FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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1807
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1803
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The oldest surviving speculative fiction poem is the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor, written in Hieratic and ascribed a date around 2500 B.C.E.
Detailed explanation-2: -First publication and Lyrical Ballads The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1795 he received a legacy of £900 from Raisley Calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet.
Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth wrote an estimated 387 poems during his lifetime.
Detailed explanation-4: -This paper also analyzes this impact on the poems under scrutiny; namely, Blake’s The French Revolution (1791), Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Coleridge’s “The Destruction of the Bastille”.