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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a literary work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. published collaboratively by Coleridge and William Wordsworth in 1798.

The important characters are:
- The Mariner
- Wedding Guest
- Albatross (A Bird)
- The Nightmare
- Life in Death.

Among the many memorable lines from the poem is an utterance in stanza nine: “Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any drop to drink.”

Source: Britannica.com

English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote about unremarkable people in unremarkable situations of everyday life, and yet she shaped such material into remarkable works of art. 

- She was an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age. She is called so because of her stern attitude against youthful passion.
- Cassandra was the elder sister of Jane Austen. She was her closest companion throughout her life.

Major Works:
She wrote some great novels. For instance :

• Emma 
• Lady Susan
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility

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In 1807 Charles Lamb and his sister published Tales from Shakespeare, a retelling of the plays for children, and in 1809 they published Mrs. Leicester’s School, a collection of stories supposedly told by pupils of a school in Hertfordshire.

Best Works of Charles Lamb (1775-1834):
- Tales from Shakespeare
- The Adventures of Ulysses
- The essays of Elia (1823)
- The last Essays of Elia (1833)

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

Lord Byron:
- Born January 22, 1788, London, England—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece.
- British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.
- He was tagged with many controversial issues, illegal sex affairs is one of them . He is remembered most for his great creation, Don Juan (1824) Epic Satire.
- Lord Byron took part in war with Turks on behalf of Greeks. He is called the Rebel poet. He died in Greece.
- Renowned as the “gloomy egoist” of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) .

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'The Lucy Poems' হল Wordsworth-এর লেখা পাঁচটি কবিতার সিরিজ।

William Wordsworth is the pioneer of the Romantic Age. He is called:

• Poet of Nature
• Poet of Childhood
• Lake poet. Etc.

Major Works: 

• Lyrical Ballads: (Published in 1798) It is a collection of poems. It was first published in 1798. Among the 23 poems William Wordsworth wrote 19 poems whereas his friend S.T Coleridge wrote the rest four.
• Daffodils:
• The Solitary reaper 
• Tintern abbey 
• The excursion 
• To the Cuckoo
• Lucy
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• Peter Bell
• The Excursion
• “The Prelude” The Prelude, in full The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, great long (epic) autobiographical poem in blank verse by William Wordsworth. এটা তার রচিত সবচেয়ে দীর্ঘ কবিতা। 
• The Recluse
• The Ruined Cottage
• The World Is Too Much with Us
• 'Laodamia': This poem is based on the story of the Trojan War. 

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen. It was first published in 1814. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood.

The other two options in the question:

• Roads to freedom was written by Bertrand Russell.
• The Sun also Rises is a novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Jane Austen: 
English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote about unremarkable people in unremarkable situations of everyday life, and yet she shaped such material into remarkable works of art. 

She was an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age. She is called so because of her stern attitude against youthful passion.

Source: Britannica.com 

Isabella or the Pot of Basil:
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil is a narrative poem written by John Keats. 
It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to ''some high noble and his olive trees'', but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees.

John Keats:
- John Keats: (1795-1821) John Keats is called the poet of beauty. 
- The tenure of his literary work was only 5 years.
- He was a physician, surgeon and Doctor. He died at the age of 26. He was infected with Tuberculosis. in Rome, Italy. 

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
He is one of the revolutionary poets in English Literature. His own wife Mary Shelley was also an author who was also a writer

Best works:

• A Defence of Poetry
• A Philosophical View of Reform
• Adonais
• Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude
• Epipsychidion
• Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
• Letter to Maria Gisborne
• Mont Blanc
• Ode to the West Wind
• Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant
• Ozymandias
• Peter Bell the Third
• Prometheus Unbound
• Queen Mab
• Rosalind and Helen
• The Cenci
• The Cloud
• The Masque of Anarchy
• The Necessity of Atheism
• The Revolt of Islam
• The Witch of Atlas
• To a Skylark 

On July 8,1822, Shelley died at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]. He was only 30 years old at that time. 

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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 
This is an autobiographical poem by Lord Byron . Also, this is his most popular and signatory literary work. 
This autobiographical poem was written in four cantos by George Gordon, Lord Byron. 
Cantos I and II were published in 1812, Canto III in 1816, and Canto IV in 1818. Byron gained his first poetic fame with the publication of the first two cantos.

Story plot: 
Childe” is a title from medieval times, designating a young noble who is not yet knighted. Disillusioned with his aimless life devoted to pursuing pleasure, Childe Harold seeks distraction by going on a solitary pilgrimage to foreign lands.

Lord Byron: 
Lord Byron, in full George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (born January 22, 1788, London, England—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece), British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.

Best Works: 

• The Vision of Judgment (1822)
•  Hours of Idleness (Volume of Poetry)
• Lara 
• She walks in beauty
• Beppo
• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• Giaour 
• Lara
• Manfred
• Sardanapalus
• The Bride of Abydos
• The Prisoner of Chillon” 
• The Two Foscari”
• The Corsair 
• Robert Southee 
• Don Juan (1824) Epic Satire

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

Tintern Abbey:
In full, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth. on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798, he wrote this poem.
It opens with the speaker’s declaration that five years have passed since he last visited this location, encountered its tranquil, rustic scenery, and heard the murmuring waters of the river.
The line in the question, ''We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul'' is an excerpt from this poem. 

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England; He became a poet laureate in 1839. He has been called with different titles such as Poet of nature, Poet of Childhood, the father of romantic age etc.
এছাড়া তাকে Lake poet বলেও অভিহিত করেন অনেকে। Wordsworth was deeply inspired by the French Revolution.

Major Works:

• Lyrical Ballads: (Published in 1798) It is a collection of poems. It was first published in 1798. Among the 23 poems William Wordsworth wrote 19 poems whereas his friend S.T Coleridge wrote the rest four.
• Daffodils
• Summary
• The Solitary reaper
• Tintern abbey
• To the Cuckoo
• Lucy
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• Peter Bell
• The Excursion
• "The Prelude", in full The "Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind", great long (epic) autobiographical poem in blank verse by William Wordsworth. এটা তার রচিত সবচেয়ে দীর্ঘ কবিতা। 
• The Recluse
• The Ruined Cottage
• The World Is Too Much with Us
• "Laodamia" : This poem is based on the story of the Trojan War. 

Source: Britannica.com

William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Famous poems of Wordsworth:
- The Solitary Reaper
- Tintern Abbey
- Rainbow
- Lucy Poems
- The Daffodils
- Ode on immortality
- The Excursion
- Michael, etc.

The only play by William Wordsworth is The Borderers.

[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica]