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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”- Who wrote this?

  1. A) William Blake
  2. B) S.T. Coleridge
  3. C) Lord Byron
  4. D) P.B. Shelley
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Answer: D) P.B. Shelley

Explanation

P.B. Shelley wrote the line. It closes his "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), where winter stands for hard times and spring for renewal: bad days pass and better ones follow. Blake, Coleridge and Byron were Shelley's contemporaries but did not write this ode.

Asked in: BCS 2018

Topic: English Literature