Which of the following poems are pastoral elegies?
- A. Lycidas
- B. 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats'
- C. Adonais
- D. Thyrsis
- E. In Memoriam A. H. H.
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Correct answer: B. A, C and D only
Explanation
Lycidas (Milton for Edward King, 1637), Adonais (Shelley for Keats, 1821) and Thyrsis (Arnold for Clough, 1865) use the shepherd conventions of Theocritus and Virgil. Auden's and Tennyson's elegies do not.
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