ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
A
Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D
Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era. Over the course of their collaboration, the second edition followed suit in 1800.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars say that the Romantic Period began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was one of the first collections of poems that strayed from the more formal poetic diction of the Neoclassical Period.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lyrical Ballads, collection of poems, first published in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, the appearance of which is often designated by scholars as a signal of the beginning of English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lake poet, any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of the 19th century.

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