Q: Who says of Milton: 'Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart'?
a) Wordsworth
b) Caedmon
c) Chaucer
d) Dryden
Correct answer: d) Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), was one of the most influential English Romantic poets. The poem praises the famous Seventeenth Century poet John Milton and suggests that England would be better off if it modelled itself after Milton and the values of his era. Wordsworth begins one of his sonnets. He composed the poem in 1802. After returning to London from France, where he witnessed the aftermath of the French Revolution. This colourful simile reveals the high regard in which Wordsworth holds Milton. He says of Milton's soul was "Like a star and dwelt apart", he is expressing his firm belief that Milton, both as a man and as a poet. He was one of a kind man, different from the common kind of humanity.
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