ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
A
Keats
B
Coleridge
C
Southey
D
Wordsworth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Byron did not visit the Lakes, but he ridiculed the isolation and narrowness of mind of the older Lake Poets, as well as of their abandonment of radical politics. The hale and hearty John Wilson provided an alternative take on the role of Lake Poet.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey: so called from their residence in the Lake District.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey were the three main Lake Poets.

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