ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Between 1814 and 1819, John Keats wrote sixty-four sonnets. He was eighteen years old when he composed his first sonnet; he was turning twenty-four when he completed his last one.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare published a quarto of 154 sonnets in 1609. He wrote the poems throughout his career. A sonnet is a form of verse with these main characteristics: One stanza of 14 lines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth uses the Petrarchan sonnet form, not only to communicate in metre and rhyme, but to embody his frustration owing to and disappointment in the conventional, highly acclaimed, Christian English society.