ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The History of the World is one of the better known literary achievements of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Detailed explanation-2: -History of the World is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote By Ski in Norway, one of the first British accounts of the sport).

Detailed explanation-3: -Description. Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London, the History of the World is Sir Walter Raleigh’s most important prose work. The book, originally intended as a multivolume project, covers the creation of the world to 146BC and aims to show history as a moral exercise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the most famous explorers of Elizabeth I’s reign. His courage and good looks made him a favourite of the Queen’s, and she rewarded him handsomely. Raleigh was also a scholar and a poet, but he is usually remembered for introducing the essential potato, and the addictive tobacco.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552 to Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He was raised in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon, England. Raleigh studied at Oxford before serving in the Huguenot army in France (1569).