1) The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. It has been suggested that calling them ____?
A:) Confessional Poetry
B:) Miltonic Poets
C:) Black Mountain poets
D:) Baroque poets
springline- Correct option: D:) Baroque poets
2) Samuel Johnson refers to the beginning of the 17th century in which there ‘appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets’. This does not necessarily imply that he intended ‘metaphysical’’ to be used in its true sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of _____?
A:) John Dryden
B:) Andrew Marvell
C:) John Donne
D:) George Herbert
springline- Correct option: A:) John Dryden
3) Johnson was repeating the disapproval of earlier critics who upheld the rival canons of Augustan poetry, for though Johnson may have given the Metaphysical ‘school’ the name by which it is now known, he was far from being the first to condemn 17th-century poetic usage of conceit and __?
A:) Spoonerism
B:) word-play
C:) Puns
D:) Rhetorical
springline- Correct option: B:) word-play
4) By 1961 A. Alvarez was commenting that ‘it may perhaps be a little late in the day to be writing about the Metaphysicals. The great vogue for ,Who passed with the passing of the Anglo-American experimental movement in modern poetry?
A:) Andrew Marvell
B:) George Herbert
C:) John Donne
D:) John Milton
springline- Correct option: C:) John Donne
5) There is no scholarly consensus regarding which English poets or poems fit within the Metaphysical genre. In his initial use of the term, Johnson quoted just three poets: Abraham Cowley, John Donne, and _____?
A:) Thomas Traherne
B:) Thomas Carew
C:) John Cleveland
D:) Andrew Marvell
springline- Correct option: C:) John Cleveland
6) Colin Burrow later singled out John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Who as 'central figures', while naming many more, all or part of whose work has been identified as sharing its characteristics ?
A:) George Herbert
B:) Richard Crashaw
C:) John Cleveland
D:) Henry Vaughan
springline- Correct option: B:) Richard Crashaw
7) Herbert Grierson's Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921) was important in defining the Metaphysical canon. In addition, Helen Gardner's Metaphysical Poets (1957) included 'proto-metaphysical' writers such as William Shakespeare and ___?
A:) Sir Walter Raleigh
B:) Abraham Cowley
C:) Richard Leigh
D:) Edward Taylor
springline- Correct option: A:) Sir Walter Raleigh
8) John Norris was better known as a Platonist philosopher. Thomas Traherne's poetry remained unpublished until the start of the 20th century. The work of Edward Taylor, who is now counted as the outstanding English-language poet of North America, was only discovered in ____?
A:) 1936
B:) 1937
C:) 1938
D:) 1939
springline- Correct option: B:) 1937
9) Johnson's definition of the Metaphysical poets was that of a hostile critic looking back at the style of the previous century. In 1958 Alvarez proposed an alternative approach in a series of lectures eventually published as __?
A:) The School of Johnson
B:) The School of Metaphysical poet
C:) The School of Dryden
D:) The School of Donne
springline- Correct option: D:) The School of Donne
10) A later generation of Metaphysical poets, writing during the Commonwealth, became increasingly more formulaic and lacking in vitality. These included Cleveland and his imitators as well as such transitional figures as Cowley and_____
A:) Marvell
B:) John Donne
C:) Henry Vaughan
D:) John Dryden
springline- Correct option: A:) Marvell
11) Johnson's remark that ‘To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think’ only echoed its recognition a century and a half before in the many tributes paid to Donne on his death. According to Whom, was esteem, not for metaphysics but for intelligence?
A:) John Suckling
B:) Thomas Carew
C:) Alvarez
D:) Robert Southwell
springline- Correct option: C:) Alvarez
12) Jasper Mayne's comment that for the fellow readers of his work, ‘Wee are thought wits, when 'tis understood’. Coupled with it went a vigorous sense of the speaking voice. It begins with the rough versification of the satires written by Donne and others in his circle such as Everard Gilpin and _______
A:) John Donne
B:) Andrew Marvell
C:) John Roe
D:) Edward Taylor
springline- Correct option: C:) John Roe
13) Who too had noted the dramatic quality of this poetry as a personal address of argument and persuasion, whether talking to a physical lover, to God, to Christ's mother Mary, or to a congregation of believers?
A:) George Herbert
B:) Helen Gardner
C:) Thomas Carew
D:) Edward Benlowes
springline- Correct option: B:) Helen Gardner
14) On the death of Donne, it is natural that his friend Edward Herbert should write him an elegy full of high-flown and exaggerated Metaphysical logic. In a similar way, Abraham Cowley marks the deaths of Crashaw and of another member of Donne's literary circle, _____
A:) Robert Southwell
B:) Edward Herbert
C:) Helen Gardner
D:) Henry Wotton
springline- Correct option: D:) Henry Wotton
15) The elegy is as much an exercise in a special application of logic as was Edward Herbert's on Donne. Whose on the other hand, is not remembered as a writer at all, but instead for his public career and the conjunction of his learning and role as ambassador becomes the extended metaphor on which the poem's tribute turns?
A:) Francis Quarles
B:) Henry Wotton
C:) Abraham Cowley
D:) George Herbert
springline- Correct option: B:) Henry Wotton
16) Twelve ‘Elegies upon the Author’ accompanied the posthumous first collected edition of Donne's work, Poems by J.D. with elegies of the author’s death (1633), and were reprinted in subsequent editions over the course of the next _______?
