AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Question
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Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
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William Blake
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Samuel Johnson
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William Wordsworth
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Litotes is Always a Form of Understatement Litotes is a form of understatement, the intentional presentation of something as smaller, worse, or lesser than it really is.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.
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