Who among the following is called “‘a belated romantic’’ ?

Who among the following is called “‘a belated romantic’’ ? Correct Answer W. B. Yeats

The correct answer is W. B. Yeats.

Key Points

• William Butler Yeats was a modern Irish poet and dramatist and received a Nobel prize in Literature in 1923.
• Belated means something that is delayed beyond its usual time.
• Yeats declared himself as the last romantic.
• The romantic period lasted roughly from 1798 to 1850.
• Its common characteristics were imagination, mysticism, nature, escapism and the supernatural.
• Along with that Yeats portrayed romance of mythology and Irish folklore, occultism, symbolism, the romance of self etc.
• His most famous romantic poems are Sailing to Byzantium, Second Coming, No Second Troy, A Prayer for my Daughter among others.

Therefore, from all the above-mentioned points we can infer that a belated romantic is referred to W. B. Yeats.

Additional Information Let's look at other options:

• A. E. Housman:
  • Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and scholar. His famous works include A Shropshire Lad and ToThe Athlete Dying Young.
• Thomas Hardy:
  • He was a Victorian writer who is known for his Wessex novels. Wessex refers to the fictional town he created in his novels. Some of the Wessex novels are Far from the Maddening Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude The Obscure.
• Robert Owen:
  • He was an early Welsh industrialist who later became a reformer and advocated utopian socialism.