1. 1815 saw the publication of a book of songs with lyrics by Lord Byron including She Walks in Beauty and The Destruction of Sennacherib. What was its title?

   1. Hebrew Melodies

   2. The Grapes of Eshcol

   3. Athenian Afternoons

   4. Iron Lion Zion

2. Shelley spent the latter part of 1815 at work on Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude. Its 720 lines are some of his most celebrated. But who came up with the title Alastor?

   1. Mary Wollstonecraft

   2. John Keats

   3. Thomas Love Peacock

   4. King George III

3. 

   “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases” are the opening words of which landmark poem by John Keats?

   1. Ode to a Nightingale

   2. Ode on a Grecian Urn

   3. Endymion

   4. Hyperion

4. Often in trouble with teachers and bullied by his peers, Shelley was not a star pupil at Eton. Which “last bit of naughtiness” gave him some revenge?

   1. Setting fire to the chaplain during his Sunday morning address

   2. Publishing a series of caricatures of his teachers in Punch magazine

   3. Allowing local paupers secret access to the tuck boxes of his peers

   4. Blowing up a tree on the school’s South Meadow

5. Which of the Romantics worked as an agricultural labourer as a child?

   1. William Wordsworth

   2. John Keats

   3. John Clare

   4. Lord Byron

6. 

   Which one of these authors was NOT among the so-called Lake poets?

   1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

   2. John Polidori

   3. Robert Southey

   4. William Wordsworth

7. Which extreme dieter swore by potatoes soaked in vinegar?

   1. Lord Byron

   2. Claire Clairmont

   3. John Keats

   4. Mary Shelley

8. "The light laughter of the fair only attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some attributed it to the dead grey eye …” The hero of which work is being introduced here?

   1. The Vampyre by John Polidori

   2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

   3. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley

   4. The Corsair by Lord Byron

9. 

   “Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation - he is always frigging his imagination – I don't mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam of vision produced by raw pork and opium.” Byron damning which “miserable self-polluter of the human Mind”?

   1. John Keats

   2. Robert Southey

   3. Thomas de Quincey

   4. Leigh Hunt

10. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell </br> To toll me back from thee to my sole self! </br> Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well </br> As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. </br> Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades </br> Past the near meadows, over the still stream,</br> Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep</br> In the next valley-glades: </br> Was it a vision, or a waking dream? </br>This final verse of Ode to a Nightingale ends with which line?

    1. Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?

    2. Gone, gone the sweet song – leaving me to weep

    3. The day begins, echoing with that lovely cheep!

    4. Oh pretty, pointy, singy bird, I'd like to take you home for keeps

Solutions

1:A, 2:C, 3:C, 4:D, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:A, 9:A, 10:A

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Very poor. Your soul is clearly in peril unless you read a great deal more poetry. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/romantic-poets">Start here with the Guardian's essential anthology of Romantic poetry</a>

2. 5 and above.

   You have some Romance in you. But next time you go wandering among the daffodils, take a book with you, won't you?

3. 8 and above.

   Your answers were true, and since Truth is beauty, so are you