ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet?
A
The European Magazine
B
New Poetry
C
The Tatler
D
The Rambler
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John’s College, Cambridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth’s earliest poetry was published in 1793 in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. While living in France, Wordsworth conceived a daughter, Caroline, out of wedlock; he left France, however, before she was born.

Detailed explanation-3: -first published in 1827. It was written five years after the composition of Shelley’s To a Skylark. Wordsworth had read and highly admired Shelley’s poem as an exquisite poem.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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