- Why is the year 1798 taken to be the year of the beginning of the Romantic Movement? Because it was the year in which Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published.
- Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet Lake District.
- After whom Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate of England? Robert Southey.
- Why was Wordsworth accused of being a ‘Lost Leader’? By whom? Browning accused Wordsworth because he accepted the post of the Poet Laureateship of England.
- “Just for a handful of silver he left us, / Just for a riband in his coat.” Browning writes these lines on Wordsworth in a poem. What is the title of the poem written by Browning? The Lost Leader.
- Wordsworth’s famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballad was: The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballad.
- Who were the authors of the Lyrical Ballads? Wordsworth and Coleridge.
- Wordsworth’s Prelude is an autobiographical poem.
- “We are laid asleep in the body and become a living soul”. In Which poem Wordsworth does this line occur? Tintern Abbey.
- “But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy / France standing on the top of golden hours, / And human nature seeming born anew.” Which time is Wordsworth referring to in this lines? The period of the French Revolution.
- “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven.” What period of history do these lines refer to? The period of the French Revolution.
- “Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, Who is our Home!” from which poem are these lines quoted? Immortality Ode.
- Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on: Milton.
- “For Nature then … To me was all in all.” From which poem are these lines quoted? Tintern Abbey.
- “They flash upon that inward eye, / Which is the bliss of solitude.” From which poem are these lines quoted? Daffodils.
- “Nature never did betray / That heart that loved her.” lines from: Tintern Abbey.
- “The child is father of man / And I could wish my days to be / Bound each to each by natural piety.” lines from: My Heart Leaps Up.
- “To me the meanest flower that grows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” lines from: Immortality Ode.
- “O joy! that in our embers / Is something that doth live, / That nature yet remembers / What was so fugitive.” lines from: Immortality Ode.
- “Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!” Who is this ‘Stern Daughter’? Duty.
- “… in his hand / The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew/ Soul-animating strains …” Whose hand is referred to by Wordsworth? Milton.
- “The sweetest thing that ever grew / Beside a human door.” lines from: To Lucy.
- “The Cottage which was named the ‘Evening Star’, / Is gone.” Whose cottage is referred to? Of Michael.
- “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; / The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, / Hath had elsewhere its setting/ And cometh from afar.” lines from: The immortality Ode.
- “Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows / Like harmony in music; there is a dark / Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles / Discordant elements.” lines from: The Prelude.
- What kind of poem is Laodamia? A narrative poem.
- “Me this unchartered freedom tires: / I feel the weight of chance-desires.” lines from: Ode to Duty.
- “Come, blessed barrier between day and day, / Dear mother of fresh thought and joyous health.” lines from: To Sleep.
- “Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.” Whose soul Wordsworth is referring to in the above line? Milton’s
William Wordsworth – One Liner
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