British Literary Periods

Who is credited with establishing the first printing press in England in 1476?

• Johan Gutenberg

• William Bradford

• William Caxton

• Benjamin Franklin

• Richard Pynson

Which Poet Laureate of England wrote In Memoriam, A. H. H.?

• George Gordon, Lord Byron

• Thomas Hardy

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Ted Hughes

• D. H. Lawrence

Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities and Hard Times?

• Charlotte Bronte

• Charles Dickens

• Anthony Trollope

• Joseph Conrad

• Oscar Wilde

With which period of English literature is Chaucer associated?

• Old English Period

• Anglo-Norman Period

• Middle English Period

• Renaissance Period

• Neoclassic Period

Which poet was NOT part of the Romantic movement?

• Alexander Pope

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• George Gordon, Lord Byron

• William Wordsworth

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which play was NOT written by Shakespeare?

• Macbeth

• The Tempest

• Volpone

• Twelfth Night

• The Merchant of Venice

What was the system of social and political organization that prevailed in Western Europe during much of the medieval period?

• classicism

• anarchy

• communism

• feudalism

• colonialism

Which period in English Literature followed the Anglo-Saxon Period?

• Anglo-Norman Period

• Middle English Period

• Renaissance Period

• Neoclassic Period

• Romantic Period

What work of poetry heralded the arrival of the Romantic Period of English Literature?

• Sonnets from the Portuguese

• Lyrical Ballads

• The Canterbury Tales

• Essay on Criticism

• Paradise Lost

Who was a leading writer during the Enlightenment?

• William Wordsworth

• Samuel Johnson

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Alexander Pope