Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
Correct answer: C. Lyrical Ballads
- A. The Excursion
- B. The Prelude
- C. Lyrical Ballads
- D. Poems, in Two Volumes
Explanation
Lyrical Ballads, published jointly by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798, is commonly regarded as the work that inaugurated English Romanticism. Its poems challenged neoclassical poetic conventions through ordinary language, nature, and imagination.
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