ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
A
Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rǵime, especially satire
B
English historians half a century after the period ended
C
\The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D
Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The romantic period of American literature took place from 1830 to 1870 and emphasized nature, symbolism, transcendentalism, and individualism. Key authors of this period include Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.

Detailed explanation-2: -The English Romantic period (1785-1832) was a complex movement that expressed dissatisfaction with the current society, explored the human condition, celebrated nature, and greatly encouraged experimentation and creativity in the arts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The period between the late 1780s & 1790s until the 1850s came to be known as the ‘Romantic Age’. The famous poets, apart from William Wordsworth, of the Romantic Age include William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Walter Alva Scott, Robert Burns, and Lord Byron.

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