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1. Let's start with a fairly simple question. Can you complete this famous line from 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance' by John Keats: 'A thing of beauty is a ... ... ...'?
2. I was born in 1792. My grandfather was the richest man in Horsham. My father was a Member of Parliament. I was sent to be educated at Eton and Oxford. My closest friend in Oxford was Thomas Jefferson Hogg, with whom I wrote a pamphlet called 'The Necessity of Atheism'. In 1811 I was expelled from Oxford. Back in London I became a discipel of the radical social philosopher William Godwin. I married William's daughter, Mary, in 1818 and moved to Italy, never to return to the British shores again. I died on July 8, 1822 in a boat-accident on the Gulf of Spezia. Who am I?
3. Which Pre-Romantic writer started one of his poems with the following stanza: 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie.'?
4. Who wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'?
5. One of the following poets is NOT from the romantic period, but from the Victorian. Who is the odd one out?
6. Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
7. Who wrote the following works: 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', 'The Book of Thel', 'A Vision of the Last Judgement' and 'Visions of the daughters of Albion'?
8. Here's an easy one. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote what is probably the most famous gothic novel ever. It's a story about a doctor who creates a monster. What is the name of that doctor?
9. Who wrote this stanza:'I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true {one;} Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time'.?
10. Who started his poem 'Lucy Gray (or Solitude)' with these gentle lines:'Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child.'?
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