ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?
A
Wordsworth
B
Coleridge
C
Lamb
D
Shelley
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Greek influence on Keats from three sources-the instinctive “Greekness” of his mind. Shelley once said: ‘Keats was a Greek’.

Detailed explanation-2: -It should be noted that ‘Keats was a Greek’ in mind and spirit because he could enter lovingly and imaginatively into the world of the ancients and classical myth as well and not because his knowledge of it was accurate and scholarly. His presentation of ‘Hellas’is romantic and not realistic.

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