Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
Correct answer: B. Alfred Tennyson
- A. John Milton
- B. Alfred Tennyson
- C. Allen Ginsberg
- D. Amy Lowell
Explanation
Alfred Tennyson was Poet Laureate during the Victorian period and remained a major poetic figure in its later decades. Milton is a seventeenth-century poet, while Ginsberg and Lowell belong to later modern periods.
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