ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -English poet William Wordsworth in The Excursion (1814), who lives in complete isolation because he can neither hear nor speak.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem is a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814 (see 1814 in poetry).

Detailed explanation-3: -’The Excursion’ is a long dramatic poem first published in 1814, and was intended to stand as the second of three poems on the rather grand subject of ‘Man, Nature and Society’ collectively known as ‘The Recluse’, with ‘The Prelude’ serving as its first part.

Detailed explanation-4: -However, ‘Beyond’ is not written by William Wordsworth and hence is the correct option.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”