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William Wordsworth Previous Year UGC-NET English
1. In which poem does the following line appear? “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.”
2. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in:
3. “What a mockery this. Of history, the past and that to come! Now do I feel how all men are deceived, Reading of nations and their, in faith, Faith given to vanity and emptiness …” The above extract is from
4. “Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect, Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things : We murder to dissect” – Wordsworth. Which of the following best summarises the speaker’s position?
5. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The Thorn”?
6. ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven’. This occurs in a poem by:
7. Which of the following poems features the phrase, “the still, sad music of humanity”?
8. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines?
“In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Teach the free man how to praise.”
9. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
10. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until …………….
11. In Book 5 of Prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading which great work?
12. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
13. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was “fostered alike by __________ and __________”. Pick out the right pair.
Options:
(a) nature
(b) fear
(c) imagination
(d) beauty
The right combination according to the code is:
14. An English poet couldn’t help the excitement that an historical event caused in his life-time:
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven”
But to be young was very heaven”
Which poet? What ‘dawn’?
15. Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by Wordsworth?
16. What is being described by Wordsworth in the following lines from his poem, The Thorn?
“I’ve measured it from side to side;
‘Tis three feet long and two feet wide.”
‘Tis three feet long and two feet wide.”
17. Match the poet with the opening line of the poem.
Poets:
a) Shelley
b) Coleridge
c) Keats
d) Wordsworth
Opening Lines:
i. I cry your mercy – pity love! Aye, love!
ii. The world is too much with us
iii. O world, O life, O time
iv. When true love burns desire is Love’s pure flame
Choose the correct option:
18. Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry?
Authors:
A. William Wordsworth
B. Horace
C. Samuel Daniel
D. Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
19. Arrange the following critical works in their chronological order of publication:
Critical Works:
A. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
B. “A Defence of Rhyme”
C. “Life of Cowley”
D. “The Frontiers of Criticism”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
20. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
21. A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem in his “Swoggled”:
“I’d rather
be
suckled by
an
outworn pagan
than
get my horn
wreathed in
an
old Triton.”
be
suckled by
an
outworn pagan
than
get my horn
wreathed in
an
old Triton.”
Which poet, which poem?
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