Poet's Corner

Quiz

1. Christopher Marlowe was born in the year:
   • 1456
   • 1564
   • 1654
2. Born with a club foot, this descendant of a noble Scottish family is best remembered for his works entitled "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan." This poet is:
   • Lord Byron
   • A. E. Housman
   • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. At an early age this poet earned the nickname "The Lady of Christ's" and exhibited a talent for prose that he honed throughout his career and exhibited it in works such as "Paradise Lost" and "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates." He is:
   • John Keats
   • William Wordsworth
   • John Milton
4. Brought to the United States as a slave, this groundbreaking poet quickly learned how to read and write and gained worldwide attention in 1770 with her poem "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of That Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield." She is:
   • Ezra Pound
   • Phillis Wheatly
   • Paula Gunn Allen
5. According to the poem "Kubla Khan" Xanadu is a stately and wonderous place. The vision of this mythical pleasure dome was crafted by:
   • Dante Alighieri
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   • Percy Shelly
6. This Irish writer displays a distinctive rural influence in his writings and his works are best reflected in such collections as "Wintering Out," "Bog Poems," "Station Island" and "Door into the Dark." This distinguished writer is none other than:
   • John Donne
   • Thomas Hardy
   • Seamus Heaney
7. Torn between his parents' wishes to become a doctor and his desire to pursue the arts, this poet befriended Ezra Pound, who helped influence his writing. He eventually became a doctor and gained invaluable insights to people from this pursuit which would later be reflected in his literature. He is:
   • William Carlos Williams
   • William Wordsworth
   • William Butler Yeats
8. The Victorian Age of poetry was during:
   • 1785-1800
   • 1801-1835
   • 1837-1901
9. "Geometry" allows the reader to realize enlightenment where imagination and rational thought intersect. The enlightened poet who shares this with us is:
   • Amy Lowell
   • Rita Dove
   • Anne Bradstreet
10. This renowned scholar and activist showcases her multicultural background in her poetry with an emphasis reflecting her Native American roots in such works as Spider Woman's Granddaughters, and Grandmother of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook. She is:
    • Rita Dove
    • Paula Gunn Allen
    • Anne Bradstreet
11. The epic Beowulf was written:
    
    • c. 500
    • c. 700
    • c. 900
12. This poet's first collection was published without her knowledge, when her brother returned to England with the writings that would later become to known as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. The artist with the famous stolen prose is:
    • Anne Bradstreet
    • Amy Lowell
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. This poet founded a poetic movement called Imagism, which linked techniques derived from the Symbolist movement and Oriental poetry such as haiku. This literary pioneer is:
    • T. S. Eliot
    • Ezra Pound
    • A. E. Housman
14. Born in Brooklyn, the son of Quakers, this poet started his own newspaper, The Long Islander, which he later quit to pursue his poetry. Several years later he published his first collection entitled Leaves of Grass. He is:
    • Walt Whitman
    • Dylan Thomas
    • John Donne
15. After years of being a successful novelist, this writer, at age 58, concentrated on his poetry and his composition The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars (1904-08), an epic historical drama written in verse, he was hailed as a major poet. This new honed talent belonged to:
    • Robert Frost
    • William Butler Yeats
    • Thomas Hardy
16. Imprisoned by his own father, this poet was deeply religious and, after writing such works as Pseudo-Martyr and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," he became an ordained minister and spent the rest of his life writing sermons and other religious works. This inspirational lyricist is:
    • Dylan Thomas
    • John Donne
    • Robert Browning
17. The quintessential epic Canterbury Tales was written in:
    • 1378
    • 1383
    • 1387
18. Of her more than 1,700 poems, this "New England mystic" saw only 10 published during her lifetime. The first was a 40-line valentine that appeared in the Amherst College magazine. She was:
    • Emily Dickinson
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • Amy Lowell
19. Most of this Welsh poet's most poignant poems were written in the 1950s, including "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" and "Lament." He is:
    • Robert Burns
    • Robert Browning
    • Dylan Thomas
20. He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Durham and Oxford University, and in 1843 he won the distinction of being named Poet Laureate. He is:
    • William Carlos Williams
    • William Wordsworth
    • William Butler Yeats