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"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all." The above line was said by:

  • A.Wordsworth
  • B.WB Yeats
  • C.Mathew Arnold
  • D.Keats

Answer: D

The line 'If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all' was written by Keats, in a letter to John Taylor of 27 February 1818, as one of his axioms of poetry. Wordsworth, Yeats and Arnold wrote on poetry too, but the sentence is Keats's. The key is Keats. Keats wrote this to his publisher John Taylor on 27 February 1818, with other axioms of poetry, in the same letter in which he said that if poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

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