ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Romantic poets were greatly influenced by the french revolution, as the events brought up thoughts of transcendentalism and what it means to be human. Poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Pushkin all either wrote about or referenced the French Revolution in their poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -The French Revolution helped to humanize Wordsworth as his works transitioned from extremely natural experiences to facing the realities and ills of life, including society and the Revolution. From then on, his focus became the interests of man rather than the power and innocence of nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -This led to the “Liberalism in Literature.” The political liberalism of French Revolution inspired the liberation, individuality and rejection of prescribed rules in the Romantic Literature. The Romantic poets were inspired by the ideals of equality, fraternity and liberty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron broke away from the artificial tradition of certain conventions, stereotyped expressions, capitalised personifications, uninspired imageries, rhetorical arguments and rebaptised English poetry with the fire of inspiration and the water or emotion and sentiment.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Romantic Period in English Literature came immediately after the French Revolution. In fact, Wordsworth actually went to France during the Revolution. The impact of the three great ideals of the French Revolution : Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-deeply influenced the spirit of Romantic Poetry in England.