In Pope’s _____, the key words of neoclassical criticism include wit, Nature, ancients, rules, and genius.
An Essay on Criticism
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. The Dunciad
D. Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson's theme of themes is expressed in ___: the dangerous but all-pervasive power of wishful thinking, the feverish intrusion of desires and hopes that distort reality and lead to false expectations.
A. Rasselas
B. The Lives of the Poets
C. “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
D. Essay on Man
____'s “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” balances Latinate phrases with living English speech, and the learning of a scholar with a common humanity that everyone can share.
A. John Donne
B. Thomas Gray
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Milton