ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who has written the Poem?
A
William Wordsworth
B
William Shakespeare
C
William Henry Longfellow
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Tintern Abbey” is William Wordsworth’s most famous poems, published in 1798. It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an Ode and dramatic monologue.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge and Lyrical Ballads Stimulated by Coleridge and under the healing influences of nature and his sister, Wordsworth began in 1797–98 to compose the short lyrical and dramatic poems for which he is best remembered by many readers.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth wrote an estimated 387 poems during his lifetime.

Detailed explanation-4: -The oldest known “poems” are anonymous-such as the Rig Vedas of Hinduism, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Song of the Weaver by an unknown Egyptian of the Second Dynasty. The psalms and The Iliad are “attributed” to David and Homer, respectively-but painstaking scholarship has never given them exclusive credit.

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