Shelley's 'Adonais' is a pastoral elegy written to commemorate the death of which fellow poet?
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Correct answer: John Keats, who died in Rome
Written in Spenserian stanzas, Adonais mourns John Keats, who died in Rome in 1821. Shelley famously blamed harsh literary reviews for hastening Keats's death.
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