1) John Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 after writing a remarkable number of poems that have helped define the Romantic tradition. Keats and his siblings George, Tom, and Frances (Fanny) lost their father when he died after a fall from a horse in _____
A:) 1802
B:) 1803
C:) 1804
D:) 1805
springline- Correct option: B:) 1803
2) Keats was an apprentice to an apothecary–surgeon when he was 15; he received his apothecary certificate in 1816. Keats was acquainted with the writer and editor, Who introduced him to some of the leading intellectuals and writers of the time ?
A:) Leigh Hunt
B:) Abraham Cowley
C:) Shelly
D:) Byron
springline- Correct option: A:) Leigh Hunt
3) When Keats had an extremely rich year of creativity; he wrote ‘The Eve of St. Agnes,’ ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci,’ and his six great odes, which include ‘Ode to a Nightingale,’ ‘Ode on Indolence,’ ‘Ode on Melancholy,’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn ?
A:) 1818
B:) 1819
C:) 1820
D:) 1821
springline- Correct option: B:) 1819
4) The recipients of the letters are friends—the poet and insurance clerk John Hamilton Reynolds, and Benjamin Bailey; Keats’s brothers George and Tom; and John Taylor—a member of the publishing house Taylor and Hessey where his long poem Which was published ?
A:) Endymion
B:) The Campion
C:) To Autumn
D:) Ode to a Grecian Urn
springline- Correct option: A:) Endymion
5) Ever since Keats wrote to his Brothers from Southampton Keats, have been in a taking, and at this moment Keats am about to become settled, for Keats have unpacked his books, put them into a snug corner—pinned up Haydon—Mary Queen of Scotts, and Who with his daughters in a row ?
A:) Byron
B:) Milton
C:) Shelly
D:) John Donne
springline- Correct option: B:) Milton
6) In the passage I found a head of Shakspeare which I had not before seen—It is most likely the same that George spoke so well of; for I like it extremely—Well—this head I have hung over my Books, just above the three in a row, having first discarded a ____
A:) American Ambassador
B:) Italy Ambassador
C:) French Ambassador
D:) German Ambassador
springline- Correct option: C:) French Ambassador
7) Shanklin is a most beautiful place—sloping wood and meadow ground reaches round the Chine, which is a cleft between the Cliffs of the depth of nearly 300 feet at least. This cleft is filled with trees & bushes in the narrow part; and as it widens becomes bare, if it were not for primroses on one side, which spread to the very verge of the_____
A:) Hill
B:) river
C:) lake
D:) Sea
springline- Correct option: D:) Sea
8) Keats find that he cannot exist without poetry—without eternal poetry—half the day will not do—the whole of it—he began with a little, but habit has made him a Leviathans , he had become all in a Tremble from not having written any thing of late Which was over leaf did Keats some good ?
A:) the Novel
B:) the Epic
C:) the Sonnet
D:) the Ballad
springline- Correct option: C:) the Sonnet
9) Keats running his head into a Subject which he was certain he could not do justice to under five years study and 3 volumes octavo—and moreover long to be talking about the Imagination—[ . . . ] he is certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be_______
A:) truth
B:) beauty
C:) fresh
D:) nature
springline- Correct option: A:) truth
10) The Imagination may be compared to Whose dream— Keats awoke and found it truth, Keats the more jealous in this affair, because have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning?
A:) Eve
B:) Adam
C:) Chorus
D:) Serpent
springline- Correct option: B:) Adam
11) Keats must crave pardon for not having written ere this; ‘ [ . . . ] [T]he excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty & Truth—Examine Who and you will find this exemplified throughout’ ?
A:) King Lear
B:) Macbeth
C:) Henry II
D:) Othello
springline- Correct option: A:) King Lear
12) Kinglear in this picture they have unpleasantness without any momentous depth of speculation excited, in which to bury its repulsiveness—The picture is larger than Christ rejected he dined with Haydon the ______
A:) Monday
B:) Sunday
C:) Friday
D:) Wednesday
springline- Correct option: B:) Sunday
13) Keats going to Reynolds, on wednesday—Brown & Dilke walked with him & back from the Christmas pantomime. Keats had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in his mind, & at once it struck him, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & Who possessed so enormously he mean Negative Capability ?
A:) Shakespeare
B:) Milton
C:) Charles Dickens
D:) Dryden
springline- Correct option: A:) Shakespeare
14) Each of the moderns like an Elector of Hanover governs his petty state, & knows how many straws are swept daily from the Causeways in all his dominions & has a continual itching that all the Housewives should have their coppers well scoured. Keats will cut all this he will have no more of Wordsworth or ______
A:) Cowley
B:) Charles Lamb
C:) Hunt
D:) Robert Southey
springline- Correct option: C:) Hunt
15) In Poetry Keats have a few Axioms, and people will see how far he from their Centre. First think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance—second, Its touches of ____
A:) Nature
B:) Beauty
C:)Truth
D:) Seriousness
springline- Correct option: B:) Beauty
16) However among the effects that breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one’s vision into the heart and nature of Man—of convincing ones nerves that the World is full of Misery and Heratbreak, Pain, Sickness, and _______
A:) oppression
B:) myth
C:) miracle
D:) beauty
springline- Correct option: A:) oppression
17) To the point was Wordsworth come, as far as Keats can conceive when he wrote ‘Tintern Abbey’ and it seems to me that his Genius is explorative of those dark Passages. He is a Genius and superior to us, in so far as he can, more than others, make discoveries, and shed a light in them—Here Keats must think Wordsworth is deeper than ______?
