English Literature

Romantics & Victorians

NTA NET 2021 Crash Course DAY THREE

DR KALYANI VALLATH
RECAP
 1. Which of the following writers started a new
versification in English, before the time of whom existed
“no system of words at once refined from the grossness of
domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms
appropriated to particular arts”?

A. Chaucer
B. Wyatt
C. Spenser
D. Dryden

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 2. Which of the following does John Pomfret’s immensely
popular verse essay “The Choice” (1700) describe?

A. Wit and good sense as found in polite

conversation
B. The different priorities of the
noblewomen in marriage
C. The gentleman’s ideal way of life
D. The recreational activities of 18th c
genteel society

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 3. Which of these works is known for its digressions, one
of which is “Digression concerning the Original, the Use,
and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth”?

A. A Tale of a Tub (1704)

B. An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712)
C. Gulliver's Travels (1726)
D. A Modest Proposal (1729)

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 4. “A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton”
brings out the 18th c preoccupation with science as a
means of knowing the divinely ordered system of nature.
Who of the following is the author?
A. William Cowper
B. George Crabbe
C. John Gay
D. James Thomson

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 5. Many of the late Neoclassical writers had a great interest
in “primitive” and folk poetry. In 1753, Bishop Lowth gave
the influential Oxford lectures titled De Sacra Poesi
Hebræorum. In 1760, who published his Fragments of
Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland?

A. Thomas Chatterton
B. James Macpherson
C. Thomas Gray
D. James Thomson

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 6. In which work did Francis Bacon talk about the four
Idols (Tribe, Cave, Marketplace and Theatre) that
corrupt men’s minds?

A. The Advancement of learning

B. The New Atlantis
C. Novum Organum
D. Sylva Sylvarum

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 7. Who of the following delivered the speech On The
Nabob Of Arcot's Debts on 28/2/1785?

A. Warren Hastings
B. Edmund Burke
C. William Godwin
D. Charles Lyell

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 8. Who made the famous statement “Without contraries
is no progression”?

A. William Blake
B. Walter Scott
C. Thomas Gray
D. Robert Walpole

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 9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by
William Blake?

A. Nurse’s Song
B. Holy Thursday
C. The Little Vagabond
D. The Idiot Boy

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 10. Where do you find this line, “Writing, when properly
managed (as you may be sure I think mine is), is but a
different name for conversation”?

A. Pamela
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Life of Johnson
D. Tristram Shandy

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 Romantics
• Features of the Age
• American Revolution and French Revolution

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 Early Romantics
• Features of the Age
• Napoleonic Wars

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 Early Romantics
• Features of the Age
• Socio-political conditions of England
• Gordon Riots (1780), Corn Laws (1815-1846)
• Enlightenment

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 Early Romantics
• Periodicals

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 Wordsworth
• On Seeing Miss • Michael, A pastoral
Helen Maria Williams poem
weep at a Tale of
• The Prelude
Distress
• The Excursion
• An Evening Walk &
Descriptive Sketches • Nature poems

• The Borderers (play) • Petrarchan Sonnets

• Lyrical Ballads (1798) • Matthew poems

• Lucy poems (5) • Ecclesiastical

sonnets
• Female Vagrant
• River Duddon poems
• Tintern Abbey

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 11. Which of the following is the theme of Wordsworth’s
ballad “Goody Blake and Harry Gill”?

A. The flush of first love

B. The loss of a loved one
C. Memories of childhood
D. The distress from poverty and want

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 12. Who said that the poet is “the rock of defence for
human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying
everywhere with him relationship and love”?

A. Southey
B. Blake
C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth

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 13. Which of Wordsworth’s poems begins with this clear
statement: “Tis eight o’ clock—a clear March night”?

A. We are Seven
B. The Idiot Boy
C. The Thorn
D. Peter Bell

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 Coleridge
• Enlisted in the army as Silas Tomkyn Comberbache
• Lyrical Ballads
• Conversation poems (8)
• Asra poems (14)
• Christabel
• Biographia Literaria
• Shakespearean Criticism (impressionistic)
• “Sage of Highgate”

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 The poem “This lime-tree bower, my prison” has a
__________ beginning.

