A. William Wordsworth
B. Matthew Arnold
C. John Dryden
D. Alexander Pope
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Literary Criticism MCQs
only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___
A. duty
B. job
C. task
D. systems
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Arnold states, “But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of
A. godlike illusion”
B. human illusion”
C. divine illusion”
D. wonderful illusion”
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________.
A. fiction
B. poetry
C. prose
D. morals
✅ The correct answer is option C.
According to Wordsworth, prose and poetry differs by
A. Style
B. Emotion
C. Preface
D. Metre
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________
A. Milton
B. Wordsworth
C. Shakespeare
D. Shelley
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The ‘touchstone method’ was propagated by –
A. Matthew Arnold
B. T.S. Eliot
C. F.R. Leavis
D. William Wordsworth
✅ The correct answer is option A.
According to Wordsworth, poetic diction has
A. Rules
B. No rules
C. Rustic language
D. Simple language
✅ The correct answer is option B.
In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet.
A. Milton
B. Keats
C. Pope
D. Gray
✅ The correct answer is option D.
In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry.
A. bright humour
B. high seriousness
C. sensuousness
D. want of seriousness
✅ The correct answer is option B.