Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year
of publication:
A. “The Tyger”
B. “The Solitary Reaper”
C. “Adonais”
D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
E. “Ode to Autumn”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
A, D, B, E, C
Solution :
The correct answer is A, D, B, E, C.
To determine the chronological order of the publication of these famous poems, let us look at the individual publication years of each work:
A. “The Tyger” by William Blake: Published in 1794 as part of his collection Songs of Experience.
D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Published in 1798 in the joint collection Lyrical Ballads.
B. “The Solitary Reaper” by William Wordsworth: Published in 1807 in his collection Poems, in Two Volumes.
E. “Ode to Autumn” (commonly known as "To Autumn") by John Keats: Published in 1820 in his collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (composed in 1819).
C. “Adonais” by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Published in 1821 as a pastoral elegy on the death of John Keats.
Arranging these years in chronological order from earliest to latest:
1794 (A) → 1798 (D) → 1807 (B) → 1820 (E) → 1821 (C)
This corresponds to the sequence A, D, B, E, C.
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