ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where was Southey Born?
A
Ireland
B
Scotland
C
Wales
D
England
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Southey, (born Aug. 12, 1774, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.-died March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland), English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose who is chiefly remembered for his association with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, both of whom were leaders of the early Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Southey, (born Aug. 12, 1774, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.-died March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland), English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose who is chiefly remembered for his association with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, both of whom were leaders of the early Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774 and died in Keswick in 1843. The son of a bankrupt linen-draper, he was educated at Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford, which he left without taking a degree.

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