World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
Correct answer: D. Oscar Wilde
- A. T.S. Eliot
- B. Siegfried Sassoon
- C. Wilfred Owen
- D. Oscar Wilde
Explanation
Oscar Wilde died in 1900, fourteen years before the First World War began. Eliot, Sassoon, and Owen either lived through the war or wrote in its literary aftermath, especially Sassoon and Owen as war poets.
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