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 famous author was portrayed by Paul Bettany in A Knight’s Tale?

December 19, 2017 By

Which Coleridge character brought a curse upon his crew by killing an albatross?

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Who wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

December 16, 2017 By

Which poet died while helping the Greeks fight for their independence?

December 16, 2017 By

Who wrote ‘Under Milk Wood’?

December 14, 2017 By

Who said “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do”?

December 14, 2017 By

The 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bash? is best known as the master of which genre of writing?

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Phonetically spelled out what does Esso mean in Japan?

December 14, 2017 By

Phonetically spelled out what does Esso mean in Japan?

December 14, 2017 By

What word for a traffic jam did Ross Perot invoke to describe legislative backup?

December 14, 2017 By

Sean O’ Feeney worked under what name as a movie director?

December 14, 2017 By

Who wrote the poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas?

December 14, 2017 By

WHO PENNED HIS OWN EPITAPH “HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER”?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘PBS’ MARRIED THE AUTHORESS OF FRANKENSTEIN?

August 17, 2017 By

Ruddock is an alternative poetic name for which bird?

August 17, 2017 By

Which legendary hero of an Anglo-Saxon epic poem defeated the water-demon Grendel?

August 17, 2017 By

Which poem tells of a sailor cursed for shooting an albatross?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘N’ GOES WITH PAMBY?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH ‘DT’ WROTE TEN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS UNDER THE TITLE, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG?

August 17, 2017 By

Who was the first poet to be buried in Poets Corner in London’s Westminster Abbey?

August 17, 2017 By

Which poet laureate wrote the biography The Life of Nelson in 1813?

August 17, 2017 By

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?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH POETS WORK INCLUDES “JUST GIVE ME A COOL DRINK OF WATER FORE I DIE”?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘E’ IS A SHORT POEM WITH A WITTY ENDING?

August 17, 2017 By

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?

August 17, 2017 By

The father f what American poet invented Peppermint Life Savers?

August 17, 2017 By

According to the poem who dug the grave for cock robin?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘L’ IS A VERSE OF FIVE LINES AND A PLACE IN IRELAND?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH CLERIC POET TOLD DEATH NOT TO BE PROUD “THOUGH SOME HAVE CALLED THEE MIGHTY AND DREADFUL”?

August 17, 2017 By

What is the title of either of the two epic Hindu poems written in Sanskrit?

August 17, 2017 By

April is the cruellest month – which poet wrote that line?

August 17, 2017 By

What is the name of the principal city in Hell – “the high capital of Satan and his peers” – in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH ‘V’ WROTE THE AENEID?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH 17TH CENTURY DUBLIN POET WROTE VARIOUS “IMPROVED” VERSIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS?

August 17, 2017 By

How many lines are there in a sonnet?

August 17, 2017 By

Sometimes called the greatest of the lyric poets of ancient Greece, whose house in Thebes was spared from demolition by Alexander the Great during his conquests in recognition of the complimentary works the poet composed for one of his ancestors?

August 17, 2017 By

Who suggested that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘A’ IS DANTE’S SURNAME?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘AP’ WROTE ‘TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DIVINE’ AND BUILT HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM?

August 17, 2017 By

What name is given to a Poem consisting of 14 lines?

August 17, 2017 By

Which star of The Krays wrote a prose and poetry book called America?

August 17, 2017 By

Which writer of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair was once called “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language” by Gabriel García Márquez?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT’ ROTL’ IS A FAMOUS SATIRICAL POEM BY ALEXANDER POPE?

August 17, 2017 By

WHO LEFT AN UNFINISHED WORK CALLED CANTOS?

August 17, 2017 By

Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?

August 17, 2017 By

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)

August 17, 2017 By

What nationality was the 16th-century poet and soldier Camoens?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH TRINADADIAN POET WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1992?

August 17, 2017 By

Which poem contains the line, “once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary”?

August 17, 2017 By

Which English poet was the spouse of the novelist who created Frankenstein?

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