ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution?
A
Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B
Paine’s Rights of Man
C
Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
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: -Jane Austen, committed like Wordsworth to finding the extraordinary in the everyday, developed a new novelistic language for the mind in flux.

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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