ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The period which extends from 1798 to 1837 is known as “Romantic Age”. The term “romantic“ was used in England for the first time in the 16th century to indicate the unreal and fanciful elements.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars say that the Romantic Period began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aim: The Romantic Age is often known as the ‘Age of Revolutions’ on account of the sweeping changes that were taking place during the late seventeenth and eighteenth century in the social, political, industrial and literary sphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the decades following the French Revolution and Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo (1815) a new movement called Romanticism began to flourish in France. If you read about Romanticism in general, you will find that it was a pan-European movement that had its roots in England in the mid-eighteenth century.