ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Byron, Shelley and Keats were the members of the second generation of Romantic poets, they blossomed (fiorire) early and both of them died very young, all far from England. Shelley was expelled by the university and he had to leave England, because he was revolutionary, he was against everything.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Quote by Samuel Johnson: “Language is the dress of thought.”

Detailed explanation-4: -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.