1.Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as ‘The Sage of High gate’?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: (B)
2.Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’ in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?
1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. William Cowper
4. Lord Byron
Answer: 1
3.The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by .
(1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2) Thomas Rymer
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) William Wordsworth
Answer: 2
4.Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is -…verse only to the eye”, adding further that it “has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers”?
1. John Dryden
2. Alexander Pope
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Samuel Johnson
Answer: 4