A. Nostalgic
B. Philosophical
C. Colloquial (Well, they are gone, and here must I remain)
D. Biblical

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 Coleridge’s poem “France: An Ode” was originally titled
______

A. Recantation
B. The Spectre
C. Remembrance
D. Liberty

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 When the Ancient Mariner is rescued in a small boat,
which of these characters is present, representing a man
of God and of nature?

A. A sailor
B. A fisherman
C. A hermit
D. A peasant

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 What according to Coleridge has “aggregative and
associative power” (as against esemplastic power)?

A. Fancy
B. Primary imagination
C. Secondary imagination
D. Poetry

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 Byron
• Fugitive Pieces • The Vision of
• Hours of Idleness
Judgement

• English Bards and

• Blank Verse Drama
Scotch Reviewers • Manfred
• Childe Harold’s • Cain
Pilgrimage
• The Two Foscari
• Beppo
• Marino Feliero
• Mazeppa
• Sardanapalus
• Don Juan (epic
• Heaven and Earth
satire)

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 My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears
Which character in a famous Byronic poem speaks this?

A. Beppo
B. Childe Harold
C. Francois Bonivard (The Prisoner of Chillon)
D. Tasso

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 Which of these is not a poem by Byron?

A. The Siege of Corinth

B. Dante and His Circle (DG Rossetti)
C. Francesca of Rimini
D. Parisina

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 Shelley
• Early Poems
• Queen Mab, Alastor, Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty, Mont Blanc,
• Revolt of Islam (Laon and Cythna)
• Poems of 1819: Odes
• Verse plays
• Prometheus Unbound
• Swellfoot the Tyrant
• Hellas
• The Triumph of Life
• A Defence of Poetry

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 As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.
This is the opening of ____

A. Alastor
B. The Mask of Anarchy
C. England in 1819
D. Queen Mab

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 “I met Murder on the way”
This line occurs in ______

A. Alastor
B. The Mask of Anarchy
C. England in 1819
D. Queen Mab

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 Which of the following is not by Shelley?
A. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
B. Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
C. Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse (Arnold)
D. Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (Byron)

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 Keats
• Endymion
• Isabella
• 1819 Poems (annus mirabilis)
• Great Odes: Grecian Urn, Indolence,
Melancholy, Nightingale, Pysche, Autumn
• The Eve of St Agnes
• Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
• Lamia
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• Sonnets

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 Which of these is/are unfinished poems by John Keats?

A. Eve of St Agnes
B. Eve of Saint Mark
C. Hyperion
D. The Fall of Hyperion

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 Which of the following is true about The Eve of St Agnes?

A. Prospero tries to makes Madeline’s dream a reality

B. Prospero is escaping from the fury of Madeline’s family
C. Prospero is imagining that he is in Madeline’s bed chamber
D. All these are true

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 Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey

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 Uppercross, the estate in Somerset appears in the novel
____

A. Northanger Abbey
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma
D. Persuasion (Musgroves live there)

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 Which of the following is a symbolic act in Pride and
Prejudice that throws light on gender issues?

A. Singing
B. Dancing
C. Drawing
D. Gardening

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 My first doth affliction denote
Which my second is destin'd to feel.
And my whole is the best antidote
That affliction to soften and heal.
This verse from Emma is ______

A. A well-known riddle
B. A poem written by Emma
C. A poem recited by Knightley
D. The note given by Emma to Frank Churchill

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 Other Writers
• Walter Scott
• Charles Lamb
• William Hazlitt
• Thomas de Quincey

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 Who regarded Shakespeare’s books to be meant for
reading than for acting?

A. Lamb
B. De Quincey
C. Hazlitt
D. Coleridge

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 “A truly natural or familiar style can never be quaint or
vulgar, for this reason, that it is of universal force and
applicability, and that quaintness and vulgarity arise out
of the immediate connection of certain words with coarse
and disagreeable, or with confined ideas.” Who said this?

