Deck 3: English Literature Trivia: Poets and Their Works

Question 1

Who was the greatest nature poet of England?

A)william wordsworth
B)coleridge
C)robert browning
D)tennyson

Answer 1

william wordsworth

Question 2

Lectures on Shakespeare is the work of…………..

A)thomas hardy
B)mathew arnold
C)william thackeray
D)coleridge

Answer 2

coleridge

Question 3

William Blake's political radicalism intensified during the years leading up to the…..

A)communist movement
B)french revolution
C)romantic movement
D)industrial revolution

Answer 3

french revolution

Question 4

The poem 'The Tyger' was published in…….

A)1794
B)1788
C)1780
D)1789

Question 5

The poem 'The Tyger' is taken from

A)songs of innocence
B)songs of experience
C)the four zoas
D)the marriage of heaven and hell

Question 6

Which of these poems uses dramatic monologue as a poetic form?

A)wordsworth's the prelude
B)robert browning's my last duchess
C)tennyson's in memoriam
D)shelly's adonais

Question 7

……………..is regarded as the poet, who has spoken the strongest word of faith to an age of doubt

A)browning
B)tennyson
C)blake
D)scott

Question 8

An immense poem, twice as long as 'Paradise Lost', longer by some two thousand lines than the Iliad by Browning

A)pippa passes
B)the ring and the book
C)saul
D)cleon

Question 9

………………by Browning is an exquisite tribute to his dead wife.

A)my star
B)prospice
C)one word more
D)meeting at night

Question 10

For ……………poem Tennyson got Chancellor's Medal

A)lyrical ballad
B)timbuctoo
C)merlin and the glean
D)the princess

Question 11

……………wrote the song " Tears, Idle Tears"

A)browning
B)tennyson
C)blake
D)keats

Question 12

……… poem of Tennyson was a long poem of over three thousand lines of blank verse.

A)wages
B)the princess
C)the higher pantheism
D)maud

Question 13

Browning's 'Pauline' came in

A)1834
B)1897
C)1833
D)1901

Question 14

Wordsworth believes in the concept of …………

A)hellenism
B)pantheism
C)negative capability
D)willing suspension of disbelief

Question 15

The concept of Pantheism believes in

A)objectivity
B)healing power of nature
C)confession
D)natural calamity

Question 16

Who brought the concept of negative capability?

A)wordsworth
B)coleridge
C)keats
D)shelly

Question 17

Whose epitaph contains "here lies one whose name was written in water"

A)coleridge
B)blake
C)john keats
D)william wordsworth

Question 18

Which is the high watermark f poetry in the 19th century?

A)tintern abbey
B)intimations of immortality
C)stepping westward
D)solitary reaper

Question 19

In which of the followings spiritual appeal of nature is expressed in almost every line?

A)to a highland girl
B)stepping westward
C)tintern abbey
D)solitary reaper

Question 20

Who wrote Lucy poems

A)scott
B)donne
C)wordsworth
D)dryden

Question 21

Who said that the poet was a 'mere babbler'?

A)scott
B)byron
C)wordsworth
D)gibson

Question 22

Who wrote the "Witch of Atlas"?

A)scott
B)wordsworth
C)blake
D)shelley

Question 23

Which character was the only one of Shelly's character, who seems to be entirely human?

A)prometheus
B)hellas
C)emilia
D)beatrice

Question 24

Who wrote 'Confession of an Opium Eater'?

A)wordsworth
B)shelley
C)de- quincey
D)browne

Question 25

Who wrote the critical essay 'Literary Reminiscences'?

A)shelley
B)de quincey
C)coleridge
D)burton