ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in England.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth The two became immediate friends. Upon meeting Wordsworth, Coleridge decided to move to Grasmere to be in close proximity to his fellow poet. During this time, Wordsworth and Coleridge greatly influenced, criticized and inspired eachother’s poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth was brother to Dorothy, who adored Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was married to Sara, who was the sister-in-law of the future poet laureate Robert Southey. Together with a second Sara, with whom Coleridge was besotted, the Wordsworths established a fluid commune in the Lake District.

Detailed explanation-4: -While living with Dorothy at Alfoxden House, Wordsworth became friends with a fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They formed a partnership that would change both poets’ lives and alter the course of English poetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.