ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Coleridge believed in ____
A
Reason & emotion
B
Love & friendship
C
Form & content
D
Nature & individual
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout his life Coleridge remained an “evangelical “mystic". The religious thought of Coleridge is discussed in the light of his growth from Unitarianism and pantheism to orthodox Christianity; he returned to the Church of England because of strictly religious considerations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge, an English poet, philosopher, literary critic, and founder of the Romantic movement, suggested that the concept of organic form meant that a poem or literary piece was shaped, rather than structured, from within.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Coleridge, nature had the capacity to teach joy, love, freedom, and piety, crucial characteristics for a worthy, developed individual.

Detailed explanation-4: -Features of Coleridge’s Poetry Realism: He exercises an imaginative realism. Medievalism present: Medievalism is present everywhere in Coleridge’s poetry. The whole of Rime of Ancient Mariner is wrought with the color and glamour of Middle Ages.

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