I weep for Adonais—he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! Though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! What poet wrote these elegiac lines from “Adonais” in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelly
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
Answer
The correct answer is B) Percy Bysshe Shelly.
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