William Wordsworth
1. 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
2.’The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’ is :
(A) A poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb
(B) An elegy by William Wordsworth
(C) An essay by Charles Lamb
(D) An essay by William Hazlitt
Answer: C
3.Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of William Wordsworth.
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth.
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
Answer: D
4.Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray
Answer: C
5.The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: B
6.Which of the following poems uses terza rima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Answer: (B)
7.Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (C)
8.William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly). “to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by men.
Answer: (A)
9.One English poet addressing another: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life’s common way, In cheerful godliness…. Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
Answer: (C)
10.From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: B
11.Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford
Answer: 3
12.Match the work with author :
I. “The Excursion”
II. “Christabel”
III. Milton
IV. Queen Mab
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake I II III IV
(1) C A B D
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D
Answer: 2
13.A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem in his “Swoggled” I’d rather be suckled by an outworn pagan than get my horn wreathed in an old Triton. Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness”
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much with Us”
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Thee…?”
Answer: 3
14.An English poet couldn`t help the excitement that an historical event caused in his life-time: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven Which poet? What ‘dawn’?
1. W.H Auden; the Spanish Civil War
2. Lord Tennyson; the Jubilee of Queen Victoria`s reign
3. William Wordsworth; the French Revolution
4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution
Answer: 3
15.“He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: C
16.Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spots of time’ ?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron
Answer: B
17.The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Blake
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin
Answer: (B)
18.William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for despair’. Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
Answer: (D)
19.Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true ?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc.
are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.
Answer: C