A:) one centuries
B:) two centuries
C:) three centuries
D:) four centuries
springline- Correct option: B:) two centuries
17) Though the poems were often cast in a suitably Metaphysical style, half were written by fellow clergymen, few of whom are remembered for their poetry. Among those who are, were Henry King and , Who was soon to quit authorship for orders ?
A:) Jasper Mayne
B:) William Carlos Williams
C:) Walt Whitman
D:) Margaret Deland
springline- Correct option: A:) Jasper Mayne
18) Bishop Richard Corbet's poetry writing was also nearly over by now and he contributed only a humorous squib. Other churchmen included Henry Valentine (fl 1600–1650), Edward Hyde (1607–1659) and____
A:) Richard Busby
B:) John Ruskin
C:) Victor Hugo
D:) William Barnes
springline- Correct option: A:) Richard Busby
19) Two poets, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland and Thomas Carew, who were joined in the 1635 edition by Sidney Godolphin, had links with the heterodox Great Tew Circle. They also served as courtiers, as did another contributor, Endymion Porter. In addition, Carew had been in the service of _____
A:) Queen Mary
B:) Elizabeth
C:) Edward Herbert
D:) George II
springline- Correct option: C:) Edward Herbert
20) Isaac Walton's link with Donne's circle was more tangential. He had friends within the Great Tew Circle but at the time of his elegy was working as a researcher for Henry Wotton, who intended writing a life of the poet. This project Walton inherited after his death, publishing it under his own name in _____?
A:) 1640
B:) 1641
C:)1642
D:) 1643
springline- Correct option: A:) 1640
21) Grierson attempted to characterise the main traits of Metaphysical poetry in the introduction to his anthology. For him it begins with a break with the formerly artificial style of their antecedents to one free from poetic diction or ________
A:) language
B:) rhyme
C:) conventions
D:) Word play
springline- Correct option: C:) conventions
22) Johnson acknowledged as much in pointing out that their style was not to be achieved ‘by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and _____?
A:) Metonymy
B:) hereditary similes
C:) Apostrophe
D:) Hyperbole
springline- Correct option: B:) hereditary similes
23) One of the characteristic singled out by Grierson is the Baroque European dimension of the poetry, its ‘fantastic conceits and hyperboles which was the fashion throughout Europe’. Again, Who had been partly before him in describing the style as ‘borrowed from Marino and his followers?
A:) Johnson
B:) John Donne
C:) John Dryden
D:) Ben Jonson
springline- Correct option: A:) Johnson
24) Southwell counts as a notable pioneer of the style, in part because his formative years were spent outside England. . In addition, Whose ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is given as a famous example of the use of hyperbole common to many other Metaphysical poets and typical of the Baroque style too?
A:) William Barnes
B:) Leigh Hunt
C:) Andrew Marvell
D:) Abraham Cowley
springline- Correct option: C:) Andrew Marvell
25) Crashaw is frequently cited by Harold Segel when typifying the characteristics of The Baroque Poem, but he goes on to compare the work of several other Metaphysical poets to their counterparts in both Western and Eastern ______?
A:) Europe
B:) England
C:) Italy
D:) Rome
springline- Correct option: A:) Europe
26) The rhetorical way in which various forms of repetition accumulate in creating a tension, only relieved by their resolution at the end of the poem, Segel instances the English work of Henry King as well as Ernst Christoph Homburg's in _______?
A:) England
B:) German
C:) Italy
D:) Rome
springline- Correct option: B:) German
27) The way George Herbert and other English poets ‘torture one poor word ten thousand ways’, in Dryden's phrase, finds its counterpart in a poem like ‘Constantijn Huygens’ Sondagh (Sunday) with its verbal variations on the word 'sun'. Wordplay on this scale was not confined to Metaphysical poets, moreover, but can be found in the multiple meanings of 'will' that occur in Shakespeare's _____?
A:) Sonnet 116
B:) Sonnet 73
C:) Sonnet 18
D:) Sonnet 135
springline- Correct option: D:) Sonnet 135
28) Another striking example occurs in Baroque poems celebrating ‘black beauty’, built on the opposition between the norm of feminine beauty and instances that challenge that commonplace. There are examples in sonnets by Philip Sidney, where the key contrast is between 'black' and 'bright'; by Shakespeare, contrasting 'black' and various meanings of ____?
A:) glad
B:) beauty
C:) fair
D:) Clown
springline- Correct option: C:) fair
29) The start of John Dryden's writing career coincided with the period when Cleveland, Cowley and Marvell were first breaking into publication. He had yet to enter university when he contributed a poem on the death of Henry Lord Hastings to the many other tributes published in Lachrymae Musarum in the year of _____?
A:) 1649
B:) 1650
C:) 1651
D:) 1652
springline- Correct option: A:) 1649
30) The poems written by John Milton while still at university are a case in point and include some that were among his earliest published work, well before their inclusion in his Poems of 1645. His On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) and ‘On Shakespear’ in the year of___?
A:) 1630
B:) 1631
C:) 1632
D:) 1633
springline- Correct option: A:) 1630