ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
He is the second of five children of a modestly prosperous estate manager.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A talk at Rydal Mount will open the pages on the life of William Wordsworth’s oldest child, John Wordsworth. The world-renowned poet and his wife Mary had five children, two of whom died in infancy.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1810, Wordsworth and Coleridge were estranged over the latter’s opium addiction, and in 1812, his son Thomas died at the age of 6, six months after the death of 3-year-old Catherine.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.” Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.

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