ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The writer popularly known as “The Bard of Avon”, belonged to England. William Shakespeare is often referred to as “Bard of Avon” because the word ‘bard’ means poet and Shakespeare was from Stanford-upon-Avon.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Shakespeare: so called from his birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.

Detailed explanation-3: -a nickname for William Shakespeare. It was invented by Ben Jonson in a poem he wrote in the First Folio. The phrase refers to the swans (= large white water birds with long necks) on the River Avon at Stratford, where Shakespeare was born, and also to the ancient Greek belief that the souls of poets pass into swans.