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Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?

Correct answer: D. Thomas Carew

  • A. John Skelton
  • B. William Shakespeare
  • C. Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • D. Thomas Carew

Explanation

Thomas Carew was a seventeenth-century Cavalier poet, so he did not write during the sixteenth century. Skelton, Shakespeare and Wyatt all produced work in the sixteenth century or straddled its opening years.

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