Arrange the following poems in chronological order of publication:

1. A. 'The Tyger'
2. B. 'The Solitary Reaper'
3. C. Adonais
4. D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. E. 'To Autumn'

1. AB, C, D, E, A
2. BC, D, E, A, B
3. CA, D, B, E, C
4. DD, A, E, B, C

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Correct answer: C. A, D, B, E, C

Explanation

Blake's 'The Tyger' (Songs of Experience, 1794) → Coleridge's Rime (Lyrical Ballads, 1798) → Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' (1807) → Keats's 'To Autumn' (written 1819, pub. 1820) → Shelley's Adonais (1821), his elegy on Keats.