The following Literary Excerpt was created by which of the following writers?"Every year, in the autumn, I became completely devoted to the chrysanthemum. I loved to arrange the cut flowers in vases but did not like the potted plants. Not that I did not think the potted plants beautiful, but our house having no garden, it was impossible for me to grow the plants myself, and those for sale at the market were overgrown and untrained; not at all what I would have chosen. One day, as I was sweeping my ancestral graves in the hills, I found some very unusual stones with interesting streaks and lines running through them. I talked to Yuen about them when I went home."Shen FuJohn KeatsWilliam BlakeHegel

Shen Fu.

Explanation:

The given passage is from Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift, his autobiography during the Qing dynasty. The passage is taken from Record Two: Charms of Idlenes, where he talks about his love of nature. He admits that his love for flowers turned from fondness to obsession as he grew older. And after he befriended Zhang Lanbo, he "perfected the art of pruning branches and raising cuttings". And as he grew older, he realized the importance and comfort of decorating plants and his love for them.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.