ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
A
Shelley
B
Byron
C
Blake
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet .

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1815, Shelley wrote Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, a 720-line poem, now recognized as his first great work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Queen Mab, in full Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem: With Notes, poem in nine cantos by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1813.

Detailed explanation-4: -Queen Mab by P B Shelley, 1830.

Detailed explanation-5: -Once married, Shelley moved to the Lake District of England to study and write. Two years later he published his first long serious work, Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. The poem emerged from Shelley’s friendship with the British philosopher William Godwin, and it expressed Godwin’s freethinking Socialist philosophy.

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