ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His masterpiece is commonly considered to be The Prelude (1850), a long verse-autobiography that includes Wordsworth’s journey through revolutionary France in 1791, ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ He abandoned his early republicanism and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843.

Detailed explanation-2: -November 19, 1850-Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson became the British Poet Laureate today, succeeding William Wordsworth.