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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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