ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The most important genre of literature to Romantic era writers was:
A
prose
B
short stories
C
poetry
D
novels
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Conversational poetry was the literary genre most commonly used by Wordsworth and Coleridge, with the latter writing a series of eight poems following the genre structure of conversational verse and examining higher ideas of nature, man, and morality.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most common works were operas, concertos, and symphonies, though there were new forms introduced as well. These were generally smaller pieces, such as nocturnes and waltzes. Melody. As the Romantic movement stressed subjective expression of emotions, it did this mainly through melodies.

Detailed explanation-3: -When reference is made to Romantic verse, the poets who generally spring to mind are William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and John Keats (1795-1821).

Detailed explanation-4: -A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in opposition to the mannered formalism and disciplined scientific inquiry of the Enlightenment era that preceded it.

Detailed explanation-5: -Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

There is 1 question to complete.