ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While intelligent poets and critics are happy to acknowledge Romantic influence in a general way, Seamus Heaney is relatively unusual, at least in the period following on from 1940s Neo-Romanticism, in specifically avowing and explicating a major debt to one Romantic poet, namely Wordsworth.

Detailed explanation-2: -When reference is made to Romantic verse, the poets who generally spring to mind are William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and John Keats (1795-1821).

Detailed explanation-3: -The poets of the next generation shared their predecessors’ passion for liberty (now set in a new perspective by the Napoleonic Wars) and were in a position to learn from their experiments.