ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth published the first version of this poem, ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’, in 1807, in a collection called ‘Poems in Two Volumes’. He altered it several times, but the final version was published in his ‘Collected Poems’ in 1815.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -“A Psalm of Life“ (1838) expresses both the confusion of his feelings in that time of discouragement and his resolve not to succumb to mournful passivity.