Section III of Literature Overview

Question 0

When was Wordsworth born, and when did he die?

Answer 0

1770-1850

Question 1

From what era was Poet William Wordsworth?

Answer 1

The romantic period of writing

Question 2

Where was Wordsworth born?

Answer 2

The Lake District of Lancashire, in Northwestern England

Question 3

Wordsworth’s poems celebrate what?

Answer 3

Nature for it’s beauty and moral power

Question 4

Who was Wordsworth’s childhood friend and what was his literary work?

Answer 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question 5

What is the title of William Wordsworth’s small collection of poems that were published in 1798?

Answer 5

Lyrical Ballads

Question 6

Wordsworth was considered a(n)….?

Answer 6

Porto-Environmentalist; a champion of nature and a critic of human industry

Question 7

Which authors ‘magnum opus’ is considered The Prelude?

Answer 7

William Wordsworth

Question 8

Which author was born in Huntington, New York?

Answer 8

Walt Whitman

Question 9

To what religion did Walt Whitman’s parents have sympathies?

Answer 9

They Quakers

Question 10

From what years did Walt Whitman live?

Answer 10

1819-92

Question 11

Which occupations has Whitman occupied?

Answer 11

Journalist, teacher, clerk, and served as a volunteer nurse in the American Civil War

Question 12

Which of Whitman’s works was self-published in 1855?

Answer 12

The first edition of Leaves of Grass

Question 13

Which strange topics did Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, discuss?

Answer 13

Sexuality and desire

Question 14

What was curious about Whitman’s sexuality?

Answer 14

He was a homosexual

Question 15

When and where did Walt Whitman die?

Answer 15

Camden, New Jersey, 1892

Question 16

What did Walt Whitman continue to revise until his death?

Answer 16

His magnum opus

Question 17

Who was Walt Whitman’s American contemporary?

Answer 17

Emily Dickinson

Question 18

How does Whitman appeal to his readers through his poetry?

Answer 18

With his grand effusive verses, which capture the energy and enthusiasm of Young America

Question 19

Which poem may be Whitman’s most famous?

Answer 19

Songs of Myself

Question 20

The rise of which period made free verse more acceptable?

Answer 20

Modernism

Question 21

What were two beat poets from the 50s and 60s?

Answer 21

Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg

Question 22

Where was John Muir born?

Answer 22

In Scotland

Question 23

What were the dates of John Muir’s birth and death?

Answer 23

1838-1914

Question 24

What religion was John Muir’s parents?

Answer 24

Strictly religious Scots Presbyterians

Question 25

What era was John Muir closely linked to?

Answer 25

Romanticism

Question 26

What university did John Muir go to?

Answer 26

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Question 27

What three masters did Muir study in college?

Answer 27

Botany, chemistry, and geology

Question 28

Where did Muir go during the Civil War and why?

Answer 28

Canada to avoid the draft

Question 29

Where did Muir later make his namesake?

Answer 29

The California inland

Question 30

What club did John Muir start?

Answer 30

The Sierra Club

Question 31

Which poet died tragically and is mostly forgotten?

Answer 31

Sara Teasdale

Question 32

What were the dates of Sara Teasdale’s birth and death?

Answer 32

1884-1933

Question 33

When did Sara Teasdale publish her poem, Rivers the the Sea?

Answer 33

1915

Question 34

Which one of Sara Teasdale’s poems won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 34

1917, Love Songs

Question 35

In 1933, how did Sara Teasdale die?

Answer 35

She committed suicide

Question 36

Which poem by Sara Teasdale is included as a selected work?

Answer 36

There Will Come Soft Rains

Question 37

What does There Will Come Soft Rains imagine?

Answer 37

A world where humankind has been wiped out

Question 38

What were the dates of Edwin Muir’s life?

Answer 38

1887-1959

Question 39

What nationality was Edwin Muir?

Answer 39

Scottish

Question 40

What literature did Edwin Muir endeavor?

Answer 40

Critic, journalism, novelist, translator, memoirist, and poet

Question 41

The rough transition from rural to urban caused hardships on Edwin Muir’s family and eventually what?

Answer 41

The death of his two brothers and his parents

Question 42

What is Edwin Muir’s horses about?

Answer 42

A post apocalyptic world

Question 43

Which wars did Edwin Muir live through?

Answer 43

The two World Wars

Question 44

Who did Edwin Muir marry?

Answer 44

Wilhelmina Anderson

Question 45

Who is one of California’s best known poets?

Answer 45

Robinson Jeffers

Question 46

What were the dates of Robinson Jeffers life?

Answer 46

1887-1962

Question 47

Which poet experienced isolationism during World War II?

Answer 47

Robinson Jeffers

Question 48

What does solipsism mean?

Answer 48

Utter self-involvement

Question 49

When was Jorie Graham born?

Answer 49

1950

Question 50

Which of Jorie Graham’s collections includes Positive Feedback Loop?

Answer 50

Sea Change (2008)

Question 51

When was Lucia Perillo born?

Answer 51

1958

Question 52

Which environmental group did Lucia Perillo work for?

Answer 52

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Question 53

Which selected work did Lucia Perillo write?

Answer 53

To a Field of Scotch Broom

Question 54

Lucia Perillo is not classified as what?

Answer 54

A nature writer

Question 55

What did Romanticism emphasize?

Answer 55

Emotionality, energy, experimentation with forms of self-expression, and personal experience over tradition, control, and normative values, and received opinions and forms

Question 56

When and where did Romanticism originate?

Answer 56

Late Eighteenth Century in Germany