8579. Wordsworth gives much importance to the ________ of poetry
A. Fancy
B. Language
C. Feelings
D. Imagination
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8581. According to Wordsworth Poetry is the first and last of all…
A. Wisdom
B. Truth
C. Inspiration
D. Knowledge
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8565. Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of –
A. Matthew Arnold
B. F.R. Leavis
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Samuel Johnson
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8568. “The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can” was said by –
A. William Wordsworth
B. Matthew Arnold
C. John Dryden
D. Alexander Pope
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8551. The definition of poetry as enunciated by Matthew Arnold in ‘The Study of Poetry is
A. A spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
B. A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty
C. A just and lively image of human nature, to delight and instruct mankind
D. An imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of certain magnitude
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8553. What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry?
A. Charlatanism
B. Philistinism
C. Estimates
D. High seriousness
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8557. Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason
A. Milton
B. Gray
C. Dryden
D. Pope
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8559. According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is
A. Gray
B. Pope
C. Burns
D. Milton
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8575. According to Wordsworth, poetic diction has
A. Rules
B. No rules
C. Rustic language
D. Simple language
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8578. In what ways is Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?
A. It calls for even more strict and rigid poetic forms
B. It features poems that focus on nature and rural communities
C. It contains poems that are more complicated and academic in tone.
D. It sought to stimulate the reader’s reasoning mind.
✅ The correct answer is option B.