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The Romantic Poets of England

written by: Shakeepuddn
 
"Maid of Athens ere we part, give oh give me back my heart!" Here are ten questions about the great English Romantics of the early nineteenth century.

Question 1:


Lord Byron was the lusty, adventurous poet of revolt. He wrote once, “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.” What widely popular travel poem did this bohemian baron write which garnered the fame to which he referred?
Stanzas for Music
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
So We’ll Go No More A Roving
Don Juan

Question 2:


This conservative, aristocratic poet and novelist was the pride of both Scotland and England. His martial poetry was an inspiration during war. What author of “Waverly” penned the following poem?

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name."
Thomas Carlyle
Rudyard Kipling
Sir Walter Scott
Thomas DeQuincy

Question 3:


Complete the verse from William Blake:

"Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful _________".  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)


Question 4:


This nature lover felt that poetry should reflect the simple tongue of the common man and that poetry is basically “emotion recollected in tranquility.” Which renowned poet penned “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Charles Lamb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 5:


Who wrote these famous lines and in what poem can they be found?

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
That is all ye know on earth,
And all ye need to know."
Shelly—Ozymandias
Shelly—To a Skylark
Keats—Ode to a Nightingale
Keats—Ode on a Grecian Urn

Question 6:


What was Lord Byron’s original name?
James Manchester
William Byron James
Byron Thomas Hood
George Gordon

Question 7:


He was a close friend of Wordsworth. He wrote “Kubla Khan” and the following lines from his most popular poem:

"The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom’s door."
Carlyle
Sir Walter Scott
Keats
Coleridge

Question 8:


Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth all resided in the Lake Country of England near Grasmere. What were these three referred to as?
The Nature Poets
The Grasmere Poets
The Lake Poets
The Country Poets

Question 9:


He was a close friend of Byron and an incredibly popular singer, songwriter. Which Irish entertainer and poet, who wrote the lyrics to “The Minstrel Boy,” wrote these lines as well?

"The Harp that once through Tara’s halls the soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls as if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days, so glory’s thrill is o’er,
And hearts that once beat high for praise now feel that pulse no more."
Thomas Moore
Thomas Peacock
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Carlyle

Question 10:


"I weep for Adonais—he is dead!
Oh, weep for Adonais! Though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!"

What poet wrote these elegiac lines from “Adonais” in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelly
William Wordsworth
William Blake

 
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