A. Lamb
B. De Quincey
C. Hazlitt (“On Familiar Style”)
D. Coleridge

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 Which of these is not a part of De Quincey’s
The English Mail Coach?

A. On Poetry in General (Hazlitt)

B. The Glory of Motion
C. The Vision of Sudden Death
D. Dream Fugue, Founded on the Preceding Theme of Sudden Death

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 Victorian Period
• Rise of Technology
• Industrial revolution
• The Great Reform Acts (1832, 1867, 1884)
• Chartist Movement (1838-48)
• Great Exhibition of London (1851)
• Irish Rebellion
• Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859)
• Crimean War (1853-1856)
• “Sepoy’s Mutiny” (1857)
• Boer Wars (1880-81, 1899-1902)

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 Tennyson
• Timbuctoo • The Princess
• Oenone • In Memoriam (132)
• Lotos Eaters • Idylls of the King
• Ten Years’ Silence • Enoch Arden
• Lady of Shalott • Poetic Drama
• Ulysses • Becket
• Morte D’Arthur • Queen Mary
• Locksley Hall • Harold
• Tithonus

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 Brownings
• Robert • Elizabeth
• Paracelsus • A Drama of Exile
• Sordello • Lady Geraldine’s
• Dramatic Poetry /
Courtship
Verse Plays: Pippa • The Cry of the
Passes Children
• Dramatic • Sonnets from the
Monologues Portuguese
• The Ring and the • Casa Guidi Windows
Book
• Aurora Leigh

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 Arnold
• The Strayed • The Scholar Gypsy
Reveller
• Philomela
• Empedocles on
• Shakespeare
Etna
• Tristram and Iseult
• Merope
• Sohrab and
• Marguerite poems
Rustom
• The Forsaken
• Thyrsis
Merman
• Dover Beach

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 Which of these poets is best remembered for
“robust optimism”?
A. Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D. Matthew Arnold

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 Browning’s poems like "Saul", ”Bishop Bougram's
Apology" and "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St.
Praxed’s” discuss ______
A. Life after death
B. Extremities in religion
C. The fact that everything in life is divinely ordained
D. The corrupt clergy

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 Which of the following works was criticised by its own
author thus: “the suffering finds no vent in action”?

A. Empedocles on Etna
B. Locksley Hall
C. Enoch Arden
D. Aurora Leigh

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 Other Poets
• George Meredith
• Modern Love
• Edward Fitzgerald
• Trans. Rubaiyat
• Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood
• DG Rosetti
• William Morris
• AC Swinburne

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 “Lucifer in Starlight” is a powerful poem that describes
Lucifer's power, past, attempted ascent from Hell back
into Heaven, and the sights seen along the way.
Who is the author?
A. DG Rossetti
B. AC Swinburne
C. William Morris
D. George Meredith

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 Who, in the Introduction to his book influenced by
Chaucer, described himself as “an idle singer of an empty
day”?

A. DG Rossetti
B. AC Swinburne
C. William Morris (The Earthly Paradise)
D. George Meredith

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 Who wrote a poem addressing “Heaven born Helen,
Sparta’s queen”?

A. DG Rossetti (Troy Town)

B. AC Swinburne
C. William Morris
D. George Meredith

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 Disraeli
• Vivien Grey, Contarini Fleming and Alroy
• Coningsby, Sybil and Tancred
• Henrietta Temple
• Endymion

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 Gaskell
• Mary Barton
• Cranford
• Ruth
• North and South
• Sylvia’s Lovers
• Wives and Daughters
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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 Thackeray
• Contributions to • The Newcomes
magazines
• The Virginians
• Fraser’s & Punch
• Rebecca and
• Pseudonyms Rowena
• Catherine • Based on
• Barry Lyndon
Ivanhoe

• Vanity Fair
• The Rose and the
Ring
• Pendennis
• Christmas book
• Henry Esmond

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 Dickens
• Pickpick Papers • Bleak House
• Oliver Twist • Hard Times
• Nicholas Nickleby • Little Dorrit
• The Old Curiosity • A Tale of Two
Shop Cities
• Barnaby Rudge • Great
• A Christmas Carol
Expectations

• Dombey and Son

• Out Mutual Friend

• David Copperfield
• Edwin Drood

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 In which novel is Mr Pecksniff, a superb hypocrite, an
important character?

