ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
One of the following was a Romantic poet ____
A
Tennyson
B
Arnold
C
Shelley
D
Browning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ ( listen) BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shelley was a famous English romantic poet whose poetry reflects passion, beauty, imagination, love, creativity, political liberty and nature. Being very sensitive and possessing distinctive qualities of hope, love, joy and imagination, Shelley strongly believed in realization of human happiness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mary’s contribution to the contest became the novel Frankenstein; published in 1818 with a preface by Shelley, it became one of the most popular works of the whole Romantic period.

Detailed explanation-5: -Love of Nature The majority of his poems, including The Cloud, To a Skylark, To the Moon, Ode to the West Wind, and A Dream of the Unknown, glorify nature as their central theme. He never gives colors to the things in nature; instead, he describes them as they are.

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