Poetry
If thou art fond of poetry,
These questions are the ones for thee.
There's no reward for second best,
So put thine knowledge to the test!
Which Coleridge character brought a curse upon his crew by killing an albatross?
Who wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?
Which poet died while helping the Greeks fight for their independence?
Who wrote the poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas?
Who wrote ‘Under Milk Wood’?
Who said “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do”?
The 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bash? is best known as the master of which genre of writing?
Phonetically spelled out what does Esso mean in Japan?
Phonetically spelled out what does Esso mean in Japan?
What word for a traffic jam did Ross Perot invoke to describe legislative backup?
Sean O’ Feeney worked under what name as a movie director?
WHAT ‘F’ WAS A MAJOR TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN POET?
WHAT ‘U’ WAS GRECIAN AND ADDRESSED BY KEATS?
Which poem by Robert Browning includes the line, “the river Weser deep and wide washes its walls on the southern side”?
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, if Hell is divided into 9 circles and Paradise into 9 spheres, what is divided into 7 terraces?
What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s pet golden cocker spaniel ?
According to the nursery rhyme who killed Cock Robin – who killed him?
WHAT ‘T’ IS THE HEROINE WHO GOES WITH PYRAMUS?
WHAT ‘R’ IS THE POET BURNS’ FIRST NAME?
Which bird was shot dead by the title character in Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
What literary animals “dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon”? And just what is a runcible spoon?
Which poem from Babylonia is among the earliest known literary works of humanity and describes the legends about a mythological hero-king who is thought to be a ruler in the 3rd millennium BC?
Which 14th century poet wrote The Canterbury Tales?
WHAT ‘J’ IS LEWIS CARROL’S NONSENSE POEM?
WHICH TWENTIETH CENTURY WELSH POET WROTE ‘A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES’?
Which bird did the poet Shelley greet in an ode with the words, “Hail to thee blithe spirit”?
The title of which 1959 play is the phrase that follows the lines ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like…’ in a Langston Hughes poem?
What type of five-line poem with a strict meter was popularized by Edward Lear?
What famous sentence written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily first appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays?
WHAT ‘O’ IS A TYPE OF POEM, ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE SUNG?
WHAT ‘AP’ BUILT HIS GROTTO OF SEASHELLS IN TWICKENHAM?
What two-word term describes poetry that does not rhyme?
In Longfellow’s famous poem “the song of Hiawatha” what was the name of Hiawatha’s mother?
What are the next four words in the first line of the popular rhyme which starts ‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’?
WHO PENNED HIS OWN EPITAPH “HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER”?
WHAT ‘PBS’ MARRIED THE AUTHORESS OF FRANKENSTEIN?
Ruddock is an alternative poetic name for which bird?
Which legendary hero of an Anglo-Saxon epic poem defeated the water-demon Grendel?
Which poem tells of a sailor cursed for shooting an albatross?
WHAT ‘N’ GOES WITH PAMBY?
WHICH ‘DT’ WROTE TEN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS UNDER THE TITLE, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG?
Who was the first poet to be buried in Poets Corner in London’s Westminster Abbey?
Which poet laureate wrote the biography The Life of Nelson in 1813?
In the poem Jabberwocky in the Alice in Wonderland sequel Through the Looking Glass, what words did author Lewis Carroll combine to create the nonsense word slithy?
WHICH POETS WORK INCLUDES “JUST GIVE ME A COOL DRINK OF WATER FORE I DIE”?
WHAT ‘E’ IS A SHORT POEM WITH A WITTY ENDING?
What type of utensil that is frequently used in nonsense poetry first appeared in Edward Lear’s best-known poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
The father f what American poet invented Peppermint Life Savers?
According to the poem who dug the grave for cock robin?
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