ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1843 Wordsworth was named poet laureate of England, though by this time he had for the most part quit composing verse.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Dryden was the first official Poet Laureate until 1689, when he was obliged to resign. His successors were Thomas Shadwell and Nahum Tate.

Detailed explanation-3: -Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Simon Armitage as the next Poet Laureate for a fixed-term of ten years. The acclaimed poet succeeds Dame Carol Ann Duffy, who served in the role between 2009 and 2019.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth was Laureate for only seven out of his eighty years, and by the time he accepted the post, his best work was done: Lyrical Ballads (1798), Prelude (1805; published 1850), and Poems (1807). He was well equipped to make a great laureate. Unfortunately the office came to him forty years too late.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A* The poet laureate par excellence. He looks like a beardy old Victorian to us, but Tennyson was a rock star of his time. His poetry is technically virtuosic, but eminently accessible (even to modern readers). Most of all, Tennyson’s verse was perfectly in tune with the Victorian zeitgeist.