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Prologue: Neoclassicism to Romanticism

Which of the following is central to Alexander Pope's critical ideas about literature and art in general?
Wit
Nature
Imagination
Reason
Of the following, which apply to the eighteenth-century conception of nature?
The laws of the universe
The rules of poetry
The physical landscape
The laws of society
The Gothic vogue introduced what into the mainstream of English literature?
The imaginative
The non-rational
The picturesque

 

A The Nightmare

 

BThe Haywain

The WandererC
Picture A is an example of the
picturesque
gothic
sublime
Picture B is an example of the
sublime
picturesque
gothic
Picture C is an example of the
gothic
picturesque
sublime
The picturesque and the sublime were important because they taught people not only to see, but to

Which of the following characterize the shift in critical theory from the neoclassical to the romantic?
From the general to the particular
From the picturesque to the sublime
From imitation to originality
From excess to moderation

 

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