Which of the following writers defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" which takes its origin "from emotion recollected in tranquility"?

A. William Wordsworth
B. Percy Shelley
C. Walt Whitman
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer: A. William Wordsworth

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This composer spent almost his entire professional life as a singer and composer at various churches in and around the Vatican. He composed 104 polyphonic Masses for a cappella voices

A) Heinrich Isaac B) Jacob Obrecht C) Carlo Gesualdo D) Palestrina

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