ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth is one of the seminal figures in Romantic poetry because his poetry and philosophy are representative of the ideals of the Romantic Movement. Wordsworth drew inspiration from nature and the individual engaging with nature to comment on emotion and the role of the individual in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -When reference is made to Romantic verse, the poets who generally spring to mind are William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and John Keats (1795-1821).

Detailed explanation-4: -William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Clare, ‘The Yellowhammer’s Nest’. John Clare (1793-1864) has been called the greatest nature poet in the English language (by, for instance, his biographer Jonathan Bate), and yet his life – particularly his madness and time inside an asylum later in his life – tends to overshadow his poetry.