Themes of William Wordsworth’s poetry are:

A. Men and women
B. Farmer
C. Ruler poor
D. All of these

Answer

D. All of these

Which poem is considered Wordsworth’s magnum opus?

A. Lyrical ballads
B. The prelude
C. We are seven
D. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

Answer

B. The prelude

Wordsworth is also called:

A. Lyrical singer
B. Poet and prophet of nature
C. Son of nature
D. Impressive Bard

Answer

B. Poet and prophet of nature

“The Lyrical Ballads” is written by___

A. Wordsworth
B. Collins
C. Gray
D. Shelley

Answer

A. Wordsworth

“The soul was like a star, and dwelt apart” was written about Milton by:

A. William James
B. Shakespeare
C. William Wordsworth
D. Lord Byron

Answer

C. William Wordsworth

Who said this “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquillity”?

A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake

Answer

C. William Wordsworth

“There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.” Who said this?

A. William Wordsworth
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. Lord Byron
D. John Keats

Answer

A. William Wordsworth

Who called poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?

A. Wordsworth
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Hopkins
D. John Keats

Answer

A. Wordsworth

Who viewed that “poetry divorced from morality is valueless”?

A. Wordsworth
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Hopkins
D. John Keats

Answer

A. Wordsworth