Unit 7 Test Flashcards
Statements about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England
The period’s evangelicalism produced England’s great missionary effect
Some of England’s finest hymns were produced
Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns.
By the end of Victoria’s reign, England was less able to meet the trials of the new century because of her transition from a religious
to an increasingly secularistic nation
Darwin’s “Origin of Species” statements
supported the throw of evolution of animal species from common origins
created a receptive climate for Karl Marx’s theories
The work also devastated shallow religionists
Thomas Carlyle
His spiritual autobiography is
Sartorial Resartus
Thomas Carlyle
In “The Hero as Divinity” Carlyle’s controlling image is
that the hero is like lightning acting on your kindling
John Henry Newman
found religious satisfaction in
religious traditionalism
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
His poetry was deepened and enriched by the
death of his best friend
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
_____ was the main influence upon his religious thought
Thomas Carlyle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In “Morte de Arthur”, Tennyson expresses _____concerning Victorian faith in human progress
Optimism
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In “Crossing the Bar” the “pilot” is the
“divine and unseen Who is always guiding us.”
Robert Browning
“Prospice” expresses Browning’s faith in
immortality
He was the late-Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature.
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rossetti
Her writing was affected most by
seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets
Christina Rossetti
According to “Long Barren” _____ _____ and _____ _____ are the two elements most closely related.
spiritual vitality
artistic creativity
Lewis Carroll
Most of his poems in the Alice books are best described as
Parodies
Lewis Carroll
_____ reflects his ability to compose serious verse.
“Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow”
Thomas Hardy
The fictional setting for his novels is
Wessex
Thomas Hardy
In “The Respectable Burgher,” the chief cause of religious doubt is presented as
Higher criticism
Thomas Hardy
Climax of “The Three Strangers”
The apprehension of the third stranger by the villagers
A.E. Housman
What event took place in the year 1859?
Darwin’s “Origin of Species” was published.
Francis Thompson
“The Kingdom of God” Thompson says that modern man cannot see the Angels because
Man’s undreamed nature prevents him from seeing them.
Rudyard Kipling
Was the last British writer of fiction and poetry to appeal to
all levels of society
Rudyard Kipling
He can be considered a successor to
Dickens
Who were the chartist?
Were the radicals who organized mass demonstrations and presented Parliament with petitions demanding reform
Missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England
William Carey in India
Hudson Taylor in China
David Livingston in Africa
The _____ took seventy years to complete and is possibly the most challenging work of scholarship ever accomplished.
Oxford English Dictionary
_____ was the famous Victorian preacher who contributed greatly to the art of the sermon.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
____ preceded him as poet laureate.
William Wordsworth
Thomas Carlyle
His _____ and _____ had the greater impact on Victorian England
Religious Thought
Social Criticism
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
_____ is a personal record of the experience that shaped Tennyson into the poet-prophet predicted by Carlyle.
“In Memoriam”
Quote to know word for word.
“Oh, to be in England / Now that’s April’s there.”
Robert Browning created new poetic genre _____
Dramatic-Monologue
In “Dover Beach” _____ is the only happiness in a meaningless world.
Faithful love
Characteristics of an effective poetry
A close relation in form between the original and the parody.
A distinct difference in tone between the original and the parody.
It is ironic that Hardy spent much of his early life employed in the physical restoration of churches because he was
antagonistic towards Christianity
Hardy viewed peasantry
as “Noble” rustics or contended pagans.
Hopkin’s “Sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of
Old English Poetry
Housman’s poetry challenges
God’s justice
His purposeful control of the universe.
_____________________ in “Eight O’Clock” suggests regret.
The reluctance of the clock to strike
