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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person’s pursuit of their personal interests ?
Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!\ ?
Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the__________?
Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?

Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?

A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace

Correct Answer: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ✔

Last Updated: April 29, 2023