GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of British Poetry After 1925
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Example Question #1 :Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following was not an associate of Mina Loy?
Conrad Aiken
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Ezra Pound
Arthur Cravan
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken is known for openly criticizing Loy’s poetry. All the others were affiliated with Mina Loy in some way – most through her Greenwich Village ties.
Example Question #1 :Contexts Of Poetry
In what decade wasThe Whitsun Weddingswritten?
1960s
1970s
2000s
1980s
1990s
1960s
The Whitsun Weddingswas first published in 1964. Philip Larkin was born in 1922 and died in 1985, which rules out a few of the answer choices.
Example Question #1 :Contexts Of British Poetry After 1925
Which of the following is not another work by the author ofBirthday Letters?
The Hawk in the Rain
Crow
Winter Pollen
Candles in Babylon
The Iron Man
Candles in Babylon
Ted Hughes wroteThe Iron Man(1968),The Hawk in the Rain(1957),Crow(1970), andWinter Pollen(1994).Candles in Babylonis a 1982 collection by the British-born American humanist poet Denise Levertov.
Example Question #1 :Cultural And Historical Contexts
在十年是什么Birthday Letterspublished?
1950s
1970s
1960s
1990s
1980s
1990s
Knowing that this was Hughes’ last work of poetry, and knowing that he lived from 1930 to 1998, you could have inferred thatBirthday Letterswas published in the 1990s (1998, to be precise).
Example Question #2 :Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author ofThe Lost Lunar BaedekerandInsel?
Jackie Kay
Mina Loy
Christina Rossetti
Kate Tempest
Djuna Barnes
Mina Loy
British artist, poet, playwright, actress, and lamp designer Mina Loy wroteThe Lost Lunar Baedeker(1923) andInsel(1914).
Example Question #192 :Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Which of the following labels could not be applied to Mina Loy’s work?
Avant-garde
Feminist
Futurist
Bourgeois
Bohemian
Bourgeois
Mina Loy’s poetry and fiction are known for their futurist, feminist leanings as well as their emphases on the avant-garde and the bohemian life-style. Her work was not bourgeois – conventional, middle-class, or materialistic – in any way.
Example Question #1 :Contexts Of Poetry
下面哪个是另一个集合的阿宝吗etry by Mina Loy?
Tender Buttons
Nightwood
Songs to Joannes
Crossing the Water
An Atlas of the Difficult World
Songs to Joannes
In addition toThe Lost Lunar Baedeker(1923)andLunar Baedeker & Time Tables(1958),Loy wroteSongs to Joannes,a collection of frank, experimental love poetry,in 1915.Tender Buttons(1914) is by Gertrude Stein,Nightwood(1936) is by Djuna Barnes,An Atlas of the Difficult World(1990) is by Adrienne Rich, andCrossing the Water(1971) is by Sylvia Plath.
Example Question #3 :Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author ofThe Whitsun Weddings?
Philip Larkin
Wallace Stevens
Seamus Heaney
Ezra Pound
W.H. Auden
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings(1964) is Philip Larkin’s 8th book, and it contains such well-known poems as the title poem, “MCMXIV,” and “An Arundel Tomb.”
Example Question #2 :Contexts Of Poetry
Which of the following was not written by the author ofThe Whitsun Weddings?
The Less Deceived
All What Jazz
The Sea and the Mirror
Jill
High Windows
The Sea and the Mirror
The Sea and the Mirroris a 1958 poetry collection by W.H. Auden.Jill(1946),High Windows(1974),The Less Deceived(1955), andAll What Jazz(1970) are all by the prolific Philip Larkin.
Example Question #2 :Contexts Of British Poetry
Which of the following subjects does not appear inThe Whitsun Weddings?
volunteers enlisting in World War I
a 1798 rebellion by the United Irishmen
a train journey from Kingston upon Hull
renting a room
a medieval tomb in Sussex, England
a 1798 rebellion by the United Irishmen
A medieval Sussex tomb is the subject of the poem “An Arundel Tomb,” renting a room is the subject of “Mr. Bleaney,” volunteer enlistment and slaughter is the subject of “MCMXIV,” and a train journey is the subject of “The Whitsun Weddings” – all of which are poems included in Larkin’sThe Whitsun Weddings.The United Irishmen rebellion is the subject of “Requiem for the Croppies,” (1966) a famous poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
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