ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did living with Ann Tyson enrich William’s life?
A
Tyson provided a maternal figure for William and his brothers
B
Tyson endowed wealth upon William and his brothers
C
Tyson gave the boys a simple home and freedom to roam the countryside
D
Tyson paid for William’s college education
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District of northern England. There he spent much of his boyhood playing outdoors and exploring the mountains and lake-strewn valleys-“foster’d alike by beauty and by fear, ” as he would later testify in his autobiographical poem The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumbria. His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth’s parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems.

Detailed explanation-3: -She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no ambitions to be a public author, yet she left behind numerous letters, diary entries, topographical descriptions, poems, and other writings.

Detailed explanation-4: -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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