ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When was “Daffodils” published?
A
1804
B
1805
C
1806
D
1807
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Written in 1804, it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a slightly revised version was published in 1815. It is written in four six-line stanzas with an ABABCC rhyme scheme. Often referred to as ‘Daffodils’, it is one of England’s most famous poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is one of England’s most famous poems. Wordsworth wrote it in 1804, remembering a walk with his sister two years earlier. It was first published in 1807.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by a forest encounter on 15 April 1802 between he, his younger sister Dorothy and a “long belt” of daffodils. Written in 1804, it was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes, and as a revision in 1815.

Detailed explanation-5: -Daffodils is a lyric poem first published in 1807 under the title I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. It was published in its original form in a collection of poems called Poems, in Two Volumes. In 1815, a revised version was released.

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