1. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads (the manifesto of Romanticism) was added in:
A. 1798
B. 1800
C. 1802
D. 1805
2. Wordsworth became Poet Laureate in:
A. 1835
B. 1840
C. 1843
D. 1850
3. Lyrical Ballads first appeared in:
A. 1796
B. 1797
C. 1798
D. 1800
4. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey was written in:
A. 1790
B. 1793
C. 1798
D. 1800
5. The French Revolution, which influenced Romantic poets, took place in:
A. 1776
B. 1789
C. 1792
D. 1800
6. William Blake’s "Songs of Innocence" appeared in:
A. 1785
B. 1789
C. 1792
D. 1798
7. Blake’s Songs of Experience was published in:
A. 1792
B. 1794
C. 1798
D. 1800
8. Wordsworth’s The Prelude was published posthumously in:
A. 1840
B. 1845
C. 1850
D. 1855
9. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was first published in:
A. 1798
B. 1800
C. 1802
D. 1810
10. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan was published in:
A. 1798
B. 1800
C. 1816
D. 1820
11. Coleridge delivered his Biographia Literaria in:
A. 1805
B. 1810
C. 1817
D. 1820
12. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Cantos I–II) appeared in:
A. 1805
B. 1810
C. 1812
D. 1815
13. Byron’s death occurred in:
A. 1822
B. 1824
C. 1826
D. 1830
14. Shelley’s Queen Mab appeared in:
A. 1810
B. 1813
C. 1816
D. 1820
15. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind was written in:
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1819
D. 1821
16. Shelley’s Adonais was published in:
A. 1818
B. 1819
C. 1820
D. 1821
17. Shelley drowned in the Gulf of Spezia in:
A. 1820
B. 1821
C. 1822
D. 1824
18. Keats composed the Great Odes in:
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1819
D. 1820
19. Keats’s Endymion appeared in:
A. 1815
B. 1816
C. 1817
D. 1818
20. La Belle Dame sans Merci (Keats) was written in:
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1818
D. 1819
21. Keats died in Rome in:
A. 1819
B. 1820
C. 1821
D. 1822
22. Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode was completed in:
A. 1802
B. 1804
C. 1807
D. 1810
23. Wordsworth and Coleridge’s German tour (influencing philosophy in Romanticism) occurred in:
A. 1798–99
B. 1802–03
C. 1804–05
D. 1810–11
24. Scottish poet Robert Burns died in:
A. 1789
B. 1796
C. 1800
D. 1802
25. Byron published Don Juan (Canto I) in:
A. 1812
B. 1816
C. 1819
D. 1821
26. Wordsworth’s Lucy poems cluster was written between:
A. 1798–99
B. 1800–01
C. 1804–05
D. 1807–08
27. Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals span the years:
A. 1795–97
B. 1800–03
C. 1808–10
D. 1812–14
28. Coleridge and Wordsworth settled in the Lake District in:
A. 1795
B. 1797
C. 1799
D. 1801
29. Felicia Hemans’s popular poem “Casabianca” was published in:
A. 1815
B. 1820
C. 1826
D. 1830
30. The second edition of Lyrical Ballads (containing “Preface”) appeared in:
A. 1800
B. 1802
C. 1805
D. 1807
31. Blake combined Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in one volume in—
A. 1790
B. 1794
C. 1800
D. 1789
32. Shelley published Prometheus Unbound in—
A. 1817
B. 1818
C. 1819
D. 1820
33. Byron left England in self-exile in—
A. 1815
B. 1816
C. 1817
D. 1818
34. When was Christabel first published (unfinished)?
A. 1799
B. 1800
C. 1816
D. 1817
35. When was Keats’s first volume Poems published?
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1818
D. 1819
36. Coleridge’s first published volume, "Poems on Various Subjects," came out in—
A. 1794
B. 1795
C. 1796
D. 1797
37. Blake’s "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was engraved and printed in—
A. 1789
B. 1790–93
C. 1795
D. 1798
38. "The Revolt of Islam" by Shelley was published in—
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1818
D. 1819
39. Wordsworth first met Coleridge in the year—
A. 1795
B. 1796
C. 1797
D. 1798
40. Shelley eloped with Mary Godwin in—
A. 1812
B. 1814
C. 1816
D. 1818
41. Byron gave his maiden speech in the House of Lords in—
A. 1809
B. 1810
C. 1811
D. 1812
42. Blake’s epic "Milton: A Poem" was engraved in
A. 1800
B. 1802
C. 1804–1810
D. 1812
43. Keats first met Shelley in Hampstead in—
A. 1816
B. 1817
C. 1818
D. 1819
44. Shelley wrote A Defence of Poetry in which year, though it was published posthumously?
A. 1817
B. 1818
C. 1821
D. 1822
45. The Battle of Waterloo (often seen as marking the closing phase of the high Romantic spirit) was fought in—
A. 1812
B. 1814
C. 1815
D. 1816
46. The 1807 volume Poems in Two Volumes (containing “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”) appeared in—
A. 1805
B. 1807
C. 1808
D. 1810
47. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Excursion was published in—
A. 1810
B. 1814
C. 1816
D. 1820
48. Blake’s The Book of Urizen (illuminated) was printed in—
A. 1792
B. 1794
C. 1796
D. 1799
49. Byron’s narrative poem The Giaour was first published in—
A. 1811
B. 1812
C. 1813
D. 1815
50. Wordsworth's The Borderers, his only completed play, was written in—
A. 1796
B. 1795-97
C. 1798
D. 1799