9. Mention some of the chief literary critics of the period. What are the main features of their criticism?
10. Give an account of the contemporary drama, naming some of the chief plays and giving a criticism of their principal features.
11. What use do Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge make of natural features? How do their attitudes compare with that of Wordsworth?
12. Write a note on the chief satirists of the period both in prose and poetry.
13. Estimate the importance of Scott’s contribution to the novel.
14. Who are the chief lyrical poets of the period? Point out their respective excellences and defects.
15. “In the earliest years of the nineteenth century, all the influences which were most harmful to prose style were most rife. The best elements of the eighteenth-century prose were gone, and a new host were rushing into literature.” (Craik.) What were the influences that were at work? How far did they affect prose style? How far did the influence of journalism affect prose style?
16. “In point of genius the period is a period of poetry; in point of mere form the remarkable change in it concerns not poetry but prose.” (Saintsbury.) Discuss this statement. How far do the poets excel the prose-writers in merit? Did the prose-writers revolt more strongly against the earlier fashions?
17. “The Excursion and The Prelude, his poems of greatest bulk, are by no means Wordsworth’s best work. His best work is in his shorter pieces.” (Matthew Arnold.) Discuss this statement.