ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
William Wordsworth wrote ‘Lyrical Ballads’ together with ____
A
P. B. Shelley
B
John Keats
C
S. T. Coleridge
D
Marry Shelley
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coleridge and Wordsworth Wordsworth’s main themes, like Coleridge, were memory, Nature and childhood. The style of Coleridge was simple and common, instead Wordsworth’s one that was difficult, full of metaphor, similes, symbolism and with a pessimistic vision.

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