Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

A. Lord byron
B. Percy shelley
C. John keats
D. Samuel taylor coleridge

Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

A. Engagement with the natural world
B. Rationality
C. Emotional restraint
D. Political conservatism

Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing ?

A. William wordsworth
B. William blake
C. John keats
D. Percy shelley

The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?

A. 1800 – 1900
B. 1805 – 1827
C. 1798 – 1832
D. 1785 – 1825

One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?

A. How nature can render someone good
B. How nature can corrupt someone
C. Eternal youth
D. A dark voyage into madness

Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

A. Percy shelley
B. John keats
C. William wordsworth
D. Samuel taylor coleridge

Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?

A. Lord byron
B. William blake
C. William hazlitt
D. Percy shelley

Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

A. William wordsworth
B. William blake
C. Lord byron
D. Percy shelley

In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” who is the “he” referred to in the lines “A sadder and a wiser man\He rose the morrow morn.” ?

A. Life-in-death
B. The ancient mariner
C. The wedding guest
D. The ship’s captain

Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?

A. Lord byron
B. Percy shelley
C. Samuel taylor coleridge
D. William blake