ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?
A
Wordsworth
B
Shelley
C
Keats
D
Coleridge
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility", and calls his own poems in the book “experimental".

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