On Wordsworth

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 Wordsworth was born at?

Ans. Cockermouth in 1770

Q. Wordsworth's father's name was?

Ans. John Wordsworth

Q. Wordsworth spent his boyhood among? Ans. Shepherds

Q. Wordsworth was the?

Ans. Second son of his parents

Q. When Wordsworth was eight years of age, his?

Ans. Mother died

Q. Wordsworth lost his father at the age of? Ans. 14 years

Q. Wordsworth went to Cambridge to get his education at?

Ans. St. John College

Q. Wordsworth visited France?

Ans. Twice

Q. An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches were published by Wordsworth in?

Ans. 1793

Q. In An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches Wordsworth used?

Ans. Regular classic couplet

Q. His poetic genius was stimulated by his friendship with?

Ans. Coleridge

Q. His friendship with Coleridge began in? Ans. 1796

Q. Lyrical Ballads were published in?

Ans. 1798

Q. Lyrical Ballads were published with the help of?

Ans. Coleridge

Q. Wordsworth married in?

Ans. 1802. He married Mary Hutchinson

Q. Dorothy is?

Ans. Wordsworth's sister

Q. Who had left Wordsworth a small legacy? Ans. His friend Raisley Clovert

Q. His wife was his?

Ans. Cousin

Q. Wordsworth began his family life first in? Ans. Lake District

Q. Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in? Ans. 1843

Q. Wordsworth wrote a large number of? Ans. Lyrics

Q. According to Wordsworth, a poet has greater knowledge of?

Ans. Human nature

Q. In his lyrics, Wordsworth can stir the deepest emotion by?

Ans. Simple means

Q. "Thus nature spoke, the work was done" is Wordsworth's line from?

Ans. Lucy poems

Q. Where does The Solitary Reaper take place?

Ans. Scotland

Q. Who is singing in The Solitary Reaper? Ans. A beautiful girl

Q. How will the speaker of The Solitary Reaper remember the young girl?

Ans. He will carry her song in his heart

Q. What is rare about The Solitary Reaper? Ans. It does not come from Wordsworth's own

experiences

Q. London, 1802 by Wordsworth has been addressed to?

Ans. Milton

Q. Why does Wordsworth want Milton to come back in London, 1802?

Ans. He wants to show England how to be virtuous again

Q. London, 1802 is?

Ans. A sonnet

Q. What is Wordsworth looking at in Composed Upon Westminster Bridge?

Ans. A city

Q. Wordsworth wrote We Are Seven with? Ans. Coleridge

Q. What does the girl in We Are Seven like to do near her dead siblings?

Ans. Sew, sing and eat her dinner

Q. Who wrote Lines Written In Early Spring and A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal?

Ans. Wordsworth

Q. Wordsworth did not admire?

Ans. Alexander Pope

Q. Wordsworth defined poetry as the spontaneous overflow of?

Ans. Powerful feelings

Q. Who is Wordsworth referring to whom in "Brother, Englishman and Friend?

Ans. Spenser

Q. Wordsworth and William Blake both emphasized on the value of?

Ans. Childhood experiences

Q. Who wrote The Old Cumberland Beggar and The Leech Gatherer?

Ans. Wordsworth

Q. Wordsworth breaks with?

Ans. The artificial diction of the 18th century

Q. One of the original titles of The Prelude was?

Ans. A Poem On The Growth Of An Individual Mind

Q. The name of Wordsworth's illegitimate daughter was?

Ans. Caroline

Q. In which poem does Wordsworth write, "Let nature be your friend?"

Ans. The Tables Turned

Q. In The Tables Turned, Wordsworth tells his friend to stop?

Ans. Dancing and go outside

Q. "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" is from?

Ans. The World Is Too Much With Us

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