ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AGES ERA PERIOD

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period?
A
The notoriety of the \Lake School\
B
Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press
C
Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books
D
Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools
Explanation: 

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: -Partition of the land refers to the division of individual shares in joint property. In other words, through a partition, the joint property is divided into separate portions on the basis of the share of co-owners.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Austen, committed like Wordsworth to finding the extraordinary in the everyday, developed a new novelistic language for the mind in flux.

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