ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote “The World is Too Much with Us?”
A
William Wordsworth
B
Thomas Hardy
C
Stevie Smith
D
William Blake
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -"The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).

Detailed explanation-5: -Selected Poems is a collection of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works, from his best known poem, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, to an extract from his magnum opus The Prelude.

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