A. Barnaby Rudge
B. Martin Chuzzlewit
C. Dombey and Son
D. Great Expectations

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 What is the correct order of novels in which these
characters appear?
Dr Lydgate, Gwendolyn Harleth, James Harthouse,
Tommy Traddles
A. Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Hard Times, David Copperfield
B. Middlemarch, Romola, Hard Times, David Copperfield
C. Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Hard Times, Great Expectations
D. Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, David Copperfield, Hard Times

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 Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers is

A. An actor and a trickster

B. A poet and an opium addict
C. A fraudulent businessman
D. A wandering preacher

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 Little Father Time is a character in
A. Dombey and Son
B. The Trumpet Major
C. Romola
D. Jude the Obscure

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 Brontes
• Jane Eyre
• Wuthering Heights
• Agnes Grey
• Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Shirley
• Villette
• The Professor

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 George Eliot
• Adam Bede
• The Mill on the Floss
• Silas Marner
• Romola
• Felix Holt
• Middlemarch
• Daniel Deronda
• The Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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 Thomas Hardy
• Doorman and the • The Mayor of
Lady Casterbridge
• Desperate remedies • The Woodlanders
• Under the • Tess of the
Greenwood Tree D’Urbervilles
• Far from the • Jude the Obscure
Madding Crowd
• Poetry
• The Return of the
Native
• The Trumpet Major

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 Other Writers
• Charles Reade
• Charles Kingsley
• Wilkie Collins
• George Meredith
• Henry James
• Thomas Carlyle
• John Ruskin

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 End of the Century
• Symbolism
• WB Yeats
• Aesthetic
Movement
• Walter Pater
• Oscar Wilde

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 All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins”

These lines are from the poem ______

A. Byzantium
B. Sailing to Byzantium
C. Lapis Lazuli
D. Meru

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Revision Questions
Who commented the following on Keats:
“No one save Shakespeare, has such “fascinating
felicity,” such “perfection of loveliness,” such
“indescribable gusto in the voice” as Keats”?
A. Arnold
B. Shelley
C. Leigh Hunt
D. Hazlitt
Who said:
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest
moments of the happiest and best minds”?

A. Arnold
B. Shelley
C. Leigh Hunt
D. Hazlitt
“In Trellised shade with clustering roses gay”
is the opening line of ………….

A. Peter Bell
B. The White Doe of Rylstone
C. Simon Lee
D. The Kitten at Play
“First the realm I'll pass/of Flora and old Pan
…. I must pass them for a noble life.” These
are lines in ……….
A. Nutting
B. Sleep and Poetry (Keats)
C. On First looking into Chapman’s Homer
D. The Tables Turned
Who described Shelley thus: "a superb
craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and
surely one of the most advanced skeptical
intellects ever to write a poem"?
A. Arnold
B. Harold Bloom
C. FR Leavis
D. Leigh Hunt
There is no Natural Religion is a series of
philosophical aphorisms by ……………

A. Kant
B. William Blake
C. John Locke
D. Wordsworth
The Last Man is an apocalyptic novel by
…………..

A. Mary Shelley
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. William Godwin
Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian was originally
published under the title ………..

A. Tales of my Landlord
B. Tales of my Landlady
C. My Landlord
D. None of the above
“A Man’s a man for A” that is a lyric poem by
……….

A. John Clare
B. Robert Burns
C. William Collins
D. None of the above
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is a fairy
tale by …………

A. Robert Southey
B. Mary Shelley
C. Hazlitt
D. Thomas de Quincy
The Watsons is the unfinished novel by
…………

A. Jane Austen
B. Frances Burney
C. Maria Edgeworth
D. Eliza Haywood
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