Question

Whose gravestone bears the inscription, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" ?

• A. Lord Byron
• B. S.T. Coleridge
• C. P.B. Shelley
• D. John Keats

Answer 1

Answer:

D. John Keats

• Keats requested this epitaph himself.

• He felt his poetry had not been properly appreciated during his lifetime.

• His grave is located in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

• Ironically, he later became one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period.