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Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ? (i) John Clare (ii) John Keats…

John Clare and Robert Burns are conventionally described as peasant poets, drawing on rural labouring backgrounds. Keats is associated with the Cockney-school controversy,…

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Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ?
(i) John Clare
(ii) John Keats
(iii) William Cobbett
(iv) Robert Burns
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John Clare and Robert Burns are conventionally described as peasant poets, drawing on rural labouring backgrounds. Keats is associated with the Cockney-school controversy, and Cobbett is chiefly a radical prose writer and rural commentator. Thus the required pair is (i) and (iv).

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