ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The subtitle of The Prelude is ‘Growth of a Poet’s Mind’. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) began writing his autobiographical blank verse epic in 1798, working on it intermittently until 1839. It was published posthumously in 1850.

Detailed explanation-2: -Quote by Samuel Johnson: “Language is the dress of thought.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The object of poetry is confessedly to act upon the emotions; —and therein is poetry sufficiently distinguished from what Wordsworth affirms to be its logical opposite—namely, not prose, but matter of fact, or science.

Detailed explanation-4: -In The Two Paths (1859), five lectures given in London, Manchester, Bradford and Tunbridge Wells, Ruskin argued that a ‘vital law’ underpins art and architecture, drawing on the labour theory of value.