ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-2: -So therefor to a Romantic, poetry would be entirely regarded as a way to freely express emotion in a beautiful and rhythmic way. Poetry was the literary form of choice because it was easier to show emotion through forms of literature to fully express the way one felt through expressive words and langue.

Detailed explanation-3: -The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821).

Detailed explanation-4: -Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge were first-generation Romantics, writing against a backdrop of war. Wordsworth, however, became increasingly conservative in his outlook: indeed, second-generation Romantics, such as Byron, Shelley and Keats, felt that he had ‘sold out’ to the Establishment.