Read the following statements carefully and find the correct ones:
- A. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women.
- B. John Milton wrote Comus, Astrophel and Stella and Paradise Lost.
- C. S. T. Coleridge composed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and The Curse of Kehama.
- D. Shakespeare wrote The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Rape of Lucrece and Troilus and Cressida.
- E. Alexander Pope's works include The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock and the Epistles.
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Correct answer: B. A, D and E only
Explanation
A, D and E are correct. B is wrong because Astrophel and Stella is Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence. C is wrong because The Curse of Kehama (1810) is by Robert Southey.
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