PGTRB TEST - 13 - IMMORTALITY, TINTERN ABBEY & DREAM CHILDREN

William Wordsworth was born in the year:

• 1755
• 1770
• 1778
• 1789

Which of the following is NOT written by William Wordsworth?

• The Excursion
• The Prelude
• The Task
• Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

“The Child is father of the Man” — appears in which of Wordsworth’s poems?

• Resolution and Independence
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• My Heart Leaps Up
• Lucy Gray

The phrase “emotion recollected in tranquillity” is associated with which theoretical idea of Wordsworth’s?

• Sublime
• Negative Capability
• Romantic Irony
• Definition of Poetry

"A reasoning heart, a watchful eye, / A poet's insight shall he gain..." — this line from The Excursion reflects:

• Nature as indifferent
• Nature as a moral teacher
• Urban alienation
• Historical realism

Which critic accused Wordsworth of being a “high priest of nature-worship”?

• T.S. Eliot
• Matthew Arnold
• John Ruskin
• George Saintsbury

In which of his poems does Wordsworth write: “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours”

• Composed upon Westminster Bridge
• The World is Too Much with Us
• The Solitary Reaper
• Michael

Which of the following statements about Wordsworth is incorrect?

• He was made Poet Laureate in 1843
• He believed in the use of elevated diction in poetry
• He collaborated with Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads
• He believed Nature had spiritual power

"She dwelt among the untrodden ways / Beside the springs of Dove" is about:

• Dorothy Wordsworth
• Lucy, an idealized pastoral figure
• A fictional shepherdess
• A mythological muse

Which famous autobiographical poem by Wordsworth was posthumously published in 1850?

• The Excursion
• The Recluse
• The Prelude
• Home at Grasmere