1) "If hope were dupes, fears may be liars" is a unique insight by a) Lovelace b) Marvell c) Browning d) A.C.Clough. 'd' is the right option. The famous quote is from Clough's brilliant poem, "Say not, the struggle nought availeth."
2) The ode entitled "To a skylark" is by a) Wordsworth b) Keats c) Shelley d)Leigh Hunt. The answer is (c), Shelley. It is one of Shelley's finest lyrical poem wherein the very stanzaic structure reflects the soaring flight of the skylark.
3) The "spiritus mundi" in Yeats' "The Second Coming" refers to a) the Byzantine Empire b) the Indian philosophy c) a Platonic form d) 'Spiritus Mundi', also referred to as "Anima Mundi", is a work by Henry More, a seventeenth century platonist. Yeats identifiés it as the Great Memory or with the universal human consciousness.
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