ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lyrical Ballads, collection of poems, first published in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, the appearance of which is often designated by scholars as a signal of the beginning of English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coleridge and Wordsworth Wordsworth’s main themes, like Coleridge, were memory, Nature and childhood. The style of Coleridge was simple and common, instead Wordsworth’s one that was difficult, full of metaphor, similes, symbolism and with a pessimistic vision.