ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A famous English poet who was professionally knows as man of medicine is ____
A
Shelley
B
Keats
C
Milton
D
Pope
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia, ” “The Eve of St. Agnes, ” the great odes (“On Indolence, ” “On a Grecian Urn, ” “To Psyche, ” “To a Nightingale, ” “On Melancholy, ” and “To Autumn”), and the two unfinished versions of an epic on Hyperion.

Detailed explanation-2: -From Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling to Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath, the list is endless. Check out the list of top famous English poets of all time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fond of fights and pranks, popular with his schoolfellows, Keats seemed destined for a great military career. As Holmes points out, “his love of books and poetry manifested itself chiefly about a year before he left school.” “Keats was in childhood not attached to books. His penchant was for fighting.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Keats (1795-1821), who trained as a surgeon-apothecary at Guy’s Hospital Medical School in 1815-6, is renowned as one of the most significant English Romantic poets. John was born on Moorgate, London and attended John Clarke’s school in Enfield.

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