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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 52

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 2 marks · Multiple choice

_______ wrote ‘Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of _______ .’

Fill in the blanks with the correct pair:

  1. William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  2. William Blake; Lord Byron
  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats
  4. John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Correct answer: (C) Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats

Explanation

Shelley wrote “Adonais” (1821) in memory of Keats.