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Yeats's role in early-20th-century literature can best be described as:
ABridge between late Romanticism and Modernism
BPure Restoration playwright
CAugustan satirist
DVictorian novelist
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Bridge between late Romanticism and Modernism
1. Yeats's career spans the 1880s through the 1930s.
2. He moves from Celtic-Romantic verse to spare, modernist diction.
3. His introduction to Gitanjali (1912) places him as a tastemaker between eras.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (with W.B. Yeats's 1912 Introduction) — "W.B. Yeats' introduction"_
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