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Which generation of Romantic poets does Keats belong to?
ASecond generation (the younger Romantics)
BFirst generation
CPre-Romantic
DLate Victorian
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Second generation (the younger Romantics)
1. First-generation Romantics: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake (late 1790s-early 1800s).
2. Second-generation: Byron, Shelley, Keats (1810s-1820s).
3. Keats died in 1821, anchoring the younger cohort's tragic arc.
_Source: Literary History — composite reference — "Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley (Romantic cluster)"_
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