Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ?
Correct answer: D. William Blake?
- A. William Wordsworth
- B. John Keats
- C. Percy Shelley
- D. William Blake?
Explanation
William Blake’s poetry is filled with visions, angels, spirits, and symbolic supernatural figures, especially in works such as “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” The other poets use imagination extensively, but Blake is most characteristically visionary and supernatural.
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