ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Keats was born in
A
1770
B
1795
C
1790
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Keats, (born October 31, 1795, London, England-died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his short life, John Keats wrote some of the most beautiful and enduring poems in the English language. Among his greatest achievements is his sequence of six lyric odes, written between March and September 1819-astonishingly, when Keats was only twenty-four years old.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Keats is one of greatest Romantic poets, best known for works such as ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.

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