ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is called the ‘Poet of Nature’ in English literature?
A
Lord Byron
B
John Keats
C
William Wordsworth
D
P. B Shelley
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordswith, one of the greatest poets in England, is known as the poet of nature. His poems took on greater significance in English literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest poets in English literature and he is the most famous nature poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -He views Nature as a source of love, perpetual joy, soothing and healing power, knowledge and spirituality. Nature and God become one for him. He believes that Nature is the Universal Spirit guiding anyone who like to be guided by her.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.” Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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