A. everyone
B. his readers
C. men
D. nature
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8582. The function of poetry is both to instruct and delight, but for Wordsworth it is to give
A. exaltation
B. pleasure
C. dictation
D. purgation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8580. The dominant theme of Wordsworth’s preface is
A. poetic diction
B. poetic argument
C. poetic criticism
D. poetic license
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8618. Wordsworth’s preface declares the dawn of
A. English Romantic Movement
B. British Romantic Movement
C. European Romantic Movement
D. Anglo-saxon Romantic Movement
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8616. Wordsworth’s preface can be seen as a forceful plea for simplicity both in
A. idea and feeling
B. sentiment an d exposition
C. expression and elucidation
D. theme and treatment
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8614. Wordsworth was primarily
A. a critic
B. a poet
C. an essayist
D. a philosopher
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8612. The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in
A. 1798
B. 1799
C. 1800
D. 1801
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8610. The Principal object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situations from
A. urban life
B. agrarian life
C. common life
D. genteel life
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8607. Poems of value are produced by a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility and had also thought
A. in tranquility
B. long and deep
C. passionately
D. calmly
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8604. In the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth’s purpose was to imitate and adopt the very language of
A. the neoclassics
B. metre
C. men
D. the classics
✅ The correct answer is option C.