ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The years 1797 and 1798, during which he lived in what is now known as Coleridge Cottage, in Nether Stowey, Somerset, were among the most fruitful of Coleridge’s life. In 1795, Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. The two became immediate friends.

Detailed explanation-3: -The biggest contribution William Wordsworth made to romantic poetry, is to give perceptions of seeing, observing, and understanding nature, and its innumerable secrets. Therefore, Wordsworth is rightly credited to be the Poet of Nature by his admirers and critics alike.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, is often considered the beginning of the Romantic period because Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poetry marks a distinct change in form and subject matter from neoclassical poetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Wordsworth was an innovative writer who marked the start of the Romantic Period in literature. His joint publication of “Lyrical Ballads” with Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the text that started a new era of writing. He was the Poet laureate of England from 1843 till his death in 1850.