William Wordsworth

Questions ON William Wordsworth (Important For Various Exams)

Q1- Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of:

Ans - Lake District

Q2- After whom Wordsworth became the poet laureate of England?

Ans- Robert Southey

Q3-Who accused Wordsworth of being a 'Lost Leader’?

Ans- Robert Browning

Q4- Wordsworth wrote a Sonnet on

Ans- Milton

Q5-”Stern daughter is the voice of God!”

Who is this stern daughter-

Ans- Duty

Q6- “The cottage which was named the evening star”

Whose cottage is referred to?-

Ans- Of Michael

Q7- What kind of poem is Laodamia ?

Ans - A narrative poem

Q8- When was Preface to Lyrical Ballad published ?

Ans- 1800

Q9 - Who is termed as the ‘Harbinger Of Nature’ :

Ans - Wordsworth

Q10- Wordsworth died on –

Ans-1850

Q11 “The Sonnet on sonnet “ is a Sonnet by

Ans – Wordsworth

Q12-”Nature never did betray the heart that loved her”.

      From which poems are these lines quoted?

Ans- Tintern Abbey

Q13- “The Prelude” was published in- 

Ans -1850

Q14- “The Recluse” is a poem by-

Ans- Wordsworth

Q15- when did Wordsworth meet Coleridge?

Ans- 1795

Q16- Lyrical Ballad was published in

Ans - 1798

Q17- In which of his poems Wordsworth talk about Cambridge University?

Ans – “The Prelude”

Q18- The subtitle of “The Prelude” is -

Ans - Growth of a poets mind

Q19- Wordsworth first sonnet published in which magazine -

Ans - European magazine.

Q20- Name the poem of Wordsworth written as a reply to Coleridge “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner” ?

Ans- “Peter Bells’

Q21- At which age Wordsworth become orphan ?

Ans- 14

Q22- Descriptive Sketches published in -

Ans- 1793

Q23 - In which year Wordsworth became Poet Laureate ?

Ans 1843

Q24- What was the name of Wordsworth sister?

Ans - Dorothy Wordsworth

Q25- Wordsworth went to France in -

Ans-1792

Q26-Poetic Diction is related to -

 Ans- William Wordsworth

Q27- who said “child is the father of man”?

Ans- William Wordsworth

Q28- Which work of Wordsworth considered as his Magnum Opus ?

Ans- The Prelude

Q29- In which great work Wordsworth and Coleridge worked together?

Ans- Lyrical Ballads(1798)

Q30-”Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting”

       From which poem are these lines quoted?

Ans- The immortality ode

Q31- “Nature never did betray” from which poem are these lines quoted

Ans - Tintern Abbey

Q32- “Come Blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thought and joyous health.” From which Poems are these lines quoted?

Ans. To Sleep

Q33- Who is singing in the solitary reaper ?

Ans- A beautiful girl

Q34- what is the life spam of Wordsworth ?

Ans - 1770-1850

Q35- When was “Ode To Duty” published ?

Ans - 1807

Q36- The Prelude is the first part of :

Ans- The Recluse

Q37- where did Wordsworth died?

Ans- Rydal Mount

Q38- Wordsworth buried  at -.

Ans - Grasmere

Q39- Lyrical Ballads published for the first time in -

Ans – 1798

Q40- who succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850?

Ans-Lord Tennyson

Q41- “The solitary reaper”  by Wordsworth is a -

Ans- Lyric

Q42- “The Idiot Boy” by Wordsworth is a-

Ans- Ballad

Q43- Dorothy Wordsworth was born on -

Ans- 25 sept, 1771

Q44- Wordsworth Prelude is a -

Ans- Autobiographical poem

Q45- In which year Wordsworth’s poem The Prelude was completed?

Ans – 1805

Q46- Michael was published in which addition of Lyrical Ballads?

Ans - 2nd edition (1800)

Q47- I wandered lonely as a cloud is the subtitle of-

Ans- Daffodils

Q48- How many sonnets did Wordsworth write?

Ans -523

Q49- Name the first poem of Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads?

Ans- We are seven

Q50- Laodima is based on the story of -

Ans- Trojan war