ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote poem ‘World is Too Much With Us’?
A
William Wordsworth
B
Robert Bridges
C
John Keats
D
Alexander Pope
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much With Us is a Petrarchan sonnet recognizable by the rhyme scheme and the eight/six line format.

Detailed explanation-3: -“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-4: -William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England-died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-5: -The World by Henry Vaughan | Poetry Foundation.

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