The following are Romantic poets EXCEPT which?

• A. William Wordsworth
• B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• D. John Milton

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is which poets belong to the Romantic period, a time when English poetry emphasized emotion, nature, imagination, and the individual voice, often moving away from strict classical forms. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are central founders of Romanticism, focusing on nature, everyday experience, and personal feeling. Percy Bysshe Shelley is a later Romantic, known for his expansive visions and reformist ideals. John Milton, however, writes from the 17th century and is famous for Paradise Lost, using grand epic form and serious religious themes that align more with earlier literary traditions than with Romantic emphasis on inner life and nature. Therefore, the poet who is not a Romantic is John Milton.