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?
Sean O’ Feeney worked under what name as a movie director?
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?
WHAT’ ROTL’ IS A FAMOUS SATIRICAL POEM BY ALEXANDER POPE?
WHO LEFT AN UNFINISHED WORK CALLED CANTOS?
Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?
Which 17th century poet wrote the following phrases? ‘Trip the Light Fantastic’ (L’Allegro), ‘Every Dark Cloud Has a Silver Lining’ (Comus), ‘That Last infirmity of Noble mind’ (Lycidas) and ‘Look Homeward Angel’ (Lycidas)
What nationality was the 16th-century poet and soldier Camoens?
WHICH TRINADADIAN POET WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1992?
Which poem contains the line, “once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary”?
Which English poet was the spouse of the novelist who created Frankenstein?
Can you fill-in the first line of the poem whose next lines are: “………………………………………… Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”?
According to the traditional rhyme, a child born on which day is said to be ‘full of grace’?
C’EST MANIFIQUE MAIS CE N’EST PAS LA GUERRE 1854 ABOUT WHAT?
OF WHOM ARE THE SEASONS OF MIST AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS A CLOSE BOSOM FRIEND?
Under Milk Wood was the last completed work of which author?
The house of what famous Greek poet was the only home spared by Alexander the Great when he invaded and destroyed the city of Thebes in 335 B.C.?
Who serves as Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy?
In the house that jack built, what did the rat do?
WHAT ‘D’ WAS THE 17TH CENTURY POET AND SATIRIST?
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE POET WHO WROTE “NOLI ME TANGERE FOR CAESARS I AM” FOR ANNE BOLEYN?
Which Poet Laureate died in 1998?
In which country did the poets Keats and Shelley both die?
Who recited The Gift Outright’ at President Kennedy’s inauguration?
According to Edward Lear`s poem, how long was the sailing trip undertaken by the Owl and the Pussycat?
WHICH ENGLISH POET PLANNED A COMMUNIST COLONY IN AMERICA WITH ROBERT SOUTHEY?
WHO SAID – “ONE MORE DRINK AND ILL BE UNDER THE HOST”?
RB – Who wrote the poem Ode to a Haggis?
Which famous author was portrayed by Paul Bettany in A Knight’s Tale?
Which 20th century Anglo-American poet is best known for his poems Funeral Blues and September 1, 1939?
In the rhyme, who lost her pocket?
WHAT ‘I’ WAS AN EPIC POEM ON THE SIEGE OF TROY?
WHAT WAS W H AUDEN’S FIRST NAME?
Who penned the classic poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Located in Austerlitz, New York, ‘Steepletop’ was the farmhouse home of which American poet who was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?
The ‘Younger Memnon’ statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum is thought to have inspired which famous poem of P.B. Shelley?
What famous American poet was a West Point cadet for two weeks, but was forced to leave after failing arithmetic and grammar?A :Carl Sandburg, in 1899.
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?
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