English Romantic Poets quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which Coleridge poem did a visitor from Porlock interrupt?

   Answer: Kubla Khan

   Why: Though written in 1797, it stayed unpublished until 1816, when Byron encouraged Coleridge to print it.

2. 2 Medium

   Who died at 80, decades after Keats, Shelley and Byron?

   Answer: William Wordsworth

   Why: His autobiographical epic appeared only after his death, when his widow Mary titled and published it as The Prelude.

3. 3 Hard

   Whom did Byron defend in his first speech to the Lords?

   Answer: The Luddites

   Why: The bill he spoke against still passed, making machine breaking a crime punishable by death.

4. 4 Easy

   Who was Ada Lovelace's father?

   Answer: Lord Byron

   Why: Ada's 1843 notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine set out a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers on the machine.

5. 5 Medium

   What Titan appears in titles by both Percy and Mary Shelley?

   Answer: Prometheus

   Why: Percy's drama reworks Aeschylus but refuses his reconciliation of Prometheus and Jupiter, ending with Jupiter's fall.

6. 6 Hard

   Which composer set Blake's 'And did those feet' to music in 1916?

   Answer: Hubert Parry

   Why: Elgar only orchestrated the hymn in 1922; that grander version is the one usually heard at the Last Night of the Proms.