historical novel by
13. (b) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (a)
(a) Tennyson (b) George Eliot 19. (a)
(c) Scott (d) Dickens
8. Who gave birth to historical novel?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Austen
(c) Smollett (d) Scott
 
9. "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" is a poem by
(a) Tennyson (b) Rossetti
(c) Coleridge (d) Scott
10. Mike Lambourne is a character from
(a) Scott (b) Austen
(c) Eliot (d) Shelley
11. Sir Walter Scott has been best remembered for his book
(a) Old Mortality (b) Ivanhoe
(c) The Talisman (d) None
12. The Heart of Midlothian novels by
(a) Walter Scott (b) Emily Bronte
(c) George Eliot (d) Middleton Murry
13. Walter Scott's The Talisman is about
(a) Arabic islands
(b) the Crusades
(c) bloodless revolution
(d) English folk stories
14. Old Mortality is a novel by
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) George Eliot
(c) Walter Scott (d) W. Godwin
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