Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?
Correct answer: C. Keats
- A. Milton
- B. Coleridge
- C. Keats
- D. Johnson
Explanation
Shelley's Adonais mourns the death of John Keats, who died in 1821. The poem follows the classical pastoral elegy tradition, like Milton's Lycidas.
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