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Wordsworth is associated with which literary movement?

AModernism

BRomanticism

CVictorianism

DRealism

Answer:

B. Romanticism

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a founder of the English Romantic movement. He and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, which is considered to have launched the Romantic era in English literature. 

  • Wordsworth was a major figure in the Romantic movement, which was a departure from the Neoclassicism that came before it. 

  • He was concerned with the human relationship to nature and the use of common people's speech patterns in poetry. 

  • Wordsworth's poetry was influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. 

  • He was the Poet laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850. 


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