A:) Shakespeare
B:) Dryden
C:) Milton
D:) Spenser
springline- Correct option: C:) Milton
18) John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only _______?
A:) fifty-three poems
B:) fifty-four poems
C:) fifty-five poems
D:) fifty-six poems
springline- Correct option: B:) fifty-four poems
19) John Keats was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been published for only four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of _____
A:) 21
B:) 23
C:) 24
D:) 25
springline- Correct option: D:) 25
20) Keats fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century he was placed in the canon of English literature and an inspiration for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, strongly influencing many writers; the Which called one ode ‘one of the final masterpieces ?
A:) Encyclopædia Britannica
B:) To Autumn
C :) Endymion
D:) Bright Star
springline- Correct option: A:) Encyclopædia Britannica
21) Keats had a style ‘heavily loaded with sensualities’, notably in the series of odes. Typical of the Romantics, he underlined extreme emotion with natural imagery. His poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature. Who named his first encounter with Keats an experience he felt all his life?
A:) Robert Burns
B:) Jorge Luis Borges
C:) John Clare
D:) William Cowper
springline- Correct option: B:) Jorge Luis Borges
22) In the family atmosphere at Clarke's, Keats developed an interest in classics and history, which would stay with him throughout his short life. The headmaster's son, Charles Cowden Clarke, also became an important mentor and friend, introducing Keats to Renaissance literature, including Tasso, Spenser, and Whose translations ?
A:) Chapman
B:) Smith
C:) Browning
D:) Thomas Gray
springline- Correct option: A:) Chapman
23) The young Keats was described by his friend Edward Holmes as a volatile character, ‘always in extremes’, given to indolence and fighting. However, at 13 he began focusing his energy on reading and study, winning his first academic prize in midsummer _____
A:) 1806
B:) 1807
C:) 1808
D:) 1809
springline- Correct option: D:) 1809
24) However, Keats's training took up increasing amounts of his writing time and he became increasingly ambivalent about it. He felt he was facing a stark choice. He had written his first extant poem, ‘An Imitation of Spenser,’ in ____
A:) 1812
B:) 1814
C:) 1816
D:) 1818
springline- Correct option: B:) 1814
25) In May 1816, Leigh Hunt agreed to publish the sonnet ‘O Solitude’ in his magazine The Examiner, a leading liberal magazine of the day. This was the first appearance of Keats's poetry in print; Charles Cowden Clarke called it his friend's red letter day, the first proof that his ambitions could be achieved. Among his poems of 1816 was _______
A:) To My Brothers
B:) Life of the Poet
C:) La Belle Dame Sans
D:) Posthumous Keats
springline- Correct option: A:) To My Brothers
26) In October 1816, Clarke introduced Keats to the influential Leigh Hunt, a close friend of Byron and Shelley. Five months later came the publication of Poems, the first volume of Keats's verse, which included ‘I stood tiptoe’ and ‘Sleep and Poetry,’ both strongly influenced by Hunt. The book was a critical failure, arousing little interest, although Reynolds reviewed it favourably in ___
A:) Book of the Heart
B:) Bright Star
C:) The Champion
D:) The Eve of St. Agnes
springline- Correct option: C:) The Champion
27) Unlike the Olliers, Keats's new publishers were enthusiastic about his work. Within a month of the publication of Poems they were planning a new Keats volume and had paid him an advance. Who became a steady friend to Keats and made the company's rooms available for young writers to meet ?
A:) Hessey
B:) Hazlitt
C:) Carlyle
D:) Coleridge
springline- Correct option: A:) Hessey
28) Andrew Motion represents him as Boswell to Keats's Johnson, ceaselessly promoting his work, fighting his corner and spurring his poetry to greater heights.. Despite the bad reviews of Poems, Who published the essay ‘Three Young Poets’ (Shelley, Keats, and Reynolds) and the sonnet ‘On First Looking into Chapman's Homer ?
A:) William Cowper
B:) Hunt
C:) Goldsmith
D:) Robert Southey
springline- Correct option: B:) Hunt
29) Keats's letters were first published in 1848 and 1878. During the 19th century, critics disregarded them as distractions from his poetic works. During the 20th century they became almost as admired and studied as his poetry, and are highly regarded within the canon of English literary correspondence. Who described them as ‘certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet ?
A:) Tennyson
B:) Andrew Marvell
C:) T. S. Eliot
D:) Shelley
springline- Correct option: C:) T. S. Eliot
30) Few of Keats's letters remain from the period before he joined his literary circle. From spring 1817, however, there is a rich record of his prolific and impressive skills as a letter writer. Keats also reflected on the background and composition of his poetry, and specific letters often coincide with or anticipate the poems they describe. In 1819, Which months, he produced many of his finest letters ?
A:) February to May
B:) May to July
C:)March to June
D:) August to December
springline- Correct option: A:) February to May