ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He writes: Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Percy Shelley believed that equality was the natural state. He was ahead of his time. And yet, in the twenty-first century we still labour in an unequal, class society, and we still live with racism, exploitation and sexism.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defense is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue.

Detailed explanation-4: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ ( listen) BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.