Which revolutionary English Romantic lyric poet wrote 'Ode to the West Wind' and the lyrical verse drama Prometheus Unbound?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Step 1: P.B. Shelley was an ardent political idealist, pacifist, and visionary lyricist who drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822. Step 2. In 'Ode to the West Wind', he invokes the autumnal wind as both a destroyer and preserver of spiritual rebirth. Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Why not the others: Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821; Byron died in Missolonghi in 1824; Thomas Gray wrote 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'.
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