ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
A
John Clare
B
John Keats
C
Robert Burns
D
A and C only
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Peasant Poet, ” of John Clare is another well-known poem by John Clare. During his lifetime, Clare was referred to as “the peasant poet, ” because, unlike the other authors during the Romantic Era, he did not have a full and formal education.

Detailed explanation-2: -With that being said, John Clare is known as the Peasant Poet for the reason that his formal education only spans for the ability to allow himself to read and write. As a child, he followed in his father’s footsteps and began a career as a field worker.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nikolai Klyuev, Sergei Yesenin, Sergei Klychkov, Alexander Shiryaevets, Pyotr Oreshin, Pavel Radimov, Alexei Ganin and Pimen Karpov are traditionally referred to as “new peasant” poets.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Emmonsail’s Heath in Winter’. We’ve had poems about summer and autumn, so how about one of Clare’s winter poems? And this is one of Clare’s most admired, its subject being – as the title makes clear – a heath during the wintry season when its ‘withered brake / Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling’.

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