ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Blake’s style of writing exemplifies both English Romantic aesthetics and the gradual shift in poetry from traditional verse and composition to free verse; he is also known for his use of personification and sensory language.

Detailed explanation-2: -Blake’s poetry features many characteristics of the romantic spirit-in the importance he attached to imagination, in his mysticism and symbolism, in his love of liberty, in his humanitarian sympathies, in his idealization of childhood, in the pastoral setting of many of his poems, and in his lyricism.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the first part, William Wordsworth is known as the master of Romantic Poetry for his literary brilliance, depiction of emotions, personifying human life with nature, and propagation of a way of living that called everyone back to nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -His Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement, and his Biographia Literaria (1817) is the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic period.